What's new for developers? (March 2026)

[justintadlock]

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.

Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10F6I1dsf2A934L7upahpgfeSApc9sIht61jC-aigRpQ/edit?usp=sharing

Author: @bph will be writing this month's edition.

[justintadlock]

Good job, @bph! I left a few minor notes.

[bph]

Thank you @justintadlock Appreciate it.

[jonathanbossenger]

Great work, @bph left a few notes, mostly around incline code formatting.

[bph]

Thank you so much @jonathanbossenger great notes...

[github-actions]

Pre-publishing checklist

• Post Title and subheaders in sentence case
• Are Category or Categories selected?
• Are Tags identifies?
• Is there an explicit Excerpt?
• Are all images files uploaded to the media library
• Do all images have an alt-text?
• Are all code blocks using the Code Block?
• For TOC us the Pattern under Developer Blog > Table of contents
• Assign or upload a featured image (Figma templates to get started)
• Props added? (See Guidelines)
  🙌 Publish! 📗

Post-publishing checklist

• add Props for reviews to #props channel in WP Slack (Example) (use Slack handles)
• close the issue with a comment to link to the published post