WordPress Podcast (English)

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.

The ticketing and organization tool for WordCamps has become outdated after several years without changes, prompting a proposal for its update.

WordPress has defined a set of clear principles and steps to determine if a project should be hosted or migrated under its official GitHub organization.

Introducing a new team within WordPress: Make Core AI.

In the past year, there has been an 80% increase in new plugin submissions for approval, many of them related to artificial intelligence.

The WordPress website has added links to all its social media channels in its footer.

It’s been just over a year since the creation of the Media Corps working group, and though it had already been inactive for several months, it now officially comes to an end.

The minor-update phase for WordPress 6.8 has begun, starting with a first release addressing several bugs.

All the bans that had been placed on members of the WordPress Community will be lifted in the coming days.

With the arrival of WordPress 6.8, a period of uncertainty opens regarding future major and minor releases, as no decisions have been made yet on the topic.

With the arrival of WordPress 6.8, and applied retroactively, the "compatible with exceptions" label for PHP 8 has been removed.

WordPress 6.8 is going to be the last version for a season... at least until the arrival of 2026, suggesting an annual release cycle.

The release candidate phase of WordPress 6.8 has already begun, which includes the Field Guide, final translations, and a change in the readme.html.

The release candidates for WordPress 6.8 are approaching and all the documentation about what this version will finally include is here.

With the release of the first beta versions, we’re beginning to learn about the performance improvements in this release.

WordPress 6.8 will include a speculative loading feature that makes site navigation smoother for users by attempting to preload pages they are likely to visit.

Starting Tuesday, March 4, the first beta version of WordPress 6.8 will be available, revealing the initial details of the upcoming major release.

The strategy of the Core team up to WordPress 7.0 will focus on maintaining the platform with few changes in new features, while continuing to advance the editor.

The WordPress photo directory has reached 20,000 reviewed and freely available images under a Creative Commons license.

Only two months remain until the release of WordPress 6.8, a version dedicated to fixes.

The legal battle for control of WordPress continues, and this time, hosting companies are the ones receiving the notices.

The next minor version of WordPress will be released on February 11 with some small changes to fix bugs.

Without warning, Matt has decided to shut down the WordPress Sustainability team, which was created just two years ago.

With Automattic’s involvement decreasing to just 1% of what it was before, the open-source WordPress project is going to be negatively affected.

After the two-week technical break for WordPress.org, everything is back to normal operation following the holiday pause.

Influential voices in the WordPress community continue to make proposals on how WordPress.org should evolve from now on, while Matt continues to mock the project’s contributors.

For the first time in 21 years, WordPress.org has partially closed sections of its website, supposedly to give its contributors a break.

On December 16, 2024, from Tokyo, the State of the Word 2024 took place, the annual event where Matt Mullenweg summarizes everything that has happened in the WordPress world.

Since 2020, the implementation of an API to help with cookie consent and other privacy-related elements has been up in the air. Now, this open and pending issue is being revisited.

The Polyglots team has released an improvement to the GlotPress tool that enables bulk translations of strings.