


<h2>The Squad</h2>



<p>The WordPress 5.7 release comes to you from a small and experienced release squad:&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<ul><li><strong>Release Lead:</strong>&nbsp;Matt Mullenweg (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>matt</a>)</li><li><strong>Triage Lead:</strong>&nbsp;Tonya Mork (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hellofromtonya/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>hellofromtonya</a>)</li><li><strong>Release Coordinator:</strong>&nbsp;Ebonie Butler (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/metalandcoffee/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>metalandcoffee</a>)</li><li><strong>Core Tech Lead:</strong>&nbsp;Sergey Biryukov (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>sergeybiryukov</a>)</li><li><strong>Editor Tech Lead:</strong>&nbsp;Robert Anderson (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/noisysocks/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>noisysocks</a>)</li><li><strong>Design Lead:</strong>&nbsp;Tim Hengeveld (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hedgefield/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>hedgefield</a>)</li><li><strong>Accessibility Lead:</strong>&nbsp;Sarah Ricker (@sarahricke<strong>r</strong>)</li><li><strong>Documentation Lead:&nbsp;</strong>Jb Audras (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>audrasjb</a>)</li><li><strong>Test Lead:</strong>&nbsp;Monika Rao (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/monikarao/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>monikarao</a>)</li></ul>



<p>This release is the reflection of the hard work of 481 generous volunteer contributors. Collaboration occurred on nearly 250 tickets on Trac and over 950 pull requests on GitHub.</p>



<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/7studio/">7studio</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aaribaud/">aaribaud</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/technosailor/">Aaron Brazell</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aaroncampbell/">Aaron D. Campbell</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorbin/">Aaron Jorbin</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aaronrobertshaw/">aaronrobertshaw</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/abagtcs/">abagtcs</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/acerempel/">acerempel</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/activecoder/">activecoder</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ad7six/">ad7six</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/bosconiandynamics/">Adam Bosco</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/">Adam Silverstein</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamboro/">adamboro</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/addiestavlo/">Addison Stavlo</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aduth/">aduth</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrahmadawais/">Ahmad Awais</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/engahmeds3ed/">Ahmed Saeed</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aljullu/">Albert Juh&#233; Lluveras</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/albertomake/">albertomake</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ajlende/">Alex Lende</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexwoollam/">Alex Woollam</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alex27/">alex27</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chemiker/">Alexander Lueken</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexstine/">alexstine</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/allancole/">allancole</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/allendav/">Allen Snook</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/almendron/">almendron</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/amandariu/">Amanda Riu</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ambienthack/">ambienthack</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/amolv/">Amol Vhankalas</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/afercia/">Andrea Fercia</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andraganescu/">Andrei Draganescu</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nacin/">Andrew Nacin</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/anevins/">Andrew Nevins</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/azaozz/">Andrew Ozz</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewserong/">Andrew Serong</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nosolosw/">André Maneiro</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/afragen/">Andy Fragen</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/apeatling/">Andy Peatling</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ankitmaru/">Ankit Panchal</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/annezazu/">Anne McCarthy</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/antpb/">Anthony Burchell</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/antonlukin/">Anton Lukin</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/atimmer/">Anton Timmermans</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/anyssa/">Anyssa Ferreira</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/archon810/">archon810</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aristath/">Ari Stathopoulos</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/passoniate/">Arslan Ahmed</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/artpi/">Artur Piszek</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/maigret/">Aur&#233;lien Denis</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ayeshrajans/">Ayesh Karunaratne</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/bartosz777/">bartosz777</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/basscan/">basscan</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/bduclos/">bduclos</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/becdetat/">becdetat</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pixolin/">Bego Mario Garde</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/scruffian/">Ben Dwyer</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/bernhard reiter/">Bernhard Reiter</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/bernhard-reiter/">Bernhard Reiter</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/bhanusinghkre/">bhanusinghkre</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/birgire/">Birgir Erlendsson (birgire)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/bph/">Birgit Pauli-Haack</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/bobbingwide/">bobbingwide</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/bonniebeeman/">bonniebeeman</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/boonebgorges/">Boone Gorges</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ibdz/">Boy Witthaya</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kraftbj/">Brandon Kraft</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/brentswisher/">Brent Swisher</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/brijeshb42/">brijeshb42</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/burnuser/">burnuser</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/icaleb/">Caleb Burks</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cvoell/">Cameron Voell</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/carike/">Carike</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/carloscastilloadhoc/">carloscastilloadhoc</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/carlosgprim/">carlosgprim</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/poena/">Carolina Nymark</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/celendesign/">celendesign</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cenay/">Cenay Nailor</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ceyhun0/">ceyhun0</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chexwarrior/">chexwarrior</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chipsnyder/">Chip Snyder</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/">Chloé Bringmann</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chouby/">Chouby</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisvanpatten/">Chris Van Patten</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pixelverbieger/">Christian Sabo</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/amethystanswers/">Christina Workman</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cfinke/">Christopher Finke</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/clayray/">clayray</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/claytoncollie/">Clayton Collie</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/codeamp/">Code Amp</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/collizo4sky/">Collins Agbonghama</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/copons/">Copons</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/coreyw/">Corey</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cristinasoponar/">cristinasoponar</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dam6pl/">Damian Nowak</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/danfarrow/">Dan Farrow</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/talldanwp/">Daniel Richards</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mte90/">Daniele Scasciafratte</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvankooten/">Danny van Kooten</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dariak/">Daria</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nerrad/">Darren Ethier (nerrad)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/drw158/">Dave Whitley</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidanderson/">David Anderson</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbaumwald/">David Baumwald</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbinda/">David Biňovec</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dpcalhoun/">David Calhoun</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dlh/">David Herrera</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davecpage/">David Page</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dbtedg/">dbtedg</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dd32/">dd32</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dkarfa/">Debabrata Karfa</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dekervit/">dekervit</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/denisco/">Denis Yanchevskiy</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/denishua/">denishua</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dianeco/">Diane Co</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dilipbheda/">Dilip Bheda</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ocean90/">Dominik Schilling</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/donmhico/">donmhico</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dratwas/">dratwas</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/drewapicture/">Drew Jaynes</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidszabo/">Dávid Szabó</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/e_baker/">e_baker</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/metalandcoffee/">Ebonie Butler</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ediamin/">Edi Amin</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/iseulde/">Ella van Durpe</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ellatrix/">Ella van Durpe</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/erichmond/">Elliott Richmond</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/enej/">Enej Bajgorić</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/enricocarraro/">Enrico Carraro</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/epicfaace/">epicfaace</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/epiqueras/">epiqueras</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ericlewis/">Eric Andrew Lewis</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ebinnion/">Eric Binnion</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ericmann/">Eric Mann</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kebbet/">Erik Betshammar</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/folletto/">Erin 'Folletto' Casali</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/estelaris/">Estela Rueda</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/etoledom/">etoledom</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eventualo/">eventualo</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fabiankaegy/">Fabian K&#228;gy</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/felipeelia/">Felipe Elia</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/flixos90/">Felix Arntz</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mista-flo/">Florian TIAR</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/florianziegler/">Florian Ziegler</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/floriswt/">floriswt</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/francina/">Francesca Marano</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/frank-klein/">Frank Klein</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fullofcaffeine/">fullofcaffeine</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ecgan/">Gan Eng Chin</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/garrett-eclipse/">Garrett Hyder</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pento/">Gary Pendergast</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/geekpress/">GeekPress</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/geekzebre/">geekzebre</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/geoffguillain/">Geoff Guillain</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/georgestephanis/">George Stephanis</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/geriux/">geriux</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gkibria69/">gKibria</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/glendaviesnz/">glendaviesnz</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gmariani405/">gmariani405</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alinod/">Gord</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/greatsaltlake/">greatsaltlake</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gziolo/">Greg Ziółkowski</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/grzim/">grzim</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gumacahin/">gumacahin</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gunnard/">gunnard</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/bordoni/">Gustavo Bordoni</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hansjovisyoast/">Hans-Christiaan Braun</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hardeepasrani/">Hardeep Asrani</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hareesh-pillai/">Hareesh</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hauvong/">hauvong</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hazdiego/">Haz</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/helen/">Helen Hou-Sandi</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/helmutwalker/">helmutwalker</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/tejwanihemant/">Hemant Tejwani</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/herregroen/">Herre Groen</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nonverbla/">hirasso</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hmabpera/">hmabpera</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/howdy_mcgee/">Howdy_McGee</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hsingyuc7/">hsingyuc7</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn/">Ian Dunn</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ianmjones/">ianmjones</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ibiza69/">ibiza69</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/igorradovanov/">Igor Radovanov</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ingereck/">ingereck</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/iprg/">iprg</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ipstenu/">Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/isabel_brison/">Isabel Brison</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ismailelkorchi/">Ismail El Korchi</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/iviweb/">iviweb</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jdgrimes/">J.D. Grimes</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jadeddragoon/">jadeddragoon</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/whyisjake/">Jake Spurlock</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakeparis/">jakeparis</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakubtyrcha/">jakub.tyrcha</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jamesgol/">James Golovich</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/macmanx/">James Huff</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jameskoster/">James Koster</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jnylen0/">James Nylen</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jamesros161/">James Rosado</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/janthiel/">Jan Thiel</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jason_the_adams/">Jason Adams</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/madtownlems/">Jason LeMahieu (MadtownLems)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/viablethought/">Jason Ryan</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jaymanpandya/">Jayman Pandya</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/">Jean-Baptiste Audras</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeffr0/">Jeff Chandler</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jfarthing84/">Jeff Farthing</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeffpaul/">Jeff Paul</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jmdodd/">Jennifer M. Dodd</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jdy68/">Jenny Dupuy</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeremyfelt/">Jeremy Felt</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeremyyip/">Jeremy Yip</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeroenrotty/">Jeroen Rotty</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jessplease/">Jessica Duarte</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/luminuu/">Jessica Lyschik</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joanrho/">joanrho</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson/">Joe Dolson</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joemcgill/">Joe McGill</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joelclimbsthings/">joelclimbsthings</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joen/">Joen Asmussen</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/goaroundagain/">Johannes Kinast</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnbillion/">John Blackbourn</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/">John James Jacoby</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnwatkins0/">John Watkins</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonsurrell/">Jon Surrell</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jrchamp/">Jonathan Champ</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/desrosj/">Jonathan Desrosiers</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonathanstegall/">Jonathan Stegall</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/spacedmonkey/">Jonny Harris</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonoaldersonwp/">Jono Alderson</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joostdevalk/">Joost de Valk</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jordesign/">jordesign</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorgefilipecosta/">Jorge Costa</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jomisica/">Jos&#233; Miguel</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jose64/">Jose Luis</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/accessiblejoe/">Joseph Karr O&#039;Connor</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/">Josepha Haden</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joshuatf/">joshuatf</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joshuawold/">JoshuaWold</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/tai/">JOTAKI, Taisuke</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joyously/">Joy</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jsmoriss/">JS Morisset</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jsnajdr/">jsnajdr</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf/">Juliette Reinders Folmer</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/juliobox/">Julio Potier</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/justinahinon/">Justin Ahinon</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/justinsainton/">Justin Sainton</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jtsternberg/">Justin Sternberg</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kafleg/">kafleg</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kevin940726/">Kai Hao</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/trepmal/">Kailey (trepmal)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/akabarikalpesh/">Kalpesh Akabari</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/karamcnair/">kara.mcnair</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/vyskoczilova/">Karolina Vyskocilova</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryelle/">Kelly Choyce-Dwan</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gwwar/">Kerry Liu</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/tmfespresso/">kimdcottrell</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kirilzh/">Kiril Zhelyazkov</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kburgoine/">Kirsty Burgoine</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ixkaito/">Kite</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kjellr/">Kjell Reigstad</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/knutsp/">Knut Sparhell</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hwk-fr/">Konrad Chmielewski</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/obenland/">Konstantin Obenland</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/xkon/">Konstantinos Xenos</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kurtpayne/">Kurt Payne</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kbjohnson90/">Kyle B. Johnson</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/notlaura/">Lara Schenck</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/laurelfulford/">laurelfulford</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/laxman-prajapati/">Laxman Prajapati</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/leogermani/">leogermani</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/levdbas/">Levdbas</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/litemotiv/">litemotiv</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/lovor/">Lovro Hrust</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/lucasbustamante/">lucasbustamante</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/_luigi/">Luigi Cavalieri</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/lpawlik/">Lukas Pawlik</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/lukecarbis/">Luke Carbis</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/lukecavanagh/">Luke Cavanagh</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/happiryu/">Luke Walczak</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/oellin/">Magali</a>, <a 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<ul><li>0.71% from&nbsp;<a href="https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-partially-combined-market-share#monthly-202001-202101">StatCounter&rsquo;s GlobalStats</a></li><li>1.2% from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.w3counter.com/trends">W3 Counter</a></li><li>0.46% from&nbsp;WordPress.com</li></ul>



<p>StatCounter&rsquo;s GlobalStats record IE11 having dipped below 1.0% for the first time in August 2020, and it has continued declining steadily since then. </p>



<p>The numbers cited in the proposal are similar to those contributors used when WordPress 4.8 officially <a href="https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-8-will-end-support-for-internet-explorer-versions-8-9-and-10">dropped support for IE versions 8, 9, and 10</a> in 2017. These types of browser support decisions are always carefully considered, as they affect more users than one might guess, given the scale of a software project with more than <a href="https://wptavern.com/wordpress-passes-40-market-share-of-alexa-top-10-million-websites">40% market share of all websites</a>. </p>



<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s important to keep in mind that when viewing these statistics in the context of WordPress, these percentages represent tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of users that could potentially be left behind if support for IE11 is dropped,&rdquo; Prieto said. </p>



<p>Most of the people still using IE11 are doing so because of forces outside their control. They may not have the ability to simply download an alternative browser. This is more common for users working inside major institutions like banking, government, and education.</p>



<p>At this point in WordPress&rsquo; history, the benefits for the web seem to heavily outweigh the negative impacts on a small percentage of users who might be affected by lack of IE11 support. Improving the performance of the editor is one driving factor in this decision. Prieto shared stats from <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/27685">an exploration by Gutenberg developer Riad Benguella</a>, where he measured the impact of dropping IE11 support, demonstrating an 84.9 kB (7%)&nbsp;reduction in Gutenberg JavaScript build files.</p>



<p>&ldquo;Dropping support would result in smaller scripts, lower maintenance burden, and decrease build times,&rdquo; Prieto said. </p>



<p>&ldquo;The smaller downloads would positively impact all users, especially those on slower networks, or computing devices. We expect a result of dropping IE11 support to improve performance for the vast majority of users.&rdquo;</p>



<p>Most of those participating in the discussion on WordPress.org are strongly in favor of dropping support for IE11, but a few cautioned that it must be done in a controlled way, with an EOL date announced months in advance. There are some institutions that selected WordPress for their projects based solely on the fact that it offers IE11 support, and they need time to plan a transition.</p>



<p>&ldquo;I can see the crowd cheering for finally getting rid of IE and trust me I&rsquo;ll be the first to pop champagne when that day has finally come,&rdquo; WordPress developer Thomas Kr&auml;ftner said. &ldquo;Still I believe we need to make sure this is done in a slow, controlled and careful way so the effort saved for not supporting IE doesn&rsquo;t backfire with extra, even more hellish work for those that don&rsquo;t yet have the choice to drop IE.&rdquo; </p>



<p>Approximately 16 months ago, Riad Benguella <a href="https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4863">proposed</a> WordPress add a notice to discourage Internet Explorer usage. Shortly thereafter, the Browse Happy API was updating to consider all versions of Internet Explorer as insecure. In the most recent conversation on WordPress.org, contributors suggested taking it a step further and change the notice to state that IE11 support will be dropped in WP-Admin&nbsp;by the end of year. Many shared additional benefits not outlined in the proposal.</p>



<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s lots of things we can&rsquo;t use right now because of the IE11 constraint:&nbsp;CSS&nbsp;Variables, CSS grid, Modern&nbsp;JS&nbsp;are just the 1st things that come to mind,&rdquo; Ari Stathopoulos commented. &ldquo;We would be able to ship smaller files to 40% of the web, so the environmental impact of this change would be quite big, a huge win for our sustainability efforts! 99% of WP&rsquo;s userbase has suffered enough already because of the IE limitation, and removing support for it can really make a dent and urge the few remaining IE users to use a better/newer browser.&rdquo;</p>



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<p><strong>From a natural interest in computers and fixing things as a young woman, Olga Gleckler from St Petersburg, Russia, found WordPress took her on a journey to becoming a successful female tech entrepreneur. On International Women’s Day, we share her story.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p>



<img src="https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2021/03/WCEU-2020-online.jpg?resize=580%2C768&ssl=1" alt="Olga with a WordCamp Vienna t-shirt" class="wp-image-9878" width="580" height="768" />



<h2><strong>Finding your path can take longer than you expect</strong></h2>



<p>From the age of 15, Olga found herself under pressure to find a free place for her professional studies. She said: “I didn’t know how high or low my chances were even if I had very good marks. I could have been just the biggest fish in a small pond. But anyway, I made up my mind to go to technical school.”</p>



<p>On leaving school in St Petersburg with her certificate, Olga felt her knowledge of opportunities was very narrow. She had pictured being an ecologist or guide translator based on the subjects she had been taught at school. There was also an advertising boom in Russia and she began to explore this as a career avenue. She had developed her computer skills and found opportunities to practise by helping her teachers with administrative work.</p>



<p>Though she did not have access to any formal career advice, her journey led her into programming. She said: “The range of technical schools was not wide. I spent four years studying transistor markings, soldering and drawing PCB layouts. Programming courses using Pascal didn&#8217;t do anything useful with it.”</p>



<p>A lack of suitable access to English-language courses made things harder for Olga. She was determined that she would master the language later in her life. In the meantime, she left technical school with an honors degree and improved typing skills.</p>



<p>“I faced it was a wild, unfriendly market. I didn’t know how to recognize a genuine job offer or how to avoid the bad ones. It was difficult and I don’t know how long I would’ve looked for work without help.”</p>



<h2><strong>Think differently to find where you belong</strong></h2>



<p>Olga&#8217;s father worked in an IT company and was able to give her some advice and help with potential introductions. When she was still studying, he suggested her strong technical skills might be useful as a substitute typist. When she finished her studies, he helped her apply for a job updating a legal system on clients’ computers.<br /><br />Six months later, she got a full-time job in the same service department. She liked her position and her clients. However, she was given friendly advice that without a university degree she would not be able to have any further promotions.</p>



<p>At this time, Olga was trying to study PHP from a book. She found it very exciting at first, but a lot of their functions did not give her explanations on how to build something useful. She found when she tried to build practical items from book reading, it did not always make sense and the solutions would often fail.&nbsp;</p>



<p>She said: “It was hard to admit a failure even to myself and it was nagging me for a long time. I had to choose something I could handle, that I was interested in and could afford. It turned out to be advertising.”</p>



<p>She spent most of the family’s holidays on learning sessions during the next six years. Olga recalled: “It was tricky for my husband to make me leave a computer, once I was glued to it, so he bought me my first laptop. English was still hard for me, I got high marks through just memorizing all the words in a textbook and how they should sound.”</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p><strong>Doubting your professional skills can happen when you are at home isolated looking after children. Keeping up your interests is important.</strong></p></blockquote>



<p>Olga’s life took a change after having a new baby and she spent three years doubting her professional skills and her chances of getting a good job. She tried to get back into other interests through studying, baking and drawing, but found ‘the pram was pulling me back’. She found she became very isolated and felt less able to contribute as the family was relying on her husband’s income as she tried to focus on looking forward.</p>



<p>She said: “I was convinced (and saw) that not too many companies wanted a woman in the office, who with a small baby might need lots of leave.”</p>



<p>She finished her education when she returned to work after three years caring for her son. She secured a promotion but with changes in the company’s staffing, things were tense. She found the difficulties there had become more heightened and felt that young female colleagues were treated as ‘pieces of furniture’ by one manager. She did not want to stay in this environment and in a few months time decided to leave.</p>



<h2><strong>Your next chapter may be nearby</strong></h2>



<p>Determined to not repeat this type of experience, Olga looked at the brighter side. She said: “I wanted to be a marketer. Knowing how tricky it is to sell intangibles, I wanted a solid product to work with.”&nbsp;</p>



<p>It turned out to be more difficult to find a job outside traditional IT as a young mother. Some human resource officers advised her to remain within the technology arena.</p>



<p>Olga remained hopeful and continued to study hard. She had many learning experiences along the way, which she hopes others can learn from too. One was setting a low bar to employers. She said: “Companies I worked in wanted to get all publicity and sales increases achieved through deductions from my salary.” This happened once and the next time she was in this situation she asked specifically about the budget before signing up. &#8220;I was assured this would not be the case, but again I found the budget for publicity came out of my wages. It was a tough period of disappointments. So when I was offered a part-time administrative job with basic sick leave, I took it gladly as a reprieve.”</p>



<p>The job was far from home and involved a lot of travelling. Olga spent two to three hours a day on buses with Harry Potter audio books for company. “In these traffic jams, I started to feel English at last and loved it. It gave me a freedom no money can buy. Life was getting better.” </p>



<p>Though the job did not pay highly, it gave her something valuable &#8211; a working website. After her boss and the developer parted company, she was asked to maintain the site. Through some studying and reverse engineering, she discovered how it worked and it gave her an insight into how to write simple websites from scratch.</p>



<p>Olga’s first encounter with JavaScript wasn’t easy: “My first JavaScript calculator almost made me crazy, but I pursued it.”</p>



<p>Quickly she started to get small tasks from friends and relatives, usually to solve some urgent problems and started to meet popular content management systems. One of the first she met with was WordPress. There was an issue in a website theme used by a website which had been changed and not maintained. It took a whole weekend to solve, but she was determined to work it out. Back then, WordPress was ‘just a system’. She didn’t know then how much it was to become part of her life.</p>



<p>Olga spent the next two years in this role. As time went on, she started to feel worried and less satisfied with the work. The last straw for her was a negative statement from her boss, who was not a programmer and who hadn’t seen any of the work done on the website. She felt the approach was unfair as she had done extensive work on the site. She recalls: “I became angry, but it was exactly what I needed to move jobs.”</p>



<p>When Olga was job hunting, she didn&#8217;t feel she had the courage to apply for a developer’s role, despite the learning and work she had already done. So instead she started working on projects where she felt she was more like a ‘seller of box-ready websites’. It was another tough half a year for her with a lot of work, low payment and plans not turning out as she had hoped. On top of long hours, she ended up with pneumonia. She said: “I see now that I was doing a disservice to customers, websites are not a microwave meal &#8211; quick, cheap and dummy. There was no life in the sites without a lot of work which no one was willing to buy. Most of the sites I sold back then died after the first year and they never were truly alive and useful.”</p>



<h2><strong>You need to be brave and have courage</strong></h2>



<img src="https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2021/03/Berlin-2019.jpg?resize=632%2C422&ssl=1" alt="Olga in Berlin wearing the WordPress Code is Poetry lanyard and a WordCamp t-shirt" class="wp-image-9879" width="632" height="422" />



<p>Olga really wanted a developer job but seeking jobs of this type was very frustrating. From the job adverts she found, it felt like most IT companies were asking for geniuses who already knew a lot of technologies and frameworks. She found this very demotivating.</p>



<p>She then found a job offer on a website outside the most popular job portals  and it seemed like a perfect fit. They wanted someone with experience to write from scratch, understand someone else’s code and maintain it, with an ability to translate technical documentation and articles, and make simple designs for printing products. After completing a trial task, she was taken on, and enjoyed a better salary, in a calm environment with good colleagues and without the requirement for a lot of extra hours.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The advert turned out to be a direct ad from one of the sales departments in a technology company. By succeeding in the  task set, Olga had bypassed the Human Resources team which she felt&nbsp;would not normally have considered her.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Her boss agreed to her working remotely most of the time. It solved any potential leave problems which Olga had thought may be an obstacle.&nbsp;</p>



<p>For Olga it had been 14 years since the original decision to become a programmer and it was only the beginning.&nbsp;</p>



<p>After a few years at what she describes as an ‘amazing experience’ in this workplace, Olga felt able to move on to her next challenge as a developer.</p>



<h2><strong>Decision-making can benefit from wider knowledge</strong></h2>



<p>After working with different systems Olga became sure that WordPress is the best CMS for developers and clients. But she was disappointed to find that the ease of use meant that good code was not always a priority for some of the sites she looked at.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“The biggest flaw of WordPress &#8211; it’s so easy to make things work that some may feel they don’t need to bother to do things right, but this becomes a problem later.”</p>



<p>In custom themes for a site, she also saw sites being made and clients left without any further support, or items hard coded when clients actually needed more control to change regularly.</p>



<p>Olga used to rely on examples she could easily find, documentation and search engines to improve her understanding in using WordPress. She discovered that just by searching for a specific feature or a solution, you can miss the whole picture.&nbsp;</p>



<p>She turned to online courses to get more comprehensive knowledge and then started to attend WordPress events, firstly online and then by foot, trains and planes! She discovered a worldwide community that was very much alive. She didn’t know when she started studying online materials and attending discussions that she would end up contributing herself to the <a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/">Learn WordPress</a> platform a few years later.</p>



<p>WordCamps and contributor days became a big part of her life. From her early days attending events and starting out contributing to WordPress, she is an active member of the WordPress.org Global Marketing and Polyglots Teams, and supported the recent WordPress release. She is just beginning her first WordCamp organiser experience, joining WordCamp Europe 2021 on the Contribute Team. </p>



<img src="https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2021/03/St-Petersburg-2018.jpg?resize=632%2C602&ssl=1" alt="Olga next to a banner of WordCamp St Petersburg 2018" class="wp-image-9883" width="632" height="602" />



<p>Olga said: “Through the wider WordPress community, I knew not only where to look but also whom to ask. Most importantly, I found allies who don’t think I’m going crazy by speaking with delight about work, and with whom I share a passion and fondness for WordPress. This is what matters.</p>



<p>“Now, after more than seven years of full time development, I am still enjoying endless learning, frequent discoveries, mistakes and an impassioned wish to do better.”</p>



<p>This and a desire to help others use WordPress.org is part of Olga’s continued contribution to its Support and Marketing Teams, and led her to be involved in the Release Marketing questions and answers in 2020.</p>



<h2><strong>There is no chequered flag on the way</strong></h2>



<img width="632" height="946" src="https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2021/03/Berlin-2019-1.jpg?resize=632%2C946&ssl=1" alt="Olga at WordCamp Europe in Berlin in 2019" class="wp-image-9881" />



<p>The road to freedom and becoming her own boss has not been easy for Olga. It is the path that got her where she is today, and she continues to find joy in it. She retains the lessons she’s learned and is always hungry to learn more.</p>



<p>&nbsp;“I travelled through a very uneven path, with a lot of obstacles and noise, but for me it’s like a kaleidoscope where a little turn presents a new picture, a new “ah-ha” moment, new excitement after seemingly pointless efforts.”&nbsp;</p>



<p>She added: “When in doubt I remind myself about David Ogilvy (generally considered the Founding Father of the modern advertising industry) who tried a lot of things before he struck gold with advertising, and maybe that’s why he did.”</p>



<p>Finally, she learned not only to keep a good spirit and try different things, but also to dare as you move forward.</p>



<h2><strong>Contributors</strong></h2>



<p>Thanks to Abha Thakor (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/">@webcommsat</a>), Nalini Thakor (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nalininonstopnewsuk/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>nalininonstopnewsuk</a>), Larissa Murillo (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/lmurillom/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>lmurillom</a>), Meher Bala (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/meher/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>meher</a>), Josepha Haden (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/">@chanthaboune</a>), Chloé Bringmann (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>cbringmann</a>) and Topher DeRosia (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/">@topher1kenobe</a>). Thank you to Olga Gleckler (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/oglekler/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>oglekler</a>) for sharing her #ContributorStory.</p>



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<p><em>This post is based on an article originally published on HeroPress.com, a community initiative created by </em><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/"><em>Topher DeRosia</em></a><em>. It highlights people in the WordPress community who have overcome barriers and whose stories would otherwise go unheard.</em></p>



<p><em>Meet more WordPress community members in our <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/category/heropress/">People of WordPress</a> series.</em></p>



<p><em>#ContributorStory #HeroPress</em></p>



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<p>It might be hard to imagine a world where &mdash; outside of third-party libraries &mdash; direct contributions to the software are under anything other than the GPL. However, the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/05/dual-licensing-gutenberg-next-steps/">wheels are now in motion</a>. The Gutenberg project, which is the foundation of WordPress going forward, may soon be under both the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 and the Mozilla Public License (MPL) v2.0.</p>



<p>The goal is to allow Gutenberg to be used in proprietary applications, particularly in the mobile space, where it can be a hurdle to ship GPL code.</p>



<p>Mobile Team contributor Maxime Biais <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/23651">proposed the change in July 2020</a>. &ldquo;Gutenberg supports two main platforms, the web and the native mobile apps. The GPL v2.0 license is a blocker for distributing the Gutenberg library in proprietary mobile apps.&rdquo;</p>



<p>At the moment, the WordPress for Android and WordPress for iOS apps use Gutenberg. Both of these apps are also licensed under the GPL, so it is a non-issue for them. However, it is uncommon for mobile apps to use the GPL. Thus, it limits Gutenberg&rsquo;s potential reach.</p>



<p>&ldquo;Rich text editor libraries in the mobile space are lacking,&rdquo; wrote Biais. &ldquo;There is no well known open source rich text editor for Android or iOS. We believe that Gutenberg could be a key library for many mobile apps, but that will never happen with the GPL v2.&rdquo;</p>



<p><a href="https://wptavern.com/wordpress-mobile-engineers-propose-dual-licensing-gutenberg-under-gpl-v2-0-and-mpl-v2-0">The proposal</a> was <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/09/21/proposal-dual-licensing-gutenberg-under-gpl-v2-0-and-mpl-v2-0/">announced on the Make Core blog</a> in September 2020. It garnered three comments. WordPress project lead Matt Mullenweg was in favor of the change, pointing out that it could help Gutenberg become a cross-CMS standard.</p>



<p>&ldquo;Right now it&rsquo;s easy to distribute Gutenberg with web apps that aren&rsquo;t GPL, due to the way browsers link and bundle things, but embedding Gutenberg inside a native app on desktop, iOS, Android, or beyond is not possible unless the entire application is also GPL,&rdquo; <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/09/21/proposal-dual-licensing-gutenberg-under-gpl-v2-0-and-mpl-v2-0/#comment-39803">he wrote</a>. &ldquo;Allowing people the option to embed Gutenberg under the MPL I think will increase its usage outside of WordPress, bring more contributors to the core experience, and continue the Cambrian explosion of blocks that will give Gutenberg users more tools to fully express their creativity and vision.&rdquo;</p>



<p>The problem with switching licenses is that Gutenberg needs permission from every contributor who has added code to the project to make this change. The GitHub repository lists <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/graphs/contributors">721 individual contributors</a> since the project began in 2016. To change licenses, each one must consent because they still own the copyright to their code.</p>



<p>Some of these people may not be involved any longer and not respond to the consent request. Others may refuse &mdash; as is their right. In either case, the Gutenberg team will need to either remove or rewrite the code.</p>



<p>The proposal outlines four stops on the timeline before Gutenberg can be officially dual-licensed:</p>



<ul><li><strong>March 19:</strong> All future contributions will be under both the GPL and MPL.</li><li><strong>April 2:</strong> Seek consent via GitHub from past contributors and contributors from open pull requests.</li><li><strong>Three months later:</strong> Begin removing or rewriting code that cannot be relicensed.</li><li><strong>Future:</strong> Once all removed or rewritten code is squared away, update Gutenberg as a whole to a GPL/MPL dual license.</li></ul>



<p>For a licensing discussion, only a few people have chimed in. However, some have brought up concerns.</p>



<p>&ldquo;WordPress has historically strongly believed in the GPL,&rdquo; wrote core WordPress contributor Aaron Jorbin <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/05/dual-licensing-gutenberg-next-steps/#comment-40851">in the comments</a>. &ldquo;It has gone so far as to call the Four Freedoms of the GPL it&rsquo;s &lsquo;<a href="https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/">Bill Of Rights</a>.&rsquo; And now what is being said is that only sometimes do you get these freedoms. Anyone is welcome to take the code and remove these freedoms. Instead of empowering users, this move is empowering the removal of freedom. To me, this feels like a very pro-business move and a very anti-user one.&rdquo;</p>



<p>The MPL is <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/FAQ/#virality">not considered <em>viral</em></a> in the same way as the GPL. Applications built with GPL-licensed code must allow for the same freedoms or more. App developers can distribute MPL-licensed code as long as it is in a separate file from their proprietary code. This lets businesses restrict parts of the codebase. Users might not have the freedom to use, fork, modify, and share all of an application&rsquo;s code.</p>



<p>Most who have commented on the official threads so far have been excited or OK with the proposal. It can open Gutenberg to a new market. If developers in the mobile space begin using it for their apps, it could bring in fresh talent to the WordPress project as a whole.</p>



<p>&ldquo;Our app sorely lacks a WYSIWYG editor,&rdquo; <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/23651#issuecomment-653512920">wrote Radek Pietruszewski</a>, the tech lead for Nozbe Teams, on the GitHub ticket in July 2020. &ldquo;We had a working implementation on web, but we decided to scrap it because there was no way to port it on iOS and Android. There are pretty much no viable rich text editors for iOS or Android, let alone both. But even then, shipping three completely separate, but somehow compatible editors would be a vast amount of work. And you know yourself, making a good rich text editor from scratch is incredibly hard. It&rsquo;s not something we could do ourselves. Gutenberg could solve this problem for us if it wasn&rsquo;t for the licensing.&rdquo;</p>



<p>How things move forward comes down to the 700+ contributors. Will the Gutenberg team be rewriting swaths of code? Or, will most developers sign off on the license change?</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:"Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:03:16 +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:48;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>I found some spectacular content for the various use cases of the Block Editor, especially for Content Creators and Site Owners,  also new plugins and updates from the WordPress teams. </p>



<p>Enjoy! </p>



<p>Yours, 💕<br />Birgit</p>





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<div class="wp-block-sortabrilliant-guidepost"><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-block-editor-for-content-creators-and-site-owners">Block Editor for Content Creators and Site Owners</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#1-block-editor-for-developers">Block Editor for Developers</a><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#2-testing-word-press-and-gutenberg">Testing WordPress and Gutenberg</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#3-plugins-for-the-block-editor">Plugins for the Block Editor</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#4-word-press-team-updates">WordPress Team Updates</a><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#5-gutenberg-10-1-was-released">Gutenberg 10.1 was released</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#4-word-press-events">WordPress Events</a></li></ul></div>




<h2 id="0-block-editor-for-content-creators-and-site-owners">Block Editor for Content Creators and Site Owners</h2>



<p><a href="https://torquemag.io/2021/03/gutenberg-features/"><strong>19 Gutenberg Features You Might Not Be Aware Of (But Should!)</strong></a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/nschaeferhoff"><strong>Nick Schäferhoff</strong> </a>collected for on the Torque Magazine  a great list of block editor features, I would call the secrete features. Most end users don&#8217;t know about them.  Not all featured mentioned are in core, though. You would need to use the Gutenberg plugins to, for instance, use Blocks in Widgets, the Navigation block, the query block or work with Block Themes. Probably the most current of Listicles post about the block editor. </p>



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<p>In <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/11/core-editor-improvement-new-preferences-experience/"><strong>Core Editor Improvement: New Preferences experience</strong></a>, <strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> describes the new modal for preference settings of your workspace coming to WordPress 5.7. The new interface allows you in a more compact way to toggle on or off General settings, appearance settings, the block manager and remove panels in the sidebar you don&#8217;t need for instance,tags or comments. </p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/joyofwp">Bud Kraus</a></strong>, JoyofWP, has published <strong>two video tutorials on <a href="https://joyofwp.com/topic/using-block-patterns/">using Block Patterns</a> and the <a href="https://joyofwp.com/topic/using-the-block-directory/">Block Directory</a>.</strong> They are quick reminders on how both features work, how you can discover new blocks and how you can integrate them into your workflow as content creators.</p>



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<p>In his post <strong><a href="https://chrislema.com/how-do-i-use-gutenberg-blocks/">How do I use Gutenberg blocks?</a></strong>, <strong>Chris Lema</strong> wrote that with the plugin Blocky, &#8220;I can create what I want, place it where I want, for however long I want.&#8221; and use it  for content upgrades, for upsells, for offers, for announcements and so much more! In his video Lema demos his workflow and in his post also have a few ideas how to apply it to your online business website. </p>



<h2 id="1-block-editor-for-developers">Block Editor for Developers</h2>



<h3 id="2-testing-word-press-and-gutenberg">Testing WordPress and Gutenberg</h3>



<p id="block-8e01da98-000c-4772-b905-62666ce4aac1"><strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> described all the different <a href="https://wptavern.com/user-friendly-methods-for-testing-gutenberg-enhancements-and-bug-fixes">User-Friendly Methods for Testing Gutenberg Enhancements and Bug Fixes</a> on the WPTavern and mentioned the GB Nightly. </p>




<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>



<p><img alt="GitHub all releases" src="https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/bph/gutenberg/total?style=for-the-badge" /></p>




<p>There are times when you want to test single PRs before they are merged into the trunk code base. <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/Paaljoachim">Paal Joachim Romdahl</a></strong>&#8216;s tutorial on <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/2021/03/03/testing-a-gutenberg-pull-request-pr/">Testing a Gutenberg Pull Request (PR)</a>  that has not yet been merged into the plugins code base.</p>



<p>In theory each PR added to the repository will run a build process for this particular code change and other people can test a new feature or a bug fix to gauge if it&#8217;s ready to be merged. </p>



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<h2 id="3-plugins-for-the-block-editor">Plugins for the Block Editor</h2>



<p>There have been a few plugins lately that caught my attention: </p>



<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-patterns-collection/">Block Patterns Collection</a></strong> by&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jyoti_wp"><strong>Jyoti Shukla</strong></a>, a freelance WordPress and React Developer, providing &#8211; for now &#8211; two patterns: for statistics and a combine pattern with Heading, Text and Button blocks. On her blog, Jyoity Shukla writes about JavaScript and WordPress development. </p>



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<p>Developers at Automattic released the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/newspack-newsletters/"><strong>Newspack-Newsletters plugin in the WordPress Repository.</strong></a> With it, you can use the block editor to build newsletters and connect them with Email Marketing Providers, Mailchimp or Constant Contact, right from your WP Admin. You will need an<a href="https://mjml.io/"> API Key from MJML</a>. </p>



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<h2 id="4-word-press-team-updates">WordPress Team Updates</h2>



<p><strong>Matt Chowning</strong> posted about <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/05/dual-licensing-gutenberg-next-steps/"><strong>Dual-Licensing Gutenberg: Next Steps</strong></a> on the Make Core Blog. </p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/03/05/gutenberg-themes-week-of-march-4-2021/">Gutenberg + Themes: Week of March 4, 2021</a>:</strong> The weekly roundup  by <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffikus"><strong>Jeffrey Pearce</strong></a> and the Themes Team on theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg. Please weigh in on the tickets listed  — your voice and feedback are welcome! In this list, I found the list of <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29503">Medium projects by Matias Ventura</a>, that shows that beyond the focus on Full-Site Editing, Global Styles and Site editor, the team is also working on refinements on the block editor especially on Cover, Image, Columns and Gallery blocks, as well as continue working on Reusable blocks. </p>



<h3 id="5-gutenberg-10-1-was-released">Gutenberg 10.1 was released</h3>



<ul><li>Read the release notes: <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/02/whats-new-in-gutenberg-10-1-3-march/">What’s new in Gutenberg 10.1? (3 March)</a> by Nik Tsekouras</li><li>Get the skinny from Justin Tadlock: <a href="https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-10-1-enhances-reusable-blocks-updates-social-icons-spacing-options-and-normalizes-image-block-toolbar">Gutenberg 10.1 Enhances Reusable Blocks, Updates Social Icons Spacing Options, and Normalizes Image Block Toolbar</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/04/core-editor-improvement-need-for-page-post-speed/">Core Editor Improvement: Need for (page/post) Speed</a></li></ul>



<p>The new episode, number <strong>#39 of the Changelog </strong>will come to your favorite podcast app on Monday.  </p>




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<h2 id="4-word-press-events">WordPress Events</h2>



<p><strong>March 8, 2021 7:00 pm&nbsp;–&nbsp;8:30 pm</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://burbswp.com/">Philly&#8217;burbs WordPress Meetup</a></strong><br /><a href="https://burbswp.com/events/event/bringing-a-wordpress-plugin-to-the-marketplace/">Bringing a WordPress Plugin to the Marketplace</a>  with Brad Williams and Corey Salzano</p>



<p><strong>March 16, 2021, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT</strong><br /><a href="https://www.meetup.com/WordPressNYC/"><strong>WordPress NYC Meetup Group</strong></a><br />Fantastic Blocks and Where To Find Them  with Laura Byrne<br />The Three Layers of WP Maintenance with Mervin Hernandez</p>



<p><strong>April 16th – 18th, 2021.</strong>&nbsp;<br /><strong><a href="https://greece.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Greece 2021 Online</a></strong>.<br />The organizer published the&nbsp;<a href="https://greece.wordcamp.org/2021/call-for-speakers/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">call for speakers</a>.</p>



<p><strong>April 16th – 18th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://neo.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Northeast Ohio</a></strong><br /><a href="https://neo.wordcamp.org/2021/call-for-sponsors/">Take a look at the Call for Sponsors</a></p>



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<p>On the<a href="https://wpcalendar.io/online/">&nbsp;<strong>Calendar for WordPress Online Events</strong>&nbsp;</a>you can browse a list of the upcoming WordPress Meetups, around the world, including WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi Builder and Beaver Builder meetups.</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:"Sun, 07 Mar 2021 15:17:51 +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:18:"Birgit Pauli-Haack";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:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>In this episode of <a href="https://poststatus.com/category/draft/">Post Status Draft</a>, David Bisset talks with Angela Jin about WordCamp US 2020. David recorded this interview around the time WCUS normally would have taken place in St. Louis, Missouri. The conference organizers decided to cancel the event months before, due to COVID-19. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.1/72x72/1f637.png" alt="😷" class="wp-smiley" /></p>



<p>Angela has been organizing, starting conversations, and setting policies for WordCamps since she joined Automattic in 2018. She is one of the community organizers for the WordPress open source project and was part of the WCUS 2020 team also.</p>



<p>Then and now, there were questions about what led to the decision to cancel such a major event. Why didn't WCUS become a virtual conference, like WordCamp Europe? What are organizers planning for future WordCamp US events and WordPress education in general? </p>



<p>David sat down with Angela to get a better understanding of the WordPress community and its needs during a pivotal time of change.  Join us as we discuss what the future holds for the conferences, meetups, and other social gatherings we've enjoyed together in the past.</p>







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<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/angelasjin?lang=en">Angela Jin</a> (Twitter)</li><li><a href="https://us.wordcamp.org/2020/">WordCamp US 2020 Official Cancellation Notice</a></li><li><a href="https://poststatus.com/notes/wcus-2020-cancelled/">WordCamp US 2020 Cancellation Q&A; with Organizers</a></li><li><a href="http://learn.wordpress.org">Learn WordPress</a></li></ul>



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