Media Corps Briefing: WordPress 6.6 with Anne McCarthy

The first WordPress Media Corps briefing, held on June 27, 2024, provided WordPress media partners with an overview of the source of truth and updates planned in WordPress 6.6-scheduled for release on July 16, 2024. This session featured Anne McCarthy, Product Wrangler at Automattic and Test Lead for WordPress 6.6, who explained and demoed some of the upcoming features and answered questions from participants.
References from the session:
Links and references:
* WordPress 6.6 Source of Truth: nomad.blog/2024/06/26/wordpre...
* Developer Hours: Editor unification and extensibility in WordPress 6.6: www.meetup.com/learn-wordpres...
* Anne McCarthy video: Bringing a Modern Patterns Experience to Classic Themes: • WordPress 6.6: Bringin...
* Data Views Update - June 2024: make.wordpress.org/core/2024/...
* Posts list powered by DataViews - GitHub Issue: github.com/WordPress/gutenber...
* WordPress 6.6 CSS Specificity: make.wordpress.org/core/2024/...
* Ryan Welcher video: Connecting ACF/Pods to blocks using Block Bindings: • Live Stream June 13, 2...
* WordPress Developer Blog: developer.wordpress.org/news/
* WordPress 6.6 Server Compatibility - GitHub Issue: github.com/WordPress/hosting-...
* PHP Compatibility and WordPress Versions: make.wordpress.org/core/handb...
* DataViews: Forms - GitHub Issue: github.com/WordPress/gutenber...
* DataViews: Extensibility - GitHub Issue: github.com/WordPress/gutenber...
* Try canonical block plugins using the Time to Read block - GitHub Issue: github.com/WordPress/gutenber...
* Proposal for Core Blocks in the Directory - GitHub Issue: github.com/WordPress/gutenber...
Chapters:
00:02 Welcome & introduction
01:53 Source of truth overview
06:45 6.6 callout: Unified editing flow
09:32 6.6 callout: Pattern management for classic themes
12:21 Advancing the new Data Views in the Site Editor
16:22 Individual typography and color variations
18:40 Overrides in synced patterns
22:55 Improvements to grid layout
24:12 Block Bindings API updates
26:02 Rollbacks to auto-updates
26:47 Design tooling upgrades
33:46 Additional features
40:25 Context and status of zoom-out mode
43:51 Q&A portion