WordPress AI 0.9.0 adds a comment moderation experiment, bulk alt-text generation over WP-CLI, and per-feature model controls. Here is what each one does and how to test it before the 1.0.0 release.
WordPress 7.0 real-time collaboration has been pulled from the release. Matt Mullenweg cited race conditions, memory use, and bugs found in fuzz testing. Here is why holding it back was the safer technical call.
WordPress 7.0 development lost real-time collaboration this month over race conditions and load concerns. What’s left for the May 20 release: a native content types system, the @wordpress/grid package, and HEIC and per-block CSS fixes.
The WooCommerce design team joined X to gather feedback on product variations and order pages. Here is why technical input from developers and agencies matters before these core UI changes ship.
WordPress 7.0 RTC has been pulled from the release. Race conditions and TTFB regressions from bypassed persistent caching drove the call, and RC3 now moves back toward a beta state while the core team focuses on stability.
In WooCommerce 10.8 the REST API stops silently turning non-order IDs, like subscriptions, into plain orders. It now returns a 400 instead. Here is what breaks and how to route subscription requests correctly.
Why I went local-first after an app died on hotel Wi-Fi: keep data on the device with SQLite in the browser, sync in the background, and resolve conflicts without overwriting what users typed.
WordPress 7.0 brings real-time collaboration, and it asks a lot of the database and object cache. The Core team wants host test data by May 4th, so here is what the suite checks and where hosts usually get bitten.
Where the WordPress Core AI work stands before 7.0: the MCP adapter moving to a standalone plugin, the connector approval experiment, and a release plan that puts polish ahead of new features.
WordPress 7.0 slipped to May 20, 2026 because RC3 is closer to a second Beta 1 than a release candidate. Early real-time collaboration code fired around 4,000 SQL queries in two minutes of editing, so core is rebuilding the storage layer.