WordPress is the development toolkit for the web, and HTML is its language. In WordPress 6.2 the HTML API was born in order to re-engineer and re-invigorate its ability to speak and understand that language. It has grown since that release and is changing the way WordPress handles its core functionality as well as how extenders can write their own plugins and themes.
What does having a safe, reliable, and convenient HTML processor mean for WordPress and WordPress sites? What implications are there for site owners? For plugin authors? What is there to look forward to in the next several releases? How does this make WordPress more attractive for the modern web?
This talk will dive into these questions and more. It will introduce what the HTML API is and what you can do with it, review the ways it’s already being introduced into WordPress, discuss the implications of these changes, and preview what’s coming next. We’ll discuss some code snippets but won’t go too deep. This talk will not require advanced programming background, but it may be most valuable to you if you write code (and especially if you are fatigued from chronic-regular-expression pains!)