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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:75:"Gutenberg Times: Building a Block-Based  Header Template in a Classic Theme";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:35:"https://gutenbergtimes.com/?p=22282";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:85:"https://gutenbergtimes.com/building-a-block-based-header-template-in-a-classic-theme/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:38984:"<p>WordPress 6.1 will allow classic theme authors to begin <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/09/12/testing-and-feedback-for-using-block-based-template-parts-in-classic-themes/">using block-based template parts</a>. It is one of the most exciting features of the release and one that has long been on my personal wish-list.</p>



<p>Over the past couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve been doing a deep dive into this new feature, wondering how it could fit into real-world projects. My conclusion was:</p>



<ul>
<li>If building a new classic theme from scratch, block template parts should be relatively easy to insert into it.</li>



<li>If adding block template parts into a classic theme, there are likely a few hurdles that you&#8217;ll need clear, hoops to jump through, and even potential mountains to climb.</li>
</ul>



<p>The latter is what this tutorial will focus on. There are 1,000s of classic themes out there in the wild, and the most likely use case for this feature will be the developers who are gradually adopting FSE features.</p>



<p>With that use case in mind, I picked a battle-tested classic theme that is still somewhat recent: Twenty Twenty-One. It already had some of the foundational pieces, such as supporting the block-based content editor. However, it didn&#8217;t have support for newer FSE features, such as <code>theme.json</code>.</p>



<p>The other goal for this walk-through was to show a more advanced use case rather than only cover the basics. Ultimately, this helped reveal some of the issues theme authors might face as they go on this journey.</p>



<p>In the end, I created hero header for Twenty Twenty-One that provides users a ton of flexibility for customizing its output on the front end:</p>



<div class="is-layout-constrained wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background">
<p class="has-large-font-size">Table of Contents</p>



<div class="wp-block-sortabrilliant-guidepost"><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-setting-the-groundwork">Setting the Groundwork</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#1-clearing-those-hurdles">Clearing Those Hurdles</a><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#2-adding-theme-json-support">Adding theme.json Support</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#3-style-overrides">Style Overrides</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#4-building-a-block-header-template-part">Building a Block Header Template Part</a><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#5-inserting-branding-and-navigation">Inserting Branding and Navigation</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#6-extra-locking-blocks">Extra: Locking Blocks</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#7-copying-the-header-part-to-the-theme">Copying the Header Part to the Theme</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#8-leveling-up-with-patterns-and-media">Leveling Up With Patterns and Media</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#9-cleaning-up-the-user-experience">Cleaning Up the User Experience</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#10-resources-to-learn-more">Resources To Learn More</a></li></ul></div>
</div>



<img />Hero header built with a block template part.



<p>I invite you to come along with me down this path. I did all of the hard work ahead of time in hopes that it will help those of you who want to give this new feature a try.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;d rather skip the walk-through and dive right into the code, no worries. I extracted everything I am covering into this tutorial and put it in a child theme named <a href="https://github.com/justintadlock/tt1-block-parts">TT1 Block Parts</a>. Child themes are an easy way to test features without directly changing the parent theme, so I encourage going that route too.</p>



<h2 id="0-setting-the-groundwork">Setting the Groundwork</h2>



<p>This feature will be available as part of the WordPress 6.1 release.  To test it now, you must either install the <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/09/wordpress-6-1-beta-2-now-available/">WordPress 6.1 Beta 2</a> or the latest version of the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg">Gutenberg plugin</a>.  You will also need a classic theme active on your site.  Use <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwentyone/">Twenty Twenty-One</a> to follow along with each step exactly.</p>



<p>Before building a block-based template part in a classic theme, you must enable the feature via the <code>block-template-parts</code> theme-support flag in your theme&#8217;s <code>functions.php</code> file.</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-php"><span class="hljs-meta">&lt;?php</span>
add_action( <span class="hljs-string">'after_setup_theme'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'tt1_block_parts_setup'</span> );

<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title">tt1_block_parts_setup</span><span class="hljs-params">()</span> </span>{
    add_theme_support( <span class="hljs-string">'block-template-parts'</span> );
}</code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-2"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">PHP</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">php</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>This code will create a new <em>Appearance &gt; Template Parts</em> page in the WordPress admin:</p>



<img />Initial template parts screen when no parts are registered.



<p>At this point, it&#8217;s empty, but you and your users will be able to customize any existing block template parts from this screen once you&#8217;ve created them. Let&#8217;s do that now.</p>



<p>The next step is building a header template part, which will live in the theme&#8217;s <code>parts</code> folder (this is where all block template parts go). The easiest way to get started is to create an empty <code>parts/header.html</code> file. We&#8217;ll build this out from the site editor in the next steps.</p>



<p>Now, we need to replace Twenty Twenty-One&#8217;s header with our custom one. Open the theme&#8217;s <code>header.php</code> template and find this line of code:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-php"><span class="hljs-meta">&lt;?php</span> get_template_part( <span class="hljs-string">'template-parts/header/site-header'</span> ); <span class="hljs-meta">?&gt;</span></code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-3"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">PHP</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">php</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>Replace it with the following:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-php"><span class="hljs-meta">&lt;?php</span> block_template_part( <span class="hljs-string">'header'</span> ); <span class="hljs-meta">?&gt;</span></code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-4"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">PHP</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">php</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>It won&#8217;t be that easy with every theme. Fortunately, Twenty Twenty-One already separated its primary template code into a PHP-based template part, so we merely needed to change one function call with another. For other themes, it may require removing large chunks of code. It just depends on the theme itself.</p>



<h2 id="1-clearing-those-hurdles">Clearing Those Hurdles</h2>



<p>Most classic themes were simply not designed to handle blocks outside the content area. This is even true of Twenty Twenty-One because the block-based template editor didn&#8217;t exist when it was created.</p>



<p>Each theme is unique, so there is no way for me to realistically foretell what sort of adventures you might go on to get block template parts to work. However, what I can tell you is what I changed with Twenty Twenty-One.</p>



<p>The goal here is transparency rather than glossing over those very likely hurdles you&#8217;ll need to jump, but do not let them scare you away.</p>



<h3 id="2-adding-theme-json-support">Adding theme.json Support</h3>



<p>Based on my tests with Twenty Twenty-One and other themes, <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/theme-json/">opting into <code>theme.json</code></a> was almost a must-have. I had the most most success by configuring <code>settings.layout</code> to support wide/full alignments (I used existing CSS properties from the theme for this). I also needed <code>settings.spacing.blockGap</code> to have control over the spacing between menu items in the Navigation block.</p>



<p>With that in mind, I strongly recommend starting with a simple <code>theme.json</code> file in your theme, assuming it doesn&#8217;t already have one:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-json">{
    <span class="hljs-attr">"version"</span>: <span class="hljs-number">2</span>,
    <span class="hljs-attr">"settings"</span>: {
        <span class="hljs-attr">"layout"</span>: {
            <span class="hljs-attr">"contentSize"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"var( --responsive--default-width )"</span>,
            <span class="hljs-attr">"wideSize"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"var( --responsive--alignwide-width )"</span>
        },
        <span class="hljs-attr">"spacing"</span>: {
            <span class="hljs-attr">"blockGap"</span>: <span class="hljs-literal">true</span>
        }
    }
}</code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-5"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">JSON / JSON with Comments</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">json</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<h3 id="3-style-overrides">Style Overrides</h3>



<p>I also had to make a few CSS overrides (editor and front end) so that everything was a bit less wonky. Remember, we&#8217;re pushing blocks into a place they have never been before in the theme, so some adjustments are a given.</p>



<p>The following CSS is all that was needed to make the block template part work. The most time-consuming aspect was tracking this stuff down in a theme that I wasn&#8217;t particularly knowledgeable of.</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-css"><span class="hljs-selector-class">.wp-block-navigation</span><span class="hljs-selector-pseudo">:not(.has-background)</span> <span class="hljs-selector-class">.wp-block-navigation__container</span> {
    <span class="hljs-attribute">background</span>: transparent;
}

<span class="hljs-selector-class">.wp-block-cover__inner-container</span> &gt; * {
    <span class="hljs-attribute">max-width</span>: none <span class="hljs-meta">!important</span>;
}

<span class="hljs-selector-class">.wp-block</span> {
    <span class="hljs-attribute">max-width</span>: none;
}

<span class="hljs-selector-class">.wp-block-cover</span> <span class="hljs-selector-class">.wp-block-site-title</span><span class="hljs-selector-class">.has-text-color</span> <span class="hljs-selector-tag">a</span> {
    <span class="hljs-attribute">color</span>: inherit;
}

<span class="hljs-selector-class">.is-root-container</span> &gt; <span class="hljs-selector-pseudo">:first-child</span> {
    <span class="hljs-attribute">margin-top</span>: <span class="hljs-number">0</span>;
}</code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-6"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">CSS</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">css</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<h2 id="4-building-a-block-header-template-part">Building a Block Header Template Part</h2>



<p>Before we get to the more advanced, media-based version of a header template part, let&#8217;s stick with the basics. I promise to cover some of the fun stuff as we move along. For now, <em>let&#8217;s learn to crawl before attempting to walk.</em></p>



<p>Go back to the <em>Appearance &gt; Template Parts</em> screen in the WordPress admin that you created in the first step. Click on the &#8220;header&#8221; template part, which will take you to the template editor. You should see an empty canvas on which to place your creation.</p>



<p>I started with a Cover block. It&#8217;s a simple starting point but one of the most flexible blocks in WordPress, providing end-users with tons of customization options out of the gate.</p>



<img />Adding a Cover block to the Header template part.



<p>I kept my block settings simple and selected the following:</p>



<ul>
<li>Overlay Color: The theme&#8217;s default gray</li>



<li>Overlay Opacity: 100</li>
</ul>



<h3 id="5-inserting-branding-and-navigation">Inserting Branding and Navigation</h3>



<p>I wanted to keep Twenty Twenty-One&#8217;s default header elements in place, which meant recreating the theme&#8217;s branding and navigation menu while not going overboard with additional elements.</p>



<p>To achieve this, I added a 50/50 Columns block (the widths of these could be adjusted). In the left column, I inserted Stack with Site Title and Site Tagline. On the right, I placed a Navigation block.</p>



<img />Adding branding and a navigation menu.



<p>The individual settings for these blocks are not particularly important. You can customize them to your liking. The most vital ones are likely justifying the Stack block left and Navigation block right. I also bumped up the block spacing to space out the nav menu items.</p>



<p>This is where you can have a lot of fun, and I don&#8217;t want to spoil it with a step-by-step guide on what stylistic settings to choose. <em>Experiment. Go wild!</em></p>



<h3 id="6-extra-locking-blocks">Extra: Locking Blocks</h3>



<p>One of my favorite tools as a theme author is the ability to lock blocks in place with more complex templates or patterns. One of the primary use cases for this is to prevent end-users from accidentally removing an important block, such as the Site Title, or moving things around and being unable to reconfigure them. The site header is one easiest areas to mess up.</p>



<p>For the individual Column block wrapping the Site Title and Site Tagline blocks, I selected all three of the currently-available lock settings:</p>



<ul>
<li>Disable movement</li>



<li>Prevent removal</li>



<li>Apply to all blocks inside</li>
</ul>



<img />Locking the header branding Column block and its content.



<p>I also set a lock on the outer Columns block to prevent users from inadvertently moving or removing it.</p>



<p>By default, end-users can unlock a block by clicking the &#8220;lock&#8221; toolbar icon. The extra step primarily serves as a warning to only take this action if they feel comfortable doing so. It&#8217;s possible to even prevent this from the development end, but that&#8217;s outside the scope of this tutorial. To go even more advanced with block locking, take a read the the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/curating-the-editor-experience/">Curating the Editor Experience</a> documentation and its section on the Locking APIs.</p>



<h3 id="7-copying-the-header-part-to-the-theme">Copying the Header Part to the Theme</h3>



<p>Because we built this template part within the editor, all of our customizations are stored in the database.  If planning to distribute this theme to others, you should copy all of the blocks from the editor to your <code>parts/header.html</code> file.</p>



<p>The final code for my template part was:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-xml"><span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- wp:cover {"overlayColor":"gray","minHeight":450,"minHeightUnit":"px","style":{"spacing":{"padding":{"top":"4rem","right":"4rem","bottom":"4rem","left":"4rem"}},"color":{}}} --&gt;</span>
<span class="hljs-tag">&lt;<span class="hljs-name">div</span> <span class="hljs-attr">class</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"wp-block-cover"</span> <span class="hljs-attr">style</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"padding-top:4rem;padding-right:4rem;padding-bottom:4rem;padding-left:4rem;min-height:450px"</span>&gt;</span><span class="hljs-tag">&lt;<span class="hljs-name">span</span> <span class="hljs-attr">aria-hidden</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"true"</span> <span class="hljs-attr">class</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"wp-block-cover__background has-gray-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim"</span>&gt;</span><span class="hljs-tag">&lt;/<span class="hljs-name">span</span>&gt;</span><span class="hljs-tag">&lt;<span class="hljs-name">div</span> <span class="hljs-attr">class</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"wp-block-cover__inner-container"</span>&gt;</span><span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- wp:columns {"verticalAlignment":"center","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --&gt;</span>
	<span class="hljs-tag">&lt;<span class="hljs-name">div</span> <span class="hljs-attr">class</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center"</span>&gt;</span><span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- wp:column {"verticalAlignment":"center","width":"50%","templateLock":"all","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --&gt;</span>
	<span class="hljs-tag">&lt;<span class="hljs-name">div</span> <span class="hljs-attr">class</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center"</span> <span class="hljs-attr">style</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"flex-basis:50%"</span>&gt;</span><span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- wp:group {"lock":{"move":false,"remove":false},"style":{"spacing":{"blockGap":"var:preset|spacing|30"}},"layout":{"type":"flex","orientation":"vertical","justifyContent":"left"}} --&gt;</span>
	<span class="hljs-tag">&lt;<span class="hljs-name">div</span> <span class="hljs-attr">class</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"wp-block-group"</span>&gt;</span><span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- wp:site-title {"style":{"typography":{"textTransform":"uppercase","fontSize":"1.5rem"},"elements":{"link":{"color":{"text":"var:preset|color|white"}}}},"textColor":"white"} /--&gt;</span>
	
	<span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- wp:site-tagline {"style":{"typography":{"fontSize":"16px"}},"textColor":"white"} /--&gt;</span><span class="hljs-tag">&lt;/<span class="hljs-name">div</span>&gt;</span>
	<span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- /wp:group --&gt;</span><span class="hljs-tag">&lt;/<span class="hljs-name">div</span>&gt;</span>
	<span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- /wp:column --&gt;</span>
	
	<span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- wp:column {"verticalAlignment":"center","width":"50%"} --&gt;</span>
	<span class="hljs-tag">&lt;<span class="hljs-name">div</span> <span class="hljs-attr">class</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center"</span> <span class="hljs-attr">style</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"flex-basis:50%"</span>&gt;</span><span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- wp:navigation {"ref":2586,"textColor":"white","layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"right"},"style":{"typography":{"fontSize":"16px"},"spacing":{"blockGap":"2rem"}}} /--&gt;</span><span class="hljs-tag">&lt;/<span class="hljs-name">div</span>&gt;</span>
	<span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- /wp:column --&gt;</span><span class="hljs-tag">&lt;/<span class="hljs-name">div</span>&gt;</span>
	<span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- /wp:columns --&gt;</span><span class="hljs-tag">&lt;/<span class="hljs-name">div</span>&gt;</span>
<span class="hljs-tag">&lt;/<span class="hljs-name">div</span>&gt;</span>
<span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- /wp:cover --&gt;</span></code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-7"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">HTML, XML</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">xml</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>After saving that file to your theme, you also need to clear your customizations from the database.  You can do this by clicking on the Template Parts admin menu item and selecting the <code>⋮</code> (vertical ellipsis) button for the Header part and clicking the &#8220;Clear customizations&#8221; option.</p>



<img />Clearing customizations from the Header template part.



<p><em>As you can tell from the above screenshot, I have been tinkering with a lot of template part ideas.</em></p>



<h2 id="8-leveling-up-with-patterns-and-media">Leveling Up With Patterns and Media</h2>



<p>A plain ol&#8217; dark gray header background might not be too exciting. As promised, we&#8217;ll kick this up a notch by integrating with another block-related featured that classic themes can opt into: <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/block-patterns/">patterns</a>. We&#8217;ll use this to add a video background (or, image, if you prefer).</p>



<p>Because block template parts are HTML, it means that you cannot do anything dynamic, such as accurately reference media via your theme&#8217;s URL path. You need PHP to do this. That&#8217;s where patterns come in.</p>



<p>Instead of putting all of the block code into <code>parts/header.html</code>, you now only need one line of code:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-xml"><span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- wp:pattern {"slug":"tt1-block-parts/header-video"} /--&gt;</span></code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-8"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">HTML, XML</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">xml</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>This references a &#8220;Header Video&#8221; pattern that we will build in these next steps.</p>



<p>WordPress will automatically register any patterns found in a theme&#8217;s <code>patterns</code> folder. So, the next step is to create a <code>patterns/header-video.php</code> file with a few lines of info:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-xml"><span class="php"><span class="hljs-meta">&lt;?php</span>
<span class="hljs-comment">/*
 * Title: Header - Video
 * Slug: tt1-block-parts/header-video
 * Viewport Width: 1024
 * Categories: header, twentytwentyone
 * Inserter: yes
 */</span>
<span class="hljs-meta">?&gt;</span></span>
<span class="hljs-comment">&lt;!-- Replace with block code. --&gt;</span></code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-9"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">HTML, XML</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">xml</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>When you&#8217;ve built out your header, just remove the <code>&lt;!-- Replace with block code. --&gt;</code> and put the block HTML code in its place.</p>



<p>Let&#8217;s jump back to the editor. Using the same header from earlier, we can make a few simple changes to the Cover block to liven things up a bit.</p>



<ul>
<li>Click the &#8220;Add Media&#8221; toolbar button and select a image or video (your preference).</li>



<li>Click the duotone toolbar button to put a filter over the media.</li>



<li>Remove the overlay color and adjust the opacity settings in the block inspector sidebar to your liking.</li>
</ul>



<img />Adding a video and duotone filter to the Cover block.



<p>Now, you need to copy the block code from the editor and paste it into your <code>patterns/header-video.php</code> file. However, there is one important step you must take afterward. You need to change any references to image or video files that look like the following (there may be more than one occurrence):</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-javascript">http:<span class="hljs-comment">//localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/header-bg.mp4</span></code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-10"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">JavaScript</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">javascript</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>Those need to reference the media file wherever it lives within your theme. Because I put my header video MP4 into my theme&#8217;s <code>assets/video</code> folder, I changed each reference to the following:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-php"><span class="hljs-meta">&lt;?</span>= esc_url( get_theme_file_uri( <span class="hljs-string">'assets/video/header-bg.mp4'</span> ) ) <span class="hljs-meta">?&gt;</span></code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-11"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">PHP</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">php</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>My final <code>patterns/header-video.php</code> code became:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-php"><span class="hljs-meta">&lt;?php</span>
<span class="hljs-comment">/*
 * Title: Header - Video
 * Slug: tt1-block-parts/header-video
 * Viewport Width: 1024
 * Categories: header, twentytwentyone
 * Inserter: yes
 */</span>
<span class="hljs-meta">?&gt;</span>
&lt;!-- wp:cover {<span class="hljs-string">"url"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"&lt;?= esc_url( get_theme_file_uri( 'assets/video/header-bg.mp4' ) ) ?&gt;"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"dimRatio"</span>:<span class="hljs-number">0</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"backgroundType"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"video"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"minHeight"</span>:<span class="hljs-number">450</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"minHeightUnit"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"px"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"isDark"</span>:<span class="hljs-keyword">false</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"style"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"spacing"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"padding"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"top"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"4rem"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"right"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"4rem"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"bottom"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"4rem"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"left"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"4rem"</span>}},<span class="hljs-string">"color"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"duotone"</span>:[<span class="hljs-string">"#000000"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"#D1E4DD"</span>]}}} --&gt;
&lt;div <span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span>="<span class="hljs-title">wp</span>-<span class="hljs-title">block</span>-<span class="hljs-title">cover</span> <span class="hljs-title">is</span>-<span class="hljs-title">light</span>" <span class="hljs-title">style</span>="<span class="hljs-title">padding</span>-<span class="hljs-title">top</span>:4<span class="hljs-title">rem</span>;<span class="hljs-title">padding</span>-<span class="hljs-title">right</span>:4<span class="hljs-title">rem</span>;<span class="hljs-title">padding</span>-<span class="hljs-title">bottom</span>:4<span class="hljs-title">rem</span>;<span class="hljs-title">padding</span>-<span class="hljs-title">left</span>:4<span class="hljs-title">rem</span>;<span class="hljs-title">min</span>-<span class="hljs-title">height</span>:450<span class="hljs-title">px</span>"&gt;&lt;<span class="hljs-title">span</span> <span class="hljs-title">aria</span>-<span class="hljs-title">hidden</span>="<span class="hljs-title">true</span>" <span class="hljs-title">class</span>="<span class="hljs-title">wp</span>-<span class="hljs-title">block</span>-<span class="hljs-title">cover__background</span> <span class="hljs-title">has</span>-<span class="hljs-title">background</span>-<span class="hljs-title">dim</span>-0 <span class="hljs-title">has</span>-<span class="hljs-title">background</span>-<span class="hljs-title">dim</span>"&gt;&lt;/<span class="hljs-title">span</span>&gt;&lt;<span class="hljs-title">video</span> <span class="hljs-title">class</span>="<span class="hljs-title">wp</span>-<span class="hljs-title">block</span>-<span class="hljs-title">cover__video</span>-<span class="hljs-title">background</span> <span class="hljs-title">intrinsic</span>-<span class="hljs-title">ignore</span>" <span class="hljs-title">autoplay</span> <span class="hljs-title">muted</span> <span class="hljs-title">loop</span> <span class="hljs-title">playsinline</span> <span class="hljs-title">src</span>="&lt;?= <span class="hljs-title">esc_url</span>( <span class="hljs-title">get_theme_file_uri</span>( '<span class="hljs-title">assets</span>/<span class="hljs-title">video</span>/<span class="hljs-title">header</span>-<span class="hljs-title">bg</span>.<span class="hljs-title">mp4</span>' ) ) ?&gt;" <span class="hljs-title">data</span>-<span class="hljs-title">object</span>-<span class="hljs-title">fit</span>="<span class="hljs-title">cover</span>"&gt;&lt;/<span class="hljs-title">video</span>&gt;&lt;<span class="hljs-title">div</span> <span class="hljs-title">class</span>="<span class="hljs-title">wp</span>-<span class="hljs-title">block</span>-<span class="hljs-title">cover__inner</span>-<span class="hljs-title">container</span>"&gt;&lt;!-- <span class="hljs-title">wp</span>:<span class="hljs-title">columns</span> </span>{<span class="hljs-string">"verticalAlignment"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"center"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"lock"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"move"</span>:<span class="hljs-keyword">true</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"remove"</span>:<span class="hljs-keyword">true</span>}} --&gt;
&lt;div <span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span>="<span class="hljs-title">wp</span>-<span class="hljs-title">block</span>-<span class="hljs-title">columns</span> <span class="hljs-title">are</span>-<span class="hljs-title">vertically</span>-<span class="hljs-title">aligned</span>-<span class="hljs-title">center</span>"&gt;&lt;!-- <span class="hljs-title">wp</span>:<span class="hljs-title">column</span> </span>{<span class="hljs-string">"verticalAlignment"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"center"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"width"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"50%"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"templateLock"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"all"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"lock"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"move"</span>:<span class="hljs-keyword">true</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"remove"</span>:<span class="hljs-keyword">true</span>}} --&gt;
&lt;div <span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span>="<span class="hljs-title">wp</span>-<span class="hljs-title">block</span>-<span class="hljs-title">column</span> <span class="hljs-title">is</span>-<span class="hljs-title">vertically</span>-<span class="hljs-title">aligned</span>-<span class="hljs-title">center</span>" <span class="hljs-title">style</span>="<span class="hljs-title">flex</span>-<span class="hljs-title">basis</span>:50%"&gt;&lt;!-- <span class="hljs-title">wp</span>:<span class="hljs-title">group</span> </span>{<span class="hljs-string">"lock"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"move"</span>:<span class="hljs-keyword">false</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"remove"</span>:<span class="hljs-keyword">false</span>},<span class="hljs-string">"style"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"spacing"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"blockGap"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"var:preset|spacing|30"</span>}},<span class="hljs-string">"layout"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"type"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"flex"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"orientation"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"vertical"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"justifyContent"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"left"</span>}} --&gt;
&lt;div <span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span>="<span class="hljs-title">wp</span>-<span class="hljs-title">block</span>-<span class="hljs-title">group</span>"&gt;&lt;!-- <span class="hljs-title">wp</span>:<span class="hljs-title">site</span>-<span class="hljs-title">title</span> </span>{<span class="hljs-string">"style"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"typography"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"textTransform"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"uppercase"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"fontSize"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"1.5rem"</span>},<span class="hljs-string">"elements"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"link"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"color"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"text"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"var:preset|color|white"</span>}}}},<span class="hljs-string">"textColor"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"white"</span>} /--&gt;

&lt;!-- wp:site-tagline {<span class="hljs-string">"style"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"typography"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"fontSize"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"16px"</span>}},<span class="hljs-string">"textColor"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"white"</span>} /--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;!-- /wp:group --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;!-- /wp:column --&gt;

&lt;!-- wp:column {<span class="hljs-string">"verticalAlignment"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"center"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"width"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"50%"</span>} --&gt;
&lt;div <span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span>="<span class="hljs-title">wp</span>-<span class="hljs-title">block</span>-<span class="hljs-title">column</span> <span class="hljs-title">is</span>-<span class="hljs-title">vertically</span>-<span class="hljs-title">aligned</span>-<span class="hljs-title">center</span>" <span class="hljs-title">style</span>="<span class="hljs-title">flex</span>-<span class="hljs-title">basis</span>:50%"&gt;&lt;!-- <span class="hljs-title">wp</span>:<span class="hljs-title">navigation</span> </span>{<span class="hljs-string">"ref"</span>:<span class="hljs-number">2586</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"textColor"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"white"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"layout"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"type"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"flex"</span>,<span class="hljs-string">"justifyContent"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"right"</span>},<span class="hljs-string">"style"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"typography"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"fontSize"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"16px"</span>},<span class="hljs-string">"spacing"</span>:{<span class="hljs-string">"blockGap"</span>:<span class="hljs-string">"2rem"</span>}}} /--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;!-- /wp:column --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;!-- /wp:columns --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;!-- /wp:cover --&gt;</code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-12"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">PHP</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">php</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>As you did in the earlier step, clear any customizations from your header template part in the admin for the file from the theme to take effect.</p>



<h2 id="9-cleaning-up-the-user-experience">Cleaning Up the User Experience</h2>



<p>There is one final task that I must ask of you as a theme author. It&#8217;s not required, but it is one of those <em>nice-to-haves</em> that will make the user experience a bit nicer.</p>



<p>Remember that <code>theme.json</code> file that we created much earlier in this walk-through? Let&#8217;s add a <code>templateParts</code> section to it and register our custom header. We can add a title for our header template part that can be translated.</p>



<p>The final <code>theme.json</code> file:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-json">{
    <span class="hljs-attr">"version"</span>: <span class="hljs-number">2</span>,
    <span class="hljs-attr">"settings"</span>: {
        <span class="hljs-attr">"layout"</span>: {
            <span class="hljs-attr">"contentSize"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"var( --responsive--default-width )"</span>,
            <span class="hljs-attr">"wideSize"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"var( --responsive--alignwide-width )"</span>
        },
        <span class="hljs-attr">"spacing"</span>: {
            <span class="hljs-attr">"blockGap"</span>: <span class="hljs-literal">true</span>
        }
    },
    <span class="hljs-attr">"templateParts"</span>: [
        {
            <span class="hljs-attr">"name"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"header"</span>,
            <span class="hljs-attr">"title"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"Header"</span>,
            <span class="hljs-attr">"area"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"header"</span>
        }
    ]
}</code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-13"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">JSON / JSON with Comments</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">json</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>Now everything is nice and polished. Pat yourself on the back for a job well done if you&#8217;ve made it this far. Block-based template parts can be a lot of fun, and they&#8217;ll put a ton of customization power into the hands of your users.</p>



<h2 id="10-resources-to-learn-more">Resources To Learn More</h2>



<ul>
<li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/block-based-template-parts-for-classic-themes/">Block-Based Template Parts: A Happy Medium Between Classic and Block Themes</a></li>



<li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/block-themes/converting-a-classic-theme-to-a-block-theme/#gradually-adopting-the-full-site-editing">Gradually Adopting FSE Features in Classic Themes</a></li>



<li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/block-themes/templates-and-template-parts/#block-c5fa39a2-a27d-4bd2-98d0-dc6249a0801a">Block Template Parts</a></li>



<li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/block-api/block-patterns/">Block Patterns</a></li>



<li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/curating-the-editor-experience/#locking-apis">Curating the Editor Experience: Locking APIs</a></li>
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<div class="wp-block-post-excerpt"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt">Craft your origin story • Pointed questions for devs to ask prospective employers • Strategies against Ageism • IBM's a**hole test • Take a pass on a &#8220;fast-paced environment.&#8221; • WordPress Translation Day • Writing Tips for Engineers • Preventing burnout as a manager </p></div>


<p class="yoast-reading-time__wrapper"><span class="yoast-reading-time__icon"></span><span class="yoast-reading-time__spacer"></span><span class="yoast-reading-time__descriptive-text">Estimated reading time:  </span><span class="yoast-reading-time__reading-time">2</span><span class="yoast-reading-time__time-unit"> minutes</span></p>
</div></div>



<p><strong>Walt Kania</strong> explains why you should <a href="https://thefreelancery.com/crafting-your-origin-story/">craft your origin story</a> over at the <strong>Freelancery</strong>. Walt has good advice, and most of it applies far beyond freelancing. I've only seen about three truly helpful books about freelancing on the web, and they were all free — once. Walt's is the best, hands-down, for any kind of professional contractor practicing a craft. That's how he approaches copywriting, and so should you — whatever you do. <strong>Way Smarter Freelancing: Your Real-World, Hands-On, Field Guide</strong> is available for only USD 9.95. <a href="https://thefreelancery.com/way-smarter-freelancing/"><strong>READ →</strong></a></p>



<p><strong>Jussi Pakkanen</strong> has some pointed <a href="https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2022/09/questions-to-ask-prospective-employer.html">questions for developers to ask a prospective employer</a> during a job interview. Two good ones: Does this or any related team have a person who actively rejects proposals to improve the code base? Explicitly list out all the people in the organization who are needed to authorize a small change, like a typo in a log message. <strong><a href="https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2022/09/questions-to-ask-prospective-employer.html">MORE →</a></strong></p>



<p>Sadly, these &#8220;<a href="https://www.aarp.org/work/job-search/getting-hired-after-50/">5 Secrets to Getting Hired After 50</a>&#8221; from the AARP are mostly about getting past age discrimination, especially the advice to &#8220;polish your appearance.&#8221; But, &#8220;According to <a href="https://www.aarp.org/work/age-discrimination/job-interviews/">some research</a>, once hiring managers were able to interview applicants face-to-face, they were 40 percent less likely to hire older workers than they were to hire a younger applicant with the same skills.&#8221; <a href="https://www.aarp.org/work/job-search/getting-hired-after-50/"><strong>MORE →</strong></a></p>



<p>Supposedly <strong>IBM</strong> used to have <a href="https://johnpublic.mataroa.blog/blog/the-asshole-test/">an a**hole test</a> to see how job candidates behaved in a group that was given an impossible task. Mean, and maybe unfair but also a worthwhile thought experiment or even a fun team-building exercise when no one is being evaluated by <strong>HR</strong>. How do you think you would behave? <strong><a href="https://johnpublic.mataroa.blog/blog/the-asshole-test/">MORE →</a></strong></p>



<p><strong>The Misanthropic Developer</strong> casts a cold eye at <a href="https://misanthropic.dev/2022/09/11/fast-paced-environments/">job listings that mention a “Fast Paced Environment.”</a> Why isn’t this a selling point? &#8220;It’s often (correctly) interpreted as code for &#8216;overworked and understaffed.'&#8221; <a href="https://misanthropic.dev/2022/09/11/fast-paced-environments/"><strong>MORE →</strong></a></p>



<h2>Quick Links</h2>



<ul><li><strong>September 28</strong> is<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2022/09/06/announcement-wordpress-translation-day-2022/"> WordPress Translation Day</a>! Learn all about it and how you can help at <a href="https://weglot.com/blog/wordpress-translation-day-2022/">the Weglot blog</a>. <strong><a href="https://weglot.com/blog/wordpress-translation-day-2022/">MORE →</a></strong></li><li>Tips on <a href="https://www.heinrichhartmann.com/posts/writing/">Writing for Engineers</a> from the life learnings of <strong>Heinrich Hartmann</strong>.</li><li>From <strong>GitLab</strong>: <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/03/preventing-burnout-a-managers-toolkit/">Preventing burnout: A manager's toolkit</a>.</li></ul>
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<div class="wp-block-post-excerpt"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt">2022 Web Almanac CMS findings • WP Cloud • Sponsored core contributor and sponsor data • WP Biz Dev • Female-Owned and Led WP Businesses • and more → </p></div>


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<h2><a href="https://poststatus.com/2022-web-almanac-cms-report/">2022 Web Almanac CMS Report</a></h2>



<p>According to <a href="https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/cms">the CMS chapter</a> of the just-released <strong>2022 Web Almanac</strong> from the <strong>HTTP Archive</strong>, sites using a CMS — and WordPress — are still steadily increasing globally, and 34% of all the sites with an identifiable CMS were using a page builder. WordPress comes in at the bottom of the pack, however, when it comes to non-mobile device performance as measured by <strong>Core Web Vitals</strong>. For mobile, only <strong>Adobe Experience Manager</strong> performed worse — and by quite a margin. In terms of <strong>Lighthouse</strong> performance scores, WordPress was on par with its peers. <strong><a href="https://poststatus.com/2022-web-almanac-cms-report/">MORE →</a></strong></p>



<p class="has-theme-palette-8-background-color has-background"><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/26c5.png" alt="⛅" class="wp-smiley" /> This week's <a href="https://getellipsis.com/weather-report/">WordPress Weather Report from Ellipsis</a>: WordPress is up 0.02 to -0.02 under the baseline while WooCommerce holds steady at +0.02. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4c8.png" alt="📈" class="wp-smiley" /></p>



<h2><a href="https://poststatus.com/what-is-wp-cloud/">What is WP Cloud? Who is it for?</a></h2>



<p><a href="https://wp.cloud/"><strong>WP.cloud</strong></a> has been flying under the radar for a while. At the <strong>WP Minute</strong>, <strong>Matt Medeiros</strong> <a href="https://thewpminute.com/what-is-wp-cloud/">spoke with</a> <strong>Jesse Friedman</strong>, Director of Innovation at <strong>Automattic</strong>, to learn more. WP Cloud is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) built on the hosting infrastructure that’s behind <strong>WordPress.com</strong>, <strong>Pressable</strong>, and <strong>WordPress VIP</strong> with <strong>GridPane</strong> soon to follow. Agencies that want to white label their client hosting are ideal customers for WP Cloud via GridPane. In <strong>Post Status Slack</strong>, there's been <a href="https://poststatus.slack.com/archives/C1WDQ9W05/p1664229806689909">a hearty discussion</a> about where WP Cloud fits in the hosting industry and why you might want (or not want) to use it. <strong><a href="https://poststatus.com/what-is-wp-cloud/">MORE →</a></strong></p>



<h2><a href="https://poststatus.com/wordpress-core-contributor-stats-19-9-sponsored-for-6-0-release/">WordPress Core Contributor Stats: 19.9% Sponsored for 6.0 Release</a></h2>



<p><strong>Chuck Grimmet</strong>, who is on <strong>Automattic</strong>‘s Special Projects team for <strong>WordPress.com</strong>, “did some data exploration around WordPress core contributors and the companies they work for.” Chuck breaks down the data in detail with several tables <a href="https://cagrimmett.com/data-viz/2022/09/24/some-wp-core-contributor-stats/">on his blog</a>. The results point toward nearly 20% of contributors being sponsored for the 6.0 release, assuming they were sponsored by the same company during that entire time. <strong><a href="https://poststatus.com/wordpress-core-contributor-stats-19-9-sponsored-for-6-0-release/">MORE →</a></strong></p>



<h2>Quick Links</h2>



<ul><li><strong>Lawrence Ladomery</strong> has launched <a href="https://wpbiz.dev/"><strong>WP Biz Dev</strong></a>, “the first job board dedicated exclusively to Marketing and Sales roles for WordPress businesses.” <a href="https://wpbiz.dev/blog/news/wpbizdev-launch/"><strong>MORE →</strong></a></li><li>Last week, <strong>Steve Burge</strong> asked on <strong>Twitter</strong>, “<a href="https://twitter.com/SteveJBurge/status/1569754167241228288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1569754167241228288%7Ctwgr%5Ed8be2206bcf7d01791dd74cdae47fd5b22507147%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpoststatus.com%2Fthe-unofficial-directory-of-wordpress-wbes%2F">how many female-run WordPress companies are there?</a>” A big list emerged in the replies. <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/SteveJBurge/status/1569754167241228288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1569754167241228288%7Ctwgr%5Ed8be2206bcf7d01791dd74cdae47fd5b22507147%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpoststatus.com%2Fthe-unofficial-directory-of-wordpress-wbes%2F">READ →</a></strong></li><li><strong>Natasha Golinsky</strong> hosted a great webinar with Post Status for Agencies: <a href="https://poststatus.com/getting-paid-for-discovery-with-natasha-golinsky/"><strong>Getting Paid for Discovery</strong></a>. Now Natasha has launched <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/lessworkmoreprofit/">a Facebook group</a> for women who own creative agencies: <strong>Management Code: Management Skills for Female Creative Agency Owners</strong>. <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/lessworkmoreprofit/">JOIN →</a></strong></li><li><strong>WP Tavern:</strong> <a href="https://woosesh.com/">WooSesh</a> — the virtual conference for WooCommerce professionals and store builders — has posted the schedule for their upcoming three-day event beginning on October 11. <a href="https://wptavern.com/woosesh-publishes-schedule-ahead-of-virtual-event-october-11-13-2022"><strong>DEETS →</strong></a></li><li><strong>Do_the Woo:</strong> <a href="https://dothewoo.io/all-you-should-know-about-the-woocommerce-agency-partner-program/">All You Should Know About the WooCommerce Agency Partner Program</a>.</li><li>At <strong>WP Mayor</strong>, <strong>Mark Zahra</strong> asks, &#8220;<a href="https://wpmayor.com/is-deceptive-marketing-ruining-wordpress-reputation/">Is deceptive marketing ruining WordPress's reputation</a>?&#8221;</li><li><strong>Iconic:</strong> <a href="https://iconicwp.com/blog/ecommerce-black-friday/">How to Prep Your Ecommerce Store for Black Friday 2022</a>.</li><li>Are you ready for <a href="https://torquemag.io/2022/09/death-third-party-cookies/">a cookieless future</a>?</li><li>No, Website Quality Score is <a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ranking-factors/website-quality-score-ranking-factor/#close">not (yet)</a> a <strong>Google</strong> ranking factor.</li></ul>
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<div class="wp-block-post-excerpt"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt">Big Changes in WP_Query and the Nav Block • Accessibility-Ready Themes • Design Systems and Agency-Client Co-Creation • W3.CSS • WP Plugin Compare • Is Self-Hosted Email Impossible? • Cool Tool: WordPress WebAssembly • Also: Remix Icons, PDFgrep, The only 58 bytes of CSS you need to go to parties, plus an amazing Block Editor trick. </p></div>


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<h2>WP_Query Changes in 6.1</h2>



<p><strong>Jonathan Harris</strong> <a href="https://poststatus.slack.com/archives/C0413TGQZ/p1664271129015179">emphasized</a> in <strong>Post Status Slack</strong> <code>#development</code> and <a href="https://twitter.com/thespacedmonkey/status/1574690125551849473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1574860784601014288%7Ctwgr%5Eb7636f000ad668290ece0c2884ae30fb6c445a22%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.searchenginejournal.com%2Fwordpress-6-1-contains-massive-improvement-to-database-performance%2F466285%2F">on <strong>Twitter</strong></a> this week that <strong>WordPress 6.1</strong> is bringing <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/7f7d616d822b79c952cbd6a3046a6f6a8aa5a35e">big changes</a>  to <code>WP_Query</code> — changes <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22176">he's been working on</a> for a long time: caching database queries in <code>WP_Query</code>. </p>



<p><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/26a0.png" alt="⚠" class="wp-smiley" /> <em>Be advised this may affect any code that requires uncached database queries for something like a migration script</em>. Thanks to <strong>XWP</strong> for sponsoring Jonathan! </p>



<p><strong>Roger Monti </strong>at <strong>SEJ</strong> has <a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wordpress-6-1-contains-massive-improvement-to-database-performance/466285/#close">a nice explainer</a> on the massive improvements this will bring to WordPress performance with far fewer queries (in the billions) being run across the web. </p>



<h2>Nav Block Changes in 6.1</h2>



<p>Also in <strong>Post Status Slack</strong>, <strong>Dave Smith</strong> <a href="https://poststatus.slack.com/archives/C02707KA3B8/p1664266768057829">reminded theme developers</a> to &#8220;check out&nbsp;how the <strong>Navigation Block</strong> is changing in<strong> WordPress 6.1</strong>. Especially in relation to fallbacks.&#8221; Learn more from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovtyIyFOoA">Dave's video</a> on the new Nav Block features. <strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovtyIyFOoA">WATCH →</a></strong></p>



<h2>Accessibility Ready Themes</h2>



<p>Another <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55172">important step</a> in the evolution of the WordPress.org <strong>Theme Repository</strong>: along with filtering by <strong>Block Themes</strong>, now you can search for themes tagged &#8220;<a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/accessibility-ready/">Accessibility Ready.</a>&#8221; </p>



<p><strong>Twenty Twenty-Two</strong> was the first default theme shipped with WordPress core that <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentytwo/issues/82">meets the <strong>WCAG AA</strong> level accessibility requirements</a>. <strong>Cantan Group</strong> has <a href="https://cantangroup.com/insights/the-wordpress-twenty-twenty-two-theme-accessible-customizable/">a nice breakdown of its accessibility features</a> and why this matters. </p>



<p>You can learn how to <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/accessibility/">make your themes accessibility ready</a> from the <strong>Theme Review Handbook</strong> and start with <strong>Joe Dolson</strong>&#8216;s tips on <a href="https://wptavern.com/podcast/44-joe-dolson-on-how-to-fix-the-six-most-common-accessibility-errors-on-your-websites">How To Fix the Six Most Common Accessibility Errors on Your Websites</a>. (WP Tavern Jukebox) A great accessibility concept is to <a href="https://tangledweb.xyz/please-stop-using-grey-text-3d3e71acfca8">Stop Using Grey Text</a>, as <strong>Andrew Somers</strong> implores designers. <strong><a href="https://tangledweb.xyz/please-stop-using-grey-text-3d3e71acfca8">READ →</a></strong></p>



<h2>Design Systems and Agency-Client Co-Creation</h2>



<p><strong>Jay Hoffman</strong>&#8216;s <strong>History of The Web</strong> covers the way designers have shifted <a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/from-designing-interfaces-to-designing-systems/">from designing interfaces to designing systems</a>. <strong>ClearLeft</strong> is part of the story, and their co-founder, <strong>Jeremy Keith</strong>, has <a href="https://clearleft.com/posts/the-history-of-design-systems-at-clearleft">a new article about it</a>. He discusses why they've shifted from pattern portfolios to front-end style guides to pattern libraries to <strong>Fractal</strong>. Jeremy has written in the past how a good design system has to be developed by the client with an design agency facilitating:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>We’ve also come to realise that it usually doesn’t make sense for us to deliver a design system to a client. Rather, a design system needs to come from within the client’s own organisation. There’s little chance of a design system being adopted if the people who are supposed to use it don’t feel a sense of ownership. That’s why we prefer to co-create and guide the creation of a design system with a client, rather than simply handing it over. Co-creation takes a lot more work, but it’s worth it for the long-term usage of the design system.</p></blockquote>



<h2>Quick Links</h2>



<ul><li>New to me: <strong>W3.CSS</strong> is a good, <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/">free alternative</a> to <strong>Bootstrap</strong> that's smaller, faster, and easier to use. <strong><a href="https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/tryit.asp?filename=tryw3css_default_howto">TRY →</a></strong></li><li><strong>rtCamp</strong> keeps improving <strong><a href="https://wpplugincompare.com/">WP Plugin Compare</a></strong>. Searching the whole WordPress.org plugin repository, you can find and compare up to four plugins <a href="https://rtcamp.com/blog/wppc-feature-update-filter/">by their attributes</a>: author, keyword, number of active installs, review rating, support score, minimum WordPress version, tested WordPress version, and minimum PHP version. <strong><a href="https://wpplugincompare.com/#pluginSearchSection">TRY →</a></strong></li><li>&#8220;<a href="https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html">After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won</a>,&#8221; says <strong>Carlos Fenollosa</strong>. &#8220;Worse, Email deliverability is deliberately nerfed by Big Tech,&#8221; and &#8220;This doesn't only affect contrarian nerds.&#8221; Carlos offers <a href="https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html">a simple proposal where everyone wins</a>. <strong><a href="https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html">READ →</a></strong></li></ul>



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<h2>Cool Tool!</h2>



<p>Each week we feature one cool tool that can help make your life easier as a WordPress builder.</p>



<h2>WordPress <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/23/client-side-webassembly-wordpress-with-no-server/">WebAssembly</a></h2>



<p><strong>Adam Zielinski</strong> is blowing minds with the debut of Client-side WebAssembly WordPress with no server. (<strong><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-wasm">GitHub</a></strong>) On the <strong>Make WordPress Core</strong> blog, Adam <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/23/client-side-webassembly-wordpress-with-no-server/">breaks down the technical details</a> and explains some much-needed and exciting use cases for the WordPress community: &#8220;The code examples in the WordPress handbook could become runeditable.&#8221; (<a href="https://adamziel.github.io/tutorial.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Demo</a>) With an in-browser IDE, new contributors could get started &#8220;without setting up a local development environment.&#8221; (<a href="https://stackblitz.com/edit/wp-plugin-playground" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Demo</a>) It could also &#8220;become a primary teaching tool for new developers.&#8221; In essence, WP-WASM could play the role of <strong><a href="https://github.com/shaal/DrupalPod">Drupal Pod</a></strong> at Contributor Days, as <strong>Amy June Hineline</strong> <a href="https://poststatus.com/comparing-the-drupal-and-wordpress-communities-with-amy-june-hineline/">described it</a> on <strong>Post Status Excerpt</strong>.</p>



<h2>Bonus Tools—</h2>



<ul><li><strong>Remix Icon</strong> is a set of open-source neutral-style system symbols elaborately crafted for designers and developers. <strong><a href="https://remixicon.com/">GET→</a></strong></li><li><strong>pdfgrep</strong> is a command line utility to search text in PDF files. <strong><a href="https://pdfgrep.org/">GREP →</a></strong></li><li>58 bytes of <strong>CSS</strong> to look great nearly everywhere. <strong><a href="https://gist.github.com/JoeyBurzynski/617fb6201335779f8424ad9528b72c41">GIST →</a></strong></li><li><strong>Sam Munoz:</strong> &#8220;Did you know you can quickly reference other pages and posts within a #WordPress block by typing &#8220;[[&#8220;??&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/hellosammunoz/status/1574423440865562630">WAY!→</a></li></ul>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:78:"Post Status: WordPress Core Contributor Stats: 19.9% Sponsored for 6.0 Release";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:32:"https://poststatus.com/?p=126008";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:87:"https://poststatus.com/wordpress-core-contributor-stats-19-9-sponsored-for-6-0-release/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:3513:"<p><strong>Chuck Grimmet</strong>, who is on <strong>Automattic</strong>&#8216;s Special Projects team for <strong>WordPress.com</strong>, &#8220;did some data exploration around WordPress core contributors and the companies they work for.&#8221; Chuck breaks down the data in detail with several tables <a href="https://cagrimmett.com/data-viz/2022/09/24/some-wp-core-contributor-stats/">on his blog</a>.</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I did some data exploration around <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WordPress?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WordPress</a> core contributors and the companies they work for. <a href="https://t.co/L4G4IXmREy">https://t.co/L4G4IXmREy</a></p>&mdash; Chuck Grimmett (@cagrimmett) <a href="https://twitter.com/cagrimmett/status/1573728895903449091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p>Notably, <a href="https://cagrimmett.com/data-viz/2022/09/24/some-wp-core-contributor-stats/#sponsored-contributors">the percentage of sponsored contributors</a> has steadily increased to almost 20% for the 6.0 release. However, Chuck notes, &#8220;The data gets less accurate the further I go back in terms of release dates because I can only scrape their current profile, not their previous profiles. Some most likely switched employers.&#8221;</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">To be clear, not all employers listed in profiles are sponsoring the contributions. I think this shows company affiliations more than sponsorships. But I wouldn't be surprised if the number is higher than 5%. Difficult to get an accurate number since profile are self-reported.</p>&mdash; Chuck Grimmett (@cagrimmett) <a href="https://twitter.com/cagrimmett/status/1573746159071404033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p>Core Contributor Marius Jensen noted in Post Status Slack how complicated it would be to get a totally accurate fix on sponsored contributors. Marius has contributed to all the releases in Chuck's survey, but Marius was not with his current employer for that entire period. As well, some contributors may have been sponsored in the past but are no longer sponsored — or vice versa. Others' sponsors may have changed. </p>



<p>Chuck's research was inspired by <a href="https://twitter.com/cagrimmett/status/1573728898768150532">a good question</a> from <strong>David Bisset</strong>:</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Got asked this recently.<br /><br />If someone in or outside the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WordPress?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WordPress</a> space wanted to see a “simple" log of code contributions <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WordPress?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WordPress</a> companies (say, hosting companies, grouped by employees) contribute over time, where would they look? What’s the closest thing?</p>&mdash; David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/dimensionmedia/status/1573004938711601154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p>I've been an admirer of Chuck's blog for a while — especially his use of <strong><a href="https://indieweb.org/Webmention">Webmentions</a></strong>. We should all use them.</p>
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<p><strong>Top 3 countries with the most WordPress sites with passing CWV scores:</strong></p>



<ol><li>Japan</li><li>Canada</li><li>Germany (a very close 3rd)</li></ol>
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<p>The average number of plugins used on WordPress sites remained the same as last year: 24. If you're interested in image formats, page weight, fonts, CSS, and other resources impacting performance broken down by CMS, there are a lot of details about that in this report. </p>



<p>One unfortunate limitation of the data is that the more highly visited a site is, the less likely there is to be an identifiable CMS.</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Natasha Golinsky <a href="https://twitter.com/ProjectsPurpose?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ProjectsPurpose</a> has started a Facebook group — Management Code: Management Skills for Female Creative Agency Owners: <a href="https://t.co/ceZDh7iqUa">https://t.co/ceZDh7iqUa</a></p>&mdash; Post Status (@post_status) <a href="https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1574916297179144192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Question: how many female-run WordPress companies are there? I can think of these:<br />&#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/GoWPservices?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GoWPservices</a> <br />&#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/OSTraining?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OSTraining</a> <br />&#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/convesio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@convesio</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/yoast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yoast</a> was for a while.<br />Am I missing any more?</p>&mdash; Steve Burge (@SteveJBurge) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveJBurge/status/1569754167241228288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/09/wordpress-6-1-beta-2-now-available/">WordPress 6.1 Beta 2 Now Available</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/09/21/help-test-wordpress-6-1/">Help Test WordPress 6.1</a></li><li><a href="https://central.wordcamp.org/news/2022/09/the-first-in-person-wordcamp-in-india-is-looking-for-speakers/">The First In-Person WordCamp in India is Looking for Speakers!</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/2022/09/26/accessibility-team-meeting-notes-september-16-2022/">Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: September 16, 2022</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/09/27/15-oct-survey-deadline/">By 15 October – Please complete the Annual Meetup Survey and share widely!</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/09/27/celebrating-apac-wpdiversity-network-building-update-on-our-10th-meeting/">Celebrating APAC WPDiversity Network Building: Update on Our 10th Meeting</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/09/22/meetup-organizer-newsletter-september-2022/">Meetup Organizer Newsletter: September 2022</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/24/roadmap-to-6-1-core-companion/">Roadmap to 6.1: Core Companion</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/26/a-week-in-core-september-26-2022/">A Week in Core – September 26, 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/26/core-editor-improvement-catalyst-for-creativity/">Core Editor Improvement: Catalyst for creativity and control</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/23/client-side-webassembly-wordpress-with-no-server/">Client-side WebAssembly WordPress with no server</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/27/dev-chat-agenda-september-28-2022/">Dev Chat agenda, September 28, 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/27/performance-team-meeting-summary-27-september-2022/">Performance team meeting summary 27 September 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/26/editor-chat-agenda-28th-september-2022/">Editor Chat Agenda: 28th September 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/22/summary-dev-chat-september-21-2022/">Summary, Dev Chat, September 21, 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/21/core-editor-chat-summary-21st-september-2022/">Core Editor chat summary: 21st September 2022</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/2022/09/26/design-share-sep-12-sep-23/">Design Share: Sep 12 – Sep 23</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2022/09/27/summary-of-docs-team-meeting-september-27-2022/">Summary of Docs Team Meeting September 27, 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/09/26/documentation-team-update-september-26-2022/">Documentation Team Update – September 26, 2022</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2022/09/27/notes-wordpress-global-marketing-team-meeting-september-21-2022/">Notes, WordPress global Marketing Team meeting, September 21, 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2022/09/26/agenda-global-wordpress-marketing-team-meeting-september-28-2022/">Agenda, global WordPress Marketing Team meeting, September 28, 2022</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/26/performance-chat-agenda-27-september-2022/">Performance Chat Agenda: 27 September 2022</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/support/2022/09/agenda-support-team-meeting-september-29-2022/">Agenda: Support Team Meeting – September 29, 2022</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/09/15/fse-program-testing-call-17-guiding-the-gutenberg-gallery/">FSE Program Testing Call #17: Guiding the Gutenberg Gallery</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/09/26/xpost-test-team-update-26-september-2022/">Test Team Update: 26 September 2022</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/09/28/themes-team-meeting-notes-september-27-2022/">Themes Team Meeting Notes –&nbsp;September 27, 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/09/27/xpost-themes-team-update-september-27-2022/">X-post: Themes team update September 27, 2022</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/individual-learner-survey/">How did you learn WordPress?</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/09/27/september-2022-monthly-faculty-meeting/">September 2022 Monthly Faculty Meeting</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/09/26/meeting-agenda-for-september-27-2022/">Meeting Agenda for September 27, 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/09/23/training-team-meeting-recap-september-20/">Training Team Meeting Recap – September 20</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/09/23/wptranslation-day-contributor-day/">#WPTranslation Day Sept 30 – Contributor Day</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/09/23/summary-update-courses-currently-in-development-22-september-2022/">Summary Update: Courses Currently in Development (22 September 2022)</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/using-block-attributes-to-enable-user-editing/">Using Block Attributes to Enable User&nbsp;Editing</a></li><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/image-optimization/">Image Optimization</a></li><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/introduction-to-block-theme-development-for-beginners/">Introduction to block theme development (for beginners)</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/?meeting=lets-code-creating-your-primary-templates-in-the-editor">Let’s code! Creating your Primary Templates in the Editor</a></li><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/?meeting=part-2-re-creating-block-designs">Part 2: Re-Creating Block Designs</a></li><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/?meeting=part-1-re-creating-block-designs">Part 1: Re-Creating Block Designs</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.tv/category/year/2022/">Latest WordPress TV videos</a></li></ul>
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<p>The Themes Team warned that guidelines regarding locally hosting fonts will be changing imminently and many theme authors <a href="https://wptavern.com/wordpress-theme-authors-are-moving-to-host-fonts-locally">moved to comply</a> before it becomes a requirement. </p>



<p>A <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55985">ticket</a> for bundling Google fonts with WordPress&#8217; legacy default themes had patches and was on track to be included in WordPress 6.1 in November. WordPress contributor Hendrik Luehrsen <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55985#comment:35">requested</a> more eyes on the ticket, saying it &#8220;directly affects the core WordPress audience in Germany.&#8221; He reported that users in Germany were still getting emails threatening fines for using fonts loaded from Google.</p>



<p>WordPress core committer Tonya Mork <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55985#comment:35">suggested</a> exploring releasing the updated version of each theme separately from WordPress 6.1.</p>



<p>&#8220;When each theme is ready, release it to wp.org&#8217;s theme repo,&#8221; Mork said. &#8220;Users can then update to get locally hosted fonts ahead of when WP 6.1 is released.&#8221;</p>



<p>This changed the direction of the ticket and with more scrutiny, contributors found the patches could use some more work.</p>



<p>&#8220;Creating new theme versions for this specific change could be good <em>when they are ready</em>,&#8221; Stephen Bernhardt said. &#8220;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/07/28/using-locally-hosted-google-fonts-in-themes/">Using locally hosted fonts</a> is already recommended, but we need to fix our own themes before we can make this a requirement for others.&#8221; He submitted a list of problems and potential improvements after reviewing the patches, and contributors are working on a better approach.</p>



<p>WordPress core committer David Baumwald <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55985#comment:51">changed the milestone to 6.2</a>, as Beta 2 for 6.1 was released yesterday and the ticket still needs a final direction and patch. </p>



<p>&#8220;While I understand the issue, this is nonetheless sad to see,&#8221; Luehrsen said. &#8220;This is still a serious issue in Germany (and other GDPR territories), as users with active Google Fonts are currently <a href="https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/news/DSGVO-Abmahnwelle-wegen-Google-Fonts-7206364.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp">getting targeted by people exploiting the law</a>.&#8221;</p>



<p> Luehrsen took to Twitter to <a href="https://twitter.com/hluehrsen/status/1575035575068856321">comment</a> on his disappointment with the ticket missing the window for 6.1.</p>



<p>&#8220;This is the reason why WordPress will probably lose relevance,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Real users get hurt here, but they are in GDPR territories and this does not seem to be important.</p>



<p>&#8220;Could I have done more? Probably. But it is somewhat sad to see how quickly the momentum on that ticket fizzled out. If Squarespace, Wix and sorts start marketing privacy against WordPress, we&#8217;re screwed in GDPR countries.&#8221;</p>



<p>In the meantime, those who are using WordPress&#8217; default themes can use a plugin like <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/local-google-fonts/">Local Google Fonts</a> or <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/host-webfonts-local/">OMGF | GDPR/DSVGO Compliant, Faster Google Fonts</a> to host fonts locally. </p>



<p>Users can also switch to <a href="https://fonts.bunny.net/">Bunny Fonts</a>, an open-source, privacy-first web font platform with no tracking or logging that is fully GDPR compliant. Bunny Fonts is compatible with the Google Fonts CSS v1 API so it can function as a drop-in replacement. The <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/replace-google-fonts-with-bunny-fonts/">Replace Google Fonts with Bunny Fonts</a> plugin makes it easy for users to do that without editing any theme code. </p>



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<p>[00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley.</p>



<p>Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, how to improve the accessibility of your WordPress website.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast, player of choice. Or by going to WPTavern.com forward slash feed forward slash podcast. And you can copy that URL into most podcast players.</p>



<p>If you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m very keen to hear from you, and hopefully get you all your idea featured on the show. Head to WPTavern.com forward slash contact forward slash jukebox, and use the contact form there.</p>



<p>So on the podcast today, we have Joe Dolson. Joe is a WordPress plugin developer, a core committer and a web accessibility consultant. He&#8217;s part of the Make WordPress accessibility team, the team dedicated to improving accessibility in the WordPress ecosystem.</p>



<p>His recent presentation at WordCamp US entitled, finding and fixing the six most common WCAG 2 failures, highlight some of the key areas where websites are not as accessible as they should be. The areas we discuss are, low contrast text, missing alternative text, empty links, missing form labels, empty buttons and missing document language.</p>



<p>Joe explains what each of these problems are, both in terms of how they can be fixed as well as what people with accessibility requirements might experience when they visit your site. We talk about how you can equip yourself with the tools that you need to diagnose these issues and online resources you can use to discover more about website accessibility.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s Joe&#8217;s opinion that you&#8217;re better off making a start right now, carrying out incremental changes rather than attempting to solve every single problem that your website might have. Begin the journey and take it one problem at a time.</p>



<p>We also chat about the fact that there&#8217;s an ever-growing legal compulsion to make websites follow accessibility guidelines. Lawsuits are going through the courts with greater regularity. So now might be the time for you to look into this topic.</p>



<p>That being said, Joe cautions against the use of tools, which purport to solve your accessibility issues with minimal effort. A variety of pop-up solutions have emerged onto the market, which claimed that they can make your site compliant with almost no effort. Joe is adamant that these promises are almost always false and that there&#8217;s real work to be done on each website, as they&#8217;re all unique and have unique problems to solve.</p>



<p>Typically when we record the podcast. There&#8217;s not a lot of background noise. But that&#8217;s not always the case. Over the coming weeks, I&#8217;ll be bringing you recordings from a recent trip to WordCamp US 2022, and you might notice that the recordings have a little echo or other strange audio artifacts. Whilst the podcasts are more than listable, I do hope that you understand that the vagaries of the real world we&#8217;re at play.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re interested in finding out more, you can find all the links in the show notes by heading to WPTavern.com forward slash podcast, and you&#8217;ll find all of the other episodes there as well. And so without further delay, I bring you Joe Dolson.</p>



<p>I am joined on the podcast today by Joe Dolson. Hello Joe.</p>



<p>[00:04:23] Joe Dolson: Hello.</p>



<p>We are at WordCamp, I nearly said WordCamp Europe. We are at WordCamp US 2022. We&#8217;ve got Joe on the podcast today because he is doing a talk at WordCamp US. Do you just wanna tell us a little bit about yourself? Why you&#8217;re on this podcast, but then stray into what your talk is about.</p>



<p>[00:04:40] Joe Dolson: Certainly So I&#8217;m Joe Dolson. I&#8217;m a WordPress core committer. I&#8217;ve been a contributor to the accessibility of WordPress for quite a long time. I think I first started contributing in WordPress 3.4. I&#8217;d have to look at my history to actually know that for sure, but it was somewhere around there. So today I&#8217;m talking about a study from the nonprofit organization, WebAIM, out of Utah, in which they looked at the top million homepages around the web. The most widely visited, heavily known webpages, and did a bulk analysis of the accessibility issues on those pages.</p>



<p>And, I&#8217;m going to talk about six specific types of errors that they found constituted 96.5% of all detectable errors using automation. And the things that that exposes and how you can work with consultants. How you should use your time and how you should use automation to solve problems.</p>



<p>[00:05:39] Nathan Wrigley: Can I ask how it is that you became interested in accessibility problems, given all the myriad things that you could have become interested in web? How did accessibility fall into your lap and create so much interest for you?</p>



<p>[00:05:51] Joe Dolson: So when I started my business in 2004, I started right from the beginning with the idea that I wanted to pursue accessibility in websites. And that was because when I decided to become a web designer, I wanted something that was unique about what I did. I wanted to do something that wasn&#8217;t just marketing. I wasn&#8217;t really interested in marketing. I&#8217;d seen a lot of that around and I&#8217;m like, boy, that, that just doesn&#8217;t seem like it&#8217;s socially motivating.</p>



<p>[00:06:21] Nathan Wrigley: Mmm.</p>



<p>[00:06:21] Joe Dolson: It doesn&#8217;t seem like it&#8217;s interesting. It doesn&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m doing something worthwhile. So I had to think to myself about, well, what do I know already? What do I have a unique access to that can make my business be a little bit different? And my mother was the executive director of a nonprofit that provided arts access for people with disabilities.</p>



<p>And so for years, I&#8217;d had conversations at home with family when visiting my mother in her workplace about what people with disabilities needed and how the ADA worked, and how all of this sort of world needed to be constructed. So what I already had was a reasonably strong sensibility for why people with disabilities need access and the very fact of the modality of different experiences and different perceptions. And so with some study about the actual technical side behind that, I was able to pick that up relatively quickly. Which is not to say I didn&#8217;t make absolutely horrible mistakes in 2004 and five.</p>



<p>[00:07:29] Nathan Wrigley: It&#8217;s almost, it&#8217;s something that came from your, your background,. Your family enabled you to have some sort of prior wisdom. Most of the rest of us, I would imagine are coming at it pretty cold, and if we were to go back, I don&#8217;t know, 5, 6, 7, 8 years, I feel like nobody was really talking about this. I could be wrong. Obviously you were interested in it, but as a proportion of the people that were designing websites, I feel that accessibility was not on everybody&#8217;s radar. I would imagine that many, many of the websites out there were not accessible in any way, shape or form.</p>



<p>But it&#8217;s become a real talking point in the last few years and people are making much more of an effort. Obviously you&#8217;ve got your conversation, your presentation at the event in the next couple of days. I&#8217;m just wondering if you could outline for those people who, maybe they&#8217;re new to WordPress, maybe they&#8217;re new to web design and they hear the word accessibility and they just think, well, I don&#8217;t know what that means. Just, in the broadest possible brush strokes. Just let us know what the 10,000 foot high version of accessibility on the web is.</p>



<p>[00:08:31] Joe Dolson: So yeah, the 10,000 foot view. Accessibility, web accessibility, and the access to information for people with disabilities is about making sure that the content you&#8217;ve put on your website is interpretable to the most, the widest variety of senses. So for people who are visually impaired, that means making sure everything can be understood by what&#8217;s called a screen reader. That will look at the text content of your site, look at the code of your site and interpret that in voice production.</p>



<p>For people with hearing impairments, that&#8217;s about having captions for your video. It&#8217;s about having transcriptions of your audio files. So it&#8217;s really about recognizing that people have different ways of perceiving the world, whether that&#8217;s because of dyslexia, and they have difficulty with the way text is structured. Or it&#8217;s visually impaired, so that they literally cannot see your images and have no idea what that is. Your responsibility in sharing that information is making sure it&#8217;s available to multiple senses.</p>



<p>[00:09:40] Nathan Wrigley: Thank you.</p>



<p>Your talk is called finding and fixing the six most common WCAG, W C A G, two failures. First of all, what&#8217;s WCAG 2? And then if you wouldn&#8217;t mind elucidating what are those six most common failures? Maybe we just go through them one at a time, and if we, if we stray off into a conversation about each one of them, that&#8217;d be good, and if not, we&#8217;ll carry on from there.</p>



<p>[00:10:02] Joe Dolson: Sounds great. So the web content accessibility guidelines is a document coming out of the W3C, the worldwide web consortium, and it&#8217;s kind of the international standard for what is considered to be accessibility. Version two is the version that was published in, I wanna say 2008. So it&#8217;s not new. But it&#8217;s been then updated periodically since then. The current version is 2.1. 2.2 is currently a candidate. It is likely to become a recommendation sometime at the beginning of 2023.</p>



<p>And that just keeps incrementing different ways of looking at things and what is considered to be a standard internationally for what makes content accessible. It&#8217;s a very useful document. It is enshrined in law in a number of contexts. The US government&#8217;s section 5 0 8 is based on WCAG 2. A lot of international laws such as what the EU uses for their guidelines are based on WCAG 2. So being aware of these guidelines is pretty key.</p>



<p>[00:11:07] Nathan Wrigley: Just before we go into the six areas that your presentation is about. When you say that the things are enshrined in law, and you mentioned the US and the EU in particular, I guess there&#8217;s going to be a whole swathe of different responsibilities and things that you are compelled to do. You are in the US, so just give us an idea, just paint the picture in the US specifically, and we&#8217;ll just ignore the rest of the world for now, about what the absolute requirements are. So, in other words, if you don&#8217;t satisfy this, you are in breach of the law. So are you able to speak to that?</p>



<p>[00:11:40] Joe Dolson: I can definitely speak to that. And it&#8217;s definitely good that we&#8217;re narrowing that just to the US, because otherwise this would go on for hours.</p>



<p>[00:11:47] Nathan Wrigley: One country time. Yeah.</p>



<p>[00:11:49] Joe Dolson: So in the US, what we&#8217;ve got is section 5 0 8, which is part of the federal regulations governing the acquisition of software for government institutions. And that only applies when you&#8217;re getting funding from the federal government. So you&#8217;re only in violation of that if, for example, you&#8217;re a university and your website is funded by federal grants. And that is, 100% it&#8217;s based on WCAG 2.</p>



<p>There are a few tweaks that are not exactly identical, but basically if you&#8217;re violating WCAG 2 at what&#8217;s called level AA, there are three levels of severity within WCAG. There&#8217;s level A, AA and triple A. Triple A is usually very specific types of errors that apply to relatively small populations and mostly need to be handled if you&#8217;re specifically serving that population. The guidelines, the laws are around AA, which is gonna be very broad, but it&#8217;s still, there&#8217;s got a fair amount of meat to it.</p>



<p>The other law is the ADA, which is a 1991 law, and this may shock you, but at the time it was written, they did not directly address websites. And that does not mean that website accessibility isn&#8217;t covered by the ADA, and case law has repeatedly demonstrated through precedent, that yes, the ADA does require websites that are publicly accessible and commercial need to be accessible.</p>



<p>What is lacking in the US is any regulations that stipulate what that means, and that is a case where WCAG has not been brought into the legal bounds on these websites. And that is why you hear so much about so many lawsuits against companies for web accessibility. It&#8217;s because we don&#8217;t have regulations that allow anybody to easily look at their website and determine whether or not they&#8217;ve met those requirements. Really. the ADA stipulates your website needs to be accessible, it needs to provide this equal access. Figure out what that means.</p>



<p>[00:13:50] Nathan Wrigley: You just mentioned lawyers and that&#8217;s kind of an interesting place to go just for a moment. It feels like there&#8217;s two premises here. We could have the carrot approach, or we could have the stick approach and the stick approach, by that, I mean is the threat of somebody contacts a lawyer and threatens to sue you because your website is not up to scratch.</p>



<p>On the other hand, there&#8217;s the, uh, carrot approach, which is the kind of thing that I&#8217;m imagining you are doing. You&#8217;re involved in educating the community and, and making this stuff happen with a little bit of education. Do we need to fear the lawyers, the stick approach? Is that an increasing thing that&#8217;s happening? I mean, you see it in all other walks of life. People are sued for things that they haven&#8217;t done because people think they might be able to make a little bit of money out of it. Is that kind of on the horizon? Are people doing that? Do we need to be worried about the legal aspect?</p>



<p>[00:14:36] Joe Dolson: Yes, 100%. As recently as six or seven years ago, I would&#8217;ve said no, you don&#8217;t really seriously to worry about that unless you&#8217;re an international scale company. And that&#8217;s just not true anymore. And that&#8217;s directly because we don&#8217;t have those regulations. They&#8217;ve been slated to be added on many, many occasions, and keep getting canceled. They are currently on the docket to be created again, hopefully in 2023. But until that happens, we don&#8217;t really have anything that gives us a goal. And one of the things that regulations could come with is a schedule. A schedule of enforcement. That&#8217;s what certainly a lot of other places have done.</p>



<p>The province of Ontario created a document, the AODA, which is a set of laws within Ontario for what is needed to accessible, and that came with a schedule of enforcement. Instead we have a free for all. Anything could happen. And there are thousands of accessibility lawsuits every year. And a lot of them are just accident chasers effectively. They&#8217;re not people with a very serious concern. They&#8217;re just looking for a quick payoff. And that is a horrible, horrible scenario to be in because you might receive one of these demand letters, and there&#8217;s a very good chance you are in fact in violation of it, and it is legitimate, even though they probably wouldn&#8217;t pursue it in court, but you can&#8217;t count on that. So it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s a very unpleasant situation.</p>



<p>[00:16:09] Nathan Wrigley: That, is curious. But also, conversations like this and podcast episodes like this, at least we&#8217;re alerting people to the fact that this is something to be taken seriously. I wonder at what level, like you mentioned six or seven years ago, if you are a, a major corporation, you probably needed to worry about this. And then as though six or seven years have passed, presumably that barrier has gone lower and lower and lower. But at some point it doesn&#8217;t matter who you are, you are going to be liable unless you take this sort of stuff seriously. Sorry, you were gonna say.</p>



<p>[00:16:35] Joe Dolson: Right, right, right. I was say that there usually is a point when you get down into non-commercial websites, when things do get a lot fuzzier as to whether or not you&#8217;re likely to be liable, but that&#8217;s really a question that the law should be settling and the regulations should be settling.</p>



<p>What we should probably do is actually get to these six error types. All right. Let&#8217;s do it. So the number one is low contrast text, and that literally means where you have gray text on a slightly darker gray background, and it&#8217;s just hard to read. And there are a lot of very very specific calculations that determine in WCAG what is considered to be low contrast or not. It&#8217;s an extremely easy thing to test for, and it&#8217;s just a matter of trying to meet those guidelines.</p>



<p>Nobody is trying to claim that these color perception tests are perfect. It&#8217;s a number. It&#8217;s intended to be there so that you have to meet this basic minimum. An important thing to remember about contrast is that this is not a scenario where higher contrast is automatically better. If you&#8217;ve met the guideline, you&#8217;re in perfectly good shape. You do not need to then go, oh, but I should probably just go black on white. That&#8217;s not necessarily better. There&#8217;s a whole population of people who will actually find that to be a completely separate struggle.</p>



<p>After contrast, it&#8217;s all about, images and that&#8217;s images that are either missing alternative text, have generic alternative text, like just image or file or something useless, or are repetitive. And that&#8217;s going to be cases where maybe you&#8217;ve got a linked image next to a link where the text of that alt text is exactly the same as the text of the link, it&#8217;s just duplicate. It&#8217;s not helping anybody. These are also really easy to find because you can easily identify that your images have this really common recurring pattern. In a lot of cases in the world of WordPress.</p>



<p>You know, you might have a block pattern that&#8217;s producing an image with a heading and some text. And if that block pattern is just presetting an alternative text to something that&#8217;s not good, that&#8217;s where you might have a problem, it just needs to be dealt with and fixed.</p>



<p>[00:18:50] Nathan Wrigley: Can I just interrupt there a moment, because a default install of WordPress will give you more than alternative text. You&#8217;ve got descriptions and captions and so on. You only mentioned alternative text. Is that the case? It&#8217;s just that one field that we need to be mindful of.</p>



<p>And you&#8217;re describing what is in the image. So, for example, if there&#8217;s a red car with a, I don&#8217;t know, a dog in the backseat or something you would write, this is an image of a red car with a dog in the backseat.</p>



<p>[00:19:15] Joe Dolson: That&#8217;s a great question. I&#8217;m gonna answer two parts of that. First of all, you don&#8217;t describe the image. You describe the purpose of the image, which may or may not be a description of the image. It really depends on the context. For example, if that image is a link to a post, then what that image is actually conveying to the user is, what is this link for? Which is not necessarily going to be what is the image of. Which is also a question for, is this the right image for this? If that alt text doesn&#8217;t make any sense with that image, then maybe this isn&#8217;t the right image. But ultimately what you&#8217;re actually describing is the purpose of the image. It might be that it&#8217;s an image of a dog in the backseat of a red car.</p>



<p>The other thing I wanna mention about that is you would not say, image of. Because that is already going to be predicted and produced by the screen reader. They know it&#8217;s an image. You got that covered. And that is an extremely common problem actually, is people stating that it is an image? Totally unnecessary.</p>



<p>[00:20:15] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. So we went through number one and number two.</p>



<p>[00:20:18] Joe Dolson: Well, there was another part of that, which is the WordPress fields. So the WordPress media library has four fields that can be filled in. Title, alternative text, caption and description. Those four things all serve completely different purposes. The title is really only for administrative use. In very old versions of WordPress, it was used to add a title attribute, but that has not been the case for many years.</p>



<p>The alternative text is the thing that basically represents the image. It&#8217;s the alternative to the image. When that image is not available, whether it&#8217;s because somebody can&#8217;t perceive it or because it doesn&#8217;t load. That&#8217;s the thing that should take the place of that image. And that&#8217;s the generic version of it because the things stored in the media library is just one alternative text. So usually that is going to be a description of the image. In actual use, you may or may not want to use that text depending on the context. Again, with that linked image, it&#8217;s not necessarily a description of it. It might be a description of the target.</p>



<p>And then the caption, the caption is a thing that should be universally available. So both people who are sighted and people who are visually impaired will be able to see that. So really it&#8217;s something that should be complimentary to the image. It gives additional context, but doesn&#8217;t necessarily explicitly describe it. An example there would be, it might be used to say who is in the image. For example, you know, the description is a man with glasses and a beard, stroking a cat. And then the caption actually says, this is a picture of our founder, Joe Dolson and his cat Bubbles. I don&#8217;t have a cat named bubbles. just to be clear.</p>



<p>[00:22:00] Nathan Wrigley: There was more in that than I, I imagined.</p>



<p>[00:22:02] Joe Dolson: The description field is actually not used by default unless your theme has decided that there&#8217;s some context in which that&#8217;s used.</p>



<p>[00:22:09] Nathan Wrigley: So, okay, we&#8217;ve done one and two.</p>



<p>[00:22:10] Joe Dolson: Moving on to number three. That&#8217;s form fields without labels. And that is an incredibly big deal. I mean, if you have a contact form or a search form or a sales form, any kind of query, and those form fields don&#8217;t have labels, then basically a user with a screen reader, they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re trying to do. They have no idea what this is. Frequently, you have form fields that have text nearby that is visually a label, it looks like it has a label. But if there&#8217;s no explicit association between that information, because a label is a specific HTML field and it&#8217;s connected to an input using a for attribute and an ID, attribute. And that makes it really straightforward, really explicit.</p>



<p>And that tells somebody what this field is for. And those being missing are just, that&#8217;s just wrong. It should not be missing. Next one after that, and I&#8217;m just gonna collapse the next two into one because they&#8217;re effectively the same problem. Empty links and empty buttons. That is literally a link that does not have any text contained inside it, or a button that doesn&#8217;t have any text. As often as not that&#8217;s because they&#8217;re either an image that doesn&#8217;t have an alt attribute.</p>



<p>So there&#8217;s nothing meaningful there. It&#8217;s like a font icon or an SVG image that is supposed to represent your hamburger menu, or it&#8217;s a close icon, or it&#8217;s a help icon or any of those many possibilities, but doesn&#8217;t have any kind of accessible name. It doesn&#8217;t have any attributes that give that a text context. So the screen reader knows what this is supposed to do. Those are also extremely common.</p>



<p>The last of the six, and this is quite rare to be a problem on a WordPress site because WordPress pretty much takes care of this, is a missing document language. Every HTML element should have a lang attribute that declares what language the document is in. English, German, French, Spanish, whatever. And the purpose of that for a screen reader is to tell them how to pronounce it.</p>



<p>Not having that means it will be pronounced according to whatever that person&#8217;s local settings are. So if they&#8217;re a French browser on an English site, the English is gonna have a very strong accent. And in fact, it&#8217;s not really an accent because it&#8217;s following a completely different set of pronunciation rules and that&#8217;s going to make it incomprehensible.</p>



<p>So making sure that that attribute is present is really important. I haven&#8217;t seen that as a problem on a WordPress site with a theme that&#8217;s reasonably recent for a long time. There were definitely a lot of older themes where, big problem.</p>



<p>[00:24:49] Nathan Wrigley: I&#8217;m guessing that the six things that you brought to the table could easily be 15, 20 things, but six was the number that was chosen there. I guess the problem is you could have gone on all day and we could have talked for hours about all the other things, but these are the things that have risen to the surface.</p>



<p>So anybody who&#8217;s not encountered this is now going to be presented with additional things to do. Work to be undertaken. Things to be learned and so on and so forth. I&#8217;m just wondering if there&#8217;s any, any useful things, tools for want of a better word that you have found over the years that have enabled you to short circuit things, make things as easy as possible. So it might be a browser extension, or I don&#8217;t know, some app that you can install on your computer or something like that.</p>



<p>[00:25:32] Joe Dolson: Yes, there are an incredible number of these types of tools, and they all have slightly different ways of working, slightly different sets of tests. But these particular six items, all of the automated tests are going to find these and help you solve them. They&#8217;ll give you guidance about what you have and what you need to do.</p>



<p>So I think some of the ones I use the most are going to be, there&#8217;s an automated tester from tenon.io, and that&#8217;s an application that you can run remotely. It&#8217;s got an API, you can run it just automatically. And it&#8217;ll just scan a page and give you a list of everything it&#8217;s found on it..</p>



<p>Another one is wave.webaim.org. That&#8217;s from the same group of people who produced this report that found these errors. And that&#8217;s available as a toolbar for, I think it&#8217;s Chrome. Firefox or Edge, so pretty broadly available. It&#8217;s also testing one page at a time, but they do have a tool through a company called Pope Tech, that can give you generated reports of larger sets of pages. So you can get a much larger body of data.</p>



<p>There are browser extensions from an organization called Deque called Axe. Those also do a wide variety of automated tests.</p>



<p>One of the things that&#8217;s important in development with accessibility is that it&#8217;s always something that needs to be based on the rendered site. There&#8217;s a reason they&#8217;re called the web content accessibility guidelines. It&#8217;s because it&#8217;s all about the user experience and what they&#8217;re actually getting. So there aren&#8217;t a lot of tools for doing like pre-production linting as part of your development. You know, you can do some of that in an end to end test, but it&#8217;s going to be very limited because it&#8217;s, there&#8217;s so many assumptions you have to make.</p>



<p>And the real world is where people have put in content that, the content is what&#8217;s really causing problems. Anything with these images, almost all of that is problems coming from content.</p>



<p>[00:27:28] Nathan Wrigley: So it strikes me from what you&#8217;ve just said, that there might be a better place to put this work. This work that needs to be done in the workflow of a typical website. And from what you&#8217;ve just said, it sounds like it would be better done toward, the end of the development cycle?</p>



<p>[00:27:43] Joe Dolson: Different parts of it fall in different locations. So low contrast text, for example, is frequently a design issue. So that as often as not should go at the very, very beginning. That&#8217;s when you&#8217;re deciding what kind of color palette you&#8217;re going to use and what your base design looks like.</p>



<p>The images, it&#8217;s a mix, because it depends on whether you&#8217;re using a plugin that generates a body of images, or you&#8217;re using images embedded into content. In the latter case, it&#8217;s a content production issue. So it&#8217;s something that you should be checking on the fly and should be done on a constantly recurring basis.</p>



<p>For the application environment, for, you know, a plugin that&#8217;s producing these lists. That needs to be fixed in the development side, on that plugin of whatever it&#8217;s doing.</p>



<p>Form fields are another one where most of that needs to come from the plugin that&#8217;s generating your form. Gravity Forms has done a huge amount of work on improving the accessibility of their product. They&#8217;ve got more to do. It&#8217;s always, these things are a constant battle of, oh, we screwed this up now we&#8217;ve gotta fix it. Oh, we fix this, but now we screwed that up. But Gravity Forms has done a really great job, and one of the advantages to that is that they don&#8217;t give you a lot of room to screw it up. Just make sure that legacy markup is not turned on.</p>



<p>[00:28:58] Nathan Wrigley: There&#8217;s a whole other conversation I think to be had there as well, but&#8230;</p>



<p>[00:29:01] Joe Dolson: There&#8217;s a lot.</p>



<p>[00:28:03] Nathan Wrigley: In terms of a typical agency, let&#8217;s say who&#8217;s done none of this work before. They&#8217;ve got a legacy of websites. Let&#8217;s say, I don&#8217;t know, 50 websites, which they&#8217;re maintaining and they&#8217;ve built. So suddenly we are presenting the agency with work that they need to go back, and if you like retro fit the websites that they&#8217;ve already built and bring them up to standard.</p>



<p>And then of course, there&#8217;s gonna be the new work which comes through the door and that&#8217;s gonna be a little bit more straightforward. This brings to mind the question, how much do we need to be doing of this now? How imperative is it for us to go back to our clients and say, look, we need to begin this work yesterday?</p>



<p>Or is it more a case going back to the clients and saying, maybe it&#8217;s time to begin again. And I know that&#8217;s not gonna be a comfortable conversation to have. Essentially what I&#8217;m trying to say, is it easy to retrofit or is it sometimes easy just to begin again almost?</p>



<p>[00:29:55] Joe Dolson: It is absolutely frequently easier to begin again. But it&#8217;s it is very much a case by case scenario. One of the things about the WordPress environment and this ecosystem, is that there&#8217;s a huge number of themes and plugins that you&#8217;re building your sites based on.</p>



<p>If those themes and plugins are issuing updates and they&#8217;re fixing problems, then a lot of the problems that are coming out of those tools can be fixed for you. And I mean that&#8217;s why I think the people who should be looking at this first and foremost are the tool creators. WordPress Core, plugin authors, theme authors, because that is going to solve the biggest, most global problems. And when I say global, I mean, these are things that are infecting, that are affecting entire sites.</p>



<p>I said, infecting. It&#8217;s kind of an interesting perspective, I like that in some ways, I don&#8217;t know. They&#8217;re infected with inaccessibility. But anyway, if these plugins can fix something then they can have an impact on thousands, millions of sites. I mean this is one of the reasons I contributed to WordPress at all is if I can make one little change, it can potentially impact millions of sites.</p>



<p>[00:31:06] Nathan Wrigley: Just the answer to this may simply be a no, and it goes nowhere else. But is there any sort of an accreditation system that things like plugins can get certified against. So that, for example, you mentioned Gravity Forms as a good example of a company that have done some work in that area. So that you could visit their website, see the accreditation stamp somewhere and say, okay, I&#8217;m assured that at least some of the work has been done. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s even a thing.</p>



<p>[00:31:31] Joe Dolson: There&#8217;s nothing that I&#8217;m aware of really for plugins. There&#8217;s an organization. It&#8217;s the IAAP, the international association of accessibility professionals. Uh, and they certify people as specialists. In the theme world the WordPress theme repository does have the accessibility ready tag that does require some manual testing.</p>



<p>Plugins are a really difficult case because it&#8217;s hard to set a specific set of tests and guidelines that they have to meet because they do so many different things. For some plugins, there are no settings, there&#8217;s no user interface, it just does some automation. And you&#8217;re like, well, is that accessible? It literally has no interface. How do we judge that?</p>



<p>[00:32:14] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, so, we talked about retrofitting. We talked about beginning and potentially that the beginning is the easiest way to go forward. That therefore raises the question of how much of this do you need to be mindful of before you can say, that site is ready to ship. And bluntly let&#8217;s say, is it okay to have a site where 10% of the tick list that you want to achieve has been completed?</p>



<p>Is that okay to launch, or do we need to be higher into the fifties, or indeed the nineties, or the 100%? In other words, is it better to do something and launch it, rather than wait until it&#8217;s perfect? We know how this works. If we build websites, we&#8217;ve had this problem time and again. You know, things creep in that we need to do, and we never end up launching the product because we&#8217;re constantly, constantly making it perfect. So just some guidance on where we need to be there.</p>



<p>[00:33:05] Joe Dolson: So it&#8217;s a slightly different answer depending on whether we&#8217;re building a new product or making changes and retrofitting something old. When you&#8217;re retrofitting, in my opinion, it&#8217;s just, the goal is make it better every day. If you can ship an update that fixes one problem, then fix that one problem.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s better. It doesn&#8217;t have to go from zero to a hundred in an instant. There&#8217;s no reason to wait. To shift an improvement. When it&#8217;s a new product I would say 10% is awfully low, because we all know how priorities work And as soon as that product gets in front of users. Now you&#8217;ve got user demands. You&#8217;ve got clients who just are like, oh, I don&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t know that I want to pay anything more right now.</p>



<p>And so that additional percentage may just never happen. So going over 10% is definitely worthwhile. But you should always recognize that there is no a hundred percent. Like you&#8217;re not going to achieve a hundred percent accessibility. The range of human experience and human perception is far too great. All you can reach for is try and think of everything you can, and everything that seems reachable and that you understand and recognize that you&#8217;re going to make mistakes.</p>



<p>[00:34:20] Nathan Wrigley: You were mentioning earlier about the lawyering and how that has become a thing. And I&#8217;m wondering who is the person who&#8217;s responsible. So in other words, if you are the web designer and you&#8217;ve taken on that work and you&#8217;ve handed over to your client, but then they&#8217;ve taken over for example, and they&#8217;re maintaining and updating from this moment forward. Is there any guidance around that?</p>



<p>In other words, can you insulate yourself from the problems which may occur? And again, there&#8217;s a myriad set of different ways that we could build and hand over and all of those kind of things, but, I&#8217;m sure a lot of people listening to this will be thinking, okay, how can I protect myself, having done some of it, but not all of it?</p>



<p>[00:34:58] Joe Dolson: This is definitely one of the areas where that gap in regulation is a real problem. In terms of responsibility that ultimately falls on the business owner, the website owner, or the product owner. But of course, the terms of your contract will vary and your specific liability to the outcome of your product might vary.</p>



<p>And even in the most solidly constructed contract where you protect yourself, that doesn&#8217;t mean you couldn&#8217;t be sued for negligence. You know these things all revolve around. If a company ends up having to pay damages of $7 million because of an inaccessible website, it&#8217;s very reasonable to think they&#8217;re gonna go back to the people who they hired to work on that website and be like, we are not happy. I think that&#8217;s an extremely justified position to be in. So I think everybody needs to take a piece of this responsibility.</p>



<p>I know for a fact that, in the Ontario law, the AODA, they do explicitly specify that everything on the website has to be accessible, including third party products that you are using. So a common problem in a lot of websites that I&#8217;ve audited, you know, it&#8217;s a nonprofit, they&#8217;ve got a great accessible website, but they&#8217;re using this client relationships, module, a CRM to take their donations, and it&#8217;s a mess.</p>



<p>And you&#8217;re like, okay, this is an absolutely key part of keeping your organization operating, is getting these donations working and that&#8217;s not accessible. So you really do have a problem there. And that&#8217;s a third party application. You don&#8217;t have any direct control over it. You can&#8217;t directly fix it, and I think that&#8217;s a marketplace problem. Where all of these elements within the overall picture have to be thinking about what their responsibility is.</p>



<p>[00:36:50] Nathan Wrigley: You&#8217;re obviously very keen on this. And I&#8217;m just wondering if this is becoming an industry. In other words, a few years ago, we didn&#8217;t have SEO experts. Well, quite a long time ago now, but let&#8217;s say 20 years ago, there was no such thing as an SEO expert. It just, wasn&#8217;t a thing. Now there is. There&#8217;s people who you would hire in because you want to take over the SEO and give it to somebody else. And that&#8217;s now their responsibility.</p>



<p>Is there a growing collection of people like yourself, who you can hire in to examine and look, so you&#8217;re not relying on the tools, the automated tools. You&#8217;re really getting a, a human being in to do the real work, and yeah, is there a career there?</p>



<p>[00:37:30] Joe Dolson: Oh, absolutely. It is actually a huge growing market. I think the growth of the accessibility consulting and testing market is pretty high. I don&#8217;t know what it is right now off the top of my head, but it&#8217;s a growth market with no question.</p>



<p>And as somebody who&#8217;s been in accessibility for almost 20 years, there&#8217;s always been an industrial market for accessibility. 20 years ago, it was almost exclusively in government, universities, higher ed, that sort of area. And it has been growing very rapidly. There are a lot of large companies now that they exclusively provide accessibility consulting. There&#8217;s actually been a lot of consolidation and acquisition within the accessibility space. So there&#8217;s no question that this is absolutely a major career. It&#8217;s a market where if you engage in some training and accessibility, there are jobs to be had. They are all hiring, and this is because it has grown enormously in the last four or five years,</p>



<p>[00:38:31] Nathan Wrigley: Which brings me to nearly my last question, and that is, imagine that we&#8217;re working for a large agency and we are employed by a boss who, how to put this, does not care about the last half an hour&#8217;s conversation that we&#8217;ve had. And just simply wants to ship things as quickly as possible, and obviously what you are proposing is not as quickly as possible. There&#8217;s other work that needs to be done on top of that. So we could hire out, we could find somebody such as yourself, who&#8217;s able to guide us with our, your expertise. But, what do we say to those bosses? How do we persuade them that, not only does this matter, but it&#8217;s essential?</p>



<p>[00:39:08] Joe Dolson: So I think, you know, some people are unpersuadable. There are always going to be a group of people for whom this is simply not, not something they are going to choose to care about. And those people will ultimately only be persuaded by legal action. And so when their company gets sued, they will have no choice but to deal with that. But operating on the assumption that we&#8217;re working with somebody who at least is willing to listen to reason and to, justifications about why this needs to be done.</p>



<p>There are a lot of arguments in favor of it, in terms of the fact that it makes websites easier to use. It makes processes easier for customers. So there&#8217;s a, there&#8217;s an acquisition aspect. There&#8217;s a sales benefit. Just making things easier to use, making things possible to use by more people.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s an estimate of around 15% of the world population has some form of disability that could impact their experience on the web. And a lot of that is in cognitive impairments, where they might have problems with distraction, or lack of focus, short term memory loss, and all of those people are going to benefit enormously from the same kinds of principles that go into web accessibility.</p>



<p>And so on a, on a marketing argument, the very fact that by implementing accessibility, you can increase your potential market by 15% is something that should be relevant. I think there is a perception sometimes that people with disabilities aren&#8217;t a market with money to spend. That&#8217;s a bias that&#8217;s coming through things like, the social security programs for supporting people with disabilities.</p>



<p>But the fact is, in this era the percentage of people with disabilities who are able to be gainfully employed is rapidly increasing because the digital marketplace takes away a lot of the barriers. You don&#8217;t have to necessarily travel to your job, which might be very difficult if you are visually impaired. Or if you have problems with distraction in an environment, or you just need to be able to get away from over stimulation. So</p>



<p>that market is increasing. I think, I think it&#8217;s the US number right around now. I happen to do a presentation on Thursday morning about accessible advertising. So a lot of these numbers are things that I&#8217;m remembering from my presentation two days ago, that the estimated buying power of the US disability, people with disabilities, is around 350 billion. But an awfully high number of products cannot be purchased by those people, because they&#8217;re not accessible. There&#8217;s an awful lot of people with disabilities where I buy from this company. Why? Because it&#8217;s the only one I can.</p>



<p>[00:41:58] Nathan Wrigley: That is absolutely fascinating. And it really speaks to the question that I asked. If you have a boss who doesn&#8217;t care, potentially this is the quickest route to somebody caring. There is a market, it&#8217;s a growing market. You can be more profitable by making these tweaks.</p>



<p>Final question if that&#8217;s okay? We&#8217;ve talked about a lot. There&#8217;s probably gonna be a lot of confusion about where do I go, how do I find out more about these things? And you&#8217;ve sent me, we had a little shared show notes, and you&#8217;ve sent me a bunch of links. It&#8217;s gonna be difficult for us to spell them all out. I will put every link in the show notes and hopefully get them done correctly. Do you just wanna say something about the best places, the most reliable, the quickest wins, if you like that you have come across where people could? I don&#8217;t know, two or three or four of them that you&#8217;re happy to share.</p>



<p>[00:42:41] Joe Dolson: So yeah, I mean the list of people I&#8217;ve mentioned, they all have unique perspectives and great information. I always recommend when you&#8217;re trying to get the current best practices on how things really work and what is, what support is available for a particular interaction interface. I like to go to Adrian Roselli. He&#8217;s very, very thorough researcher on accessibility issues. And one of the best things about what he publishes is that he routinely updates things. So his website does not have stale content.</p>



<p>I shouldn&#8217;t say that absolutely. I haven&#8217;t read everything on his site. It might have stale content, but I&#8217;m not aware of it. So that&#8217;s a great place because you can trust that it&#8217;s going to be current and maintained and is very thorough.</p>



<p>I also like Haydon Pickering and Scott O&#8217;Hara. That might be O&#8217;Hara. I honestly don&#8217;t know. They both do a lot of nitty gritty experimental of, this is how you use these various accessible interactions. They&#8217;re great resources. And then there&#8217;s a general website, it&#8217;s the A11Y project, the accessibility project. And that publishes articles by a lot of very experienced accessibility practitioners who&#8217;ve been around for a long time, who are new to the industry, but writing really solid information about how things work.</p>



<p>And then of course there&#8217;s the actual WCAG documentation. There&#8217;s a lot of information from the web accessibility initiative, the WAI working group, and they have an enormous amount of information about just general, what it means to be accessible and what an accessible interface looks like.</p>



<p>[00:44:25] Nathan Wrigley: Overlays.</p>



<p>[00:44:26] Joe Dolson: Ha, yes.</p>



<p>[00:44:27] Nathan Wrigley: Overlays have cropped up. Essentially what we&#8217;re dealing with here is a, click a button, I will solve all of your website accessibility needs. That sounds too good to be true. It sounds too simple to be able to install something, let&#8217;s say it&#8217;s a plugin or a piece of JavaScript or whatever it may be, and to say to yourself, I&#8217;m done. I am compliant. I&#8217;ve done all of the things by installing some small bit of code. Tell me your thoughts about this.</p>



<p>[00:44:54] Joe Dolson: Well, you know, if things seem too good to be true, it might be because they&#8217;re false. And that is absolutely the case with overlays. If an overlay is claiming, I&#8217;m going to solve your problems, you don&#8217;t need to think about anything else, you are now compliant, that&#8217;s because they&#8217;re lying to you. Flat out lying to you. Because what overlays are is they&#8217;re kind of a side effect of the accident chasing, legal thing. They&#8217;re a reaction of, oh, we have all this AI. We can solve things. We can find all these problems. It&#8217;s amazing. This is fabulous. But they can&#8217;t, because the problems are vastly more complex than they actually think they are.</p>



<p>So many things simply, you can&#8217;t even test to identify the problem, let alone fix it. So overlays are basically just a disaster.</p>



<p>[00:45:44] Nathan Wrigley: Is there any scenario in which they represent a decent bridge? In other words if, if you just click that button, get that overlay on there, and then begin the good work that you&#8217;ve described during the podcast, all the other things that you can do. Is there any scenario where that could be recommended? Knowing that it was the temporary kludge.</p>



<p>[00:46:02] Joe Dolson: Mostly, no. Now I will say that&#8217;s a no in terms of any of the really major overlay vendors, because for the most part, they are actually going to make your website worse. There are certain of those vendors who will absolutely, definitely make it worse. And there are browser extensions that have been marketed directly to the disability community for the sole reason of disabling these overlays because of the problems they cause for people with disabilities.</p>



<p>There are some extremely narrow categories where an overlay can bridge that, and a lot of the major accessibility corporations as part of their work, they will build an overlay, a custom overlay, which specifically deals with specific problems on your website. And that&#8217;s going to be in cases where the process to actually get the backend code updated is too burdensome, and they need something fast. But it&#8217;s only gonna solve a tiny fraction of those problems.</p>



<p>That should be something that&#8217;s custom, that&#8217;s targeted. I have a plugin, WP Accessibility. It includes some overlay aspects within it, but they are very targeted because they are targeted at specific things that are known to happen with WordPress or with WordPress themes, and they have known answers.</p>



<p>And even then, I wouldn&#8217;t say that&#8217;s something that guaranteed to fix everything. It could still cause problems. And you shouldn&#8217;t keep it installed and operating in that manner any longer than you absolutely have to, because fundamentally what you need to do is get the fix in place But these big commercial overlays are just horrendous. They make things worse, period.</p>



<p>[00:47:44] Nathan Wrigley: There was one further question. Sorry, I was sneaking this one in right at the end. I also asked you to recommend a community that you thought was worth hanging out in, because that&#8217;s often a way to just sort of speed up the process. You find some friends in there and they help you and they point you in the right direction. So, you&#8217;ve mentioned one here. Do you just wanna tell us about that?</p>



<p>[00:48:01] Joe Dolson: So there&#8217;s a Slack community for web accessibility professionals. It&#8217;s web-a11y.slack.com, and there&#8217;s about 10,000 members of that Slack organization. And it&#8217;s a great place to ask questions, look for advice, read what other people have done, search for past conversations on various topics. It&#8217;s a pretty large Slack. It&#8217;s very active. It&#8217;s kind of the place where the community mostly hangs out I would say.</p>



<p>[00:48:32] Nathan Wrigley: And should anybody wish to find you Joe, off the back of this. If you&#8217;re willing to share, what are the best places to get in touch with you?</p>



<p>[00:48:39] Joe Dolson: I&#8217;d say the best places for me, you can find me on Twitter @joedolson, J O E D O L S O N. You can find me in the WordPress Slack, also Joe Dolson. Pretty much anywhere I am, you&#8217;ll find me as Joe Dolson.</p>



<p>[00:48:54] Nathan Wrigley: Thank you very much for joining us on the show.</p>



<p>[00:48:56] Joe Dolson: Thank you. Thanks for having me.</p>
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<p>On the podcast today we have <a href="https://www.joedolson.com/">Joe Dolson</a>.</p>



<p>Joe is a WordPress plugin developer, a core committer, and a web accessibility consultant. He’s part of the Make WordPress Accessible team, the team dedicated to improving accessibility in the WordPress ecosystem.</p>



<p>His recent presentation at WordCamp US entitled ‘<a href="https://www.joedolson.com/">Finding and Fixing the Six Most Common WCAG 2 Failures</a>’, highlights some of the key areas where websites are not as accessible as they should be. The areas we discuss are:</p>



<ul>
<li>low contrast text</li>



<li>missing alternative text</li>



<li>empty links</li>



<li>missing form labels</li>



<li>empty buttons</li>



<li>missing document language</li>
</ul>



<p>Joe explains what each of these problems are, both in terms of how they can be fixed, as well as what people with accessibility requirements might experience when they visit your site.</p>



<p>We talk about how you can equip yourself with the tools that you need to diagnose these issues, and online resources you can use to discover more about website accessibility.</p>



<p>It’s Joe’s opinion that you’re better off making a start right now, carrying out incremental changes rather than attempting to solve every single problem that your website might have. Begin the journey and take it one problem at a time.</p>



<p>We also chat about the fact that there’s an ever growing legal compulsion to make websites follow accessibility guidelines. Lawsuits are going through the courts with greater regularity, so now might be the time to look into this topic.</p>



<p>That being said, Joe cautions against the use of tools which purport to solve your accessibility issues with minimal effort. A variety of pop-up solutions have emerged onto the market which claim that they can make your site compliant with almost no effort. Joe is adamant that these promises are almost always false and that there’s real work to be done on each website as they’re all unique and have unique problems to solve.</p>



<p>Typically, when we record the podcast, there’s not a lot of background noise, but that’s not always the case. Over the coming weeks, I’ll be bringing you recordings from a recent trip to WordCamp US 2022, and you might notice that the recordings have a little echo or other strange audio artefacts. Whilst the podcasts are more than listenable, I hope you understand that the vagaries of the real world were at play.</p>



<h2>Useful links.</h2>



<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.joedolson.com/">Joe Dolson&#8217;s website</a></li>



<li><a href="https://twitter.com/joedolson">Joe Dolson&#8217;s Twitter account</a></li>



<li><a href="https://adrianroselli.com/">Adrian Roselli&#8217;s website</a></li>



<li><a href="https://tink.uk/">Leonie Watson&#8217;s website</a></li>



<li><a href="https://heydonworks.com/">Heydon Pickering&#8217;s website</a></li>



<li><a href="https://www.scottohara.me/">Scott O&#8217;Hara&#8217;s website</a></li>



<li><a href="https://www.a11yproject.com/">The a11y Project</a></li>



<li><a href="https://web-a11y.slack.com/">a11y Slack channel</a></li>



<li><a href="https://www.deque.com/axe/">axe accessibility testing tool</a></li>



<li><a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/">W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)</a></li>



<li><a href="https://wave.webaim.org/">WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool</a></li>



<li><a href="https://tenon.io/">Tenon.io</a></li>



<li><a href="https://pope.tech/">popetech web accessibility testing &amp; reporting</a></li>



<li><a href="https://webaim.org/">webAIM website</a></li>



<li><a href="https://webaim.org/projects/million/">The WebAIM Million report</a></li>



<li><a href="https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/">International Association of Accessibility Professionals: IAAP</a></li>



<li><a href="https://www.aoda.ca/">Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)</a></li>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:20:"Matt: Tumblr Updates";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:22:"https://ma.tt/?p=63462";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:37:"https://ma.tt/2022/09/tumblr-updates/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:888:"<p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/staff/696482214233440256/introducing-community-labels-as-you-know-art-and">Tumblr launched Community Labels yesterday</a>, which allows consistent tagging of addiction, violent, and adult content, and for people to hide, blur, or show that content. It&#8217;s gone pretty well so far. We&#8217;ve still been getting a lot of questions if it&#8217;s going to be free-for-all with adult content again, and the short answer is no, but the longer answer is covered in <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/696629352701493248/why-go-nuts-show-nuts-doesnt-work-in-2022">Why “Go Nuts, Show Nuts” Doesn’t Work in 2022</a>.</p>



<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried out Tumblr in a while, check it out. Lots of improvements the past few months, and it can be a refreshing alternative or add-on to your online social life. And get your friends on it too!</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 28 Sep 2022 09:40:40 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4:"Matt";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:17;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:68:"Do The Woo Community: Thoughts on Translating the WooCommerce Plugin";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:28:"https://dothewoo.io/?p=72953";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:67:"https://dothewoo.io/thoughts-on-translating-the-woocommerce-plugin/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:401:"<p>We share some thoughts on how to get started with WooCommerce translation and some of the challenges behind it.</p>
<p>&gt;&gt; The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://dothewoo.io/thoughts-on-translating-the-woocommerce-plugin/">Thoughts on Translating the WooCommerce Plugin</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://dothewoo.io">Do the Woo - a WooCommerce Builder Community</a>	.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 28 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:5:"BobWP";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:18;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:72:"WPTavern: WooCommerce Blocks 8.6.0 Introduces Cross-Sells Products Block";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=138213";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:83:"https://wptavern.com/woocommerce-blocks-8-6-0-introduces-cross-sells-products-block";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2915:"<p><a href="https://developer.woocommerce.com/2022/09/27/woocommerce-blocks-8-6-0-release-notes/">WooCommerce Blocks 8.6.0</a> was released yesterday with support for a new block that displays cross-sells for products that are based on the current product in the customer&#8217;s cart. For example, if a customer is purchasing a new gardener&#8217;s kit, the store may cross-sell gardening gloves as a complementary product. </p>



<p>This is a new feature is only available to users in the cart, as the idea is to catch the customer at the moment of buying and encourage them to purchase additional products. These are not simply best-selling products but rather are carefully curated to be specific to the item in the cart.</p>



<p>Cross-sells will show up beneath the cart&#8217;s contents automatically after the store owner identifies them in the product&#8217;s &#8220;linked products&#8221; setting. At the moment, cross-sells are limited to two rows of three products.</p>



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<p>Cross-sells show up near the bottom of the cart page before the customer clicks to checkout. This seems like it is squeezed into a crowded place as an afterthought. If you want to make the cross-sells more prominent or change where they appear on the page, it is possible but requires a few extra steps.</p>



<img />



<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-gutenberg-products-block/">WooCommerce Blocks</a> is like the Gutenberg plugin for WooCommerce &#8211; it&#8217;s a feature plugin that serves as a place to iterate and test new blocks, and get access to bleeding edge features. With this plugin installed, you can <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/using-the-new-block-based-checkout/">enable the block-based cart</a> by deleting the cart shortcode on the cart page and adding the Cart block.</p>



<p>Cross-sells now appear in the block-based cart but it is locked in place and cannot be moved up or down on the page. If you want to customize this block further, you must uncheck the boxes that are disabling movement. </p>



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<p>After testing the Cross-Sells block, I found that it is still very limited in how it can be customized. The current experience of this block seems more like a placeholder and it could definitely benefit from more customization options, such as background color options, width adjustment, and the ability to change how the individual products inside the box are displayed. Right now it only has one option to set the number of cross-sells products to display. I was able to move the block to the top of the cart page but could not do much more with it.</p>



<p>The WooCommerce team has requested feedback on the new block and will continue to iterate on it. Version 6.8.0 of WooCommerce Blocks also adds half a dozen fixes and improves compatibility with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/woopay-customer-documentation/">WooPay</a>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 28 Sep 2022 04:06:44 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:19;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:79:"WPTavern: WooSesh Publishes Schedule Ahead of Virtual Event October 11-13, 2022";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=138202";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:89:"https://wptavern.com/woosesh-publishes-schedule-ahead-of-virtual-event-october-11-13-2022";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1825:"<p><a href="https://woosesh.com/">WooSesh</a>, a virtual conference for WooCommerce professionals and store builders, has published the schedule for the upcoming three-day event beginning on October 11. This year&#8217;s lineup includes 24 speakers from across the WooCommerce ecosystem, including engineers, product managers, sales directors, and WooCommerce core developers. </p>



<p>Each day of the event has a theme with sessions running from 12PM &#8211; 4PM EST. WooCommerce CEO Paul Maiorana will deliver the keynote address on Day 1, and the subsequent presentations will feature topics focused around where WooCommerce is going and how to improve sales.</p>



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<p>Day 2 will be dedicated to automation, personalization, and expanding WooCommerce. This will include topics like &#8220;Think like a Product Manager When Launching Your Store&#8221; and more technical sessions such as &#8220;The Journey to Enterprise Headless WooCommerce.&#8221; Attendees will learn how to maximize retention with customer-controlled subscriptions, how to clone or migrate a WooCommerce shop, and more.</p>



<p>Day 3 will shift focus to speed, security, integrations, and stability, featuring sessions on improving product variations, how to fix performance issues, and how to work with WooCommerce REST APIs.  Each day will recap with the &#8220;Do the Woo&#8221; podcast, produced by Bob Dunn.</p>



<p><a href="https://woosesh.com/register/">Registration is still open</a> and it&#8217;s free to attend. The event will have topics spanning every aspect of working with WooCommerce &#8211; from store management to product development to marketing. Tickets include access to all presentations and workshops as they are being broadcast live, the WPSessions Slack for event Q&amp;A, and virtual swag from sponsors.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 28 Sep 2022 01:29:56 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:20;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:56:"Post Status: When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:32:"https://poststatus.com/?p=125820";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:67:"https://poststatus.com/when-and-when-not-to-use-headless-wordpress/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1500:"<p><strong>Keanan Koppenhaver</strong> explains over at <strong>WP Mayor</strong>: <a href="https://wpmayor.com/when-and-when-not-to-use-headless-wordpress/">When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress</a>:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>If you have a strong frontend team that’s comfortable interfacing with APIs and is used to communicating changes and working with more distributed systems, then it might make sense for them to focus on the frontend of the site while a separate team works on the actual WordPress piece.</p><p>However, if you’re more of a solo freelancer or don’t have a lot of experience in more distributed systems, version control, deployment, etc, it might make sense to stick with a more traditional WordPress setup.</p></blockquote>



<p>This is the best, briefest explanation I've seen of <em>why</em> Headless WordPress matters and <em>who</em> it matters to:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>Headless WordPress can be a powerful paradigm that allows you to leverage modern technologies and bridge the gap between an editorial experience that content creators are familiar with, while still being able to use some newer tech that hasn’t come to the WordPress ecosystem yet.</p></blockquote>



<p>A lot of writing about headless has focused on the technical &#8220;what&#8221; question. The when, why, and who questions matter much more.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:54:"WordPress.org blog: WordPress 6.1 Beta 2 Now Available";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:35:"https://wordpress.org/news/?p=13533";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:70:"https://wordpress.org/news/2022/09/wordpress-6-1-beta-2-now-available/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:5835:"<p><em><strong>WordPress 6.1 Beta 2 is now available for download and testing.</strong></em></p>



<p><strong>This version of the WordPress software is under development</strong>. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended that you test Beta 2 on a test server and site.&nbsp;</p>



<p>You can test WordPress 6.1 Beta 2 in three ways:</p>



<p><strong>Option 1: </strong>Install and activate the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin (select the “Bleeding edge” channel and “Beta/RC Only” stream).</p>



<p><strong>Option 2: </strong>Direct download the <a href="https://wordpress.org/wordpress-6.1-beta2.zip">Beta 2 version (zip)</a>.</p>



<p><strong>Option 3:</strong> Use the following WP-CLI command:</p>



<p><code>wp core update --version=6.1-beta2</code></p>



<p>The current target for the final release is November 1, 2022, which is about five weeks away.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Additional information on the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-1/">6.1 release cycle is available</a>.</p>



<p>Check the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/">Make WordPress Core blog</a> for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/dev-notes+6-1/">6.1-related developer notes</a> in the coming weeks detailing all upcoming changes.</p>



<h2><strong>Keep WordPress bug-free – help with testing</strong></h2>



<p>Testing for issues is critical for stabilizing a release throughout its development. Testing is also a great way to contribute. This detailed guide is an excellent start if you have never tested a beta release before.</p>



<p>Testing helps ensure that this and future releases of WordPress are as stable and issue-free as possible. Anyone can take part in testing – especially great WordPress community members like you.</p>



<p>Want to know more about testing releases like this one? Read about the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/">testing initiatives</a> that happen in Make Core. You can also join a <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-test/">core-test channel</a> on the <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/">Making WordPress Slack workspace</a>.</p>



<p>If you have run into an issue, please report it to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/">Alpha/Beta area</a> in the support forums. If you are comfortable&nbsp;writing a reproducible bug report, you can <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket">file one on WordPress Trac</a>. This is also where you can find a list of <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/tickets/major">known bugs</a>.</p>



<p>To review features in the Gutenberg releases since WordPress 6.0 (the most recent major release of WordPress), access the <em>What’s New In Gutenberg</em> posts for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/16/whats-new-in-gutenberg-14-1-15-september/">14.1</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/01/whats-new-in-gutenberg-14-0-31-august/">14.0</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/08/17/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-9-17-august/">13.9</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/08/04/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-8-3-august/">13.8</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/07/20/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-7-20-july/">13.7</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/07/07/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-6-6-july/">13.6</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/06/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-5-22-june/">13.5</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/06/10/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-4-8-june/">13.4</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/26/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-3-0-may-25/">13.3</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/12/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-2-may-11/">13.2</a>, and <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/04/28/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-1-27-april/">13.1</a>.</p>



<p>This release contains more than 350 enhancements and 350 bug fixes for the editor, including more than <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=6.1&group=component&max=500&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=component&col=version&order=priority">300 tickets for WordPress 6.1 core</a>. More fixes are on the way in the remainder of the 6.1 release cycle.</p>



<h2><strong>Some highlights</strong></h2>



<p>Want to know what’s new in version 6.1? <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/09/wordpress-6-1-beta-1-now-available/">Read the initial Beta 1 announcement</a> for some details, or check out the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/14/6-1-product-walk-through-recap/">product walk-through recording</a>.</p>



<h2><strong>What’s new in Beta 2</strong></h2>



<p>Here are some updates since last week&#8217;s Beta 1 release:</p>



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<li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/commits/wp/6.1">24 issues addressed in GitHub</a></li>
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<h2>A haiku for Beta 2</h2>



<p>WordPress six-point-one,<br />Please help test Beta 2 now.<br />Best release ever.<br /></p>



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<p>Thank you to the following contributors for collaborating on this post: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dansoschin/">@dansoschin</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/robinwpdeveloper/">@robinwpdeveloper</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/">@webcommsat</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeffpaul/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>jeffpaul</a>, and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>cbringmann</a>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:12:30 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:16:"Jonathan Pantani";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:22;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:62:"WPTavern: Molten: A Free WordPress Block Theme for Restaurants";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=138169";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:72:"https://wptavern.com/molten-a-free-wordpress-block-theme-for-restaurants";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2635:"<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/molten/">Molten</a> is a new block theme from first-time WordPress.org theme author <a href="https://www.paultruong.dev/">Paul Truong</a>, designed for chefs and restaurateurs to showcase their work. The theme puts the spotlight on food photography offset with bold typography featuring the Playfair Display font for headings and Source Sans Pro for paragraph text. </p>



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<p>Truong is working on setting up a marketing site for the theme so there is no demo at this time. One drawback is that it does not include any full-page patterns where you can quickly build a homepage or menu page without having to think about how the design should go together. You will have to rely on your own sense of design but Molten comes packaged with ample patterns for building pages. </p>



<p>Molten has four different hero patterns, three &#8220;coming soon&#8221; patterns, and six &#8220;call to action&#8221; patterns in various layouts (media and text, full width cover with text and button, and three columns with images and content). The theme also comes with a large gallery block pattern and multiple location pattern designs. </p>



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<p>Molten includes four Menu block patterns with different layouts for wine lists, dishes, and pricing.</p>



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<p>And so it begins. The first Beta release for WordPress 6.1  is out. The test team compiled an excellent <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/09/21/help-test-wordpress-6-1/">call for testing</a> with all the instructions on the features coming to a WordPress instance near you. Following it, would be a high-impact way to contribute to the open-source project, if you are searching for opportunities like that. </p>



<p>The rest of the news you&#8217;ll find below. </p>



<p>Yours, 💕<br /><em>Birgit</em></p>






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<div class="wp-block-sortabrilliant-guidepost"><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-word-press-release-information">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</a><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#1-word-press-6-1">WordPress 6.1</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#2-word-press-6-0-1-and-6-1-scheduled">Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#4-a-href-https-gutenbergtimes-com-gutenberg-14-1-classic-themes-using-block-template-parts-and-future-of-contributing-to-wordpress-weekend-edition-229-4-p-plugins-themes-and-tools-for-nocode-site-builders-and-owners-a">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</a><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#5-i">AI-generated images for WordPress</a></li></ul></li></ul></div>
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<h2 id="0-word-press-release-information">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</h2>



<h3 id="1-word-press-6-1">WordPress 6.1</h3>



<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/09/wordpress-6-1-beta-1-now-available/">WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 Now Available</a></strong> &#8211; It&#8217;s going to be another great release with some great new features for the block editor, the site editor and themes developers and also various new ways to extend the user experience for plugins and themes. <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-1/">To learn more about the release team and schedule for WordPress 6.1 </a></p>



<p><strong>Brian Alexander</strong> and team published the post <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/09/21/help-test-wordpress-6-1/"><strong>Help Test WordPress 6.1</strong></a> with instructions on how to set up your test environment, a list of features to test with details instructions. They also have a few testing tips for you. Going through the test scenarios, is actually a great way to learn about the new features fast, and contribute to WordPress. </p>



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<p><strong>🎙️ </strong> New episode:  <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-73-design-tools-in-wordpress-6-1/">Gutenberg Changelog #73 – Gutenberg 14.1, next default theme, design Tools in WordPress 6.1</a> with special guest, Channing Ritter, and host Birgit Pauli-Haack</p>
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<h2 id="2-word-press-6-0-1-and-6-1-scheduled">Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks</h2>




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<p><strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">&#8220;Keeping up with Gutenberg &#8211; Index 2022&#8221;</a>&nbsp;</strong><br />A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test and Meta team from Jan. 2021 on. Updated by yours truly.  <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2020/"><em>The index 2020 is here</em></a></p>




<p><strong>Nathan Wrigley</strong> interviewed <strong>Rich Tabor</strong>, early block adopter, now design director at Extendify in the 296 episode of the WPbuilds podcast: <a href="https://wpbuilds.com/2022/09/22/296-gutenberg-fse-block-themes-variants-blocks-rich-tabor-on-the-whole-lot/"><strong>296 – Gutenberg, FSE, Block Themes (Variants), Blocks, Rich Tabor on the whole lot</strong></a></p>



<p>&#8220;Fun aside: I started, and nearly finished, Wei on the flight back from WordCamp Europe. A couple years ago, this would’ve taken weeks — at least.&#8221; Rich Tabor said. You can find Tabor&#8217;s block themes, <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/wei/">Wei</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/wabi/">Wabi</a>, in the WordPress repository. </p>



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<p>On the Torque Social Hour, <strong>Mike McAlister</strong> explains <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmWLwlJJa3c"><strong>Why WordPressers should start building real sites with FSE</strong></a>. </p>



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<p><strong>Two new tools</strong> are available for faster development for the WordPress block editor. <strong>Victor Ramirez</strong> and the team of <em>Abstract Agency</em> have been working on  two tools and made them available for developers on <a href="https://wptests.abstractwp.com/">WPTests</a></p>



<p>The <strong><a href="https://github.com/abstractwp/block-unit-test">Block Unit Test</a></strong> in an update on Rich Tabor&#8217;s early and now closed  plugin. After you install the plugin is adds a page to your site with every Gutenberg block and their variations, so you can ensure your theme fully supports the latest version of the block editor.</p>



<p>The <strong><a href="https://github.com/abstractwp/theme-test-data">Theme Test Data</a></strong> plugin make the  import and export of the WordPress <a href="https://github.com/WPTT/theme-test-data">Theme Team Test Data</a> easy. </p>



<p>A word of caution, these are early stages on the plugins, but they are already saving you a lot of time, testing themes for the block editor. </p>



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<p>The resources for the <strong>Build your First Block Theme</strong> workshop, held by <strong>Daisy Olsen</strong> at WordCamp US are now available for any developer interested in following this workshop autonomously. <a href="https://github.com/DaisyOlsen/wcus2022/">Repo</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y3t8kbsG4FL8tREbvpAjG4jxGuWXCD7QeeHyaYfteJs/edit#slide=id.g145858b8fed_0_231">slides</a>.</p>



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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97qEgwMS2v8">I use Full Site Editing in WordPress for the first time</a> is the recording of <strong>Mike Wilkinson&#8217;s</strong> experience of first using FSE and his thoughts on it.</p>



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<p><strong>Carolina Nymark </strong>explains <a href="https://fullsiteediting.com/lessons/how-to-add-box-shadows-with-theme-json/"><strong>How to add box-shadows with theme.json</strong></a> to your theme. The ability to add box-shadows to blocks is a new feature in Gutenberg 14.1 and in the upcoming WordPress 6.1 release, but you can only enable theme through the theme.json file. As this is the first version, they don&#8217;t have any interface representation in the site editor yet. </p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/need-a-zip-from-master/">Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg&#8217;s master branch?</a></strong><br />Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review. <br />Have you been using it? Hit reply and let me know.</p>



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<p><strong>Sarah Gooding</strong> reports that <a href="https://wptavern.com/twenty-twenty-two-is-the-first-default-block-theme-to-get-tagged-as-accessibility-ready"><strong>Twenty Twenty-Two Is the First Default Block Theme to Get Tagged as Accessibility-Ready</strong></a></p>



<p>&#8220;The&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/accessibility/">accessibility-ready</a>&nbsp;tag can be applied to themes in the directory that have successfully completed an accessibility audit for the minimum requirements established by the Themes team. Theme authors are encouraged to exceed those requirements, which are laid out in a tiered set of&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/accessibility/required/">required</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/accessibility/recommended/">recommended</a>&nbsp;guidelines.&#8221; Gooding wrote. </p>



<p>She also found two more block themes with the accessibility-ready tag: </p>



<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/jace/">Jace</a>&nbsp;by Themes Team contributor Carolina Nymark, and&nbsp;</li>



<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/w3csspress/">W3CSSPress</a>&nbsp;by Matteo Marchiori</li>
</ul>



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<p>After <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/bright-mode/">BrightMode,</a> <strong>Brian Gardner</strong> also submitted <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/design-mode/"><strong>Design Mode theme</strong></a> to the WordPress Directory. He described it like this: &#8220;It is stylish and sophisticated, and the minimalistic design is perfect for freelancers and agencies looking to showcase their services and work.&#8221; </p>



<p><strong>Sarah Gooding</strong> has the skinny for you in <a href="https://wptavern.com/design-mode-a-free-portfolio-block-theme-designed-for-freelancers-and-agencies"><strong>Design Mode: A Free Portfolio Block Theme Designed for Freelancers and Agencies</strong></a></p>



<h3 id="5-i">AI-generated images for WordPress</h3>



<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/Block+Diffusion/"><img /></a>Screenshot of <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/Block+Diffusion/">two plugins offering AI-generated images for WordPress.</a>



<p>My exploration into Image AI and WordPress continues. A few days ago, I read Sarah Gooding&#8217;s article <a href="https://wptavern.com/new-block-diffusion-plugin-creates-ai-generated-images-from-text-prompts"><strong>New Block Diffusion Plugin Creates AI-Generated Images from Text Prompts</strong></a>, covering a new plugin by <strong>Kevin Batdorf</strong> that uses the open-source Stable Diffusion AI and brings it to the content creators using WordPress. The plugin is called <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/stable-diffusion/"><strong>Block Diffusion</strong></a>. &#8220;This plugin interfaces with the Replicate API and allows you to run open-source models via their cloud API. Add the block to a page and select a model to enter your API token.&#8221;</p>



<p>I tested it against the plugin, I have been using: <strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/imajinn-ai/">Imajinn – Magical AI Image Generation like DALL·E</a>.</strong> The latter gives me more images, allows for more style settings, and offers improvements like additional variations or face correction, similar to Midjourney&#8217;s creation process. </p>




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<img />image source: demo from <a href="https://github.com/adamziel/wordpress-wasm">wordpress-wasm</a> repo



<p>The project is <a href="https://github.com/adamziel/wordpress-wasm">available on GitHub</a> and Zielinski briefly explained how it works:</p>



<ul>
<li>PHP is compiled to WASM with <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://emscripten.org/" target="_blank">Emscripten</a></li>



<li>WordPress is packaged into a data bundle</li>



<li>A service worker traps HTTP requests and re-routes them to WordPress</li>
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<p>The project uses the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://github.com/aaemnnosttv/wp-sqlite-db" target="_blank">wp-db-sqlite</a> plugin to run WordPress with SQLite, as WASM doesn&#8217;t support MySQL.</p>



<p>Zielinski detailed some possible applications for running WordPress in the browser, which he said could &#8220;transform learning, contributing, and using WordPress:&#8221;</p>



<ul>
<li> making WordPress handbook code samples runeditable (<a href="https://adamziel.github.io/tutorial.html">early preview</a>)</li>



<li>providing an in-browser IDE to assist new contributors without having without having to set up a local development environment (<a href="https://stackblitz.com/edit/wp-plugin-playground">early preview</a>)</li>



<li>creating an in-browser IDE for testing code on different WordPress, PHP, and Gutenberg versions</li>



<li>scaling WordPress up by spinning up many tiny self-contained WASM instances directly on the edge servers.</li>



<li>embedding a demos of a plugin, pattern, or theme (example: <a href="https://wpreadme.com/">wpreadme.com</a>)</li>



<li>importing an existing WordPress website into WASM runtime to create a staging website</li>
</ul>



<p>The prototypes are in their very early stages and have a few limitations right now. The block editor works but not the site editor, and the sites in the browser cannot communicate with WordPress.org to fetch plugins and themes.</p>



<p>Zielinski is eager to recruit contributors to help build out this vision and make it a reality. It&#8217;s quite an undertaking but the benefits contributors and developers stand to gain from having the ability to instantly spin up an in-browser IDE for WordPress are enormous. </p>



<p>&#8220;Learning WordPress and writing code used to be separated,&#8221; Zielinski said regarding using Stackblitz to create more interactive docs. &#8220;Now they can be one and the same. From runnable code snippets to new, svelte-like docs formats, <a href="https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/">WebContainers</a> + WebAssembly WordPress is an educational game-changer.&#8221;</p>



<p>For more technical details on how this works, check out Zielinski&#8217;s <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/23/client-side-webassembly-wordpress-with-no-server/">post</a> and click through to the various demos. The <a href="https://github.com/adamziel/wordpress-wasm">repository</a> for the project includes a pre-built demo that anyone can run with more instructions for building the assembly yourself.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Sat, 24 Sep 2022 03:50:24 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:27;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>The <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/accessibility/">accessibility-ready</a> tag can be applied to themes in the directory that have successfully completed an accessibility audit for the minimum requirements established by the Themes team. Theme authors are encouraged to exceed those requirements, which are laid out in a tiered set of <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/accessibility/required/">required</a> and <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/accessibility/recommended/">recommended</a> guidelines. </p>



<p>It is important to note that themes tagged as accessibility-ready do not necessarily meet <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/handbook/make/which-questions-should-you-ask/#levels-of-accessibility">any level of formal accessibility requirements</a>, as those measurements apply to content and cannot be applied to a theme.</p>



<p>Getting the tag added to Twenty Twenty-Two was delayed due to a few issues that required collaboration across teams. One of the important ones was the theme having <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentytwo/issues/233">multiple H1 headings</a> per page. Although WCAG guidelines do not prohibit more than one H1 on a page, the <code>accessibility-ready</code> guidelines required no more than one H1 per page. Some participants in the discussion suggested that the requirements needed to change.</p>



<p>&#8220;The reason the theme accessibility-ready guidelines are stricter than WCAG is mostly for clarity: the guidelines were written to be easily testable and explicit,&#8221; Accessibility Team contributor Joe Dolson commented on the ticket.</p>



<p>&#8220;The point being that we couldn&#8217;t provide extensive accessibility training to theme reviewers, so we needed the rules to be as narrow as possible. As long as we update the guidelines in a way that still meets that criteria, I think it would be fine.&#8221;</p>



<p>The Themes and Accessibility teams reached a consensus on how the accessibility-ready tag will apply to block themes so contributors could move forward with adding the tag.</p>



<p>&#8220;We should keep in mind that a breakage to the accessibility of WordPress block output will impact all block themes, so those failures are quite serious, but as it stands now the theme meets all expected criteria,&#8221; Dolson <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55172#comment:47">said</a>.</p>



<p>The WordPress Themes Directory currently has just 94 themes tagged as &#8220;<a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/accessibility-ready/">accessibility-ready</a>&#8221; and only two of them also have <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/accessibility-ready+full-site-editing/">support for full-site editing</a> &#8211; <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/jace/">Jace</a> by Themes Team contributor Carolina Nymark, and <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/w3csspress/">W3CSSPress</a> by Matteo Marchiori. Twenty Twenty-Two will be joining them on November 1, 2022, the anticipated release date of of WordPress 6.1.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:45:46 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:28;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<div class="wp-block-post-excerpt"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt">Consolidation through mergers and acquisitions isn't the only big business story in WordPress. Partnerships are increasing too. Founders investing in founders. Product companies and agencies expanding their own ecosystems. Informal partnerships to protect common interests. There are a lot of ways to grow on your own terms in WordPress.  </p></div>


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<p class="has-drop-cap">Ever since the spike in <a href="https://poststatus.com/acquisitions/">big acquisitions</a> of (mostly product-based) WordPress companies last year the space has had a &#8220;last of the independents&#8221; mood as (mostly product companies) wonder if they're all going to be caught up in large conglomerates — or left behind. (The latest acquisition was announced yesterday. Congrats to <strong>PublishPress</strong>!)</p>



<p>But that's not the only kind of deal happening in the industry. Far from it!</p>



<p>Look at the partnerships Atarim has forged with <strong><a href="https://poststatus.com/atarim-and-mainwp-partner-up/">MainWP</a></strong> and now <strong><a href="https://poststatus.com/atarim-and-rocket-net-partnership/">Rocket.net</a></strong> after <a href="https://poststatus.com/agency-business-brief-for-the-week-of-september-12/">a funding round</a> from <strong>Automattic</strong>, <strong>Newfold</strong>, and <strong>Yoast</strong>&#8216;s founders, among others.</p>



<p>WordPress founders investing in WordPress founders will grow the market without mergers thinning out the ecosystem's biodiversity. <strong>GridPane</strong>&#8216;s founder and CEO <strong>Patrick Gallagher</strong> said <a href="https://poststatus.com/agency-business-brief-for-the-week-of-september-12/">their funding round</a> was &#8220;incredibly company-friendly because we've retained 100% control of the business and its direction.&#8221; </p>



<p>Or take the <strong>Gravity Forms</strong> ecosystem cultivating its own extension and services market, encouraging members of their own team to start businesses in that space (<a href="https://poststatus.com/gravity-flow-makes-custom-form-administrative-workflows-simple/">way back in 2015</a>) and then <a href="https://poststatus.com/what-does-professionalism-mean-in-wordpress/">bringing them back under Gravity's wing</a> years later.</p>



<p>There are a lot of ways to grow on your own terms in WordPress. </p>



<p>Not all partnerships are about the direct exchange of dollars either. At WCUS I had a number of conversations about informal partnerships between hosting companies to deal with <a href="https://poststatus.com/open-secrets-forced-updates-in-wordpress/">security issues</a>, fraudsters, piracy, and other potential spoilers in the commons. </p>



<p>It's a unique and powerful way to sustain the Open Web —</p>



<p>Independence through partnership. </p>



<p>Growth by traveling together.</p>



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<p>A few weeks ago, <strong>Alex Denning</strong> <a href="https://getellipsis.com/blog/launching-the-weather-report/">shared a preview</a> of <strong>Ellipsis</strong>&#8216; <strong>Weather Report</strong>, a representation of data from their <strong><a href="https://getellipsis.com/falcon-ai/">FALCON AI</a></strong> that is now serving up a live view of the WordPress industry.</p>



<blockquote><p>&#8220;We’ve never had this insight before, and it is exciting and terrifying to bring this kind of &#8216;live' view of the industry, to the industry.&#8221; </p><cite>Alex Denning</cite></blockquote>



<h2 id="h-weekly-updates">Weekly Updates</h2>



<p>The Weather Report auto-updates with new data every Monday morning (UK time), and <a href="https://getellipsis.com/weather-report/">you can view the report here</a>. It's showing two live trendlines for WordPress and WooCommerce. The data can be downloaded, and there's more information about Ellipsis' methodology available now, which has been reviewed by Dr. Oliver Crook, at the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. “Using aggregation of market data and bimonthly median smoothing, Ellipsis gives a robust estimate of the current state of the WordPress market,” according to Dr. Crook.</p>



<h2>What's Being Measured?</h2>



<p>Ellipsis processes and stores data on tens of thousands of WordPress and WooCommerce keywords to power their FALCON AI. Data points they include are keyword metrics, advertiser activity, performance metrics, and rich data around URLs in the search results for each keyword. This data provides deep insight into what WordPress and WooCommerce solutions people are searching for on the web. </p>



<p>According to Ellipsis, &#8220;The score is <em>relative</em> to itself and calculated on a 4-week rolling basis.&#8221; Specifically, &#8220;The score each week is the 4-week rolling average of the blended search and advertiser activity data.&#8221; If you compare your own business and search trend analyses to the Weather Report trends, you'll see whether your data is in line with them — or higher or lower. The Weather Report trendlines are intended to serve WordPress businesses this way, as an orienting benchmark. </p>



<h2>Bringing New Data About WordPress to the WordPress Business Community</h2>



<p>&#8220;We’ve never had this insight before, and it is exciting and terrifying to bring this kind of &#8216;live' view of the industry, to the industry,&#8221; says Alex. &#8220;We’ve all enjoyed the comfort of an ever-growing ecosystem, and the Weather Report will show us the extent to which that does or doesn’t continue.&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Tom Greenwood</strong> is the co-founder and Managing Director of <a href="https://wholegraindigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wholegrain Digital</a>, a sustainability-focused WordPress agency that is a certified <strong><a href="https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/">B Corp</a></strong>. Tom has led a number of environmentally concerned projects in the web design sector including the <strong><a href="https://www.sustainablewebmanifesto.com/">Sustainable Web Manifesto</a></strong> and the website carbon calculator at <a href="https://WebsiteCarbon.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WebsiteCarbon.com</a>. He is the author of <a href="https://abookapart.com/products/sustainable-web-design" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sustainable Web Design</a>, published by <strong>A Book Apart</strong> in 2021. </p>



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<p>Well, it seems <a href="https://poststatus.com/5-days-without-a-shower/">my post about accessibility at WCUS</a> has got some things moving! As a result, it’s been a topic of podcasts — <a href="https://wpbuilds.com/2022/09/20/this-week-in-wordpress-222/">WP Builds</a>, <a href="https://poststatus.com/wcus-afterthoughts-accessibility-and-pay-transparency/">Post Status Excerpt</a>, and <a href="https://poststatus.com/wcus-2022-in-review/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Post Status Draft</a> — and it's come up in several <a href="https://twitter.com/michelleames/status/1570445969665462275?s=20&t=sKIboNVX1gLJfFCajobJnA">Twitter conversations</a>. As a result, WordCamp leaders have reached out to me to say they’re taking it seriously. Many people have DM’d me about how to do better. And <strong>Michele Butcher-Jones</strong> is starting a website to provide resources for <strong>WordPress Accessibility for All</strong>. (To be launched this fall.) It turns out that advocating for yourself and others is always a good thing.</p>



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<p><strong>Dan Knauss</strong> and <strong>Nyasha Green</strong> talk about their <strong>WordCamp US</strong> experiences both good and bad. Their conversation focuses on accessibility and disability too. They both reflect on the accessibility challenges and failures <strong>Michelle Frechette</strong> shared in <a href="https://poststatus.com/5-days-without-a-shower/">Five Days Without a Shower</a> before turning to <a href="https://poststatus.com/salary-transparency-why-not/">an important article</a> by <strong>Piccia Neri</strong> that was published at Post Status last week.</p>



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<p class="has-drop-cap">Dan and Ny talk about their <strong>WordCamp US</strong> experiences both good and bad. Their conversation focuses on accessibility and disability. Ny had an experience with Uber at WCUS that made her agree with Dan's preference for traditional and preferably unionized taxi companies or public transit. They both reflect on the accessibility challenges and failures <strong>Michelle Frechette</strong> shared in <a href="https://poststatus.com/5-days-without-a-shower/">Five Days Without a Shower</a> before turning to <a href="https://poststatus.com/salary-transparency-why-not/">an important article</a> by <strong>Piccia Neri</strong> that was published at Post Status last week. </p>



<p>Piccia's article considers the value of salary transparency in hiring and job listings after asking WordPress employers why they <em>don't</em> advertise a salary range in listings. Ny is optimistic pay transparency will soon be the norm in US law. Dan is optimistic the WordPress community can make the changes it needs out of empathy and regard for others plus the motivation to build a high quality, professional workforce. They both close out this episode expressing gratitude for the WordCamp organizers and volunteers who made WCUS possible this year.</p>



<blockquote><p>If [an employer] can't afford not to operate without suspicion and distrust, what does that tell you?</p><cite><strong>Dan Knauss</strong></cite></blockquote>



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<ul id="block-a3e9962f-97ca-4009-be8e-db47b5d1fddf"><li><a href="https://twitter.com/Ny_The_Creator">Nyasha Green</a>, Editorial Director at&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/_MasterWP">MasterWP</a>&nbsp;(Twitter)</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/dan_knauss">Dan Knauss</a><span>, Editor for </span><a href="https://twitter.com/post_status">Post Status</a><span> (Twitter)</span></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/lemonadecode">Olivia Bisset</a>, Web Producer intern for <a href="http://twitter.com/post_status">Post Status</a> (Twitter)</li></ul>



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<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> [00:00:00] Good afternoon Ny!</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> Hey Dan, how are you? </p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> I'm doing all right. Get any rest after WordCamp US?</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> Um, that following weekend. Yes. I think I slept the entire Saturday. How about you? </p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> Yeah, I, I caught up a little bit cuz right? Both of us and other, other people from your team. Uh, man, we had some late night talks.</p>



<p>It was really great. I really enjoyed meeting Matt and Devin and Brian too. And I briefly got to talk to Teron too, but man, you guys have a big group, so I got a nice picture. Me and Allie got you all there against the mural, and wow there were so many people to talk to.</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> Oh yeah, yeah.</p>



<p>This team is like so awesome. And. that was our first time meeting in person. And nobody re nobody thought that they were like, no, you all [00:01:00] like carry on like old friends. And I was like, well, it seems like we're old friends.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> I know I kept forgetting that! That was the first time you all met too. And yeah, that's great.</p>



<p>Um, that's a good, good bunch of people. And like I said, on Twitter, it. I don't know, I don't, I don't feel that old, but I, I definitely, uh, younger, younger people, including, including you, who I think are just, it's great to see, um, young, diverse, cool team coming into, into WordPress, deeper and deeper and just loved.</p>



<p>A lot of the conversations we had. Um, and just throughout the whole thing, probably the, the biggest thing for me was, um, the kind of information, the kind of things you learn, the kind of questions. And, um, I, don't getting, getting kind of a map. I, you know, I'm, I'm trying to figure out the map of the WordPress business ecosystem and the project mm-hmm as a whole understand the community and how [00:02:00] things work or don't work.</p>



<p>And, uh, that was, that was. Great way to, to really beef that up, validate some ideas, throw in new questions, throw some curves at me. Um, nice. What was your, what was your main takeaway? What got out of it most?</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> Um, so my main takeaway was the community is it's bigger than I can like even imagine. And like this word camp was smaller.</p>



<p>you know, due to COVID restrictions. So I know they're usually way bigger than that. And it's just, I cannot wrap my mind around that because I was able to meet so many different people from so many different companies that do so many different things in WordPress. So it is to me like unfathomable, like just the, the sheer amount of people and then from different walks of life.</p>



<p>So I, I thought that was awesome. It was so nice meeting. So many people like, um, I really appreciated that. [00:03:00] Also, um, it was just the talks. They were so most of them were so like personable and the people like the speakers were so great. Like, I, I could tell that they took their time selecting really great speakers.</p>



<p>Mm-hmm the content and the speakers were amazing. I have like, no complaints about that, that at all, it was definitely a tech conference where I felt comfortable sitting through like entire, you know, workshops and sessions because everything was just so interesting and it was relevant and, you know, it was really good.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> Yeah. Yeah, it really was. I, I they've really got the, um, the, uh, presentation format down. Well, the live, um, transcription was really useful. I, I found myself, um, following that quite a lot. And, um, maybe cuz I, some of the time when I was multitasking a little bit, like what, what, what, what they say there or.</p>



<p>[00:04:00] Yeah, that and, and just the screen. And so, yeah, no matter how far back you were, you could read or hear quite, quite well. So, um, I, I don't know how long that's been a, a feature, but I think it's pretty standard now and it's done. It's done great. Mm-hmm but, um, yeah. Other other accessibility things not, not so not so great.</p>



<p>Huh?</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> Mm.</p>



<p>No, no, no, no, no, not at all, but I'm gonna let you take the lead on that, cuz I want you to explain your experience, which I was very angry about. Well,</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> I, I wouldn't say I got angry about it. I,</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> yeah, I was angry. It's okay. Reading more after</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> we, after we read Michelle's piece mm-hmm but um, well we've Michelle Frette has, um, written for us before about her experience.</p>



<p>Mm-hmm accessibility and wrote a guide actually. It might be close to a year ago. [00:05:00] And after, after that, and we had been together at a, a post status retreat, I, I tended to think more of the things she wrote in there from her experience, from her standpoint. So mm-hmm, , I think. What's Michelle, what's it like for Michelle and you know, and I going into it, I wasn't sure quite what to expect, but when I was booking, I saw there was, um, an option for ADA rooms and I apparently didn't have that many of them mm-hmm and I thought, you know, I should see what, this is, what this experience is like.</p>



<p>And at the same time, um, I've, you know, you know, Situation a bit. I, I thought I'd, I've been trying to be more getting older and having a progressive, um, neuromuscular disease that lifelong has just been, you know, my feet are ankles and knees and like are, are, uh, not [00:06:00] so not so great. And on any, any kind of slick surface or anything, I I'm always thinking about looking out for falling.</p>



<p>And which I've done probably more than the, the average. And, um, so having something to grab onto definitely. And like bathrooms is really thinking like, yeah, you know, I should quit pretending so much that I can hide this or, or get by and, um, trying to be trying to be more. Able to express need mm-hmm explain the situation.</p>



<p>It really puts your body out in the open to people and mm-hmm speakers. So I got that. I got that. I should, I should start experiencing this, cuz it's only gonna, there's only gonna be more ahead and it's a pretty, you know, it's a pretty mild cases. These things go. It's not, hopefully I'll never quite.</p>



<p>[00:07:00] Walking, but it, it knocks your mobility down. I'm able to run like I did as a, tried to, as a kid for decades. Mm-hmm and um, so I got in there and the, the guy at the, at the desk. Was acting kind of odd about it and saying, oh, do you really need the eat sweet? And I'm feeling like kind of bad, cuz you know, I look like a picture of privilege and, and stuff like, uh, well I don't wanna take</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> this.</p>



<p>That doesn't matter.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> I, I, well, I don't know it well, I sure wouldn't wanna take it from someone else. Mm-hmm um, But I gathered pretty quickly from what he was saying that they didn't really want to give me that room. And I was like, well, you know, looked this a while back. So like, you should have something.</p>



<p>And I was like, well, look, this is, and I had to explain myself, you know, cuz I, unless you're kind of watching me walk from a way off you, you still might not, you know, you might not pick up on it. I it's like, look, I, I [00:08:00] mainly just. Bathroom with grab bars and, you know, mm-hmm, something that's easier to get in and out of.</p>



<p>And, um, I think that should just be on everything. Just be on everything falls. Yeah. Falls in the home are like the highest cause of death and injury. I think I read that once and, um, you know, it, the odds are not good on slip, tunnel, surfaces and stuff, the older you get period. And, um, and it, what ended up happening was.</p>



<p>they kind of confessed that there was a big generator truck right outside the door of this room. What, and as it was actually a truck of the generator and an air conditioning unit cooling the entire, that entire building on the, in the resort, or I guess the one on the roof ConEd out or something. And it was loud.</p>



<p>I mean, I mean it, maybe if you want like white noise or something, but it was. [00:09:00] You could cope and he's like, yo, go in there and stand there five minutes. See, see what you think. Come back if it's no good. And I was like, this doesn't sound good. And it's a long, long, long walk out. There's all these gates and little stairs and things.</p>



<p>And I had a hard time finding how to get over there and cutting across grass and parking lots and stuff. And I found, you know, this is crazy. This is it's. Ugly. Ridiculous noisy. And mm-hmm , um, at least it's ground floor. You walk in shower, but you know, and if this is the last one, some, maybe someone else needs this more.</p>



<p>So I went right back and it's like, look, I'll, I just won't towel. I just want, I want, uh, grab bars. So I don't, you know, rip the towel bar, curtain bar out of the, out of the wall, which I mm-hmm, done. Um, , you know, they don't even put like friction, like the little things in the bottom of the tub or, you know, stuff to like, not much of my foot surface, especially [00:10:00] on the left stuff.</p>



<p>Doesn't touch the ground. I don't have much grip mm-hmm . Um, and he did, he just didn't touch that at all. Cuz they don't have that. And, and later on, you know, they, the smallest toilets in the world and I, I, oh God, in the course of the like low oh low. You you're doing a full squat there ,</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> that should be illegal for us, for us being tall.</p>



<p>Me and Dan are super tall. We got to like, experience that. Don't worry, I'll grow a little more and catch you. Yeah. But that should be illegal for us because that was so uncomfortable. It was like doing a crab walk. Like what in the world?</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> Yeah, I know. And, and the more I talk to other people and, you know, there.</p>



<p>Some of us are an aging group that have, you know, been in touching WordPress in some capacity for its entire lifespan and doing web stuff since the nineties, um, getting a little long in the tooth. Um, and there's just a lot of people, you know, we're not [00:11:00] how depends how you define disability, but he gets harder.</p>



<p>He gets harder. Mm-hmm and those are all things where pain. Injury and age, um, don't, don't make any of that experience fun or easy or accessible. And so, yeah, that's what I learned. And I wrote a little about it and told Michelle I was gonna, and we both did and linked to each other, but her experience was as you know, um, much more intense one with the, you know, needing to, to get around with a scooter.</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> Yeah. I. You, well, let me talk about you first. I wish you would've said something to me because I would've been your, um, I know you're very sweet, but I would've been your yeller I would've gone up there. Like why God I business that you guys could get? No, I wouldn't have been that bad, but I definitely would've.</p>



<p>I would've talked to him. I would, I wouldn't have yelled at them, but, um, I, I, I [00:12:00] understand. I take care of my disabled mom and she never likes as for help. So I understand how it is. I wish that we could come to like a place where we, you, we could get, um, you all more comfortable with that because I definitely do not mind helping out.</p>



<p>Um, my second thing I was gonna say is I'm just, I'm angry because I, I know, and it's not like, you know, it's not the person at the desk fault. It's just an, I don't know what you would call it, what, uh, what would be a microaggression to see someone and to not be able to see their disability. So assume they don't have one.</p>



<p>Right. And I hate that and I hate that people are trained to do that. And I, I just, I hate that you're experience that. And I just also hate that that place just, it's just really wasn't equipped. Um, Very well for accessibility, like it list like even looking at Michelle's article and it's stuff that I didn't pay attention to.</p>



<p>Of course I did not pay attention to, but a big thing was not having a way to like, wave your [00:13:00] hands or like hit the button to open the doors, like right. Michelle had to depend on like the doors of being open or someone opening the door for her. That's ridiculous in. You know, the stuff you think would be a quick fix.</p>



<p>And I'm one of these people where I'm at the point where I'm tired of hearing excuses about it. I won't take my anger out on people, but. Things have to change. Like there's, there's no excuse for that. And I'm disappointed. Like people tell me all the time, like you think California has this big utopia and I don't, I know California has many issues.</p>



<p>It's a big state. I know it has many issues, but it's like, it's disappointing to me to have places like that in a major city. Where accessibility is not like high, a high priority on their list. Like it was just like being back in South Carolina where they refused to make buildings accessible, put things, they say they're historical landmarks.</p>



<p>And it just, that makes me angry as well. So, oh yeah. I, yeah, I, I just, uh, I was very angry and, but also very sad to hear about these circumstances, especially, you know, when so many of our [00:14:00] community depends on accessibility. Yeah.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> Yeah. Um, It really wouldn't take too much to get a minimum, um, accessibility standard.</p>



<p>I, I mm-hmm, in a lot of places or at least just, you know, improve some of the basic safety and utility there. Yeah. Doors, doors shouldn't be difficult for anybody. And, and, uh, there were a lot of things that were right. It just wasn't thought out. And mm-hmm I actually expect that from the west Western Canada is the same, you know, like Atlanta, just brawl mm-hmm I, I briefly looked.</p>



<p>How would I get on walk down to the train station? If you try to cross that highway there, there's like, there's no pedestrian. It's just, you wait for cars to, let you through. And then, um, you ring by two highways and then, uh, get on the train and shouldn't that go right to the airport. But Google is telling me no, there would be a big walk on the other end.</p>



<p>Because, you know, I'm I was trying to avoid Uber cuz they,</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> [00:15:00] um, or terrible people. Yeah.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> Well, yes as you a great experience there either, but yeah. They're hostility tech journalists like Sara Lacey some years back, I like okay. Never unionized cab company. So.</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> I'm starting to blood feud with them, by the way, I'm still still going.</p>



<p>I'm still, I'm still angry. so</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> yes. You had a, a, a racist comment made, uh, by your driver. Am I that,</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> that not exactly. No.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> Okay. What was the, I get sideways into that,</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> but, mm. I don't even know, like, I'm not as, you know, something happens and you're really angry about it, but then as time goes by, you're not as angry.</p>



<p>I'm still like pretty angry. Like I'm still as angry as I was when it happened. But, uh, long story short, our Uber driver came to take us to the airport and it was very early in the morning and you know, it was [00:16:00] me and two of my coworkers were all people of color and, um, there was a white lady out there with us too.</p>



<p>That was only, that was just us. And she was, you know, standing around, waiting for her ride. We were waiting for ours, you know, just average stuff. And the driver came and the woman went up to the white woman, went up to the Uber and she was like, Hey, how you doing? She started putting her stuff in. And my coworker was like, oh, I think that's our Uber.</p>



<p>And she doesn't use Uber a lot. So she didn't have like a profile picture up. Um, so you know, the guy didn't, you know, he couldn't see. Who he was picking up and like, um, the guy I got out the car and was helping her with her luggage. And then he like, you know, my coworker was like, Hey, I think that's ours.</p>



<p>He didn't even get acknowledge her. At first, he, you know, responded to the lady. He was like, you're not so and so, and she said, no, my name is Soandso. And so he like got back in his car and he locked his doors. And like, we didn't know what was going on. So we just started going to the Uber. We were like, oh, okay.</p>



<p>You know, that was solved. Cuz she was like, oh, okay. And went back, you know, to where she was standing. And um, he locked his door and we were like, [00:17:00] uh, you know, confused. We were like, you know, you lock your door. Right. And. My other coworker was like, are you not about to? Cause we didn't realize what was going on.</p>



<p>He's like, are you not about to take this to the airport? And he said, no, I'm not taking you anywhere. And then he like slams on his gas, like we're by the car. So he could have run over our foot feet. He slams on his gas and he like peels out of there when he sees this us, like in like, it was like, we, you know, it took us a moment to register it.</p>



<p>Because we were like, what just happened? Even the lady was like, what just happened? She was like, what is going on? And like, Um, my coworker who was closer a little closer than I was like, he was like, when we were like, you're not taking us, he was like, I'm not taking you. I'm not taking you people anywhere.</p>



<p>It was, you know, along that line. So I was like, what? And like that was like some crazy old school racism that I usually would experience and like rural South Carolina. So I'm like, I know I'm not in San Diego being told I can't get up. Ride to the airport. And, you know, again, I know [00:18:00] racism is everywhere, racist people are everywhere, but, um, it was just, it was weird because it was so many people out there.</p>



<p>Like he didn't care if he had witnesses. It was. And then it was just weird. And like, I wasn't, I was angry, but I was like, well, Uber is a major company. They are not gonna stand for this. They have a mission statement, which they, they do not allow discrimination and they refused to do anything because the driver said he didn't wanna take us because he was worried about COVID.</p>



<p>Although the driver was not wearing a mask and the white lady, he wanted to take. Instead of us also did not have on the mask. So we were like, what? And we were like, well, why couldn't he tell us that? Why did he say he wasn't taking us? You know, you people anywhere, why did he slam on the brakes and almost run over our feet?</p>



<p>Why there, we were like, that made no sense. We just think he was mad because he saw the, just the name. And he was like, okay, you know, this name is not. Probably not urban. Let's go pick them up. And then that's not that wasn't the case. So, um, Uber refused to do anything about it. They said they weren't gonna do anything about it.</p>



<p>Um, that driver is still out there probably still [00:19:00] discriminating against people and doing that and making his money through Uber. And that's why I have a blood feud against them. Now I am a hundred percent dedicated to the destruction of that company. I am praying on their down fall daily. their hack.</p>



<p>Yeah. Yeah. They hacked the other day. It made my day. I slept with a big smile on my face. I think I woke up with a smile on my face. Like I'm dedicated to the, the destruction of that company, because it's one thing to have an ignorant person, but to stand behind them as a company. Oh no, yeah, no, no, no, no, no.</p>



<p>So yeah,</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> I I've surpris, I'm surprised over the years, they've Sur they've survived the blows to their brand and just the, the profit model is, you know, I'm with the. Taxi drivers who blocked them. and, uh, yeah, it's just, it's super convenient. I did try it for the first time. I never installed the app, but I, um, I had to get out quicker than I expected.</p>



<p>Cause I was waiting for room service that never came and the train thing, I couldn't [00:20:00] figure out how to do it on foot. Like a good urban. Mass transit it's like, okay, this will be, I know this works. Um, I wasn't, I wasn't able to get my, get direct calls to work though. Almost the whole time I was there. Um, oh yeah.</p>



<p>You told me that Canadian phone plan switching over to something and anyway, yeah. There's all kinds of little things happen when you travel. I'm glad the guy didn't make a, I thought he had said something too, but that's just, that's crazy. So did he pay for that fair?</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> No, he okay, good. Yeah. Like we didn't pay for it.</p>



<p>Um, the only comment he made was like, it was like the, you people, like we're not taking, if I I'm one of those people, like, yeah. He's like, I'm gonna take you people anywhere. like yeah. You people.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> Okay. And so, um, knock in the door. Yeah,</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> it was crazy. I've. It's been a while since I've experienced overt racism like that, you know, I'm used to the little [00:21:00] passive Southern racism where they're like, oh, you know, just hurrying alone, alone when they see you coming and stuff like that.</p>



<p>But that was really crazy. And I couldn't believe, like, I just really couldn't believe he did that. Like I was like, dude, like, but like a scene Uber's response. I'm like, he's probably done this a bunch of times. Like, like Uber did not care. Um, so it was. Very, I don't know. Yeah. I was angry. I'm still angry about it.</p>



<p>I'm not, I'm not gonna let up on this either. Like every person I talk to, everything I write about, they're gonna know how horrible Uber is, honestly.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> Well, sorry about that. And it not really a, well, I don't know that those, how, how we treat each other is especially at those kind of points of. You know, strangers interacting or people you have to interact with at a conference to get from point a to point B it's.</p>



<p>I don't know it's part of it. It is kind of an [00:22:00] accessibility thing and it, and it feels the same way. Like, am I gonna be safe? Mm-hmm am I, you know, can I trust these what's going on here? Am I gonna be okay. Um, and the more vulnerable position you're in the worst, all that can. land on you. Um,</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> I've thought about that, cuz you know, you, you know that, um, I'm on a boot right now.</p>



<p>I can't, and then I have crutches cuz I hurt my foot and you know, the thought did PO pass my mind. It's like, what if that guy was like, He wasn't just like the passive racist. He was like the violent racist and saw me on a boot and like wanted to push me down or something like that. Right. And it's like, that's stuff, you know, there are lots of people who are disabled, who are people of color that probably, and not probably that have to deal with stuff like that.</p>



<p>And that, that was another thought. Like, I I've thought a lot about, you know, things. That I need to examine myself like as a person who, like I said, just because I take care of my disabled mom, [00:23:00] that doesn't mean that I'm disabled and that I have to go through these things. So a lot of this was eye opening for me as well.</p>



<p>And I think, I think that transportation, um, I kind of wrote about this. I think transportation being set up by either word camp or some of the organizations. Would've um, would definitely help out. Mm. Um, especially for people who need accessible ways to get around, because, you know, if you do do. Uh, what, what would you call like a Uber Lyft and you request like accessibility?</p>



<p>What if no, accessibility, uh, no drivers with accessible, like room are available, you know? Right. You just can't go. So I definitely think it's an accessibility issue and you know, people are awful. It's nothing we can do about that, but we can definitely like, you know, help out a little</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> bit more. That's definitely a tough one for, uh, Michelle has mention.</p>



<p>Several times being discriminated against because of her scooter, which breaks down mm-hmm into like five pieces and will fit in a trunk, you know, how do you think it got there on a plane? You know? Yeah. But they will give her the, they will balk at that and act like they're gonna, [00:24:00] they can't take her. Um, there was most, most of the time I was jumping in a ride with someone else and people stayed together and kind of looked out for each other and that's.</p>



<p>that's always a good thing, but mm-hmm yeah. What if you find yourself in a boot coming home late from a karaoke club and you can get some kind of treatment like that. And yeah, I did manage to Luren eye out to, uh, found a karaoke place where it was a good, real good show, but the, the list was too deep and</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> Dan did not do my do it with me.</p>



<p>Y'all you see how he did me? It was, I was so upset.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> It was so loud. My voice was gone. Anyway. I would had to do. Um, whatever I was thinking yeah. Inappropriate to do the sex pistols at that point. But, um,</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> I like the sex pistols we could have done. See, we could agree on anything and like, we could have done that.</p>



<p>And Elton John. Yeah. And El John</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> than John. Yeah. Well, [00:25:00] okay. Next time we get together or one, um, word camp or any, any occasion we'll we'll try again. All right. I promise. Okay. Well, the other thing we wanted to talk about was the, the transparency article by PCHA and Mary, um, which I've been looking forward to publishing for a long time.</p>



<p>Mm-hmm , it's really long. It's awesome. I couldn't bear to cut it down. I may have even made it longer. but it it's worth it's worth the 20, 30 minute thinking through, I learned. From it because it's, it's exhaustive. She, she went through, she went through our job board on, on post status and we have a long, you, a long history of thinking about this sort of thing.</p>



<p>We have lots of awesome employers who post, you know, all the jobs on there gonna be good. But, um, some people probably, probably most don't don't post a salary range or anything like that. And which use, oh, very easy to do. [00:26:00] WP job manager plug in, um, caters to that as a feature. Um, why not? Why don't you put in a salary range, at least a range.</p>



<p>Yeah. Um, that was a question she took to the people who don't do it. I think she also, she also talked with people who do, and she got all the reasons for and against, and then gave shared those, you know, not trying to shame or blame anyone. Totally respectful and no one just been no flack or anything like that over, it's not WP drama.</p>



<p>It's a real issue that's coming legally. Um, and I know there's European and, and state by state us legislation about it. Not really where in Canada, it's more common to, I know it's more common to see it here, especially around government, uh, jobs or nonprofit sector sometimes. Good, good. Um, It's it's [00:27:00] interesting what people say about why they don't, um, disclose.</p>



<p>Essentially like the budget for the job. She compares it to an agency, um, trying to bid for, you know, are we gonna take this project with this client? The client just want to tell you the budget, um, huge. You might be wasting your time, um, burning money, doing, trying to discover what the project is with and realize it's just too way too under budget.</p>



<p>Um, So, and there's a whole other, a lot of other things that go on along with trust and culture building. Um, what did you think of, of that piece? What</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> I thought it was amazing. I wrote a piece about, uh, equal pay mm-hmm called put your money where your mouth is. Um, and she, yeah, hers was like way more in depth than mine.</p>



<p>So it's, you know, you know, I don't say it was better than mine, so I thought it was amazing and she really. What I didn't think to do [00:28:00] that she did was actually going to the employers and saying, Hey, you know, we all know that a lot of people don't do it, but actually getting them to admit why they don't mm-hmm um, I thought was awesome because.</p>



<p>One, well, first of all, to me, that's a counter argument that we can start making, knowing why these people do that. Now, like some of the stuff, the reasons they gave like, well, oh, you know, a salary is sometimes the person dependent like a 40 year old and, uh, Porto it. They don't, um, that's single, you know, it's gonna be different than a 40 year old with a family in New York city.</p>



<p>It's like, okay, I don't care. Give me my money. Like, I, I hate, I hate that. Excuse the most, um, you know, I'm biased. I don't have children, but I hate the excuse that, you know, because I'm single, I don't need as much money as somebody with children. Right. Like, I don't care. Like, you don't know what I do with my money.</p>



<p>You don't know what I need. You don't know what's going on in my life. So I hate that excuse. And I'm so glad she, you know, went to bat on that. Right.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> There's huge assumptions being made that, I mean, it's it's [00:29:00] yeah. It's plainly openly. Discriminatory. And I don't think that there you'd even be legally allowed to ask the questions about family and marital status to make an informed discrimination about need.</p>



<p>Like that would be a delicate conversation between friends about need. And, um, yeah, I, I, I agree with her that it was good to, to see what the thinking and, and different viewpoints are on that. I suspect a lot of people just really haven't thought about it. They haven't thought about it from the, from the job candidate perspective.</p>



<p>And I don't, I really don't think they're good reasons. And, and it's not, not some of the reason to be argued hard it's coming in the law and the, um, you can see the ethics of it, but just the business pragmatism of, if you care about having an inclusive and culture of happy employees, mm-hmm, . Why start with suspicion and just distrust, right?</p>



<p>If you can [00:30:00] afford not to, to, to operate without suspicion and distrust, what does that tell you?</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> Yeah. Tells me I don't need to work there. I need to go right. Run something up.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> We've we've thought we've actually talked about this before we did a, I think we did a whole episode, mostly devoted to your, your article and thoughts and experience.</p>



<p>Um, pay transparency and oh yeah. Employer, employee relationship and how it especially impacts women, people of color. Um, there was, there was a section of Peach's article that got into the stuff that's difficult for me and is good to think about that. I suppose I'd paid more attention to in, in recent times, mm-hmm, just, if you have a, a background of, um, any number of experiences that, um, maybe particularly as a minority or someone with a disability or, or something like that, mm-hmm, , you're selling yourself short they're, they're just [00:31:00] simply, she's pretty direct about there's just NIH talks about her own experience.</p>



<p>A lot of people, you know, we just wanna do meaningful work, right? Yeah. So we're not awesome negotiators and. Um, maybe from rather unfortunate experiences, childhood later, other relationships, um, it's very hard for us not to start from the standpoint of, uh, well, of course I'm not worth that much. Mm-hmm um, that, you know, if people who are, who are dealing with life stresses or emotional issues, um, if you bear down with all the advantages on them, when they.</p>



<p>Seeking employment. Um, you know, you may, you may hire someone at their worst mm-hmm and that experience will then color everything after I, I suspect, uh, but there's, there's whole, there's so many dimensions, uh, [00:32:00] to it all. Um, just being clear across the board with the whole team on, um, where everyone's. Um, yeah, we wouldn't have any, any gender gap, um, salary gap, if everyone knew what everyone was making.</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> Yeah, it, I think, um, and she, she brought this up like a lot of candidates believe like the employers don't want the employees to come together and, you know, demand. Adequate and fair pay. And I agree with that a hundred percent, like talking to people who have been like, I'll never tell anyone what I make.</p>



<p>And I'm like, why? I mean, cuz that's valid reason. It's not to tell people what you make, but their reasoning was more so like, well I think I make more of the company, so I'm not going to say anything. And I'm like, you're probably not making the most. Then you don't know there you're selling yourself short.</p>



<p>So I really agree with her point that, you know, It does seem like, it seems like a company trying to keep the workers divided when they do stuff like that. I, I definitely, I agree with [00:33:00] that. I that's what I believe if I see and hear stuff like that.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> Yeah. Well, it's old as the Hills, but, um, yeah, it's very, I think it's very difficult depending on, on how far, how far that goes.</p>



<p>Um, mm-hmm, , it's very difficult to. People to function well as a team and build a, a company culture without real trust mm-hmm . And once it starts to become a faked thing or, um, you know, people just doing, doing what they, you know, presenting themselves as how they. They think they need to be seen, um, not expressing how they actually feel about their, their job satisfaction.</p>



<p>That's, you know, that's a not gonna be, not gonna be good for any, anything, and in relationships. And it probably impacts performance in some way. It would be really cool. If someone got some data on that, like let's look at, let's look at [00:34:00] relatively similar companies that pay transparency, no pay transparency.</p>



<p>Are there trends in the overall bottom line in results for the, for the company productivity, for the team, um, satisfaction ratings. I would, I would think happy employees make good results in good profits. Longevity.</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> Same, same. I just . I, I like Colorado's, um, law on it. Colorado requires you to pay. You know, post the pay and, you know, a lot of companies have been skirt trying to skirt around that.</p>



<p>And that just says more about the company than you. Anything else. And I'm, I'm definitely paying attention to that. I can start up multiple blood feuds if I need to. But, um, , I, um, I really like that, you know, you have to post post the pay. And I think a lot of companies also, they know that they're low balling people.</p>



<p>They know that they're being cheap. They know they're not paying people with their [00:35:00] worth and that's what scares them. But I am optimistic about. I think that more and more states, probably not South Carolina, but more and more states will join in on this. And I think eventually it will be like a federal law in the United States, at least I hope.</p>



<p>Uh, how, how do you feel about the us and Canada in regards to this? That</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> would be, that would be great. And it's, it's interesting that it's happening now. I, I think in. Yeah, it's, it's an interesting historical shift because it it's something that's happening out outside of a, you know, organized labor movement, which is still stronger in the, in Canada.</p>



<p>Both have trended down enormously over over the years. There are, there are, you know, little interesting movements, uh, big New York, uh, Web development agency. A friend of mine works at, um, formed union. Uh, you've got people managing to do it at Amazon throughout, [00:36:00] throughout tech, but I, I don't think that that's the, that's not really the model anymore.</p>



<p>Um, and they didn't adapt well to, um, kind of postindustrial economics. And this is, this is more of a, um, seems more of a cultural thing. I feel. Kid, um, younger people, my kid's age, and, and to some extent, us Xers started to see things more. And look, you know, we, we can talk about this publicly and exert pressures, um, for this is the kind of culture we want.</p>



<p>This is how you should treat people. And it's, mm-hmm , it's okay to talk about them more openly and ethically. Cause I think we're on the other side of like civil. movement and stuff. It's hard. It's hard to, you were in a real radical, if you were saying things about transparency, maybe in the, in the thirties, or even trying to get something mm-hmm and, and all of, because there's [00:37:00] intensely segregated apart science society with different blocks of people who, you know, weren't really willing to go to bat for each other and.</p>



<p>It feel, it feels like it's just a different context and in some ways that's, that's really healthy and it can be less conflicted mm-hmm and it's, it's cool to see, I think, in, in the WordPress community, for sure. Um, it has maybe there's something to do with our aging. We're paying attention to accessibility mm-hmm and show up stability and, and you know, how we feel about.</p>



<p>Or work on life satisfaction. And I think younger mm-hmm people are tolerating less nonsense than we did. And times maybe tighter to, I don't know. Right. yeah. It's not that, I don't think it's that much different Canada. Yeah.</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> um, we're starting more blood feuds. I'm sorry. I, uh, Tom Finley said that on Twitter.</p>



<p>He was like, I'm sorry that happened to you, but I can't think of a better company to [00:38:00] start a blood feud with. And I was like, oh my God, I'm gonna start saying that. Thank you. thank you, Tom. You're the best</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> well, we actually have quite a lot of employers like, like yours, who would do this voluntarily. I think mm-hmm</p>



<p>Telling them to, um, Rob has definitely been a voice for that. And there are plenty of others who have been there all along. And it's definitely something we can choose to change just by talking about it, wanting and wanting to mm-hmm um, same as the accessibility thing, which is related. Um, I think the getting diversity equity and inclusion at the forefront.</p>



<p>Everything organized. We do from word camps to how you think about employment, um, will, it has it's best, you know, it has to be done authentically. Um, I mean, great. If you're just following the rule and following other people, I guess that's what brings everyone along, but mm-hmm, [00:39:00] ideally you actually care about the culture you're building and working in and the people you're you're</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> affect.</p>



<p>I agree it would improve so many other areas outside of patron Spency and accessibility. So I definitely agree. It seems to be</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> happening. I mean, there's no, mm-hmm , um, you know, there, there was a bit, bit of static about travel scholarships or, you know, funding. Oh yeah. These are things like that, but I think that's that started to change and there's, there's definitely a, I've only heard positive and receptive support for, um, doing what needs to be done to improve accessibility at conferences and the, and this whole transparency issue.</p>



<p>The there's a lot of positive signs about it. So, you know, I don't, I don't feel like it's not one of those issues where I feel like there's gonna be a bunch of drama or mm-hmm, , there's a mind field of things. And if you say the, the wrong thing, someone's gonna get really upset. Um, [00:40:00] it's just not, um, It's not at that, that level, which is, which is cool.</p>



<p>It's, uh, reasonable, mature, um, conversation to have at this point. Mm-hmm um, in, uh, WordPress history, I guess. So what, what do you think is what are, where do the next. Next moves. Do you, do you think for your you're always, you're kind of a change agent. I</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> chaos change agent. Um, but you're asking me, what are the next steps for, like, for what,</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> where for these kind of issues that, that you're, you're hoping to see change in, do you have, do you see specific things moving or where you're, where you and, um, Rob and the rest of your team are, you know, acting as influences or other people out there?</p>



<p>Um, Who know what strings to pull to make things happen? I mean, [00:41:00] can't, did you listen, were you at Cammy K's uh, session at or camp? No, mm-hmm . That was definitely central to, to all of this. Um, yeah, I think there's will to will to change and certain. Voices driving</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> it. Yeah. Um, our pretty much agreed model and way.</p>



<p>Um, and that's, this was for me, even before I got into tech is to lead by example. And Rob does a really good, um, job of that, but that also helps us out too, as employees to push for these changes, because we can say, Hey look. We went and worked for an employee that was very transparent on pay and look how it's working out for us.</p>



<p>So, you know, we're not just yelling at people and telling them to do this, and it's something we have no knowledge on and we have no experience with. Um, so we're definitely doing that. Um, in terms of accessibility, I think that's going to take a community effort as well. Um, I think I talked about that, but one of my suggestions was, oh yeah, I did talk [00:42:00] about that earlier to just get like, we need like community transp.</p>



<p>And we to make sure, sure. It's accessible. We need, you know, and nothing. And I wrote this in article too. The volunteers and organizers for work camp were amazing and it was amazing. But we have to do better by everybody in the community by making sure things are more accessible. Um, absolutely tell wide.</p>



<p>So I think it's a community effort. This can't fall on just one person. Yes. So just by leading the community, making sure we all know that we all are obligated. That's how I tell people we are. We're obligated. Even if it doesn't apply to you, that doesn't mean one day. It won't, there's this big thing where people think that they won't, some people think that they won't ever need accessible things and you don't know that anything can happen.</p>



<p>You see my foot, I am. If the elevator breaks in my building, I can not leave so well, I can kind of waddle down the stairs, but you know, don't try to, oh, I won't, it will have to be an emergency. Um, [00:43:00] and you know, I was just walking around. At workout two, two weeks ago now so, you know, it happens, things happen, life happens.</p>



<p>So we're obligated to, in my opinion, do this for everyone. And even if you just know in your heart, nothing will ever happen to you. you just be obligated and helpful for your fellow community member?</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> Absolutely. Yeah, the care. And there was tons of it to, to feel an experience there. And it, it was great that people mm-hmm , um, genuinely.</p>



<p>Caring for each other. And I think that's what it takes without, you know, without empathy for others. Um, and the ability to imagine their perspective and experience. Um, we're not very nice people, not very good to each other and that's, that's key to it. And you're right. Every time I saw those blue blue shirts, the volunteers, um, I, I said a lot of thanks and, and, you know, commiserated and, you know, eh, Don.</p>



<p>don't [00:44:00] focus, you know, everything's not gonna be perfect. And mm-hmm we love you. anyway. that's your thank you for, for what you're doing. Mm-hmm yeah, I think AF afterwards they, they should all get like a gratitude care package or something free</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> massages.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> Yeah. Yeah. Cause it's, it's gotta</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> be spa day. Yeah. I will buy two spa days.</p>



<p>For them. Okay. We'll talk.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> I floated the idea with Michelle. Okay.</p>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green:</strong> Sweet.</p>



<p><strong>Dan Knauss:</strong> All right. Well with that, then I'll cut and start editing.</p>
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<h2>Use WP Tests Provides Better Theme and Block Testing</h2>



<p>The <strong>Abstract Agency</strong> has clarified Theme Unit and Block Unit testing in WordPress with <strong><a href="https://wptests.abstractwp.com/">WP Tests</a></strong>. They’re enhancing and building on the WordPress Core’s Theme Unit Test and <a href="https://www.abstractwp.com/announcing-wp-tests/">Rich Tabor</a>’s Block Unit Test. The new tools they’ve created focus specifically on the block-based editor and all the possible configurations without building them all. <a href="https://www.abstractwp.com/announcing-wp-tests/">On their blog</a>, Post Status member <strong>Victor Ramirez</strong> succinctly describes the frustration many of us face: “The blessing and the curse of the block-based editor is the near limitless layouts, patterns, & blocks. We realized it was near impossible to track all the possible configurations the client could create.” Indeed! WP Tests is a great new tool to add to your theme and block development process.</p>



<h2>Advanced Custom Fields Debuts Major Release 6.0</h2>



<p>This is the first major release for ACF since it changed hands from <strong>Delicious Brains</strong> to <strong>WPEngine</strong>. I might even say it's the first major one since <strong>Elliot Condon</strong> sold ACF to Delicious Brains. Regardless, <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-6-0-released/">this is a huge update</a> with a fresh new user interface, a switch to <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/whats-new-with-acf-blocks-in-acf-6/">make ACF Blocks closer to the native block experience</a>, better accessibility, improved saving features like being able to toggle to “show in rest API,” and several other golden nuggets. This update is also “designed to be fully compatible with ACF 5.x and the vast majority of users will be able to upgrade without changing any code.” I'm looking forward to playing with all these improvements in the weeks to come!</p>



<h2>Automate Your Sites with Better Social Sharing Images</h2>



<p>Getting good social sharing previews to work can be a hassle, that’s why <a href="https://twitter.com/wpmark/status/1572197220463804417?s=21&t=JGIEhqYl_djD_HqO-mzDKg"><strong>Mark Wilkinson</strong> and team</a> have created <strong><a href="https://simplesocialimages.com/">Simple Social Images</a></strong> for WordPress. This plugin automates the creation of branded images for social media. So instead of a normal featured image or the first photo on the page, it can have a logo or text right on the image. The current version costs $49 but they’ve also submitted a free version to the <a href="http://WordPress.org">WordPress.org</a> repository and are awaiting approval.</p>



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<h2>Cool Tool</h2>



<p>Each week we feature one cool tool that can help make your life easier as a WordPress builder.</p>



<h2>You Deserve a Terminal That Goes at Warp Speed</h2>



<p>This week I stumbled onto <strong>Warp</strong>, <a href="https://www.warp.dev/">a new terminal for Mac, Windows, and Linux</a> that uses “GPT-3 powered <a href="https://docs.warp.dev/features/ai-command-search#:~:text=Command%20Search%20-%20Warp%20Documentation&text=AI%20Command%20Search%20converts%20natural,See%20how%20it%20works%20here).">AI search</a> will convert natural language into executable shell commands.” They had me at AI! They tout that “It’s like <strong>Github</strong> <strong>Copilot</strong> but for the terminal.” If that isn’t enough, Warp also takes a different approach to the command line user experience by making it act more like a text editor than your traditional terminal application. It has a nicer visual history with commands separated into “blocks” of content for easier viewing, and there's some more advanced theming than <strong>iTerm</strong> or <strong>Hyper</strong> have. They also have an upcoming feature to share a permalink of your session with your team. That’s gonna be so awesome it’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0">sure to go plaid</a>!</p>
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<h2><strong>Quick Links</strong></h2>



<ul><li><strong>Otto</strong> answers <a href="https://poststatus.com/is-there-a-maximum-length-to-wordpress-user-passwords/">Is there a maximum length to WordPress user passwords?</a> (<strong>Stack Exchange</strong>) <a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/364624/is-there-a-maximum-length-to-user-passwords" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">READ →</a></li><li><a href="https://poststatus.com/copyright-selfie-monkeys-and-the-hand-of-god/">Copyright, Selfie Monkeys, and the Hand of God</a> (From the <strong>Open Source Initiative</strong>&#8216;s <a href="https://deepdive.opensource.org/podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">podcast series on AI</a> and open source) <a href="https://deepdive.opensource.org/podcast/copyright-selfie-monkeys-the-hand-of-god/">LISTEN →</a></li><li><strong>Brian Coords</strong> went on <strong>WP Builds</strong> to talk about <strong>WP-Notify</strong>: <a href="https://wpbuilds.com/2022/09/01/294-how-might-we-fix-the-wordpress-notifications-problem/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Revisiting the Notifications Problem</a>. <a href="https://wpbuilds.com/2022/09/01/294-how-might-we-fix-the-wordpress-notifications-problem/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">LISTEN →</a></li></ul>
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<p>&#8220;A traditional slider isn&#8217;t a good fit for a news website for a couple of reasons,&#8221; PublishPress founder Steve Burge said. &#8220;First, publishers want a display that they can update easily. Second, they can be worried about the performance slowdown from a slider. </p>



<p>&#8220;We aim to tackle those problems head-on. To solve the first issue, we plan to expand dynamic content features of MetaSlider so you can easily pull in fresh content. And secondly, we&#8217;ll focus on the speed of MetaSlider, so you don&#8217;t have to worry about a slow site.&#8221;</p>



<p>Burge said PublishPress will use MetaSlider as a platform for building a suite of image tools. As part of the sale, the company has also acquired <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ml-slider-lightbox/">MetaSlider Lightbox</a>, which has 10,000 active installs, and a photo gallery that&#8217;s in a beta version.</p>



<p>&#8220;There will be more [tools] to come,&#8221; Burge said. &#8220;Most of my favorite publishers also have beautiful photography with their stories. From big WordPress publishers such as <a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/">Outside Magazine</a> to small start-ups such as <a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/">TheNarwhal</a>, the photos often add as much as the text. We hope to build tools to help publishers showcase their images.&#8221;</p>



<p>Burge said the sale of MetaSlider started with a Twitter DM. He had never spoken with the Extendify team before but said the process was &#8220;quick and easy&#8221; because all the data was &#8220;clean and professionally organized.&#8221; </p>



<p>&#8220;The MetaSlider plugin is almost 10 years old, and in the last few years it was maintained by a couple of companies,&#8221; Burge said. &#8220;It was previously owned by the team behind UpdraftPlus and WP-Optimize. You can still see similarities in the orange color scheme between MetaSlider, UpdraftPlus, and WP-Optimize.&#8221; </p>



<p>Extendify took on the plugin as a side project but it was never a core product for their company.</p>



<p>&#8220;They were excited about our desire to invest in MetaSlider to ensure that it remains a great plugin for WordPress users,&#8221; Burge said. &#8220;After some recent high-profile handovers went badly, we’ve seen sellers do careful due diligence on who they sell to.&#8221;</p>



<p>Burge could not share any financial details of the acquisition but said the sale price was based strictly on revenue even though the MetaSlider plugin has nearly a million users.</p>



<p>&#8220;In most sales, the number of active installs is a bonus rather than a driving factor,&#8221; Burge said. &#8220;It’s not uncommon, particularly for older plugins, for 1% or less of active installs to convert to paying customers.&#8221;</p>



<p>MetaSlider has a Pro version that PublishPress will continue sell and the plugins will remain as a standalone brand focused on images. They will not be included in the <a href="https://publishpress.com/plugins/">PublishPress plugin bundle</a>. Burge said users can expect MetaSlider to continue at the same price but with more features.</p>



<p>&#8220;The business model won’t change and the Pro version will support future development on the plugin,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At the moment, there’s only a single Pro version based on the number of sites. That won’t change in at least the next few months as we focus on adding more features and giving users more value for their money.&#8221;</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 22 Sep 2022 20:46:20 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:34;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>Nagpur City is getting ready to host the 4th WordCamp now that the pandemic has passed.</p>



<p>This year, we are welcoming 300 people across two parallel tracks, followed by a contributor day.</p>



<p>The call for speakers is open on the WordCamp Nagpur website. <a href="https://nagpur.wordcamp.org/2022/call-for-speakers/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Visit here to apply as a speaker.</a></p>



<p>Join us at WordCamp Nagpur to learn, share, and have fun with the Central India WordPress User Groups.</p>



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<p>If you're interested in joining the training team, it's OK if you're not a trainer. You can help take notes, edit, and review. If you are a subject matter expert, take a look at the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/faculty-program/">faculty program</a>.</p>



<p>Join one of the Training Team meetings on Tuesdays at 7 AM UTC and 4:00 PM UTC.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>&#8220;We didn’t want this to be a huge change that would disrupt a user’s workflow, but instead a light reskin that focuses on bringing user experience improvements to the Field Group editor,&#8221; Poulson said.</p>



<p>&#8220;The team have done a great job with the new design, improving all the ACF plugin admin screens from the Field Group editor to the Tools page.&#8221;</p>



<p>The reskinning delivers the following improvements: </p>



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<li>Improved experience adding new fields to a Field Group</li>



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<p>Version 6.0 also includes <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/whats-new-with-acf-blocks-in-acf-6/">ACF Blocks Version 2</a>, a feature included in ACF PRO. It allows developers to use a PHP-based framework for developing custom block types. </p>



<p>&#8220;ACF 6.0 contains a new block versioning system, allowing you to opt in to new versions which will change things like the markup and structure of ACF Blocks in both the backend and frontend, and may require updates to your theme to support,&#8221; Poulson said.</p>



<p>&#8220;This next generation of ACF Blocks brings us much closer to the native block experience, while still giving you the PHP based templating language you know as a WordPress developer.&#8221;</p>



<p>ACF users were encouraged to see that the plugin is still moving forward after having changed hands twice in the past two years. Delicious Brains <a href="https://wptavern.com/delicious-brains-acquires-advanced-custom-fields-plugin">acquired ACF</a> from its creator Elliot Condon in June 2021. By November of that year, Delicious Brains was <a href="https://wptavern.com/acf-solicits-lifetime-license-holders-for-contributions-urging-them-to-purchase-annual-subscriptions">soliciting the plugin&#8217;s Lifetime License holders for contributions</a> via email, urging them to purchase annual subscriptions. Seven months later, Delicious Brains sold off ACF and four other products to WP Engine, rattling customers who were concerned about the plugin&#8217;s lack of innovation and its stability in the hands of a large hosting company.</p>



<p>Poulson, who continued on with WP Engine to support Delicious Brains&#8217; products after they were acquired, said the next thing on the roadmap is adding the ability to register custom post types and taxonomies in the UI and improvements to how field types are selected.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 22 Sep 2022 02:58:53 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:38;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<div class="has-background has-theme-palette-8-background-color wp-block-post-excerpt"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt">The 6.1 Beta 1 release was briefly delayed a day but is now available. You can get familiar with what's coming in 6.1 with the release by helping test the new features. Please give some consideration to Hugh Lashbrooke's proposal for faster course development on the Training Team with video-based courses. </p></div>


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<div id="kt-info-box_b3b811-01" class="wp-block-kadence-infobox"><div class="kt-blocks-info-box-link-wrap kt-blocks-info-box-media-align-left kt-info-halign-left"><div class="kt-blocks-info-box-media-container"><div class="kt-blocks-info-box-media kt-info-media-animate-none"><div class="kadence-info-box-icon-container kt-info-icon-animate-none"><div class="kadence-info-box-icon-inner-container"><span class="kt-info-svg-icon kt-info-svg-icon-fe_arrowUpCircle"></span></div></div></div></div><div class="kt-infobox-textcontent"><h2 class="kt-blocks-info-box-title"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/08/10/proposal-stop-merging-experimental-apis-from-gutenberg-to-wordpress-core/">WordPress 6.1 </a>Beta 1 &#8211; Help Test</h2><p class="kt-blocks-info-box-text"><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f469-1f3fe-200d-1f4bb.png" alt="👩🏾‍💻" class="wp-smiley" /> <strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/09/wordpress-6-1-beta-1-now-available/">WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 Now Available</a></strong><br /></strong><br /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f920.png" alt="🤠" class="wp-smiley" /> <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/09/21/help-test-wordpress-6-1/">Help Test WordPress 6.1</a><br /><br /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f30f.png" alt="🌏" class="wp-smiley" /> <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2022/09/06/announcement-wordpress-translation-day-2022/">Announcement: WordPress Translation Day 2022</a><br /><br /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f469-1f3fb-200d-1f3eb.png" alt="👩🏻‍🏫" class="wp-smiley" /> <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/09/21/proposal-faster-course-development-with-video-based-courses/">Do you prefer video courses when learning WordPress?</a> <strong> </strong><br /><br /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4da.png" alt="📚" class="wp-smiley" /> <strong>Survey:</strong> <a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/individual-learner-survey/">How did you learn WordPress?</a><br /><br /></p></div></div></div>



<h2 id="h-news">News</h2>



<ul><li><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/09/wordpress-6-1-beta-1-now-available/">WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 Now Available</a></strong></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/09/21/help-test-wordpress-6-1/">Help Test WordPress 6.1</a></li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/09/dropping-security-updates-for-wordpress-versions-3-7-through-4-0/"></a><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/09/episode-39-contributor-stories-live-from-wordcamp-us/">WP Briefing: Episode 39: Contributor Stories Live from WordCamp US!</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/09/18/wordcamp-us-contributor-day-2022-recap/">WordCamp US Contributor Day 2022 Recap</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2022/09/06/announcement-wordpress-translation-day-2022/">Announcement: WordPress Translation Day 2022</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/09/20/action-requested-vote-for-organizing-diverse-inclusive-events-workshop-date-and-time/">[Action requested] Vote for “Organizing Diverse & Inclusive Events workshop” date and time</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/09/20/wordpress-events-organizer-training-americas-timezones-version/">WordPress Events Organizer Training (Americas Timezones Version)</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-core"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core">Core</a> </h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/20/wordpress-6-1-beta-1-delayed/">WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 delayed</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/19/a-week-in-core-september-19-2022/">A Week in Core – September 19, 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/16/whats-new-in-gutenberg-14-1-15-september/">What’s new in Gutenberg 14.1? (15 September)</a></li></ul>



<h3 id="h-meetings">Meetings</h3>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/21/core-editor-chat-summary-21st-september-2022/">Core Editor chat summary: 21st September 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/20/dev-chat-agenda-september-21-2022/">Dev Chat agenda, September 21, 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/20/editor-chat-agenda-21st-september-2022/">Editor Chat Agenda: 21st September 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/19/developer-blog-editorial-group-september-1-2022/">Developer Blog Editorial Group – Meeting Notes September 1, 2022</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-documentation"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/docs">Documentation</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/09/19/documentation-team-update-september-19-2022/">Documentation Team Update – September 19, 2022</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2022/09/20/agenda-global-wordpress-marketing-team-meeting-september-21-2022/">Agenda, global WordPress Marketing Team meeting, September 21, 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2022/09/20/notes-global-marketing-meeting-september-14-2022/">Notes: Global Marketing Meeting, September 14, 2022</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-mobile">Mobile</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2022/09/19/call-for-testing-wordpress-for-ios-20-8/">Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 20.8</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2022/09/19/call-for-testing-wordpress-for-android-20-8/">Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 20.8</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/09/20/mobile-team-update-september-20th/">Mobile Team Update – September 20th</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/openverse/2022/09/20/community-meeting-recap-20-september-2022/">Community Meeting Recap (20 September 2022)</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/performance/2022/09/14/announcing-the-performance-team-reps/">Announcing the Performance Team Reps</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/20/performance-team-meeting-summary-20-september-2022/">Performance team meeting summary 20 September 2022</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-plugins"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/plugins">Plugins</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/09/20/plugin-review-team-19-sept-2022/">Plugin Review Team – 19 Sept 2022</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-project"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project">Project</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/09/19/wcus-2022-qa/">WCUS 2022 Q&A;</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-test"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test">Test</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/09/15/fse-program-testing-call-17-guiding-the-gutenberg-gallery/">FSE Program Testing Call #17: Guiding the Gutenberg Gallery</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/09/20/test-team-update-19-september-2022/">Test Team Update: 19 September 2022</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-themes"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes">Themes</a></h2>



<ul><li><strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/09/12/testing-and-feedback-for-using-block-based-template-parts-in-classic-themes/">Testing and Feedback for using block based template parts in classic themes</a></strong></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/09/20/themes-team-update-september-20-2022/">Themes team update September 20, 2022</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-training"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training">Training</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/individual-learner-survey/">How did you learn WordPress?</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/09/21/project-proposal-content-localization/">Project Proposal: Content Localization</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/09/21/proposal-faster-course-development-with-video-based-courses/">Proposal: Faster Course Development with Video-Based Courses</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/09/19/meeting-agenda-for-september-21-2022/">Meeting Agenda for September 20, 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/09/16/team-profile-badges/">Team Profile Badges</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/09/14/training-team-meeting-recap-for-september-13-2022/">Training Team Meeting Recap for September 13, 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/09/14/discussion-reimagining-the-training-team-contributor-roles/">[Discussion] Reimagining the Training Team contributor roles</a></li></ul>



<h3 id="h-online-workshops">Online Workshops:</h3>



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<h2 id="h-wptv">WPTV</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.tv/category/year/2022/">Latest WordPress TV videos</a></li></ul>
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<p>Versions 13.1 &#8211; 14.1 of the Gutenberg plugin will be rolled into core for 6.1. This includes features like improved block placeholders, more design tools for blocks, fluid typography, improvements to editor preferences and new modal interfaces, the use of block-based template parts in classic themes, locking settings for inner blocks, and more.</p>



<p>If you have the Gutenberg plugin installed, then you already have access to many of these features and may have been part of the testing process if you have reported bugs.</p>



<p>The bulk of the improvements in 6.1 are for the editor (700+ enhancements and bug fixes), but the rest of the core components also have <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=6.1&group=component&max=500&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=component&col=version&order=priority">250 tickets</a> that will make it into the next release. These include improvements to build/test tools, new error logging and hooks for wp-cron.php, new oEmbed support for Google Data Studio and Pocket Casts, REST API debug mode, new introduction on Permalinks Setting screen, various Site Health improvements and more.</p>



<p>WordPress 6.1 is also set to introduce the highly anticipated new default theme, Twenty Twenty-Three, with <a href="https://wptavern.com/wordpress-announces-10-style-variation-selections-for-twenty-twenty-three-theme">10 style variations</a> contributed from WordPress&#8217; community of designers.</p>



<p>The easiest way to report bugs is to post in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/">Alpha/Beta area</a> in the support forums. More experienced testers should search through <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/tickets/major">known bugs</a> and <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket">open a ticket on WordPress Trac</a>. Check out the <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/09/wordpress-6-1-beta-1-now-available/">Beta 1 release post</a> for a full rundown of the highlights coming in 6.1. </p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:42:52 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:40;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:92:"Gutenberg Times: Block-Based Template Parts: A Happy Medium Between Classic and Block Themes";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:35:"https://gutenbergtimes.com/?p=22179";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:73:"https://gutenbergtimes.com/block-based-template-parts-for-classic-themes/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13756:"<p>I was one of the early adopters of the block editor as a developer. Despite the flak that the Gutenberg plugin was catching before it was merged into core WordPress, I could see the potential. Yes, I could see the bugs, the inconsistent UI, and every other thing that was &#8220;wrong&#8221; about it around four or five years ago.</p>



<p>But there was a vision for the future of theming that I latched onto.</p>



<p>At the time, there was a bit of a rumor floating around that theme authors would eventually be able to allow users to edit any part of their theme with the block editor. It&#8217;d work similarly to sidebars. Developers would register &#8220;block areas,&#8221; and users could drop whatever content they wanted in them.</p>



<p>That was <em>the</em> vision. It was the future of theming that I, along with several other developers, expected to see in the year or so following the block system&#8217;s launch in WordPress 5.0. It was a concept that sold us&#8212;<em>hook, line, and sinker</em>&#8212;on this newfangled editor all those years ago. It was such a simple but brilliant idea. We would finally consolidate some of the competing APIs, such as shortcodes and widgets, into a single standard. And themers would be dropping these block areas all over the place for highly-flexible themes.</p>



<p>Of course, not everything played out according to the timeline in my head. However, WordPress 6.1 is finally introducing this feature in the form of <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/42729">block-based template parts</a>.</p>



<p>Frankly, I had nearly forgotten about it over time. I&#8217;ve already been firmly on block-theme wagon for well over a year, and the thought of going back and building a classic theme just to use this feature didn&#8217;t excite me quite as much as it once would have.</p>



<p>However, I still know that it is one of the most vital features for the theming community to land in WordPress. There are many reasons that developers have not made the full jump to block theming. It is not the ideal tool for every project yet, and that is an OK place to be. Whatever the reason, this is another tool for gradually adopting FSE features without going all in.  It allows developers to retain control over their top-level, PHP-based templates and decide which specific areas they want to expose to users as block <em>capable</em>.</p>



<p>In some ways, block-based template parts may represent a stable medium for a while or even a new class of themes, those that are neither entirely classic nor block. It is the middle ground that the theming community has long needed.</p>



<p>Perhaps it will even put the <a href="https://masterwp.com/the-imaginary-block-vs-classic-battle-in-wordpress/">classic vs. block battle</a> to rest, at least for the theming community. <em>Do themers really have to choose between being &#8220;all in&#8221; or &#8220;all out&#8221;?</em> No. No, they do not. Maybe that happy middle ground has been a long time coming, but it has been a priority for the project. We&#8217;ve seen that with the inclusion of block-based menus and widgets, theme-support additions, <code>theme.json</code> support, and now template parts.</p>



<h2>Putting Theory into Practice</h2>



<p>I began drafting this post before I ever tested the feature out within an actual classic theme. It sounded like everything I wanted years ago, at least in theory, but a question remained. <em>Did it hold up in practice?</em></p>



<p>The only way to find out was to grab a classic theme and convert part of its front-end output to a block-based template part. Fortunately, Twenty Twenty-One was already using PHP-based template parts, so it offered a starting point.</p>



<p><strong>Note:</strong> This post is not a full tutorial on using block-based template parts in classic themes. I encourage readers who want to dig deeper into the technical aspects to read the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/09/12/testing-and-feedback-for-using-block-based-template-parts-in-classic-themes/">call for testing</a> on the Make Themes blog.</p>



<p>Most theme authors are aware of how template parts work in WordPress. Essentially, they are smaller templates (i.e., parts) that are included within larger ones. This can be anything from a header to footer or sidebar to comments form. There are no hard-and-fast rules, and the decisions about which parts exist come down to the theme authors themselves.</p>



<p>To use block-based template parts in classic themes, developers must add support for them via <code>functions.php</code>:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-javascript">add_action( <span class="hljs-string">'after_setup_theme'</span>, <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">function</span>(<span class="hljs-params"></span>) </span>{
    add_theme_support( <span class="hljs-string">'block-template-parts'</span> );
} );</code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-16"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">JavaScript</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">javascript</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>This creates a new &#8220;Template Parts&#8221; item under the &#8220;Appearance&#8221; admin menu:</p>



<img />Initial template parts screen when no parts are registered.



<p>Out of the box, there will be nothing for users to do. However, once new parts are added, users will be able to edit them.</p>



<p>For my first true test of this feature, I decided to replace Twenty Twenty-One&#8217;s header template part. Headers are often the most complex pieces of a website design, so it will not be the ideal starting point for every theme author making this transition. However, I was pretty successful in replacing Twenty Twenty-One&#8217;s default header with a block-based version.</p>



<p>After adding support for <code>block-template-parts</code>, into the theme setup function in <code>functions.php</code>, I created a new <code>parts/header.html</code> file and proceeded to recreate the basic branding and navigation menu sections directly in the editor:</p>



<img />Recreating Twenty Twenty-One&#8217;s header as a block template part.



<p>After getting the look I wanted (or, at least, close enough), I copied the block code from the editor into <code>parts/header.html</code> and deleted my customizations.</p>



<p>Then, in the theme&#8217;s <code>header.php</code> file, I replaced the following line of code with my own:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-xml"><span class="php"><span class="hljs-meta">&lt;?php</span> get_template_part( <span class="hljs-string">'template-parts/header/site-header'</span> ); <span class="hljs-meta">?&gt;</span></span></code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-17"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">HTML, XML</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">xml</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>The new code was a call to the block-based template part, which would load the <code>parts/header.html</code> file (or the user-customized version):</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-xml"><span class="php"><span class="hljs-meta">&lt;?php</span> block_template_part( <span class="hljs-string">'header'</span> ); <span class="hljs-meta">?&gt;</span></span></code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-18"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">HTML, XML</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">xml</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>I would love to exclaim, &#8220;<em>Voila</em>!&#8221; and call it a day. I would love to say that this was a simple one-and-done action, but developers know it is never as straightforward as that. Most classic themes were not built to handle block output outside of the content area. Twenty Twenty-One is no different. I had to make some other changes to actually make this work.</p>



<p>The first thing was removing a max-width set by the Twenty Twenty-One&#8217;s <code>assets/css/style-editor.css</code> file that was keeping full-width blocks from stretching across the editor. So, I cut this bit of code from the file:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-css"><span class="hljs-selector-class">.wp-block</span> {
    <span class="hljs-attribute">max-width</span>: <span class="hljs-built_in">var</span>(--responsive--aligndefault-width);
}</code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-19"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">CSS</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">css</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>I also needed to add layout support via <code>theme.json</code>. Because the theme didn&#8217;t include this file, I created it and kept the settings as simple as possible using Twenty Twenty-One&#8217;s existing custom CSS properties:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-json">{
    <span class="hljs-attr">"version"</span>: <span class="hljs-number">2</span>,
    <span class="hljs-attr">"settings"</span>: {
        <span class="hljs-attr">"layout"</span>: {
            <span class="hljs-attr">"contentSize"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"var( --responsive--default-width )"</span>,
            <span class="hljs-attr">"wideSize"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"var( --responsive--alignwide-width )"</span>
        }
    }
}</code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-20"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">JSON / JSON with Comments</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">json</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>These were just quick fixes to ensure that the system worked. Each theme will be a bit different and each theme author will have some obstacles to overcome in development.</p>



<p>For a better user experience, I also defined my header template part via <code>theme.json</code>. This allowed me to create a internationalized version of its user-facing title. So, the final version of my JSON file became:</p>


<pre class="wp-block-code"><div><code class="hljs language-json">{
    <span class="hljs-attr">"version"</span>: <span class="hljs-number">2</span>,
    <span class="hljs-attr">"settings"</span>: {
        <span class="hljs-attr">"layout"</span>: {
            <span class="hljs-attr">"contentSize"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"var( --responsive--default-width )"</span>,
            <span class="hljs-attr">"wideSize"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"var( --responsive--alignwide-width )"</span>
        }
    },
    <span class="hljs-attr">"templateParts"</span>: [
        {
            <span class="hljs-attr">"name"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"header"</span>,
            <span class="hljs-attr">"title"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"Header"</span>,
            <span class="hljs-attr">"area"</span>: <span class="hljs-string">"header"</span>
        }
    ]
}</code></div><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-21"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code language:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">JSON / JSON with Comments</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">json</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small></pre>


<p>This last bit is not a requirement, but it does create a better all-around experience. Theme authors shouldn&#8217;t skip it.</p>



<p>I&#8217;m not sure how well block-based template parts will truly work without also opting into some <code>theme.json</code> support. At minimum, layout settings are likely recommended. This is why it is vital that theme authors start testing before WordPress 6.1 launches. These little tips and tricks must become a part of our collective knowledge so that we can share and help one another.</p>



<h2>Was the Feature All That I Thought It Would Be?</h2>



<p>Despite a couple of natural hiccups from having to change some style-related bits in the theme, it was a success. For good measure, I tested a few other template parts and felt good with the results. The process would have been much easier with one of my own themes, something I was intimately familiar with. However, I chose Twenty Twenty-One because it is more accessible to the WordPress extender community.</p>



<p>There are so many ways that themers can utilize this once WordPress 6.1 lands (or <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/09/wordpress-6-1-beta-1-now-available/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">you can start now using Beta 1</a>). For example, an easy win is making an editable &#8220;404 page content&#8221; part. This is one of those areas that has long required developers to either build custom solutions for or just leave it to users to directly edit PHP files.</p>



<p>Theme authors can replace sidebars, headers, and footers. They can allow end-users to edit archive page queries. Or, go even more ambitious and create block-based template parts for everything but the outer structure of the front end. There are no right or wrong answers. Developers have the flexibility to choose the path that&#8217;s best for them and their users.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:09:15 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:14:"Justin Tadlock";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:41;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:51:"Post Status: New Features to Test in Gutenberg 14.1";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:32:"https://poststatus.com/?p=123001";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:62:"https://poststatus.com/new-features-to-test-in-gutenberg-14-1/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:897:"<p>A reminder from <strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> about the importance of your help <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/gutenberg-testing/">testing Gutenberg</a> 14.1 in advance of the WordPress 6.1 release:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>If you have the current Gutenberg (plugin) release installed, you can use block template parts without adopting everything that comes with block templates. For example, you can allow a user to edit and build a header with blocks without exposing them to the entire block template system. This offers a new gradual adoption pathway for sites with classic or hybrid themes and new ways to explore full site editing features for agencies that need testing and feedback ahead of WordPress 6.1’s release on November 1st.</p></blockquote>
<p>This article was published at Post Status — the community for WordPress professionals.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:00:22 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:10:"Dan Knauss";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:42;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:54:"WordPress.org blog: WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 Now Available";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:35:"https://wordpress.org/news/?p=13495";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:70:"https://wordpress.org/news/2022/09/wordpress-6-1-beta-1-now-available/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:8431:"<p>WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing.</p>



<p><strong>This version of the WordPress software is under development</strong>. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended that you test Beta 1 on a test server and site.&nbsp;</p>



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<p>You can test WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 in three ways:</p>



<p><strong>Option 1: </strong>Install and activate the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin (select the “Bleeding edge” channel and “Beta/RC Only” stream).</p>



<p><strong>Option 2: </strong>Direct download the <a href="https://wordpress.org/wordpress-6.1-beta1.zip">Beta 1 version (zip)</a>.</p>



<p><strong>Option 3:</strong> Use the following WP-CLI command:</p>



<p><code>wp core update --version=6.1-beta1</code></p>



<p>The current target for the final release is November 1, 2022, which is about six weeks away.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Additional information on the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-1/">6.1 release cycle is available</a>.</p>



<p>Check the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/">Make WordPress Core blog</a> for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/dev-notes+6-1/">6.1-related developer notes</a> in the coming weeks detailing all upcoming changes.</p>



<h2><strong>Keep WordPress bug-free – help with testing</strong></h2>



<p>Testing for issues is critical for stabilizing a release throughout its development. Testing is also a great way to contribute. If you have never tested a beta release before, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/09/21/help-test-wordpress-6-1/">this detailed guide</a> is a great start.</p>



<p>Testing helps make sure that this and future releases of WordPress are as stable and issue-free as possible. Anyone can do it – especially great WordPress community members like you.</p>



<p>Want to know more about testing releases like this one? Read about the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/">testing initiatives</a> that happen in Make Core. You can also join a <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-test/">publicly-accessible channel</a> on the <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/">Making WordPress Slack workspace</a>.</p>



<p>If you think you have run into an issue, please report it to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/">Alpha/Beta area</a> in the support forums. If you are comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, you can <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket">file one on WordPress Trac</a>. This is also where you can find a list of <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/tickets/major">known bugs</a>.</p>



<p>To review features in the Gutenberg releases since WordPress 6.0 (the most recent major release of WordPress), access the <em>What’s New In Gutenberg</em> posts for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/16/whats-new-in-gutenberg-14-1-15-september/">14.1</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/01/whats-new-in-gutenberg-14-0-31-august/">14.0</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/08/17/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-9-17-august/">13.9</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/08/04/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-8-3-august/">13.8</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/07/20/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-7-20-july/">13.7</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/07/07/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-6-6-july/">13.6</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/06/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-5-22-june/">13.5</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/06/10/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-4-8-june/">13.4</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/26/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-3-0-may-25/">13.3</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/12/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-2-may-11/">13.2</a>, and <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/04/28/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-1-27-april/">13.1</a>.</p>



<p>This release contains more than 350 enhancements and 350 bug fixes for the editor, including more than <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=6.1&group=component&max=500&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=component&col=version&order=priority">250 tickets for the WordPress 6.1 core</a>.</p>



<h2><strong>Some highlights</strong></h2>



<p><em>Want to know what’s new in WordPress version 6.1? Read on for some highlights.</em></p>



<h3>Features for end-users</h3>



<ul>
<li>Default theme powered by 10 unique style variations (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/2022/09/07/tt3-default-theme-announcing-style-variation-selections/" target="_blank">learn more</a>)</li>



<li>More design tools in more blocks (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/43241" target="_blank">learn more</a>)</li>



<li>Expanded and refined&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/08/25/core-editor-improvement-refining-the-template-creation-experience/" target="_blank">template experience</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/07/21/core-editor-improvement-deeper-customization-with-more-template-options/" target="_blank">template options</a></li>



<li>More intuitive document settings experience</li>



<li>Header and footer patterns for all themes</li>



<li>Improved quote and list blocks with inner block support</li>



<li>More robust placeholders for various blocks</li>



<li>New modal interfaces and preferences improvements</li>



<li>Automatic navigation block selection with fallbacks and easier menu management</li>



<li>Apply locking settings to all inner blocks in one click</li>



<li>Improvements to the block theme discovery experience</li>



<li>Accessibility updates, with more than 60 resolved tickets</li>



<li>Performance updates, with more than 25 resolved tickets</li>
</ul>



<h3>For developers</h3>



<ul>
<li>Opt into appearance tools to make any theme more powerful</li>



<li>New iteration on the style system</li>



<li>Add starter patterns to any post type (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/07/07/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-6-6-july/#post-type-patterns" target="_blank">learn more</a>)</li>



<li>Evolution of layout options including a new&nbsp;<code>constrained</code>&nbsp;option and the ability to disable layout options</li>



<li>Content lock patterns for more curation options</li>



<li>Expanded support for query loop blocks</li>



<li>Allow the use of block-based template parts in classic themes (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/09/12/testing-and-feedback-for-using-block-based-template-parts-in-classic-themes/" target="_blank">give feedback</a>)</li>



<li>Filter <code>theme.json</code> data (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/filters/global-styles-filters/" target="_blank">learn more</a>)</li>



<li>Fluid typography allows for more responsiveness (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/08/15/testing-and-feedback-for-the-fluid-typography-feature/" target="_blank">give feedback</a>)</li>



<li>Ability to style elements inside blocks like buttons, headings, or captions in <code>theme.json</code></li>
</ul>



<p><em>Please note that all features listed in this post are subject to change before the final releas</em>e.</p>



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<h2>A Haiku for you</h2>



<p>Twenty Twenty-Three<br />10 style variations<br />The new default theme</p>



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<p>Thank you to the following contributors for collaborating on this post: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dansoschin/">@dansoschin</a>,  <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/annezazu/">@annezazu</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/">@cbringmann</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidb/">@davidbaumwald</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/priethor/">@priethor</a>, and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeffpaul/">@jeffpaul</a>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:09:56 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:16:"Jonathan Pantani";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:43;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:60:"Post Status: Making Events Accessible and Websites Under 1kB";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:32:"https://poststatus.com/?p=122603";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:71:"https://poststatus.com/making-events-accessible-and-websites-under-1kb/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1053:"<p>From the <strong>W3C</strong> <strong>Web Accessibility Initiative</strong> (WAI), Here's <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/teach-advocate/accessible-presentations/">a checklist</a> &#8220;for meetings, conferences, training, and presentations that are remote/virtual, in-person, or hybrid.&#8221; </p>



<p>And here's <a href="https://tdarb.org/blog/under-1kb.html">a website with pages under 1kB</a> from <strong>Brad Taunt</strong> who is maintaining a list of sites with a similar page weight called the <a href="https://1kb.club">1kB Club</a>. (Like the <a href="https://1mb.club">1MB Club</a> but smaller.) Interesting how it's hard, if not impossible, to make a good website this simple that's <em>not</em> accessible. </p>



<p>Both of these items come from <a href="https://davidakennedy.com">David A. Kennedy</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://a11yweekly.com/">A11yWeekly</a> newsletter, which is <em>the</em> source for all things accessibility.</p>
<p>This article was published at Post Status — the community for WordPress professionals.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:08:18 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:10:"Dan Knauss";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:44;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:61:"WPTavern: #43 – Nick Ahmann on Testing Plugins With TasteWP";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:48:"https://wptavern.com/?post_type=podcast&p=137988";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:75:"https://wptavern.com/podcast/43-nick-ahmann-on-testing-plugins-with-tastewp";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:33001:"<p>On the podcast today we have <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasahmann/">Nick Ahmann</a>.</p>



<p>Nick works for <a href="https://inisev.com/">Inisev</a>, a company which provides SaaS services for WordPress and other platforms. They have a range of products, but today we focus on <a href="https://tastewp.com/">TasteWP</a>.</p>



<p>TasteWP is a service which allows you to spin up a disposable WordPress install in a matter of seconds. From there, you can use the site for free for two days.</p>



<p>If you’re wanting to test out a plugin or theme, but don’t want the hassle of creating a site on your own hosting, or local machine, TasteWP could be a useful option. It behaves as a normal WordPress website and you’re not limited to what you can install on top of the defaults.</p>



<p>One nice feature we talk about is that you can pre-install plugins and themes from the WordPress repository by modifying the URL when you visit the TasteWP website. This might be useful for educators or plugin developers who want to demo their free plugins, but don’t want to maintain their own infrastructure.</p>



<p>We talk about what promoted Nick to work on this plugin and how he sees it as helping the WordPress community, as well as being a vehicle to make people aware of the products and services that his company offers.</p>



<p>If you’ve ever wanted a WordPress site to play with for a few days, then this episode is for you.</p>



<p>Typically, when we record the podcast, there’s not a lot of background noise, but that’s not always the case with these WordCamp Europe interviews. We were competing against crowds and the air-conditioning. Whilst the podcasts are more than listenable, I hope that you understand that the vagaries of the real world were at play.</p>



<h2>Useful links.</h2>



<p><a href="https://tastewp.com/">TasteWP</a></p>



<p><a href="https://inisev.com/">Inisev</a></p>



<p><a href="https://backupbliss.com/">BackupBliss</a></p>



<p><a href="https://trackandanalyze.com/">Track &amp; Analyze</a></p>



Transcript<div>
<p>[00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley.</p>



<p>Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things, WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case using disposable WordPress installs to test out plugins.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to WPTavern.com forward slash feed forward slash podcast. And you can copy and paste that URL into most podcast players.</p>



<p>If you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m very keen to hear from you, and hopefully get your idea featured on the show. Head over to WPTavern.com forward slash contact forward slash jukebox, and use the form there.</p>



<p>So on the podcast today, we have Nick Ahmann. Nick works for Inisev. A company which provides SaaS services for WordPress and other platforms. They have a range of products, but today we focus on TasteWP.</p>



<p>TasteWP is a service which allows you to spin up a disposable WordPress install in a matter of seconds. From there, you can use the site for free for two days. If you&#8217;re wanting to test out a plugin or theme, but don&#8217;t want the hassle of creating a site on your own hosting or local machine, TasteWP could be a useful option. It behaves as a normal WordPress website, and you&#8217;re not limited to what you can install on top of the defaults.</p>



<p>One nice feature that we talk about is that you can pre-install plugins and themes from the WordPress repository by modifying the URL when you visit the TasteWP website. This might be useful for educators or plugin developers who want to demo their free plugins, but don&#8217;t want to maintain their own infrastructure.</p>



<p>We talk about what promoted Nick to work on this plugin and how he sees it as helping the WordPress community, as well as being a vehicle to make people aware of the products and services that his company offers. If you&#8217;ve ever wanted a WordPress site to play with for a few days. Then this episode is for you.</p>



<p>Typically when we record the podcast, there&#8217;s not a lot of background noise, but that&#8217;s not always the case with these WordCamp Europe interviews. We were competing against the crowds and the air conditioning. And whilst the podcast is more than listable, I hope that you understand that the vagaries of the real world we&#8217;re at play.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re interested in finding out more, you can find all the links in the show notes by heading over to WPTavern.com forward slash podcast, where you&#8217;ll find all the other episodes as well.</p>



<p>And so without further delay, I bring you Nick Ahmann.</p>



<p>I am joined on the podcast today by Nick Arman. Hello, Nick.</p>



<p>[00:03:29] Nick Ahmann: Hi, Nathan.</p>



<p>[00:03:30] Nathan Wrigley: Very nice to have you. We are in the bowels of the Super Bock Arena in Porto. Have you ever been to a WordCamp before? Is this your first?</p>



<p>[00:03:38] Nick Ahmann: No, it&#8217;s my first ever WordCamp.</p>



<p>[00:03:40] Nathan Wrigley: So what brings you? What is it exactly that you&#8217;ve decided?</p>



<p>[00:03:43] Nick Ahmann: Yeah, that&#8217;s a good question. So for one it&#8217;s the networking part. We&#8217;re surely gonna talk about later, we, um, working on a couple of WordPress products and TasteWP, and I wanna spread the word for it. I also just wanna immerse myself in the WordPress spirit and energy. And what&#8217;s a better way than going to a WordCamp?</p>



<p>[00:04:02] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. If you&#8217;ve not been to an event like this before, have you been in the WordPress space for any length of time or is this fresh to you?</p>



<p>[00:04:09] Nick Ahmann: It&#8217;s not entirely fresh. So we&#8217;ve been developing plugins for about six, seven years now. Not me personally, I don&#8217;t have a clue about coding. I&#8217;ve been in the space that time.</p>



<p>[00:04:18] Nathan Wrigley: What is it that you&#8217;re expecting to do? I know you said that there was networking, but do you anticipate going into some of the talks? Is there any of that that interests you?</p>



<p>[00:04:26] Nick Ahmann: Yeah, for sure. I&#8217;m gonna listen to some of the talks. I&#8217;ve noted down one or two. But it&#8217;s just, you know, meeting like random people in the hallway and just getting to know them.</p>



<p>[00:04:36] Nathan Wrigley: The hallway track is totally a thing. It&#8217;s a thing which I think probably a significant proportion of the people who come to these events actually never go into the presentations because they just enjoy the networking aspect and all of that kind of stuff.</p>



<p>We&#8217;re gonna talk today about a service that you offer. It integrates very well with WordPress. It is WordPress. It enables you to get WordPress in a heartbeat. It&#8217;s called TasteWP. What is it? What&#8217;s the point?</p>



<p>[00:04:59] Nick Ahmann: Okay. The point is, basically TasteWP, developed from scratch your own itch situation for us. Working on a couple of plugins and we needed an easy way to test them, different PHP versions and, and WordPress version combinations.</p>



<p>And we never found a tool that really suits us. So we thought, okay, why not create such a tool? And then we thought, okay, uh, instead of just using it internally, why don&#8217;t we just make it a bit nicer and bit more self explanatory, as you would with a tool you only use internally, so that, uh, we can offer it to the public. So TasteWP is a site where you just go, click once and then it spins up a WordPress site where you can play around and test themes and plugins.</p>



<p>[00:05:41] Nathan Wrigley: So I confess that I&#8217;ve had a go and it&#8217;s very quick. I don&#8217;t know if that was part of the initial scoping document, to make it almost instantaneous, but when you go to the webpage and you click the button, there&#8217;s more to it than that, we&#8217;ll get to that, but if you just click the button, I&#8217;m pretty convinced you&#8217;re under five seconds before the site is live.</p>



<p>[00:06:01] Nick Ahmann: Right. Just over three seconds is now the average.</p>



<p>[00:06:04] Nathan Wrigley: Which is pretty incredible given what&#8217;s going on. You know, you&#8217;re spinning up some sort of server in the background and downloading plug-ins and themes. And again, we&#8217;ll get to that and it&#8217;s configurable, but it&#8217;s basically there in the time it takes you to pick up your coffee cup, have a sip, and then return it to the table.</p>



<p>[00:06:18] Nick Ahmann: And let me just mention, I wish I could take credit for it, but it&#8217;s entirely the developers who did this.</p>



<p>[00:06:24] Nathan Wrigley: The, principle though, when we got into talking about coming on the podcast, you talked about it from the community angle. You mentioned that it would be a really nice tool for community to get their hands on. Talk to us about that. Tell us how do you sort of pitch it as a community tool?</p>



<p>[00:06:39] Nick Ahmann: Right. I think it&#8217;s our contribution to the community in the sense that I think everybody who works with WordPress, uh, no matter what the role of function is that they need such a tool. You can talk about the developers who need a site to test their themes and plugins like that was the initial idea, why we needed it. But then beginners who just start out with WordPress, they need an easy way to spin up a site and play around. Also again for developers to demo their products.</p>



<p>So what you can do is, if you, for example, if you&#8217;re in the, um, plug-in directory on WordPress and you on a plugin page, like, wordpress.org/plugins/pluginslug. And in that URL, if you just replace WordPress with TasteWP and click enter, then it spins up a site with that plugin already installed. And that&#8217;s useful, I think for almost everybody, especially also for those who want to try out plugins before using them on the real site.</p>



<p>[00:07:33] Nathan Wrigley: So the principle is, it felt like the best fit for me, at least anyway, was I want to try out this plugin, X plugin over there that I&#8217;ve never used before, and I could create a domain and do all of that and do hosting, or I could set up a local install or something like that, which will work fine, but I want something probably a bit more disposable. I know that I&#8217;m just gonna try it for a few hours perhaps, and then I want that site to go away.</p>



<p>And that&#8217;s what it does because, in the initial offering that you&#8217;ve got, maybe there&#8217;s kinda like a premium upsell that you offer as well, but you are able to use that site for, I believe it&#8217;s 48 hours. Is that right?</p>



<p>[00:08:05] Nick Ahmann: That&#8217;s right. So if you&#8217;re not logged in TasteWP, it&#8217;s good for two days and then expires. And, uh, if you sign up on TasteWP, which is free, then it lasts for seven days and then you can also manage your sites. So you can set up several ones. You can delete an old site set up a new site and so on. And at the moment it&#8217;s all free. And we&#8217;re working on a premium option when basically it won&#8217;t expire then.</p>



<p>[00:08:28] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. So in the future there&#8217;ll be an option to pay and you&#8217;ll be able to keep your site up. Okay. So at the point where you create the site, there&#8217;s multiple options. You could just click the button and you go. And like I said, 2, 3, 4 seconds later, it&#8217;s ready to go, but there&#8217;s a little bit more to it than that. Tell us about the options that are available. What can you configure?</p>



<p>[00:08:43] Nick Ahmann: So there&#8217;s the quick setup option, by the way, you can always trigger it again without being logged in, which makes it very usable. But, if you click on the advanced setup option, then you can determine, okay, which WordPress version do you wanna use the plugin or whatever you&#8217;re testing on. Especially now that WordPress six came out. That was a function, which was used quite a lot because plugin developers want to see, how does the plugin work on WordPress six.</p>



<p>And the same with PHP version. You can set that. You can already select to pre-install certain plugins, themes, that&#8217;s possible too. If you sign up, then you can also create templates, where you can say, okay, this URL should spin up an instance with these plugins and these themes already installed, because sometimes you have plugins which rely on other plugins to be installed as well. So it&#8217;s not just a single plugin, which is installed in, but also others.</p>



<p>[00:09:36] Nathan Wrigley: So essentially the idea here is speed. You&#8217;ve got the option to just, you get to the site, you don&#8217;t need to be logged in if you&#8217;re willing to go for a two day site. You press a button, a couple of seconds later you&#8217;re ready to go.</p>



<p>There are a few things which come along for the ride. In WordPress, we&#8217;re a bit averse to advertising in the admin UI. I know that you have a fairly large, dismissable, ad right at the beginning. It&#8217;s not really an ad. It&#8217;s more sort of, here&#8217;s how it works, because you&#8217;ve already got them to your website. So, you know.</p>



<p>[00:10:05] Nick Ahmann: Actually that&#8217;s a good point. We made that part much leaner. So actually there was this like almost full page introduction, uh, which is now only, if you spin it up in certain ways, we&#8217;re gonna expand it to all the ways you can spin up. It&#8217;s just a box in the top right which says this is a demo site expiring in, um, so and so many hours. But if you talk about advertising to be absolutely honest here, part of the incentive for us to do this was also to promote our own plugins because they are pre-installed as well.</p>



<p>But it&#8217;s not entirely, you know, off topic. There&#8217;s a backup and migration plugin, which many TasteWP users need because whatever they created on TasteWP, they want to take it somewhere else. So they need this migration plug. So it&#8217;s not completely off topic, but that&#8217;s also.</p>



<p>[00:10:48] Nathan Wrigley: Let&#8217;s go into that, because I think that is actually right on topic. So you justifiably, I think in my opinion, if you&#8217;ve offered this service for free, people don&#8217;t have to use it. They can do all the other things that I said earlier about spinning up sites, they can do it that way. Or they can opt for you. What are the things that do come pre-installed? Presumably it&#8217;s the suite of things that you and the company that you are working for offer?</p>



<p>[00:11:09] Nick Ahmann: That&#8217;s three plugins now. It&#8217;s a redirect plug. The backup plugin I mentioned, and the plugin for, uh, showing popups on your site.</p>



<p>[00:11:17] Nathan Wrigley: And they all come pre-installed? Yeah. And I&#8217;m guessing though, it&#8217;s WordPress, I&#8217;m guessing that you could deactivate those?</p>



<p>[00:11:23] Nick Ahmann: Yes, absolutely. You can, actually, there&#8217;s a plugin, which if you run it, it resets. I think it&#8217;s called reset WordPress, I&#8217;m not sure what plugin is. And quite a few people use that because they don&#8217;t want to see our plugins. But most, you know, still see our plugins and that&#8217;s part of the reason.</p>



<p>[00:11:37] Nathan Wrigley: Let&#8217;s talk about the different ways that you can get certain things to be activated. Obviously, if you choose to go in, you can just go to the ad plugin page and add one plugin at a time. But there&#8217;s this nifty thing which you alluded to earlier, which, as soon as I figured out what was going on, because I didn&#8217;t, when I first came across your site. Soon as I figured that out, I thought, okay, that&#8217;s the bit, that&#8217;s where the coin dropped for me.</p>



<p>This is where the utility came in. You can go to TasteWP.com farward slash, and then how do we do the URL from there? Basically, if you add to the URL, something that&#8217;s in the repository, be that a theme or a plugin. So long as you get the plugin slug exactly right, it will become installed. There&#8217;s maybe a little bit that I missed out in the URL there?</p>



<p>[00:12:23] Nick Ahmann: Yes. So the easiest way is if you just go to the plugin in the, uh, WordPress directory, and then replace the WordPress in the URL with TasteWP. So that&#8217;s the quickest, actually that&#8217;s not the quickest way. We also offer a bookmarklet tool, which is a button you can drop to your bookmarklet bar in your browser. And then when you are on a plugin page in the directory, you just have to click it and then already it spins up instance with that plugin installed. And we are also working at the moment on a Chrome extension, which basically does the same thing, but maybe some little more features here and there.</p>



<p>[00:12:57] Nathan Wrigley: So can you concatenate, so can you add, one plugin, two two plugins, three plugins and two themes?</p>



<p>[00:13:03] Nick Ahmann: There&#8217;s more sophisticated ways you can install several plugins and themes, uh, at once.</p>



<p>[00:13:08] Nathan Wrigley: And so the bookmark would then store the information about that because you have essentially kept the URL with all of the bits and pieces that you&#8217;ve added to the end.</p>



<p>[00:13:16] Nick Ahmann: Right so what happens technically? This is one of the few instances where I understand what happens technically, because as mentioned, I&#8217;m not a developer. If you click on the bookmarklet tool, when on the plugin page in the directory, something called HTTP referral, which passes on the URL you&#8217;re currently on to TasteWP. So TasteWP knows from which side you&#8217;re coming from. So we know which plugin you have in mind to have pre-installed. And that&#8217;s what we, what we&#8217;re doing then.</p>



<p>[00:13:41] Nathan Wrigley: Has this been a popular tool? I mean, I dunno how how long it&#8217;s been out. I certainly came across it for the first time ever.</p>



<p>[00:13:46] Nick Ahmann: It&#8217;s, it&#8217;s a good question, how long? I think about a year now. And yes, the usage is increasing strongly. Uh, we getting fantastic feedback from developers, but also non developers. Especially as it&#8217;s free and it can be used without logging that that&#8217;s what people like a lot. Of course, that&#8217;s also prone to risks because you know, people can do dodgy things on these free sites. They can use it for phishing attempts and all of that, because there are no checks, basically, if somebody spins up a site, if it&#8217;s not dodgy. So we have to stay one step ahead in terms of quickly identifying the sites, which could cause trouble. I don&#8217;t know what the percentage is. Most are nice.</p>



<p>[00:14:30] Nathan Wrigley: And what have they been using it for then? Have you got some useful metrics? No, sorry, what are the genuine people using it for? You know, they&#8217;ve got a two day site. Why are they coming to you and trying it it out?</p>



<p>[00:14:41] Nick Ahmann: Okay. So for one it&#8217;s developers who want to try out the plugins. Other big segments are beginners, and also that the teachers. The teachers, WordPress teachers love TasteWP to, for example, give their students some exercises they have to do. So spin up a site in TasteWP and install this plugin and do this, create this theme or whatever it is. So teachers also a big segment.</p>



<p>[00:15:06] Nathan Wrigley: it&#8217;s really curious. I mean, if you delve deeper into it, do you have any sort of data about what people want you to do with it in the future?</p>



<p>[00:15:14] Nick Ahmann: That&#8217;s a good question. I mean, WordPress can be used in so many different ways? I mean, what we focus on now at the moment is a tool for developers. And also there has another reason too. The developers can be our multipliers, because if we convince the developers to use our URL as a demo URL they use it for demoing their products. Then that means that way more users get to know about TasteWP and therefore we have more users. That&#8217;s the focus just to grow and get the word out about TasteWP. Then we can eventually at the end of the, the game we can monetize by offering the pay plans, which we don&#8217;t offer yet.</p>



<p>By the way everything you see at the moment, it will stay free forever. So we will need to justify the, the paid part with additional features we gonna add to the platform.</p>



<p>[00:16:03] Nathan Wrigley: So that&#8217;s curious, and it really hadn&#8217;t occurred to me. So let&#8217;s say that I&#8217;m a plug-in developer and I&#8217;ve got a plugin over on the repo. Am I right in saying this? Is what you&#8217;re saying that I could simply copy and paste the TasteWP URL, put it over on my site and anybody that wants to try out my plugin instantly has access to that, obviously with the caveats that we&#8217;ve mentioned and the plugins that you bring to, to the site as well. But you would be able to use that plugin right off the bat, in couple of seconds?</p>



<p>[00:16:31] Nick Ahmann: Yes.</p>



<p>[00:16:31] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. That makes more sense. Okay. I want to delve deeper into the sort of marketing angle here. Whose idea was it to offer the free service as the gateway if you like to the paid service? Because it feels to me there&#8217;s a lot of development work that went into this and it could have been an absolute flop, and it could have been never used by anybody, never discovered. And then it would&#8217;ve just been a complete waste of time, resources and of that. So who pushed this forward?</p>



<p>[00:17:00] Nick Ahmann: We always knew we needed the tool at least ourselves, which first of all means that even if nobody was interested in it, it was, you know, still worthwhile. The point is if you need it very strongly, there must be other people out there who needed it as well. So that gave us a bit of confidence.</p>



<p>And the free part is basically, our general philosophy in the freemium model. We offer some other tools and services as well. And for all of them the first challenge is to get users and to grow. And the freemium model is great. It&#8217;s great for us because we get the eyeballs, and it&#8217;s great for the users because they can use a lot of features for free.</p>



<p>So it will probably, once we introduce the paid versions, it will still be the typical 98% of people not paying, just free riding, and it&#8217;s the 2% which monetize the whole thing then.</p>



<p>[00:17:48] Nathan Wrigley: Do you have any data on, so at the minute, the paid version doesn&#8217;t exist, so that&#8217;s kind of off the table, but maybe in the future that&#8217;ll be a thing. So at the minute, the upsell is okay. here&#8217;s a free site. You can have it for a couple of days or seven days, depending on you logged in on it. But you mentioned all of the things that you throw in your backup plug in and so on and so forth. How has that conversion gone? Has it been successful? One site is better than no sites, but has it been effective?</p>



<p>[00:18:13] Nick Ahmann: We&#8217;d love to know that, but it&#8217;s so hard to track. We don&#8217;t know because I mean, they then see the plugin on our site, but well, we know it&#8217;s installed there. But the question is do they then find joy in it and also install it on their real actual sites? We have no way to track this. So this is just believing in building our brand and getting some recognition this way. But we don&#8217;t know how effective that actually is.</p>



<p>[00:18:37] Nathan Wrigley: One of the things about the WordPress community is that they are, they&#8217;re ingenious. My experience is they often like to do things for themselves. You know, they like figure things out, solve puzzles, but there&#8217;s also a, a significant part who just like convenience and so on. So I&#8217;m guessing you are aiming it more those people who just like to have something quick and simple and easy. Is that your target market?</p>



<p>[00:18:59] Nick Ahmann: Yes. I mean, naturally because these are advantages that people who have these inclinations tend to use TasteWP. I mentioned the developers earlier. Some developers say, no, they want to have the local environment, which also has of course advantages. It doesn&#8217;t expire. There&#8217;s no space limitation and so on. It comes down also to personal taste very often.</p>



<p>[00:19:18] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. So let&#8217;s go into the paid model, which at the moment doesn&#8217;t exist. So caveat emptor. It might not in any way, shape or form look like what you&#8217;re about to describe, but let&#8217;s press on regardless. If we go for the premium, the upsell, whatever that thing is, you mentioned it will never go away. Are there other things which you are toying with as well?</p>



<p>[00:19:38] Nick Ahmann: Yes. The main one is the space one as well, because the free sites are limited to, I think, one gigabyte, which is not enough for some use cases. But most it is. I mean, one gigabyte is already quite some space. For some, it&#8217;s not enough. So that will be the main premium feature as well. What we don&#8217;t know yet, if we want to go down that route is.</p>



<p>I mean, naturally people want then to host with their own domain. That would mean we would just turn into a hoster and I&#8217;m not sure if we really want to do that. We&#8217;re playing with ideas to team up with a hosting, um, where we then pass on these users who need permanent hosting, not just for testing with their own domain and everything that comes with it, the backups also and everything.</p>



<p>So we are not sure about that yet, but, for sure, even if it&#8217;s just for the testing there quite a few people out there who just want sites which don&#8217;t expire for testing alone. By the way, talking about not expiring, we offer an affiliate program. If you spin up a site, you will see that we offer you, if you invite your friends, and three of them sign up on TasteWP, you get a non expiring site. So that&#8217;s free hosting forever. Because you also mentioned marketing earlier, that&#8217;s another way we try to accelerate the marketing part.</p>



<p>[00:20:50] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, so if I&#8217;ve signed up for the, the paid plan, and I can use it forever. Do I just recycle that one site? In other words, do I get one site which I can just have forever, but I can just, as you said, reset at the beginning? How do I go through that process of expunging it, wiping it clean? Because presumably I&#8217;ve got a URL which is custom to me?</p>



<p>[00:21:10] Nick Ahmann: Yes. At the moment what&#8217;s already possible, you can define the sub domain. So Nathan dot TasteWP, unless it&#8217;s taken already of course. And then once you are, you&#8217;re logged into TasteWP, there&#8217;s a dashboard where you can manage your sites and you can just delete one site, in order to spin up another site. Which then, once we have the paid plans you can use for that. So it&#8217;s not, you&#8217;re not stuck with a one site you created once, but you can just delete it. And then you have the right to set up a new one.</p>



<p>[00:21:40] Nathan Wrigley: Any chance of siloing those. So putting a site away and saying, actually, I&#8217;ll come back to that next week, but this week I need to test this plugin out? So I don&#8217;t wanna remove that one, I just park it for a few days. Can you do that?</p>



<p>[00:21:54] Nick Ahmann: With the pay plans, yes. The paid plans depend on the number of sites you want. So it&#8217;s per site and there will be discount, discounts for if, you know, go for three sites at once. That&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s gonna work.</p>



<p>[00:22:06] Nathan Wrigley: I&#8217;m gonna move away from TasteWP now, and just talk about, well, we&#8217;re at WordCamp Europe. Just gonna talk about what you&#8217;ve gained so far and what you think of it. You mentioned that you&#8217;ve never been to a WordCamp Europe before. I&#8217;ve been to a WordCamp Europe before. But this is quite significantly different to the ones that I&#8217;ve been to. In that this, this is really quite an impressive event.</p>



<p>[00:22:28] Nick Ahmann: I don&#8217;t have any comparison. I didn&#8217;t know really what to expect. So when you say, uh, it&#8217;s different to the other ones.</p>



<p>[00:22:33] Nathan Wrigley: Bigger. Very professional.</p>



<p>[00:22:35] Nick Ahmann: I noticed that at the queue, when I wanted to get my food, that it&#8217;s huge. It was, it took quite a while. I knew that. How many at.</p>



<p>[00:22:43] Nathan Wrigley: The last count I got was 2,700.</p>



<p>[00:22:46] Nick Ahmann: Right.</p>



<p>[00:22:46] Nathan Wrigley: But I don&#8217;t know if that went up.</p>



<p>[00:22:48] Nick Ahmann: Yeah. I mean, I knew it&#8217;s gonna be a lot, but it&#8217;s great.</p>



<p>[00:22:52] Nathan Wrigley: But for a free piece of software, it&#8217;s kind of extraordinary don&#8217;t you think? You know, something which you can download absolutely gratis, completely for free. If you just walk down the corridor, there&#8217;s bespoke signage for every single thing. Every window has got a WordCamp logo on it. Can you imagine the amount of effort by people who are not paid?</p>



<p>[00:23:14] Nick Ahmann: Yeah, that&#8217;s actually, now that you mentioned, I did think, um, when I saw just the, when new map and also just the emails you get ahead of the event, that, okay, this is done quite professionally. But it shows, you know, people may not get paid for it, but it shows the passion really drives quality, right, so.</p>



<p>[00:23:32] Nathan Wrigley: The passion is amazing, but this room that we&#8217;re in is pretty spartan, but the fact that somebody&#8217;s made an effort to make that and put that there. So behind Nick is a great big WordCamp Europe banner. So that in a minute, when the photographers come in, that&#8217;s behind you. There&#8217;s a lot of attention to detail, given that these people are doing it from remote destinations all over the world. And I think it&#8217;s incredible.</p>



<p>[00:23:56] Nick Ahmann: You&#8217;re right.</p>



<p>[00:23:57] Nathan Wrigley: Anything we missed?</p>



<p>[00:23:58] Nick Ahmann: TasteWP is only part of other products. I mentioned the plugins, but there are a couple of others. So if you go to inisev.com, so in is ev is the first two letters of information is everything inisev.com.</p>



<p>[00:24:10] Nathan Wrigley: Okay.</p>



<p>[00:24:10] Nick Ahmann: You&#8217;re just gonna see our whole range of products.</p>



<p>[00:24:13] Nathan Wrigley: Just outline them, just say what they are again.</p>



<p>[00:24:15] Nick Ahmann: Okay. The main other products are follow it, which is a news platform, which also web admins can use to put a subscription form on their site so people can subscribe and then automatically get updated whenever a new post is published. My popups is a service where you can put the so much loved popups and banners. They don&#8217;t have to be annoying if you do it the right way, at the right time. Not right directly in your face, doesn&#8217;t have to be annoying. And also this, cookie notices are covered there as well. So, which are legal requirement, at least in the EU.</p>



<p>So, and we have also a tracking app, which basically allows you to track anything you want in your life. Where manual data entry is not much of a hassle, so you can track things and then analyze correlations. So see if you work out that day, if that has an impact on your sleep and find things out about yourself. So nothing related to WordPress at all.</p>



<p>[00:25:08] Nathan Wrigley: And the one that is the one that probably I would be most drawn to is your back up and restore plugin? What&#8217;s that one called?</p>



<p>[00:25:14] Nick Ahmann: Backup migration.</p>



<p>[00:25:15] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. For reasons that I can&#8217;t quite explain every single time I find a backup and restore plugin, I&#8217;m totally drawn to trying it out, but I haven&#8217;t tried yours out yet.</p>



<p>[00:25:24] Nick Ahmann: You have to, if you appreciate speed, apparently which you do, then please try it out because it is very fast.</p>



<p>[00:25:29] Nathan Wrigley: Well, Nick, thank you for joining me on the podcast. Really appreciate it.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:53:"Post Status: What’s in a Name? HPOS for WooCommerce";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:32:"https://poststatus.com/?p=122824";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:60:"https://poststatus.com/whats-in-a-name-hpos-for-woocommerce/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:826:"<p>Custom Order Tables in WooCommerce are now <a href="https://developer.woocommerce.com/2022/09/14/high-performance-order-storage-progress-report/">High Performance Order Storage</a> (HPOS). It's a technical kind of rebranding that's a really good idea to express not only what custom database tables for orders are but what they do. </p>



<p>According to the timeline for this key feature's development, HPOS will be feature complete and released with WooCommerce 7.1 for user testing on November 8 this year. The final stage will come in August 2023 when &#8220;HPOS becomes the default experience for stores with WooCommerce 8.0&#8221; and &#8220;data synchronization with posts/post-meta tables will be disabled.&#8221;</p>
<p>This article was published at Post Status — the community for WordPress professionals.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 20 Sep 2022 23:56:06 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:10:"Dan Knauss";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:47;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:69:"Post Status: Want WebP by Default Now? Get the Performance Lab Plugin";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:32:"https://poststatus.com/?p=122803";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:79:"https://poststatus.com/want-webp-by-default-now-get-the-performance-lab-plugin/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:307:"<p>If your host doesn't already support WebP by default, you can get it with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/performance-lab/">Performance Lab</a> plugin, thanks to the WordPress Performance Team.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:89:"WPTavern: Design Mode: A Free Portfolio Block Theme Designed for Freelancers and Agencies";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=137950";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:99:"https://wptavern.com/design-mode-a-free-portfolio-block-theme-designed-for-freelancers-and-agencies";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:3604:"<p>The count for WordPress block themes has reached 137. It&#8217;s a far cry from the <a href="https://wptavern.com/wordpress-themes-directory-adds-block-themes-to-filter-menu">500 block themes</a> WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden-Chomphosy set as a goal for 2022, but the number is steadily climbing as theme authors find their footing and discover how quickly block themes can be created.  </p>



<p>Brian Gardner is throwing his hat into the ring again with his latest release. <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/design-mode/">Design Mode</a> is a new block theme created for freelancers and agencies to showcase their services and work. After its release, several of Gardener&#8217;s contemporaries, fellow theme designers, <a href="https://twitter.com/bgardner/status/1571867105728815106">remarked</a> on how refreshing it is to see a block theme with &#8220;real world use cases,&#8221; as so many seem to be geared at bloggers.</p>



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<p>Design Mode features <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Outfit">Outfit</a>, a geometric sans serif Google font, designed by Rodrigo Fuenzalida, a Venezuelan type designer based in Santiago de Chile. It is used for both headings and paragraph text throughout the theme.</p>



<p>The <a href="https://bg.design/design-mode/">demo</a> gives the best idea of what the theme looks like with a curated set of images, titles, captions, menus, and buttons all filled with content. Once installed and activated on a new site, the theme looks very similar to the demo but has a placeholder image instead of the photos used in the demo. This is because the photos  did not have the right licensing for distribution on WordPress.org, but the way it ships has the advantage of giving users a visual blank slate for those featured sections.</p>



<p>Design Mode includes 10 different patterns, which are essentially all aspects of the design deconstructed into parts. There are multiple patterns for sections with cover, heading, text, and button, a query grid with three columns, a section with text and separators, a footer, and a header with site title and navigation perfectly spaced. The theme also conveniently includes a whole page pattern that will instantly reproduce the homepage in the demo.</p>



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<p>Design Mode is an opinionated theme. Users can adjust colors for background, text, and links, and adjust various templates via full-site editing, but it does not come with additional style variations. Personal blogs may benefit from a kaleidoscope of style variations but a well-designed portfolio theme does not usually lend itself well to wide variations in style. In this case fewer options is a good thing that should preserve the simple palette the theme packages. </p>



<p>This is a very fast theme by itself. Gardner reports that Design Mode scores 99 and 100 on Google page speed for mobile/desktop. Depending on what plugins and optimizations a user has active, this theme could be a good choice for performance-conscious WordPress users.</p>



<p>Design Mode is Gardner&#8217;s third block theme in the directory. It bears some similarities to his black and white minimalist <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/avant-garde/">Avant-Garde</a> theme but has more of a friendly showcase vibe that is suitable for personal portfolios, agencies, and any kind of service business that would benefit from an elegant, structured design.</p>



<p>Design Mode is <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/design-mode/">available for free on WordPress.org</a> or inside WordPress via the admin themes browser.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 20 Sep 2022 22:06:11 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:49;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:68:"WPTavern: WebP by Default Pulled from Upcoming WordPress 6.1 Release";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=137990";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:79:"https://wptavern.com/webp-by-default-pulled-from-upcoming-wordpress-6-1-release";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:3791:"<p>Last month, the plan for WordPress to generate WebP images by default for new JPEG image uploads was <a href="https://wptavern.com/webp-by-default-on-hold-for-6-1-after-new-objections-from-wordpress-lead-developers">put on hold for the upcoming 6.1 release</a> after objections from lead developers. The original proposal had been <a href="https://wptavern.com/webp-by-default-merged-into-core-for-wordpress-6-1">merged into core at the end of July</a>, despite significant critical feedback and concerns from WordPress&#8217; developer community. Yesterday, the feature was <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55443#comment:203">reverted</a> in response to Matt Mullenweg&#8217;s recent <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/11/webp-in-core-for-6-1/">post</a> about removing it from core in favor of development as a <a href="https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-renews-push-for-canonical-plugins">canonical plugin</a>:</p>



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<p>I’ve been reading through all the conversation and issues here. I am interested in supporting new formats and improving performance, but I think this change being pushed by default to users when they upgrade to 6.1 is a lot for right now, including with some of the clunky interactions OSes still have around webp (and HEIC!) files.</p>



<p>I’m happy for support for working for webp and HEIC files to stay in&nbsp;core, as we should be liberal in what we accept and work with, but not with the change to convert everything to webp when JPEGs are uploaded.</p>
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<p>During today&#8217;s Performance Team meeting, contributors briefly discussed the revert.</p>



<p>&#8220;We are still trying to figure out what a canonical plugin is exactly, and if that would work for WebP by default,&#8221; Google-sponsored core committer Adam Silverstein said. &#8220;We still have a couple of fixes to land for 6.1 around image quality when WebPs are output (which is still an option you just need a plugin for now).&#8221; </p>



<p>During the previous Performance team meeting Silverstein said Mullenweg&#8217;s post about the feature not shopping was a surprise to the team and that they were working with release leads to better understand concerns in hopes of finding a path forward.</p>



<p>&#8220;I want to acknowledge this is a blow for everyone who worked on the feature (myself included) and at the same time I&#8217;d like to encourage us to focus on how we can move forward given the current position,&#8221; Silverstein said. &#8220;Are there concerns we can address? Does a canonical plugin make sense?&#8221;</p>



<p>Participants in that discussion expressed concerns about getting users to adopt WebP by default if it is moved to its own plugin. It would require strategic rebranding to indicate that it delivers faster images, as most users won&#8217;t be familiar with the WebP format.</p>



<p>&#8220;I think if it remains a &#8216;feature project,&#8217; it makes sense to remain in the Performance Lab plugin &#8211; we don&#8217;t know if moving it out of it would get us more testers (especially since the Performance Lab plugin has 10k+ installs which is a lot for a feature plugin),&#8221; Google-sponsored contributor Felix Arntz said.</p>



<p>&#8220;If the path of a &#8216;canonical plugin&#8217; should be pursued, then of course we would need to take it out, but then the nature of the project would also change.&#8221;</p>



<p>Contributors will decide the next steps for the feature in future discussions. For now, users who were looking forward to WebP uploads by default can still get this feature using the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/performance-lab/">Performance Lab</a> plugin, maintained by WordPress&#8217; Performance Team. </p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:29:17 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}s:4:"type";i:128;s:7:"headers";O:42:"Requests_Utility_CaseInsensitiveDictionary":1:{s:7:"*data";a:8:{s:6:"server";s:5:"nginx";s:4:"date";s:29:"Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:42:54 GMT";s:12:"content-type";s:8:"text/xml";s:4:"vary";s:15:"Accept-Encoding";s:13:"last-modified";s:29:"Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:30:36 GMT";s:15:"x-frame-options";s:10:"SAMEORIGIN";s:4:"x-nc";s:9:"HIT ord 2";s:16:"content-encoding";s:4:"gzip";}}s:5:"build";s:14:"20211221060300";}