The Month in WordPress: January 2020<\/p>\n
Following an action-packed December, 2020 is off to a fine start with some new releases and announcements. Read on to find out what happened in the WordPress project in January.<\/p>\n
Gutenberg 7.2<\/a>, the first Gutenberg release of 2020, was deployed on January 8th and included over 180 pull requests from more than 56 contributors. This was followed soon after by Gutenberg 7.3<\/a>. New features include a new Buttons block, support in adding links to Media & Text block images, improvements to the Navigation and Gallery blocks, performance improvements, and accessibility enhancements. These releases also included many additional enhancements, fixes, new APIs, documentation, and more.<\/p>\n Want to get involved in building Gutenberg? Follow the Core team blog<\/a>, contribute to Gutenberg on GitHub<\/a>, and join the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress Slack group<\/a>.<\/p>\n In June last year, a team of contributors proposed<\/a> a feature plugin that would bring standardized XML sitemaps to WordPress Core. Since then, the team has been working to bring this to reality and have now published a working plugin<\/a> to demonstrate this new capability.<\/p>\n The plugin is still in development, but the included features already provide much-needed functionality from which all WordPress sites can benefit. You can install the plugin from your WordPress dashboard or download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Want to get involved in bringing this feature to Core? Follow the Core team blog<\/a>, report any issues you find on GitHub<\/a>, and join the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack group<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Theme Review Team has announced<\/a> that they will be holding bi-weekly meetings in the #themereview channel focused on discussing block-based themes. If you are interested in discussing themes within the context of Gutenberg\u2019s full-site editing framework, this will be the place to do so! The first meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 5, at 16:00 UTC.<\/p>\n Want to get involved with the Theme Review Team or become a reviewer<\/a>? Follow their blog<\/a>, and join the #themereview channel in the Making WordPress Slack group<\/a>.<\/p>\n Have a story that we should include in the next \u201cMonth in WordPress\u201d post? Please <\/em>submit it here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Source: The Month in WordPress: January 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Month in WordPress: January 2020 Following an action-packed December, 2020 is off to a fine start with some new releases and announcements. Read on to find out what happened in the WordPress project in January. Release of Gutenberg 7.2 & 7.3 Gutenberg 7.2, the first Gutenberg release of 2020, was deployed on January 8th and included over 180 pull requests from more than 56 contributors. This was followed soon after by Gutenberg 7.3. New features include a new Buttons block, support in adding links to Media & Text block images, improvements to the Navigation and Gallery blocks, performance improvements, and accessibility enhancements. These releases also included many additional enhancements, fixes, new APIs, documentation, and more. Want to get involved in building Gutenberg? Follow the Core team blog, contribute to Gutenberg on GitHub, and join the #core-editor channel in the [ more… ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[395],"class_list":["post-35355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-wordpress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35356,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355\/revisions\/35356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Proposal for an XML Sitemaps Feature Plugin<\/h2>\n
A New Block-Based Themes Meeting<\/h2>\n
\nFurther Reading<\/h2>\n
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