the month in wordpress – december 2023 – wordpress news

As 2023 came to close, WordPress bid farewell with the much-anticipated State of Word and the 6.5 roadmap, among other exciting updates..   On December, WordPress Matt Mullenweg delivered his State of Word keynote Madrid, Spain, marking the first international edition of the event.   The keynote highlighted last year's milestones and showcased compelling demos, providing glimpse into the upcoming developments for Site Editor, Collaboration phase, and Admin redesign.   Gutenberg 17.2 introduced improvements to the site editing experience, including the ability to drag and drop blocks to the top and bottom of documents and sticky table headers.   Gutenberg 17.3 featured summary of changes in the global styles revision history, updated preferences panel, and new social icon for Gravatar service, along with the development of Phase 3 features...   In this episode, WordPress Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy articulates the vision for ecosystem where knowledge sharing and contributions to open source tools lead to more interconnected and empowered web...   Matrix contributors announced the decision to pause the Making WordPress Slack to Matrix and the factors contributing to it..   The overall passing rates went up from 28.31% to 36.44% on mobile and from 32.55% to 40.80% on desktop, making both WordPress and the web perform better..   In this episode, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy reflects on the recent 2023 State of Word, Spain, and some of the highlights of the work across WordPress open source project...   Thank you to Bernard Meyer, Nicholas Garofalo, and Lauren Stein for contributing to this edition of The Month WordPress..   Read more