What's new for developers? April 2025
As Justin prefaced the February issue:
This is a rolling discussion for a monthly series that is intended to keep track of the items, PRs, Trac tickets, and Make blog posts that are interesting/important for developers. The goal is to publish a post on the 10th of each month with the previous month's updates.
Everyone is welcome to contribute to this monthly document. If you find something interesting, just create a new reply to this discussion below.
Here's the Google Doc for commenting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11CHI2rp0H1vZHiv7HND9by2MxYsXJ-J3fZ22RQ7xTOs/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.fs1z09gf7igl
Heads-up @bph @adamziel @bgrgicak @pbking @mikachan @kathrynwp @jonathanbossenger @alexapeduzzi: To include your project's news for developers, please add the information or a link as a comment to this issue. Deadline 8th of next month
This is ready for the first review: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11CHI2rp0H1vZHiv7HND9by2MxYsXJ-J3fZ22RQ7xTOs/edit?usp=sharing
cc @marybaum @troychaplin
Pre-publishing checklist
- [x] Post Title and subheaders in sentence case
- [x] Are Category or Categories selected?
- [x] Are Tags identifies?
- [x] Is there an explicit Excerpt?
- [x] Are all images files uploaded to the media library
- [x] Do all images have an alt-text?
- [x] For TOC us the Pattern under Developer Blog > Table of contents
- [x] Assign or upload a featured image
- [x] Props added? (See Guidelines)
- [x] add copy for a social post as comment to this issue (example) 🙌 Publish! 📗
Post-publishing checklist
- [x] add Props for reviews to #props channel in WP Slack (Example) (use Slack handles)
- [x] Add the label "post to social" to the issue
- [x] close the issue with a comment to link to the published post
- [x] close the accompanying discussion with the link to the published post.
This is ready for the first review: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11CHI2rp0H1vZHiv7HND9by2MxYsXJ-J3fZ22RQ7xTOs/edit?usp=sharing
Hey @zzap, thank you for writing this! It's been through two reviews and ready to publish :)
Social copy:
Bringing you important news about the only #WordPress release in 2025. Don't miss the April edition of "What's new for developers?" https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/04/whats-new-for-developers-april-2025/
Published: https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/04/whats-new-for-developers-april-2025/