Jamie Marsland joins as the Head of WordPress YouTube to oversee content creation.
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Program transcript
Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WordPress Podcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community.
In this episode, you’ll find the information from August 19th to 25th, 2024.
Jamie Marsland, a well-known YouTuber for his videos on WordPress, has been recruited by Automattic to become the Head of WordPress YouTube, responsible for the WordPress Community’s YouTube channel.
It was first announced that YouTube content would be enhanced, thanks to the Nonprofit YouTube Partner Program that WordPress belongs to. Since the videos were synchronized with WordPress TV in October 2022, the channel’s growth has been substantial; this growth and management will be led by Jamie following the closure of the marketing team a few months ago, which left social media management behind.
Jamie himself announced from his Twitter account that he was joining the Automattic team and that “it is a real privilege to help share your WordPress stories and showcase the incredible work you’re all doing,” leaving the door open for projects and work to be sent to him to be promoted through the channel.
The ultimate goal is for him to oversee the creation of high-quality content, ensuring that the channel remains an important resource within the WordPress community.
WordPress 6.6.2 is on its way and will arrive on September 10 with several fixes. This version will primarily focus on fixing bugs from the WordPress 6.6 release and other critical issues that may be found.
The Core team has announced that WordPress will update jQuery to version 4.0 in a future release, which, based on timing, could be WordPress 6.8. This change is part of the ongoing effort to keep the platform up to date with the latest technologies and improve performance, security, and compatibility.
The update includes improvements to the API, removal of deprecated features, and changes to jQuery’s default behavior, which will require developers to review and update their custom scripts to avoid compatibility issues.
Regarding Twenty Twenty-Five, the default color palette, font families, spacing settings, and font size presets have been added to the theme.
More changes are expected as templates and patterns are created, although an initial version of the site headers has already been added, and work has begun on footers, the 404 template, some block patterns, and default templates for the homepage, individual posts, pages, archives, and search, thanks to the more than 20 contributors who have participated so far.
The Performance team has 23 tickets in progress for WordPress 6.7, some of which are already completed, such as automatic sizes for lazy-load, or are being worked on, such as systems to reduce CLS or improvements in the calculation of image size attributes.
The Community team announces a significant change in post-event surveys, replacing CrowdSignal with Jotform. This change is in response to the need for a multilingual solution that allows attendees to complete surveys in their language, improving global inclusion. Additionally, between the end of 2024 and early 2025, translations for local event and WordCamp surveys will be implemented.
The change also includes the possibility for event organizers to collaborate in customizing surveys and accessing results while maintaining confidentiality, so local communities are invited to participate in translating the surveys and standardizing the questions.
And finally, this podcast is distributed under a Creative Commons license as a derivative version of the WordPress Podcast in Spanish; you can find all the links for more information, and the podcast in other languages, at WordPress Podcast .org.
Thanks for listening, and until the next episode!
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