WordPress core

The WordPress core team has been working on a variety of interesting projects over the past couple of weeks: E2E testing in WordPress, Core compatibility with PHP 8.x, WordPress 5.9.2, WordPress 6.0, accessibility, Gutenberg and much more. In this blog post, we’ll share with you what each one of us has been up to! Our …

Our team continues to work on WordPress 6.0. Moreover, we released the web fonts API in Gutenberg, did a lot of work in automated tests, as well as internal Yoast projects. Also, after a lot of deliberation, we decided to make these blog posts bi-weekly. This will allow us to post more substantial updates, and …

WordPress 5.9.1 was released a few days ago with the participation of several members of our team. Other than that, the team continues to work on its usual projects and its main goal, to make WordPress better one day at a time. Our weekly updates Sergey WordPress 5.9.1 Last week I continued triaging and reviewing …

Whether you celebrated Valentine’s Day or Single Awareness Day, there is always love for WordPress, and here is what we have been working on this week. The release candidate for WordPress 5.9.1 will arrive later today, plans for 6.0 are taking shape, and there was a new release of Gutenberg (version 12.6). Our weekly updates …

Last Friday we had our first Yoast contributor day of 2022! We had 70 participants joining 5 different tables and helping move the project forward. Overall we helped with 15 tickets in WordPress Core, improved 17 documentation pages, helped translations in 10 locales, and answered lots of support tickets. If you were unable to attend …

This week, the WordPress core team at Yoast worked on performance improvements, Gutenberg enhancements, end-to-end tests, and the upcoming WordPress 5.9.1 minor release, among other things. We also started looking into some early tickets for WordPress 6.0, and we are preparing for another Yoast contributor day on February 4. Read on for more details! Our …

WordPress 5.9 (codename Josephine) was released on January 25, with significant features like Full Site Editing and the new Twenty Twenty Two theme. Of course, several members of the WordPress team at Core and several other colleagues at Yoast contributed to this release. You will find Sergey, Ari, and Carolina, among others, as noteworthy contributors …

To this day, it’s super complicated for me to explain to some of my developer friends what I do at work, why I do it, and how it happened. When Francesca, our former team lead, talked to us about writing long articles on topics that interest us, I knew immediately that I wanted to write …

The last planned release candidate for WordPress 5.9, RC3, was released on Tuesday. Unless new critical bugs are found, there will be no more code changes to this major release. Head over to WordPress.org to read the release post and how you can contribute with testing or translations. Our weekly updates Justin This week, my …

WordPress 5.9-RC2 was released two days ago and we are now in the finish line for the final release. WordPress 5.9 will be released in just 12 days, on the 25th of January. Time is of the essence and our whole team is focused on this release. So at the moment we’re testing, fixing bugs, …