This Week at WordPress.org (February 27, 2023)WordPress 6.2 is just a few weeks away. It’s time to get testing with Beta 4. Core Performance team has announced the roadmap for this year, including Gutenberg Phase 3 work and more. Do you know the difference between static vs dynamic blocks?

WP 6.2 Beta 4 & Demo, Performance Roadmap, Static vs Dynamic Blocksβ WordPress 6.2 Beta 4
6.2 Live Product Demo
Help Test WordPress 6.2
Proposal: Updates to the WordPress Release Cycle
Core Performance Team Roadmap Published
Static vs. dynamic blocks: What’s the difference?


News* People of WordPress: Hauwa Abashiya * WP Briefing: Episode 50: 3 Interesting Trends from WordCamp Asia


Accessibility* Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: March 3, 2023

Central* Get your tickets for WordCamp Kerala 2023 on March 25th! * WooCommerce sponsors WordPress community events across the globe * Bluehost supports WordPress community events worldwide * Thanks to Automattic for sponsoring community events worldwide * GoDaddy joins the WordPress global community sponsorship program in 2023

Community* ​​Community Team Meeting Agenda for 2 March 2023 * WordCamp Mentors’ March check-in! * Proposal: Modify the Events and News widget to show topic-based meetups worldwide * Suggested update to Events Code of Conduct * Recap of the Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) AMER/EMEA on February 22, 2023

Core * A Week in Core – February 27, 2023 * What’s new in Gutenberg 15.2? (22 February) * Proposal: Updates to the WordPress Release Cycle

WordPress 6.2* WordPress 6.2 Beta 4 Postponed * WordPress 6.2 Beta 3 * 6.2 Live Product Demo * Phase 2, Finale * Hallway Hangout: Performance Improvements for WordPress 6.2 * Roadmap to 6.2 * Bug Scrub Schedule for 6.2 * Early bug scrub schedule for WP 6.2 * WordPress 6.2 Planning Roundup

Meetings* Dev Chat Agenda, March 1, 2023 * Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 1st March 2023 * Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 22nd February 2023

Developer Blog* Static vs. dynamic blocks: What’s the difference? * Intrinsic design, theming, and rethinking how to design with WordPress

Docs* HelpHub and DevDocs redesign request

Hosting* Hosting Team meeting agenda 2023-03-01

Meta* Theme Directory redesign update

Openverse Openverse is now a monorepo * Community Meeting Recap (28 February 2023) Performance Core Performance Team Roadmap Published * Performance Chat Summary: 28 February 2023 * Core Performance Team Update – February 28, 2023

Plugins* Plugin Review Team: 27 Feb 2023

Polyglots* Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – March 1, 2023 (13:00 UTC) * HelpHub and DevDocs redesign request

Project* Proposal: Creating a WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program * Discussion: Ending the Eternal September

Support* Summary for February 23rd Support Meeting

Test* Hallway Hangout: Let’s chat about using Replay.io in the FSE Outreach Program * Help Test WordPress 6.2

Training* Training Team Meeting Recap for February 28th, 2023 * Training Team’s new onboarding program is now live! * Video conferencing options for Online Workshops * Training Team 2023 Goals Setting * What’s new on LearnWP in February 2023

Lesson Plans* டாஷ்போர்டு மேலோட்டம் * மீண்டும் பயன்படுத்தக்கூடிய தொகுதிகள், பிளாக் பேட்டர்ன், டெம்ப்ளேட்க

Online Workshops* Block Themes and WordPress: Live Stream * Block Themes and WordPress: Live Stream * Hallway Hangout: Community Themes Initiative * Live stream: Reviewing developer-focused features in Gutenberg 15.1 and 15.2 * Updating a blog’s design (Informal live stream) – Part 2 * Let’s code: Preventing Common Security Vulnerabilities * WP dev livestream: Building a React app utilising the WP REST API * How to create a website on mobile (Part 1)

Tutorials* How to add and remove a logo and site icon in a WordPress block theme

Courses* Develop Your First Low-Code Block Theme

WPTV* Latest WordPress TV videos


Related News:* PHP 8.2.3 Released! * PHP 8.1.16 Released! * TC39 * Composer 2.5.4

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