The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, August 27, 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 📢
WordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US 2025 takes place this week
From August 26–29, 2025, the WordPress community will convene in Portland, Oregon.
Further details can be found on the official website.
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.
Forthcoming releases 🚀
Next 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/ version: 21.5
Gutenberg 21.5 is scheduled for release on Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
WordPress 6.9
WordPress 6.9 is scheduled for Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
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.
Post/Post Types Bug Scrubs
@sirlouen announced he will start running weekly bug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrubs beginning in September, every Thursday at 1 PM GMT. The focus will be on the Post/Post Types component, and the effort is expected to continue for an extended period (possibly into 2026). He suggested permanently adding this as a recurring event in the meeting calendar.
New Database Index Proposal
@josephscott proposed adding a new database index to improve performance on sites with a large number of posts or custom post types. The index would be:
CREATE INDEX type_status_author ON wp_posts (post_type, post_status, post_author);
This change would speed up queries for the All Posts admin (and super admin) page. Details are in Trac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticket #50161, comment 7. A discussion is requested on whether this index should be included in Core.
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.
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