Gutenberg 22.7 ships the Connectors API, turns real-time collaboration on by default, adds live previews for style variations, and puts phpMyAdmin in wp-env. Notes on what to test before you ship it.
my.WordPress.net turns WordPress Playground into a workspace that survives a page reload. The site lives in browser storage instead of on a server, and Blueprints handle the setup. Clear your cache without a backup and it is gone.
WordPress 6.9.2 landed on March 11, 2026 with fixes for ten vulnerabilities, among them blind SSRF, a PoP chain in the HTML API and an XXE in getID3. What each one lets an attacker do, and how to ship the update with WP-CLI.
WordPress 7.0 Beta 3 ships 148 fixes and swaps the static AI provider list for the WP AI Client registry. Here is what changed in the connectors screen and how to test it on staging before the April 9 release.
Core was tagging hidden Gutenberg images as high priority and hurting LCP. Ticket #64823 fixes that, and Performance Lab is dropping Web Worker Offloading after 6,000 updates with no feedback.
WordPress 7.0 in Beta 3: RTC syncs over HTTP polling with Yjs, AI connectors give plugins one shared interface, and patterns default to content-only editing. Patch 6.9.2 before you touch any of it.
WordPress 7.0 Beta 2 adds one Connectors screen for AI providers and forces Block API v3 blocks into the iframed editor. Both change what your plugin code has to do before the April 9 release.
AI Experiments 0.4.0 puts prompt-based image generation in the Block Editor and the Media Library, and adds a Generate Review Notes pass for accessibility and readability. It also points at the WordPress AI rename in 0.5.0.
WordPress 7.0 supports :hover, :focus, :focus-visible and :active inside theme.json for blocks and their variations. What that replaces, how the JSON looks, and the limits worth knowing before you refactor.
WordPress is featuring eight plugins every two weeks, picked from those with under 10,000 installs and less than a year in the directory. What the criteria check, and the code cleanup worth doing first.