What's new for developers? (September 2024)

[justintadlock]

This is a rolling discussion for a 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/1sgaoATtKg9bhYF-npwFYFXoJmn3ZYNYqwrQjqVcPWqA/edit?usp=sharing

@bph will be the primary author for this post.

[github-actions]

Heads-up @bph @adamziel @bgrgicak @pbking @mikachan @kathrynwp @jonathanbossenger: To include your project's news for developers, please add the information or a link as a comment to this issue. Deadline 8th of next month

[jonathanbossenger]

@justintadlock not sure if this would make sense for the "whats new" post, but if you feel comfortable including the Call for contributors: Intermediate Plugin Developer learning pathway, I would appreciate it. But I understand if it maybe doesn't make sense for the post.

[bph]

Scheduled to be published 9/10 13:00 UTC (2 hours before release party for 6.6.2 and Dev hours start)
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[bph]

Pre-publishing checklist:

• Post Title and subheaders in sentence case
• 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?
• For TOC us the Pattern under Developer Blog > Table of contents
• 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)
• Add the label "post to social" to the issue
• close the issue with a comment to link to the published post
• close the accompanying discussion with the link to the published post.

[bph]

Social

Exciting updates are on the way with WordPress 6.7 and Gutenberg 19.0/19.1! 🚀
Get ready for a new default theme, Twenty Twenty-Five, enhanced media handling including HEIC support, and new APIs to streamline your development process.
Check out the latest features and improvements here: https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/09/10/whats-new-for-developers-september-2024/

[bph]

Post published: What’s new for developers? (September 2024)

[bph]

schedule for Oct 3.