Description
Season one moves closer to an ending as Aurooba and Brian share their biggest wish list items for modern WordPress development. With a focus on both User Experience and Developer Experience, they cover topics like extensibility, documentation, and user onboarding.
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Turbo-Admin - https://turbo-admin.com/
Performance Report - https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/05/25/wordpress-6-2-server-performance-analysis-summary/
Sustainability Team Proposal - https://make.wordpress.org/project/2023/05/30/proposal-establishment-of-a-formal-wordpress-sustainability-team/
Gutenberg Phase 3 - https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/24/phase-3-collaboration/
UX and Polish - https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/96
The bird theme https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/06/introducing-twenty-twenty-two/
Gutenberg Examples Repo - https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg-examples
Quick Post - https://wordpress.org/plugins/quickpost/
Brian's website – https://www.briancoords.com
Aurooba's website – https://aurooba.com
(00:00) - Introduction
(00:43) - Remembering the Site Editor
(01:50) - Remembering the TT3 Theme Release
(03:34) - What are WordPress themes now?
(06:20) - Our WordPress "Pre-Phase 3" Wishlist
(08:00) - A Unified Dashboard
(10:11) - The track record of extensibility in WordPress
(14:08) - Block Editor UI Nice-to-haves
(15:56) - What's a "power user"?
(17:21) - User Onboarding and Default Themes
(19:26) - The Query Loop Block
(20:46) - Writing Code Instead of Using UI
(21:41) - The Different Types of Developer Documentation
(26:59) - WordPress Scripts and Build Processes
(32:43) - Classic and Hybrid WordPress
(33:41) - Shortcodes are still out there
(37:24) - Communication and Feedback in the Community
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