WooCommerce testing tools and the March core team office hours
WooCommerce core devs Greg Bell and Lance Willet are running an open office hours session on testing on March 4, 2026. What to test before you ship, and what to ask them on Slack.
Tag: Beta
WordPress 7.0 admin refresh: notes from the product review
Notes from the WordPress 7.0 product review meeting with Matt Mullenweg: a CSS-level admin refresh, a customizable dashboard, real-time co-editing over a pluggable transport, the AI Client and its settings UI, and PHP-only block registration.
WordPress 7.0 release party schedule, from beta 1 to April 9
WordPress 7.0 ships April 9, 2026, live from WordCamp Asia. Here are the release party dates in #core, from Beta 1 in February through the 24-hour code freeze, and what each phase is for.
WordPress 7.0 roadmap: AI client, VIPS and realtime editing
WordPress 6.9.1 shipped, but the interesting decisions sit in the 7.0 roadmap: merging the WP AI Client into core, running libvips in worker threads, and realtime editing that your hosting may not survive.
WordPress 7.0 development: an AI client with no PR yet
The WP AI Client is up for a core merge with Beta 1 ten days out and no PR to test. Notes on that proposal, the admin reskin in ticket #64308, the Release Squad now in place, and what Gutenberg 22.5 changes for 7.0.
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.
Google Interactions API and the end of the everything prompt
The giant catch-all prompt is fine in a prototype and falls apart in production. The Google Interactions API keeps state on Google’s side, which is what lets you poll a long research job from WP-Cron instead of hanging the page.
The WordPress AI Client heading into core 7.0
Notes from the February 4 contributor meeting on the WordPress AI Client merge into 7.0: why OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are moving out to separate plugins, why the off switch is a constant rather than a filter, and what MCP adapters mean for the Abilities API.
WordPress 7.0 AI integration: the road to Beta 1
Notes on the WordPress 7.0 AI integration roadmap: the WP AI Client merge proposal, the GatherPress demo built on the Abilities API, how the native client compares to the MCP adapter, and what has to land before the February 19 Beta 1 deadline.
WooCommerce 10.5 is delayed over one deprecated trait
WooCommerce 10.5 was due on February 3, 2026 and did not ship. Removing the AccessiblePrivateMethods trait looked risky enough in testing that the team left it in, with a status update set for February 4 at 12pm UTC.