WordPress 6.9 ships a Notes feature that keeps editorial feedback inside the block editor instead of scattered across Docs, Asana, and Slack. A look at how it works under the hood and where it still falls short.
WordPress 6.9 RC2 is out. Here is what I test before updating client sites, the heading CSS change developers should watch, and why I wait for the .1 release.
A client’s PageSpeed score was stuck in the low 80s. WordPress 6.9 finally gives developers real control over script loading, but only if the theme uses it. Here is what changed and why the theme matters.
A client’s WooCommerce order emails kept landing in spam, even with SMTP set up. WordPress 6.9 fixes the deeper causes: the sender address mismatch, garbled encoding, and a 17-year-old multipart bug.
A client wanted the same URL list on an admin page, a homepage block, and an external API. The old way meant duplicating logic. The WordPress Abilities API lets you define the feature once and reuse it everywhere.
A rundown of what’s worth caring about in WordPress 6.9: the new Block Processor for faster block parsing, experimental PHP-only blocks, a theme.json fix for Gallery aspect ratios, and why it pays to wait for 6.9.1.
A client running Bedrock sites updated by hand and worried about missed patches. I set up Dependabot and CircleCI so Composer updates get opened, tested, and deployed automatically.
A junior dev on my team looked crushed. “They rejected my talk,” he said, staring at his laptop. He’d just gotten the canned ‘thanks but…
Had to onboard a new junior dev last month for a big WooCommerce project. First task was simple: set up the local environment. He’s a…
A client needed niche social icons like Ko-fi and Letterboxd, which the default block doesn’t cover. WordPress 6.9 finally lets you register custom social icons cleanly with a JavaScript variation and a PHP filter, no bloated plugin required.