WordPress planned React 19 for 7.1, then moved it to a Gutenberg experiment. The bigger risk is plugins that bundle their own React, so check your builds and test a store on staging before core ships it.
The WordCamp Asia committer notes are mostly process talk, but the SQLite paragraph reaches plugin authors first. What the notes settled, which schema habits break under SQLite, and what I’d test before core writes its support policy.
WordPress Guidelines keeps agent memory, skills and instructions in an ordinary custom post type, and it’s headed for Core. Here’s what that means for plugins with their own memory stores, which permissions to test first, and when a separate table still makes sense.
WordPress.com shipped Write, a minimal editor that still saves ordinary block posts. I compare it with distraction free mode and the Classic Editor, note what it hides from writers, and say which kind of site should get which.
The media editor modal is now the default way to edit images in the block editor. Its Save button changes the block instance, not the attachment or its generated sizes, and that matters a lot on a WooCommerce store.
WordPress Studio 1.9.0 ships a Blueprints Gallery, so you can browse, preview and launch pre-configured local sites without hunting for JSON files. It works from the Studio CLI too.
Gutenberg 23.2 adds experimental per-breakpoint block styles in Global Styles, motion design tokens, bottom-sheet modals on mobile, and fixes for race conditions in real-time collaboration.
WooCommerce is rebuilding the All Products screen on top of WordPress DataViews and DataForms. Here is what the proof of concept changes, where it still falls short on performance, and why extension authors should test it now.
WordPress 7.0 RC5 is the fifth release candidate before the May 20th launch, and it exists to catch the bugs found after RC4. Here is how to install it on a staging site with WP-CLI, the Beta Tester plugin or Playground, and what to check in your own hooks.
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.