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.
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.
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 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 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.