Following an action-packed December, 2020 is off to a fine start with some new releases and announcements. Read on to find out what happened in the WordPress project in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gutenberg 7.2<\/a>, the first Gutenberg release of 2020, was deployed on January 8th and included over 180 pull requests from more than 56 contributors. This was followed soon after by Gutenberg 7.3<\/a>. New features include a new Buttons block, support in adding links to Media & Text block images, improvements to the Navigation and Gallery blocks, performance improvements, and accessibility enhancements. These releases also included many additional enhancements, fixes, new APIs, documentation, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to get involved in building Gutenberg? Follow the Core team blog<\/a>, contribute to Gutenberg on GitHub<\/a>, and join the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress Slack group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In June last year, a team of contributors proposed<\/a> a feature plugin that would bring standardized XML sitemaps to WordPress Core. Since then, the team has been working to bring this to reality and have now published a working plugin<\/a> to demonstrate this new capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The plugin is still in development, but the included features already provide much-needed functionality from which all WordPress sites can benefit. You can install the plugin from your WordPress dashboard or download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to get involved in bringing this feature to Core? Follow the Core team blog<\/a>, report any issues you find on GitHub<\/a>, and join the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Theme Review Team has announced<\/a> that they will be holding bi-weekly meetings in the #themereview channel focused on discussing block-based themes. If you are interested in discussing themes within the context of Gutenberg\u2019s full-site editing framework, this will be the place to do so! The first meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 5, at 16:00 UTC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to get involved with the Theme Review Team or become a reviewer<\/a>? Follow their blog<\/a>, and join the #themereview channel in the Making WordPress Slack group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nProposal for an XML Sitemaps Feature Plugin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A New Block-Based Themes Meeting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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