WordPress 7.0 ships the Client-Side Abilities API, which gives JavaScript, browser agents and AI tools one way to call server-registered logic. This covers both packages, registering an ability with JSON Schema validation, and handling permission errors.
WordPress 7.0 RC1 adds the AI Connectors screen and turns on real-time collaboration, with over 134 changes since Beta 5. Here is what to test on staging before the April 9 release, including the RTC constant and the polling load it brings.
The latest AI Contributor meeting covered the global off switch for WordPress 7.0, whether the MCP adapter ships standalone or bundled, and image editing graduating to a core feature. Here is what each of those decisions means for your sites.
WordPress.org now runs an MCP server for the Plugin Directory. It lets AI editors like Cursor and Claude validate readme.txt, check submission status, and submit plugins without leaving the editor.
AI 0.6.0 turns experiments into a type of feature, adds iterative image editing in the Media Library, and renames hooks. C2PA content provenance is queued for 0.7.0.
How to linearize a nonlinear objective with piecewise linear approximations, keep the segments adjacent using SOS type 2, and hand the result to an ordinary LP/MIP solver like Gurobi.
The CSS corner-shape property paired with a scroll timeline, using superellipse() exponents instead of keywords, plus the isolation fix for mix-blend-mode breaking your stacking context.
WordPress.com has added 19 write abilities to its MCP integration, so an agent can create posts, pages, media and terms. Drafts by default, explicit approval before every change, and your own role still caps what it can reach.
WordPress 7.0 gives paragraphs native indentation with no custom CSS. How to opt a custom block in from block.json, choose between the subsequent and all selectors, and set the default in theme.json.
Most agencies build their own stack and end up debugging Nginx instead of shipping. What plugin bloat really costs, and what Encircle Technologies changed when they moved to managed hosting.