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/...
Sustainability Team Proposal - https://make.wordpress.org/project/20...
Gutenberg Phase 3 - https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/...
UX and Polish - https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/pro...
The bird theme https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/...
Gutenberg Examples Repo - https://github.com/WordPress/gutenber...
Quick Post - https://wordpress.org/plugins/quickpost/
Brian's website – https://www.briancoords.com
Aurooba's website – https://aurooba.com
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:43 Remembering the Site Editor
00:01:50 Remembering the TT3 Theme Release
00:03:34 What are WordPress themes now?
00:06:20 Our WordPress "Pre-Phase 3" Wishlist
00:08:00 A Unified Dashboard
00:10:11 The track record of extensibility in WordPress
00:14:08 Block Editor UI Nice-to-haves
00:15:56 What's a "power user"?
00:17:21 User Onboarding and Default Themes
00:19:26 The Query Loop Block
00:20:46 Writing Code Instead of Using UI
00:21:41 The Different Types of Developer Documentation
00:26:59 WordPress Scripts and Build Processes
00:32:43 Classic and Hybrid WordPress
00:33:41 Shortcodes are still out there
00:37:24 Communication and Feedback in the Community
