Gutenberg 22.6: icons, revisions, and real-time collaboration
Gutenberg 22.6 adds a server-side Icon block, visual revision diffing, and real-time collaboration via Yjs. It’s a stability-focused release ahead of WordPress 7.0.
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PluginPreviewMenuItem: a custom preview in the editor dropdown
WordPress 6.7 added PluginPreviewMenuItem, a Slot/Fill point in the editor Preview dropdown. This walks through enqueuing the assets, registering the menu item, and reading unsaved post data with useSelect for a social card preview.
Telex WordPress blocks now round-trip through VS Code
Telex can now take a Figma mockup or a napkin sketch as input, hand you a zip to refactor in VS Code, and accept it back for another AI pass. It also supports 7 languages and stopped breaking multi-byte output mid-stream.
AI WordPress site building with the Claude Cowork plugin
Automattic shipped a developer preview of a Claude Cowork plugin and a set of Skills that build block themes in WordPress Studio. Here is what the workflow does, where it breaks, and why the theme.json output matters.
How WordPress content guidelines stop editorial drift
Gutenberg is experimenting with content guidelines: a machine-readable home in the admin for voice, tone and structural rules, so authors and AI assistants work from the same standards instead of a PDF nobody opens.
Gutenberg 22.5 adds native block CSS and layout fixes
Gutenberg 22.5 brings custom CSS on individual block instances, aspect ratio control on wide and full alignments, and a List View that shows real item content. Notes on what each one changes day to day.
WordPress 7.0 features developers should test now
WordPress 7.0 makes the post editor always iframed, which breaks editor JavaScript that reaches for the global document. Also here: native viewport-based block visibility, per-instance custom CSS, and the Studio 1.7.0 CLI updates.
Gutenberg Content Guidelines: site rules the editor can read
WordPress is testing Gutenberg Content Guidelines, a machine-readable place to keep brand voice, accessibility and image rules so plugins and AI tools can read them instead of guessing from a PDF nobody opens.
WordPress 6.9.1 fixes 49 bugs in Core and the Block Editor
WordPress 6.9.1 clears 49 bugs in Core and the Block Editor, with fixes for wp_mail and classic themes. Here is what changed, how to run the update through WP-CLI, and where it fits before WordPress 7.0 in April.
What WordPress 6.9.1 RC1 fixes, and how to test it
WordPress 6.9.1 RC1 closes 23 core bugs and 25 Block Editor issues, including the mail function error, the double-escaped class names from the HTML API, and the broken Add Plugins screen. Plus how to test the RC on staging with WP-CLI.