What's new for developers? (December 2023)

[justintadlock]

This is a rolling discussion for a new monthly series that is intended to keep track of the items, PRs, Trac tickets, and Make blog posts that are interesting/important for developers. The goal is to publish a post on the 10th of each month with the previous month's updates.

Everyone is welcome to contribute to this monthly document. If you find something interesting, just create a new reply to this discussion below.

Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P2rOTSi-4_1fGavaVpXexXfEIQyDkEK_ItBNJzwZDJs/edit?usp=sharing

Resources to track:

• Keeping up with Gutenberg: Index 2022
• A Week in Core
• Gutenberg plugin release posts
• Core editor chat, dev chat, performance team meeting summaries
• Dev Notes

[justintadlock]

@bph Since the week in core posts haven't come out regularly lately, I reviewed the last 60 days on Trac. We can use that link in the future (just have to update the times in the form). Mostly, what we need to find are just the changesets, which are generally what I need when putting the final post together.

[justintadlock]

This doc is now ready for review: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P2rOTSi-4_1fGavaVpXexXfEIQyDkEK_ItBNJzwZDJs/edit?usp=sharing

[bph]

It's now available as public preview on the site. and ready for 2nd Review. It will be published on December 10th, 2023

[bph]

working through the checklists

Pre-publishing checklist:

• Post Title in Sentence case
• Use "Center Column" template
• Are Category or Categories selected?
• Are Tags identifies?
• Is there an explicit Excerpt?
• Are all images files uploaded to the media library
• Do all images have an alt-text?
• Assign or upload a featured image
• Props added? (See Guidelines)
• add copy for a social post as comment to this issue (example)
  🙌 Publish! 📗

Post-publishing checklist

• add Props for reviews to #props channel in WP Slack (Example) (use Slack handles)
• close the issue with a comment to link to the published post
• close the accompanying discussion with the link to the published post.

[justintadlock]

Social copy:

Check out the latest developer-focused features and changes in WordPress and Gutenberg in this final monthly roundup of 2023:

https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/12/10/whats-new-for-developers-december-2023/

[bph]

scheduled on social for 2/28