WordPress 7.0 reworks the core design tools roster: Verse becomes Poetry, Accordion, Breadcrumbs and Math arrive with full design support, and pattern overrides are opt-in per attribute through a filter. Includes the updated support table and a registration snippet.
WooCommerce 10.7 drops an HPOS order request from 271 queries to 132, gives the Fulfillments API typed PHP methods, and hardens the REST API against XSS and CSRF. It also runs a database update, so stage it before you ship.
Notes from the April 21, 2026 performance chat: what auto sizes fixes about the sizes attribute, why the Gallery block is holding up a core merge, and a wp_calculate_image_sizes filter that beats regexing the_content.
The Core Dev Environment Toolkit gives contributors a one-click wordpress-develop setup. The less good news: the core privacy component has nobody maintaining it, two PRs are waiting on review, and the 7.0 release schedule still has not landed.
Nearly 800 documentation issues triaged and over 200 closed, plus the WP-Parser problem that keeps DevHub out of sync with core. Also the DocBlock format the parser expects, and the three handbooks carrying the biggest backlogs.
Notes from WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai, written for developers: the Interactivity API replacing fragile jQuery toggles, the Tag Processor in the HTML API, and what WordCamp India 2027 and the 7.0 roadmap mean for the code you ship.
WooCommerce 10.7 drops HPOS order REST queries from 271 to 132, ships a beta Order Fulfillments API with typed methods, caches the Store API Last-Modified timestamp, and stops sanitization from eating % signs in gateway passwords.
Notes from WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai: plugins and themes landed on every paid WordPress.com plan, the speed build put AI against raw FSE work, and Nirav Mehta’s session covered where LLMs still break. Here is what held up as useful for real builds.
HealthPress.io runs clinic programs in Malta, hospitals in Dubai and a certification course reaching 60 countries on one consolidated WordPress.com setup. A look at why Bela Grundmann stopped managing servers, and what breaks when you don’t.
The 7.0 release schedule is paused while the Core team validates another release candidate. My notes on the April 15 Dev Chat agenda, Gutenberg 22.9, the Twenty Twenty-Seven team, and why I would rather wait.