WordPress Podcast (English)

A week ago the WordPress 7.0 launch seemed to be on track, but the release candidate phase has prompted some significant second thoughts.

WordPress 7.0 enters its final stretch, with everything locked in and focus shifting to polishing the last details.

WordPress 7.0 is still in beta, having missed its first release candidate deadline due to concerns around installation size and the default behavior of real-time collaboration.

Six months earlier than usual, work has begun on Twenty Twenty-Seven, a theme expected to be one of the most polished yet, launching alongside WordPress 7.2.

The WordPress Community has publicly released the first version of the project's contributor dashboard, with data going back to 2021.

After more than two years without up to date documentation, an issue has been fixed that has made recently released features available again.

WordPress 7.0 will include a new section for connecting to artificial intelligence providers.

In WordPress 7.0, the post editor canvas will always run inside an iframe, even if older blocks registered with Block API version 1 or 2 are present.

The future of WordPress depends on defining what artificial intelligence will achieve in WordPress, for developers, editors, and project leadership alike.

Meetups are the events the project needs to focus on to grow the community, and for that reason a significant effort will be made to improve documentation and better understand current needs.

We are starting to learn what the biggest changes and improvements introduced with WordPress 7.0 will be, including shared editing, new blocks, and PHP support.

WP-Bench is a new benchmark tool to evaluate how artificial intelligence models understand and work with the WordPress ecosystem.

The WordPress 7.0 development phase is beginning, and one of the first steps is assembling the team that will lead this new release.

Playground has become a fantastic tool for running tests, demos, and checking how combinations of plugins or themes behave, and it now receives a major update that improves how it is used.

The so called Project Thread is being taken up again with a different team and a new vision, where from the admin dashboard it is possible to see the evolution of a person within each team they participate in.

With the release of WordPress 6.9, and a December that is usually a rest period for many, discussions are already starting about what WordPress 7.0 will bring and when it will arrive.

WordPress will depend on artificial intelligence models for practically everything, or at least that’s the message between the lines from both the State of the Word and what is coming in WordPress 7.0.

Thanks to the launch of the AI Experiments Plugin, it’s now possible to start testing simple experiments together with the MCP Adapter.

WordPress introduces its toolkit for plugin developers to easily connect with different artificial intelligences, without needing custom integration work.

Now that the release candidate for WordPress 6.9 has been launched, we’re starting to learn in detail the features that will arrive in this new version.