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WordPress 6.9 brings extensive accessibility improvements across WordPress Core and Gutenberg, continuing the goals to meet web content accessibility standards throughout WordPress and make it easier to author accessible content. These updates include changes to administration, customization, login and registration, bundled themes, and the block editor. Core Improvements to WordPress...Read the full show notes

When creating and editing menus in the Menus interface, searching for posts and pages has historically used a full text search as a query. This can make some pages difficult to find, if they use a title that primarily uses common words in the site content. In WordPress 6.9, the...Read the full show notes

With WordPress 6.9, numerous legacy features that were used to support Internet Explorer have been removed. All versions of Internet Explorer have been unsupported in WordPress since version 5.8, released in July 2021. These changes continue the process of removing code that existed only to provide support for these...Read the full show notes

WordPress 6.9 introduces the WP_Block_Processor class — a new tool inspired by the HTML API and designed for efficiently scanning, understanding, and modifying block structure in HTML documents. Continue on to learn about this new class, its use-cases, and how you can take advantage of it for more efficient server-side...Read the full show notes

On October 11th, 2025, we received a submission for an Account Takeover via Email Log Disclosure vulnerability in Post SMTP, a WordPress plugin with more than 400,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to view email logs, including password reset emails, and change...Read the full show notes

When a string passed to the esc_url() and esc_url_raw() functions does not include a protocol (https://, http://, etc.), WordPress will prepend http:// to the URL string before further processing and returning it. This is a reasonable fallback behavior, but there is currently no way to override the default protocol with...Read the full show notes

Blind and low-vision users use screen readers to browse the web. These tools read your site out loud. Screen readers can only work with what your code tells them about the component. The site might work fine for sighted visitors who don’t use assistive technology, but it becomes a mess...Read the full show notes

Bit Integrations connects your WordPress forms, e-commerce stores, subscription businesses, and learning management systems with over 290 external platforms through automated workflows. This post will take a walk through much of its functionality and talk about where it slots into the Bit Apps WordPress ecosystem. The post "How to...Read the full show notes

We’re excited to share that Kinsta is heading to Australia this November! From November 25 to 28, our team will participate in four one-day events in Melbourne and Sydney, joining leading marketers, publishers, developers, and WordPress professionals from across the country. Kinsta will be represented by three members of our APAC team: ...Read the full show notes

Emails sent from WordPress will be more reliable in WordPress 6.9 thanks to a few updates and bug-fixes to the wp_mail() function. The sender address is extensibly configured. The sender address, also known as the Envelope-From, the MAIL FROM, the Return-Path (and even more), is the address where other...Read the full show notes

On Thursday, November 13, 2025, 15:00 UTC, a team meeting started in #accessibility facilitated by Nasim Miah. You can read the full transcript or see the meeting agenda. Biweekly Team Meeting Time Update The bi-weekly chat meeting time has changed to alternate Thursdays at 15:00 UTC, and the meeting calendar is also updated....Read the full show notes