The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, at 15:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.
The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section.
The various curated agenda sections below refer to additional items. If you have ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda or bring them up during the dev chat.
Announcements 📢
WordPress 6.9 Roadmap
The roadmap for 6.9 has been published. Please take a look to see what’s actively being worked on for release later in the year.
WordPress 6.9 Planning Proposal and Call for Volunteers
The planning phase for 6.9 wrapped up on July 25. More information will be announced about the release team in the coming weeks.
Forthcoming releases 🚀
WordPress 6.9
WordPress 6.9 is scheduled for Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
Gutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 21.3
The Gutenberg 21.3 release is scheduled for Wednesday, July 30. RC1 was released on July 28, and RC2 was released on July 29. Props to @wildworks for handling this release ✨
Discussions 💬
The discussion section of the agenda is for discussing important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team. To nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.
Posts without titles cannot be saved when all content is removed
This is an open issue discussing how to handle saving posts without titles, as they can’t be saved when all content is removed from the post. They need to have at least one block Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. to be saveable. @mediaformat mentioned that it has a stale patch, but they have documented an additional use case related to the block bindings API An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways..
Make seems_utf8() RFC 3629 compliant
@dmsnell raised Core-38044, which while not huge, could be a nice addition to 6.9.
Open floor 🎙️
Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, as well as requests for assistance on tickets. Tickets in the milestone for the next major or maintenance release will be prioritized.
Please include details of tickets / PRs and the links in the comments, and indicate whether you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or will be async.
Thank you to @jorbin for reviewing.
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