Trunk is closed to 7.1 commits and WordPress 7.0 is under a hard string freeze while the core team stabilizes real-time collaboration. What that means for your workflow, plus the new custom sync provider API and where to help before the RC.
The WordPress ecosystem has drifted from crediting contributors to crediting their employers, from WordCamp badges to Five for the Future testimonials. My argument for putting people back first, and why pledged hours are the wrong thing to count.
Production models rarely decay on a smooth curve. They hold steady and then lose a fifth of their recall in an afternoon. Here is the R-squared test that tells you which regime you are in, and the three triggers I use instead of a retraining calendar.
Jetpack now lets you comp a paid subscription from the Subscribers screen, so gifting access no longer means a custom VIP role and a pile of expiring metadata. Here is what changes, plus the math on Substack’s 10% cut.
Power BI’s new custom calendars shift prior-year dates by a day across a leap year, because DATEADD works from the distance to the parent period. Stepping back 12 months instead of one year fixes it.
Bigger context windows do not fix agent reasoning. Notes on context rot, compaction and folding, the harness that wraps the model, and why agents should pass distilled artifacts instead of raw traces.
Cascade layers, the :is() pseudo-class and selector doubling all settle specificity conflicts without !important. Plus the few cases, like utility classes and accessibility overrides, where !important is still the right call.
WordPress AI Plugin 0.7.0 adds content classification that can stick to your existing terms, context-aware meta descriptions, bulk alt text in the Media Library, and a filter for system instructions.
VLA models put vision, language and motion in one latent space instead of three separate pipelines. Notes on why that unification works, and how action tokenization, diffusion heads and flow matching differ once the model has to output real movement.
The 7.0 release went back from RC to Beta so Real-Time Collaboration data could move out of post_meta and into its own table. Also covers the WP AI Client, pseudo-states in theme.json and the Playground MCP server.