A client with fifteen editors kept losing work to overwrites, which is exactly what Phase 3 collaboration is meant to solve. Here is what else the 7.0 planning covers: React 19, block validation levels, block bindings and the AI Client API.
A client’s customer opened their account dashboard and saw a stranger’s guest order. It was not the cache. GHSL-2025-129 affects WooCommerce 8.1 through 10.4.2, and Automattic backported the fix across 23 releases.
A client wanted the cycling word effect from a SaaS homepage. A custom block would have meant migrating their existing headings, so I extended the paragraph block instead using the Format API, WP_HTML_Tag_Processor and the Interactivity API.
A client moved to a high-end unmanaged VPS and ended up with a six-second WooCommerce store. The specs were never the problem, the server stack was. Notes on what a WordPress hosting environment handles for you that a generic one leaves on your desk.
The 6.9 update turned a client’s custom blocks into ghosts and I nearly wrote a core override for it. The December dev chat notes had the answer already: hotfix plugins now, official maintenance release in January 2026.
One blogger had 30 days to save 5,000 posts and nearly 10,000 images from Typepad. The built-in importer could not finish the job, so we rebuilt it around WP-CLI and an image sideloading script. 3,684 blogs came across in the end.
A client’s plugin came back rejected three times and he blamed the reviewer. The review is largely automated now: more than 220 checks, AI screening plugin names for trademarks, and the Plugin Check tool expected to run before you submit.
WordPress 6.9 is at RC3 with a launch set for December 2nd. The heading specificity fix, the Post Editor iframe and the new DataViews all change what a custom theme has to do.
How automated unit tests fit into WordPress plugin work: scaffolding a suite with WP-CLI, choosing what to assert about a custom post type, and the regressions that manual click-through testing keeps missing.
Gutenberg 22.3 pulls font management out of the Global Styles panels and into its own Fonts page, makes the core Grid block responsive when columns are set, and stops the image cropper from losing your aspect ratio.