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. A full transcript of the episode is available on the website. Watch the video podcast on YouTube and subscribe to our channel and newsletter (https://viewsource.fm/subscribe) to hear about episodes (and more) first! 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 00:00:00 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