DEV: One Does Not Simply Deploy On A Friday

Welcome to DEV, your fortnightly peek into what’s happening in WordPress.

WordPress is always changing. Quietly, constantly, and occasionally all at once.

DEV is where we try to keep up, and bring you the most interesting bits worth your attention.

Stick around to the end to find out what they’re actually singing in the opening sequence of The Lion King…

In today’s edition:

Plugin submissions are exploding, and the review team is officially outnumbered.
A zero-setup WordPress that lives entirely in your browser storage.
WordPress 7.0 is never late. It arrives exactly when it means to.

Hot Off The Presses: What’s New?

Humorous programmer meme where a man justifies pressing Ctrl + S multiple times, paired with a close-up of a keyboard highlighting the Ctrl and S keys.

So it’s not just me who compulsively presses Ctrl+S 72 times just to make extra, extra, super-duper sure everything is saved?

Yes, I know these days autosave makes this reflex useless. It’s just superstitious by now, like the pigeons that B.F. Skinner trained to superstitiously spin in circles to get food.

But that doesn’t matter. It’s hardwired muscle memory at this point. The fingers of my left hand will continue the endless Ctrl+S twitch until you lower me into my grave.

So, until then, why not Ctrl+S yourself some time and scroll down for a condensed catch-up on what’s new in WordPress?

(Ow… that one hurt.