What's new for developers? (December 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/1PNTcp8uxjZm8vyPmwl1y2t17gYzGccMj98pXg-U-S_Y/edit?usp=sharing

Author: @ryanwelcher

[github-actions]

Heads-up @bph @adamziel @bgrgicak @pbking @mikachan @kathrynwp @jonathanbossenger @alexapeduzzi: 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

[ryanwelcher]

Ready for first review.

[ryanwelcher]

First review was done by @bph

[ndiego]

I have completed the second review. Just flagged a few minor things.

[bph]

Just in case...

Pre-publishing checklist: (updated 1/29/2024)

• Post Title and subheaders in sentence case
• Are Category or Categories selected?
• Are Tags identifies?
• Is there an explicit Excerpt?
• Are all images files uploaded to the media library
• Do all images have an alt-text?
• For TOC us the Pattern under Developer Blog > Table of contents
• Assign or upload a featured image
• Props added? (See Guidelines)
• add copy for a social post as comment to this issue (example)
  🙌 Publish! 📗

Post-publishing checklist

• add Props for reviews to #props channel in WP Slack (Example) (use Slack handles)
• Add the label "post to social" to the issue
• close the issue with a comment to link to the published post
• close the accompanying discussion with the link to the published post.

[ryanwelcher]

Social copy:

Catch up on what’s coming next for Core, Gutenberg, and WordPress Playground in the last edition of What's New for Developers for 2024

Published What’s New for Developers? (December 2024)