The Make WordPress has also received a refresh alongside the recently revamped Photo Directory. The theme, developed by the Meta and Design teams, has been available for users to preview for a few weeks and has now been implemented.
What is Make WordPress?
Make WordPress is the focal point for contributing to WordPress. It encompasses various teams of contributors working collaboratively to improve the WordPress project in different areas. It provides updates with regard to recent developments, news, meetings, and so on.
Key components of Make WordPress
Make WordPress is organized into teams focusing on specific aspects, including:
- Core: Develops and maintains the WordPress software.
- Design: Focuses on the user interface.
- Mobile: Concerned with the WordPress app for iOS and Android.
- Accessibility: Focuses on maintaining accessibility across the project.
- Polyglots: Focused on the translation of WordPress.
- Support: Offers user support through the support forums.
- Documentation: The team is responsible for creating and maintaining documentation related to the project.
- Themes: Works on the default themes and theme review process.
- Plugins: The plugin review team focuses on reviewing the submitted plugins and maintains the plugin repository.
- Community: Builds and supports local WordPress communities and events like WordCamps.
- Meta: Focused on improving and maintaining the WordPress.org website and its infrastructure.
- Training: The team provides learning resources like tutorials and workshops.
- Test: Focuses on testing new features and bug fixes
- TV: Concerned with maintaining the WordPress.tv initiative.
- Marketing: Promotes WordPress through marketing initiatives.
- CLI: The contributors maintain CLI, the official command line tool for WordPress.
- Hosting: The team focuses on improving user experience across hosting environments.
- Tide: Focused on identifying PHP compatibility and test errors/warnings in the directory.
- Openverse: The team maintains the Openverse, a search engine for openly licensed media.
- Photos: The team moderates the WordPress Photo Directory
- Core Performance: Concerned with the performance of the WordPress Core.
- Sustainability: The team aims to integrate sustainable practices into all aspects of the WordPress community and its processes.
- Media Corps: A new experimental project focused on WordPress marketers and media members.
- Playground: Works on the Playground project.
What’s Been Updated?
A Redesigned homepage
The most striking change of the refresh is the all-new block-based homepage. Additionally, the hero section features new text content alongside its refreshed design.
Here’s the refreshed homepage.
This was how the homepage looked like on the old theme.
Handbook update
As per the announcement post, the handbook design now adheres to a three-column layout and this layout is similar to the one that is on Developer Resources and Documentation.
Here’s the new three-column layout:
The old layout of the handbook.
A redesigned meeting calendar
The meeting calendar has received a much-needed update. The meeting calendar hasn’t been updated since 2020—or at least that’s what the sources suggest.
This was the layout of the old meetings calendar.
Here’s the new refreshed meeting calendar for comparison.
Nick Diego clarified that the main goal was to introduce a block-based homepage and this update is not a complete redesign, does not alter how Make WordPress functions, and does not address any content-related issues, “This refresh was not a complete redesign…..The primary goal was to introduce a block-based homepage, update the overall design with style improvements, and make the sites visually consistent with the rest of WordPress.org. The refresh did not fundamentally change how Make WordPress functions or address any content-related issues that might have existed prior.”
If you spot any bugs with the new theme or have suggestions, you can report them on GitHub by adding an issue or on Trac.