WordPress 5.7 adds a handful of new functions that enables passing attributes, such as async or nonce, to both regular and inline script tag attributes. This creates a path forward for enabling a Content-Security-Policy (or CSP) in Core, plugins, and themes. These new… Continue Reading →

This is the first part of a larger project in cleaning up WordPress admin CSS. In WordPress 5.7, all colors used in the CSS is collapsed to one of 12 blues, greens, reds, and yellows, 13 grays, pure black, and… Continue Reading →

In WordPress 5.7, two main changes affected the WordPress built-in import/export feature. A new export specific filter for post title WP 5.7 introduces creates an export-specific filter for post titles. Since WordPress 2.5 and 2.6, post_content and post_excerpt have both had export-specific filters: the_content_export, and the_excerpt_export,… Continue Reading →

WordPress 5.7 introduces a new feature that allows website administrators to manually send a reset password link to existing users. This can be helpful when users loose their password and cannot use the lost password link for any reason. In… Continue Reading →

WordPress 5.7 introduces a filter-based Robots API, providing central control over the robots meta tag. It furthermore adds a max-image-preview:large directive to the tag by default. The robots meta tag lets you utilize a granular, page-specific approach to controlling how an individual page… Continue Reading →

WordPress 5.7 introduces two additional functions to check if a post is publicly viewable. Previously, the is_post_type_viewable() function was already available to determine if a post type is visible to anonymous users via the publicly_queryable setting when registering the post type. However, it wasn’t… Continue Reading →

The render_block() function is responsible for rendering each individual block into an HTML string. There are several filters available that allow plugins and themes to alter how the block is rendered. pre_render_block: Allows render_block() to be short-circuited, by returning a… Continue Reading →

This devnote summarizes the changes related to the login and registration screens coming in WordPress 5.7. Reset password screen user interface improvements Previously, it was unclear that the displayed password is only being suggested and should be saved by clicking the… Continue Reading →