What's new for developers? (August 2024)

[justintadlock]

This is a rolling discussion for a monthly series that is intended to keep track of the items, PRs, Trac tickets, and Make blog posts that are interesting/important for developers. The goal is to publish a post on the 10th of each month with the previous month's updates.

Everyone is welcome to contribute to this monthly document. If you find something interesting, just create a new reply to this discussion below.

Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dnwyTlMIZ3vl_JVKwIXHyrkSDwI2HtXS6N_LOC7soF0/edit?usp=sharing

[github-actions]

Heads-up @bph @adamziel @bgrgicak @pbking @mikachan @kathrynwp @jonathanbossenger: To include your project's news for developers, please add the information or a link as a comment to this issue. Deadline 8th of next month

[justintadlock]

Copying this over from the Google Doc since it's not going to land until Gutenberg 19.0, so it should go in the September update:

Heading: Enable heading level curation #63535 curate available heading levels via new attribute levelOptions. Then you can restrict available heading levels via block markup in Patterns and template or modify the attribute programmatically via filters. Code examples in the PR.

[kathrynwp]

The Intermediate Theme Developer Learning Pathway has launched: https://learn.wordpress.org/course/intermediate-theme-developer/

[bgrgicak]

Introducing Offline Mode and PWA Support for WordPress Playground

[ndiego]

Just finished the first review. Looks great!

[justintadlock]

@ryanwelcher handled the second review.

[justintadlock]

Social Copy:

With WordPress 6.6 now released, it's time to look forward to the next major update. Check out the latest changes from the 6.7 development cycle:

https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/08/10/whats-new-for-developers-august-2024/