OverviewCurrent SituationWhat’s changing in WordPress 7.1What should block developers do? Previous posts on this topic: Iframed Editor Changes in WordPress 7.0 (February 2026) Preparing the Post Editor for Full iframe Integration (November 2025) Blocks in an iframed (template) editor (June… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 introduces a shared JSON Schema preparation layer for schemas exposed to REST clients, frontend applications, and AI tools. WordPress accepts several internal schema conventions that are useful during server-side validation but are not portable JSON Schema draft-04. Passing… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 expands the Abilities API with custom validation hooks, a new invocation lifecycle action, richer user information, selective field responses, and more consistent schemas for the core abilities introduced in WordPress 6.9. Custom input and output validationObserving every ability… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 will include foundational support for theming design aspects of admin interface components, including color, roundness, and cursor pointers for interactive controls. The background and purpose behind these new features were shared previously in Merge Proposal: Design System Theming…. Continue Reading →
This work is part of the iteration issue DataViews, DataForm, et. al. in WordPress 7.1 and it has been tracked at #76544. Check the full details of the API in the handbook. WordPress 7.1 introduces four new filters to configure… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 includes an update to the latest stable version of jQuery UI, 1.14.2 from version 1.13.3. This update drops support for all versions of Internet Explorer & Edge Legacy which is inline with the WordPress Browser Support Policy. This… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 introduces four filters that allow plugins to customise the execution lifecycle of abilities registered with the Abilities API. The Abilities API previously provided the wp_before_execute_ability and wp_after_execute_ability actions. These actions are useful for observing execution, but they cannot… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 introduces a new background.gradient block support. It gives blocks a gradient control in the Background panel of the block inspector. Unlike the existing gradient support, it can be combined with a background image so the two render together…. Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 introduces a minWidth dimension block support, letting blocks opt in to setting a minimum width. This follows the same pattern as the existing minHeight support. GitHub issue: #76525 | PR: #76949 Background Blocks already support several dimension properties:… Continue Reading →
Icon collectionsCreating a collectionRemoving a collectionIconsAdding iconsRemoving an iconIcon block enhancementRendering an icon in PHPStyling iconsStyling React icons from @wordpress/iconsStyling the SVG returned by wp_get_icon()REST API WordPress 7.0 added a built-in set of SVG icons that the block editor and… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 continues to use React 18.3 React 19 upgrade won’t be a part of WordPress 7.1. After briefly enabling it in Gutenberg we discovered unexpected incompatibilities in how old and new version of React interact with each other, and… Continue Reading →
40px default size for form controlsWhat changedWhat to doAffected componentsNot includedChanges for consumers styling with EmotionRemove NavigationRemove __experimentalApplyValueToSides 40px default size for form controls Starting in WordPress 7.1, @wordpress/components form controls use a 40px default height unconditionally. The opt-in __next40pxDefaultSize… Continue Reading →
In WordPress 7.1, the Custom HTML block supports interleaving static HTML with regular, editable blocks (79115): Static heading Editable paragraph Static footer In the editor, the static markup renders inert while the inner blocks are editable in place — but… Continue Reading →
Background The grid view of the Media Library (including the Media Modal) has supported infinite scrolling for a long time, where attachments load automatically as you scroll instead of behind a Load more button. That behavior was controlled by the… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 introduces the ability to define a text-shadow value in Global Styles through theme.json. Themes can now set a text shadow globally, on specific blocks, and on elements such as links, without a plugin or custom stylesheet. GitHub issue:… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 ships client-side media processing – a capability that handles image compression, resizing, format conversion, rotation, and thumbnail generation directly in the user’s browser using WebAssembly, rather than on the server. The feature is enabled by default in supporting… Continue Reading →
