The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, at 15:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The various… Continue Reading →
TL;DR: WordPress Contributor Toolkit v1.2.0 has been released providing full Core and Gutenberg contribution workflows for first-time contributors. The WordPress Contributor Toolkit was created to remove the points of friction first-time contributors face before they write a line of code,… Continue Reading →
Ask your AI assistant about any WordPress.org Trac. Announcing the the WordPress Trac Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, or any other MCP client to read tickets, changesets, and timeline history straight from Trac. Public and… Continue Reading →
Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @audrasjb See the agenda post. Announcements 7.2 Introducing Ipsum, the new default theme Call for testing: DataForm editor inspector Moving to a server-aware approach for collaboration Roadmap to 7.2 Reminder: Announcing the 7.2 Release… Continue Reading →
The core team is working hard on better release automation, including CLI scripts, AI skills, and updated documentation. Why is this work important? A minor WordPress release—including every security patch—can touch 20+ branches, and much of the work is manual… Continue Reading →
TL;DR Gutenberg’s JavaScript unit and integration tests now use Vitest, bringing better support for modern JavaScript modules and real-browser component testing. Tests explicitly import Vitest APIs. Filenames select Node, jsdom, or Browser Mode according to what each test needs. @wordpress/scripts… Continue Reading →
The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at 15:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The various… Continue Reading →
I’m happy to announce that I am now serving as president of the Open Website Alliance (OWA), representing the WordPress Foundation. The Alliance brings together the community organizations behind Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress to advocate for open source and… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.2 is set to be released in early December 2026. Notes leads the way with the ability to add suggestions and emoji reactions, offering more direct and interactive collaboration. Dedicated security efforts revolve around a “sudo mode” that gates… Continue Reading →
Earlier this year, real-time collaboration (RTC) was removed from WordPress 7.0. Since then, I, @alecgeatches, @dmsnell, and others have been working through the valid concerns that led to that decision. We think these concerns call for a change in direction:… Continue Reading →
The “Post” (or “Page”) tab of the editor’s Settings sidebar is being rebuilt on top of DataForm, the same form that Quick Edit uses in the Site Editor. It’s available as a Gutenberg experiment and it’s ready for testing, mostly… Continue Reading →
We’re proud to announce that WordPress has signed Open Weights and American AI Leadership, an open letter asking US policymakers to not place early restrictions on open weight AI models. These are artificial intelligence models that anyone can download, inspect,… Continue Reading →
The official WordPress Browser Extension is now available for Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers in the Chrome Web Store and for Safari on macOS in the Mac App Store. This new open source extension lets logged-in site users easily hide… Continue Reading →
The first Release Candidate (“RC1”) for WordPress 7.1 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is still under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites…. Continue Reading →
