As the WordPress 6.5 release date is just around the corner, contributors have been racing to complete work on a few outstanding issues and bug fixes. Two of the most prominent features, Synced Pattern Overrides and the Font Library, have been stuck in critical debates until today when Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy weighed in with an official response and a path forward.
https://wptavern.com/synced-pattern-ove ... rs-release
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The Font Library is Ready for Core
When conversation arose in the Make WordPress Slack last week that the Font Library may not be ready for 6.5, there was a feeling of déjà vu.
The Font Library had already been punted from the last few major releases as the team works to make sure the feature is fully future-proof. Luckily, the decision for 6.5 is that the Font Library will be shipping in core.
A handful of related issues were brought up, but the conversation centered mostly around where fonts would be stored for your WordPress website. The Font Library includes a new directory in wp-content/fonts, at the same level as plugins, themes, and more. Because fonts are uploaded by users and fetched as resources, some contributors felt that they should live inside the wp-content/uploads directory, where other uploads and media are placed, and that their architecture should map more closely to Attachments in WordPress.
On the one hand, it’s a bit of a philosophical debate: are fonts just “uploads” or are they something more fundamental to how we build websites?
“A large motivation behind the font library is to introduce fonts as a first-class object within WordPress—stored, described, and managed in a way that allows us to convey this distinct nature alongside other objects,” Lead Architect Matias Ventura explained in a recent GitHub issue. “So this is fundamentally an architectural decision we are making and not exclusively one of convenience, which aims to position fonts as a concept alongside themes, plugins, languages, and media uploads within wp-content.”
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Synced Pattern Overrides punted, Font Library approved, as WordPress 6.5 nears release
As the WordPress 6.5 release date is just around the corner, contributors have been racing to complete work on a few outstanding issues and bug fixes. Two of the most prominent features, Synced Pattern Overrides and the Font Library, have been stuck in critical debates until today when Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy weighed in with an official response and a path forward.
the article: https://wptavern.com/synced-pattern-ove ... rs-release
core-news: https://make.wordpress.org/core/6.5/
