Dev Blog editorial meeting summary, September 4, 2025

Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) meeting which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting on Slack

• Meeting facilitated by @marybaum and @areziaal 
• Editorial group and other attendees: @marybaum, @areziaal , @greenshady, @annebovelett, @bph, @oglekler, @milana_cap, @webcommsat (async)

Site updates and new posts

Project Board

The Dev Blog is always keen to welcome new contributors.

New published posts

• August 2025, What’s New For Developers with all the new stuff coming in 6.9
  What does the future of WordPress hold? A new adminadmin (and super admin), future APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. discussions, and the usual updates in this monthly roundup
• Registering custom social icons in WordPress 6.9. A new filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. hook is coming in WordPress 6.9. Learn how to use it to register your own services for the Social Icons blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.
• Implementing Namespaces and Coding Standards in WordPress Plugin Development
• Refactoring the Multi-Block Plugin: Build Smarter, Register Cleaner, Scale Easier,
• July 29: Justin’s block.css 

Great month for the Developer Blog, and a big thanks to all the writers, reviewers and all involved.

Features on the Developer Blog by @webcommsat on OpenChannels.fm:

The WordPress Way show highlights the Developer Blog in most shows, and in September had a show completely dedicated to it and helping developers in how to use it, and encouraging contributors and new writers

• Unlocking WordPress Growth: Tips from Developer Blog Experts
  Abha Thakor, Justin Tadlock and Mary Baum explores the WordPress Developer Blog, sharing tips for developers at all levels.

• Learn how to use WordPress Playground for Developers for local development testing and learning
  Abha and Fellyph Cintra explore WordPress Playground, and have been discussing collaborations on using Playground on the Developer Blog, how these can tie in with Training and encouraging testing for 6.9 and later releases.

Project board status

Potential new articles/ posts in progress

Highlighted GitHub discussion on the importance of a useful changelog #393

How to register border radius presets in WordPress 6.9 #394

Snippet: Allowed blocks in editor without impacting site editor #390

Setup a single source of dependencies and build tools for multiple plugins and themes #392

• Suggestion to use this as a case study, rather than a prescriptive post on how to set-up.
• Discussion on promoting individualized set-ups / case studies from different developers to illustrate how they use functionality. It does not have to be the “perfect” setup, but it’s the thing that works for you, which can be helpful for others.

Expecting more articles in October as WordPress 6.9 features become clear.

Reminder: if you are setting up a link to a google document in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ – choose the option to share it for ‘comments’ for anyone who has the link, not ‘edit’ nor ‘view only’.

@bph to move the approved discussions to issue and assign them to writers and add them to the project board. 

@areziaal – plan for a table at WCEH to promote the Dev Blog at its contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., and thanks to help from @welcher.

Posts that need a writer

https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/44/views/1

https://github.com/WordPress/developer-blog-content/issues/259

https://github.com/WordPress/developer-blog-content/issues/217

https://github.com/WordPress/developer-blog-content/issues/269

Thanks for facilitating, @marybaum

Next meeting

The next Developer Bog editorial group meeting will be on October 2, 2025, at 15:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel.

Props to @bph for reviewing the notes.

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