The WordPress 7.0 Beta is live for Business and Commerce plans, and the change worth having is a one-click Deactivate button on the fatal error screen, instead of an SFTP session or a recovery mode email that never arrives.
Studio Code Beta is a CLI coding agent for WordPress, built on Claude Code. It runs WP-CLI, spins up local sites, screenshots its own work, and validates block markup against the editor before inserting it.
Gutenberg 23.0 adds an experimental revisions panel for templates, template parts and patterns, plus a flag that stops legacy meta boxes from disabling real-time collaboration. The Guidelines rename will catch you out on update.
WordPress 7.0 is on pause while Real-Time Collaboration is reworked. What the April 15 dev chat said about treating the next RC as a beta, the PR tagging problem, and core-abilities moving out of React.
Notes from the April 21, 2026 performance chat: what auto sizes fixes about the sizes attribute, why the Gallery block is holding up a core merge, and a wp_calculate_image_sizes filter that beats regexing the_content.
The Core Dev Environment Toolkit gives contributors a one-click wordpress-develop setup. The less good news: the core privacy component has nobody maintaining it, two PRs are waiting on review, and the 7.0 release schedule still has not landed.
WooCommerce 10.7 drops HPOS order REST queries from 271 to 132, ships a beta Order Fulfillments API with typed methods, caches the Store API Last-Modified timestamp, and stops sanitization from eating % signs in gateway passwords.
The 7.0 release schedule is paused while the Core team validates another release candidate. My notes on the April 15 Dev Chat agenda, Gutenberg 22.9, the Twenty Twenty-Seven team, and why I would rather wait.
Notes from the latest WordPress AI contributor meeting: the MCP client is becoming a normal plugin instead of a Composer package, the Abilities API is getting real exception handling, and AI agents are getting a proper block dictionary.
The experimental core dev toolkit is a desktop app built on Playground and WASM. It bundles Git, Node and npm, so a contributor can clone wordpress-develop and generate a Trac patch without installing anything first.