After 16 years, WordPress just killed one of its most recognizable traditions. The predictable “Twenty Something” default themes are history, and their replacement, Ipsum, signals a surprisingly different vision for what WordPress thinks a modern website should start with.
These is the bi-weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on alternate Thursday in #accessibility. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule. Announcements WPAD 2026 Event is coming up! Register to attend WPAD 2026 Checkout the schedule and see what is coming… Continue Reading →
The Accessibility Lab plugin was announced on August 21st, and now that WordPress 7.1 is wrapped up, it’s time to start scoping out the first features to target for release. For an initial discussion, we’ll meet on Thursday, September 17,… Continue Reading →
Your website’s next visitor might not be human. Meta’s new Muse agent can navigate sites, fill out forms and take action for you—and it could force web designers to rethink exactly who they’re designing for.
These is the bi-weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on alternate Thursday in #accessibility. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule. Announcements Help shape the Accessibility Lab plugin WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” was released on August 19th as scheduled!… Continue Reading →
With: new and updated documentation, an explanation of the accessibility-ready program, a complete sitemap for users, our plans for September. New and updated documentation Standards and best practice section: New topic: Disappearing toast notifications in Design patterns to avoid. Proud… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, August 27, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements Help shape the Accessibility Lab plugin WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” was released on August 19th as scheduled! A call for volunteers was published for WP 7.2…. Continue Reading →
Introducing the Accessibility Lab plugin! The plugin aims to offer a combination of Core related experiments and practical tools that solve shared problems for all to benefit from. The goal is not to move accessibility fixes out of Core and… Continue Reading →
Just like Dreamweaver convinced a generation they could ignore HTML and CSS, Figma’s perfect canvas may be hiding the messy realities of how the web actually works. The future belongs to designers who understand systems, behavior, performance, and code—not just… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, August 13, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements 7.1 RC3 is scheduled to be released on Wed Aug 12th (today) 7.1 RC1 was released Wed August 5th. WordPress 7.1 Field Guide is published…. Continue Reading →
At WordCamp Europe Torino ’24, Joe Dolson asked Rian Rietveld to review the documentation about accessibility on the WordPress.org website. What she found was that the information was hard to find, scattered all around the place, with duplicated and incomplete… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, July 30, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements WordPress 7.0.2 Release is now available. WordPress 7.1 Beta 3 is out is ready for download and testing! WordPress 7.1 Beta1 4 Release is… Continue Reading →
When we announced the new accessibility-ready theme guidelines in May, the accessibility time set an ambitious timeline to re-review all themes and require action from theme authors by June 30th of this year. Well, that date fled by three weeks… Continue Reading →
These is the bi-weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on alternate Thursday in #accessibility. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule. Announcements WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 is released Guide to WCUS 2026 WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release Discussion on… Continue Reading →
Transcript [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in… Continue Reading →
