WordPress Podcast (English)

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Some core WordPress components have become outdated in functionality, prompting consideration of a "maintenance mode," keeping them stable without introducing new features.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The ticketing and organization tool for WordCamps has become outdated after several years without changes, prompting a proposal for its update.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.