WordPress Podcast (English)

In just over a month and a half, WordPress 7.1 will launch, and its release has already been scheduled, starting with beta on July 15.

Since WordPress 5.0 and the launch of the block editor, the classic editor has been there... but now the countdown to its farewell has begun.

The team preparing WordPress 7.1 is already in place, and at the same time a clear roadmap of what the version will include has been revealed.

If you have your own local community and want to take advantage of the benefits of global communication, WordPress has already begun integrating multiple communities into the global Slack.

Following the launch of WordPress 7.0, the largest WordPress event on the planet took place, bringing together 2,500 people from the ecosystem to review the state of WordPress and the upcoming WordPress 7.1 version.

WordPress Turns 23

Arguably one of the most complicated versions to launch, but it's finally here. WordPress 7.0 is now a reality, and AI integration in WordPress is too.

WordPress 7.0 arrives on May 20 and brings many updates, though some of the most notable have been left out. Here's a rundown of everything in this new version.

Finally, Real-Time Collaboration will arrive in WordPress 7.1 and not 7.0, given the performance issues and the changes needed for its new implementation.

With the Presence API, a column of active editors appears in the post list, an indicator in the admin bar shows avatars of who is on that same screen, and a pair of dashboard widgets rounds out the feature.

WordPress 7.0 has a release date again — with a 4-week cushion past the deadline when an update had been promised. If everything stays on track, we'll have this new major version on May 20.

Matt Mullenweg has published an extensive and self-critical assessment of the WordPress project's state, questioning a process culture that — in his view — paralyzes decision-making, overshadows individual contributors in favor of companies, and has

The WordPress Training team has proposed a set of tools and prompts to standardize the creation of WordPress learning materials.

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.