Mobile menus in WordPress 7.0 are template parts you edit in the Site Editor. This covers the navigation-overlay area, the theme.json registration, the close block you should add yourself, and the full-screen-only limit in this first release.
WordPress 7.0’s AI updates are heading into Beta 2. This post covers the pivot away from the Abilities API, the new Connector Screen, and the dependency issues in the AI Experiments plugin.
WordPress 7.0 brings real-time collaboration and AI connectors into core, but legacy PHP meta boxes turn into a compatibility bottleneck. This post covers the latest Dev Chat agenda and what to fix before Beta 2.
WooCommerce 10.6 ships March 10, 2026. It cuts checkout SQL queries with deferred transient deletion, batches admin options, and breaks three things worth patching first: Store API per_page, lazy-loaded images, and a null breadcrumb argument.
WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 slipped a day after unit tests failed in the REST autosave controller and Gutenberg’s real-time collaboration work. Why a broken autosave is worth delaying a release for, and where to follow the fix.
WordPress Core added an experimental wp-env runtime that runs PHP and SQLite through WebAssembly, so a full environment starts in seconds without Docker. Notes on the npx flag, the SQLite tradeoff, and the limits that still send me back to containers.
WooCommerce 10.6 adds loading=”lazy” to the Product Image block by default, which hurts LCP when the image sits above the fold. The new woocommerce_product_image_loading_attr filter lets you force eager loading on the images that need it.
WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 puts real-time collaboration in core, adds a provider-agnostic WP AI Client on top of the Abilities API, and moves image resizing into the browser. Final release is set for April 9, 2026.
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.
Core has to decide whether the WP AI Client merges into WordPress 7.0 before Beta 1 on February 19, 2026. My read on the Abilities API friction in ticket #64596 and what a provider-agnostic client changes in plugin code.