Welcome back to a new season of In The Loop! We have some excellent guests lined up this year, but we start off 2022 with a Dev Chat between Cory Hughart and Phil Hoyt about the recently released WordPress 5.9 and Full Site Editing, open source compensation, video games, and Valentine’s Day.

On Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2022, take some time to show your most beloved plugins some love and leave a review!

If you have questions about WordPress website development, contributing, or anything else web-related that you’d like to hear us discuss, find us on Twitter as @InTheLoop_WP or send an email to podcast@blackbird.digital.

## Links

https://blackbird.digital/podcast/

(08:49 ) Crock of Time, Cory’s fermentation logbook: https://crockoftime.com

(10:27 ) WPPodcasts: https://wppodcasts.com

(14:57 ) Tendo, a block theme by Phil: https://wordpress.org/themes/tendo/

(18:08 ) Block locking: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/08/locking-blocks-in-wordpress-5-9/

(18:46 ) WordPress 5.9 field guide: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/10/wordpress-5-9-field-guide/

(20:17 ) 5.8 block style loading: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/07/01/block-styles-loading-enhancements-in-wordpress-5-8/

(23:46 ) Carolina Nymark on no-code themes: https://twitter.com/carolinapoena/status/1484174134284365826?s=20

(49:08 ) White House Open Source Security Summit: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/white-house-hosts-open-source-security-summit-big-tech-a-18304

(52:42 ) #WPTalks Twitter space, “Get Contributors Paid & Attract People to Grow WordPress”: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1djxXPkkWVoxZ

(1:01:01 ) XKCD Dependency: https://xkcd.com/2347/

(1:04:21 ) Hacktoberfest drama: https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama

## Upcoming WP Events

WordFest Live March 4, 2022: https://www.wordfest.live/2022/march/