WordPress Podcast (English)

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.