Wishlist for Modern WordPress Development
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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Aurooba Ahmed
(she/her) Developer building bespoke #WordPress solutions, tools, and blocks. My name is pronounced "oo-ROO-ba" — Default to kindness, folks.
