The WordPress theme repository reaches an important milestone: its first 1000 available block themes.
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Program transcript
Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community.
In this episode, you’ll find the information from October 21st to 27th, 2024.
The round number has been reached: the first 1000 block themes are now available in the WordPress repository.
The first block theme was Armando, released on December 28, 2020, created by Carolina Nymark. In October 2023, there were 536 themes, and since January 2024, it has grown by 457. This means that 1000 themes have been created in nearly 1000 days, since the launch of WordPress 5.9.
Speaking of blocks, version Gutenberg 19.5 includes a strong focus on the Zoom experience, making interaction more user-friendly, enhancing the top bar and keyboard usage.
There are also changes in editing and writing modes, the use of Block Bindings in widgets, and the visibility icon.
WordPress 6.7 has already entered its release candidate phase, which means that development or changes to features have been closed, and only bug fixes can be proposed until November 11, when the code will be frozen for its build and release on November 12.
This means that the Field Guide has been published with all the changes included, which consist of over 300 tickets, with 87 improvements and functionalities, as well as nearly 450 enhancements, more than 450 fixes, and 55 accessibility adjustments in the editor, and it is already available in the translation system.
The Themes team has announced a review of keyword stuffing in titles. In these cases, the situation will be discussed with the theme author and alternatives will be proposed until a change is made.
The Training team is considering introducing training elements from Learn WordPress into the introduction given after the first installation of WordPress. Currently, there is a link in the WordPress menu, and there are plans to include references in the help box or welcome guide.
The Community team has communicated to the social media managers that access to accounts should be centralized in the global password manager. When a significant time passes between one WordCamp and another and teams change, having the accounts linked to the global email will help with recovery.
Additionally, it has been decided to temporarily pause the shipment of promotional products (swag) for events like WordCamp and Meetup due to the lack of a sustainable global shipping system.
Pending requests will be closed, and organizers who wish to obtain swag can print materials locally using the available source files.
The BuddyPress team has released a maintenance and security version 14.2.1, which fixes three bugs and patches a security hole in the Take Photo functionality.
And finally, this podcast is distributed under a Creative Commons license as a derivative version of the podcast in Spanish; you can find all the links for more information, and the podcast in other languages, at WPpodcast .org.
Thanks for listening, and until the next episode!
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