A presentation at WPCampus 2020 Online by Francesca Marano
Title slide
My name is Francesca
I was the release coordinator of WordPress 5.3 + 5.4
Stakeholders and driving forces
Before the end of 2021 there will be at least 6 more released
WordPress 5.5 August 11 2020 WordPress 5.6 Mid December 2021
Auto updates for plugins and themes: expose the UI of an existing function
It Can Be Done!
Introduction of images lazy-loading
Even if you are not an eCommerce
Driven by the community
Bad. But also some good news.
For higher education
Native XML Sitemaps
Example of an XML Sitemap
My personal concerns
Is the timeline doable?
What will happen to theme shops?
What does it mean for old themes?
But also a lot of resources at work
A bit unknown but yet so exciting
Collaboration
Multilingual Support
But
To contribute selfishly & generously
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch
Thanks!
For the next two years (2020-2021), there are at least seven WordPress releases scheduled. While some features are yet to be determined, there is already a rich and interesting list of enhancements that are planned.
What does the future have in store for the WordPress industry? If you are part of it, you should be aware of what’s in the pipeline for 2020 and beyond and how it could affect you and your business.
Join Francesca, former release co-lead of WordPress 5.4 and 5.4, to hear the latest news and plans from the WordPress project.
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
The blog of the WordPress Core Team
The blog of the WordPress Accessibility Team
The blog of the WordPress Design Team
The Blog of the WordPress Themes Team
Roll out plan to update the jQuery version shipped with WordPress
WordPress Tentative schedule for seven releases between 2020 and 2021
Bird’s eye view on priorities, schedule and phases
Most recent live demo of Full Site Editing
The full-page-editing won’t make all the previous features obsolete, but bring it all into a single user interface so the site owner, blogger, the end user, don’t need to learn all about the various pieces, and just update their content where they want to.
How is WordPress doing so far? What does it mean for Themes developers, what do they need to learn?
All-things about the WordPress Block Editor
Full site editing will change how everyone uses themes, and how we build them. Free, sponsorship encouraged course, to learn how to build block-based themes
As work on Full Site Editing continues, it’s important that communication around the project is made explicit so everyone can follow along appropriately. Each person will have their own unique needs in keeping up with a project of this scale so what follows is more of a catalogue of ways to keep up rather than a recommendation for how to do so.
In late 2018, WPCampus released a request for proposals to conduct an accessibility audit of the WordPress Gutenberg editor.
As of May 2019, all documents are now available.
This audit is intended to help higher education institutions, and the whole WordPress community, make informed decisions about when and how to upgrade to the new editor.
Gutenberg moves every part of the WordPress ecosystem forward. Matt’s post from August 2017 about the next big thing in WordPress
for free. You
can too.