TL;DR WordPress 6.9 introduced a fix for adjacent post navigation when posts have identical publication dates. While this resolved a long-standing bug, it inadvertently caused infinite loops in some extensions that modify the get_adjacent_post() WHERE clause. What Changed in WordPress… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.9 now includes a built-in feature to hide blocks, making it easy to tuck content away without deleting it. You can now hide blocks: select a block, click the ellipsis, and choose “Hide”. Hidden blocks are visually removed from… Continue Reading →
Block Variations: Have getActiveBlockVariation fall back to default variationCore-data: Media Entity DeprecationWhat is being deprecated?Why is this being deprecated?How to update your code to use the attachment entityReplacing API callsChanges to the caption property when using the getEditedEntityRecord selectorBlock Editor: Support passing updater function to setAttributesSelectControl: Moved class… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.9 brings an abundance of quiet improvements to the HTML API. Updates in this release mostly represent applications of the HTML API to existing code in Core; these updates increase WordPress’ reliability, improve its security hardening, and reduce maintenance… Continue Reading →
PHP 8.5 was released on November 20th. Contributors to WordPress have been busy in recent months preparing for this version and we’re happy to report that all issues reported against PHP 8.5 have been addressed in WordPress 6.9 RC2. Compared… Continue Reading →
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,… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
A number of changes in WordPress 6.9 are coming which modernize WordPress’ text encoding and UTF-8 handling. These improvements establish more reliable and consistent text processing across WordPress’ widely-supported environments, benefiting plugins and themes that handle international content, emoji, diacritics,… Continue Reading →
This post is the latest in a series of updates focused on the performance improvements of major releases (see 6.8, 6.7, 6.6, 6.5, 6.4, 6.3, and 6.2). WordPress 6.9 is the second and final major release of 2025. It includes… Continue Reading →
Query caches have historically used the last changed timestamp as a salt. While this has proven effective for most sites, it leads to an excessive number of caches which can be problematic on high-traffic and heavily updated sites. WordPress 6.9… Continue Reading →
In WordPress 6.9, a handful of small, developer-focused changes were made that deserve to be called out. Let’s take a look! PHP 8.5 New Function Polyfills The upcoming 8.5 release of PHP includes 2 new functions that can be used… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.9 introduces Notes, a new feature that allows you to leave contextual feedback at the block level. With notes your team can stay aligned, track changes, and turn feedback into action all in one place. Notes can be resolved,… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.9 fixes a specificity issue with the Heading block’s background padding. Previously, padding styles applied to headings with backgrounds were affecting other blocks that use heading elements, such as the Accordion Heading block. This fix ensures that background padding is… Continue Reading →
Standardized API to set unique IDs in directives HTML does not allow multiple attributes with the same name on a single element, yet multiple plugins may need to add directives of the same type to the same element. To address… Continue Reading →
In WordPress 6.9, the client-side navigation feature provided by the @wordpress/interactivity-router module has been expanded to cover additional use cases that were previously unsupported. Support for new script modules and stylesheets Previously, only the HTML of the new page was… Continue Reading →
As part of an ongoing effort to modernize the editing experience, WordPress is moving toward running the post editor inside an iframe. This work builds upon the original iframe migration in the template editor and introduces new compatibility measures in… Continue Reading →
For WordPress users. The Block Bindings user interface has been upgraded to improve how different data sources are displayed in the editor.Users can now easily switch between sources, as well as bind and unbind attributes with a single click. For… Continue Reading →
WordPress now supports defining border radius presets in theme.json, allowing theme authors to provide a curated set of border radius values that users can select from in the Block Editor’s border controls. The Problem Previously, users could only input custom… Continue Reading →
This is a summary of the changes introduced in the “dataviews space” during the WordPress 6.9 cycle. They have been posted in the corresponding iteration issue as well. There’s a new issue for the WordPress 7.0 cycle, subscribe there for… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.9 introduces the Abilities API, a new foundational system that enables plugins, themes, and WordPress core to register and expose their capabilities in a standardized, machine-readable format. This API creates a unified registry of functionality that can be discovered,… Continue Reading →
An embedded email image is an image file included directly within the email’s content, allowing it to be displayed inline (i.e., in the body of an HTML email) without requiring the recipient to download it separately. This is achieved by… Continue Reading →
