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.

Alongside beta versions 3 and 4, we now know a bit more about the future of Gutenberg’s “Phase 3,” focused on real-time collaboration, which is expected to arrive with WordPress 7.0.

More and more new features are being discovered about WordPress 6.9, including the addition of the math formulas block.

WordPress 6.9 begins its path toward its general release with the first beta version, which already includes all the new features of this update.

The main focus of WordPress 6.9 is to integrate new blocks and, above all, finalize the integration of the Abilities API into core.

WordPress 6.9 will include the option to leave notes for other writers and reviewers, linked to the content of blocks within the editor.

A security update that fixes two issues has led to the release of WordPress 6.8.3, an update that is recommended to be applied urgently on all sites.

WordPress 6.9 will arrive on December 2, and we are just one month away from the release of the first beta version, which should already include all the new features.

A new Core team, a sort of Meta-Core, has been launched to coordinate all aspects of the WordPress core.

The Documentation team was excluded from the WordPress 6.8 release, and that experiment continues with WordPress 6.9, creating a situation where information about the new version is lacking.

The WordPress core will incorporate native functionality to include embedded images in emails without relying on external links or BASE64 content.

The latest version of the Gutenberg plugin introduces the first phase of the accordion block, which is expected to be included in WordPress 6.9.

This week WordCamp US 2025 is taking place, with high-profile guests and a focus on the upcoming release of WordPress 6.9.

When a new version of a plugin is released, you’ll be able to decide whether to launch it immediately or delay automatic updates for up to 24 hours.

There’s always whether WordPress includes all the blocks it should by default, which comes with both pros and cons.

Now that we know WordPress 6.9 is coming by the end of 2025, a roadmap has been proposed outlining the core ideas to work on in this version.

The Documentation team is proposing the creation of documentation with the help of artificial intelligence, but always with an intermediate human factor to assist with oversight.

Artificial Intelligence has already arrived in WordPress in a modular way, through various plugins forming the foundation for integrating AI-based features.

A proposal has been raised to introduce staged plugin rollouts, similar to those used by iTunes or Play, where users receive updates gradually.

Some core WordPress components have become outdated in functionality, prompting consideration of a "maintenance mode," keeping them stable without introducing new features.

Cleaning up Slack channels, GitHub repositories, database versions, and establishing AI development foundations are among the proposals from a week dedicated to tidying up the WordPress project.

Since December 2022, security updates were provided from version 4.1 onwards, but now only version 4.7 and above will receive security updates.