Jb Audras 1:48 pm on February 18, 2026
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Dev Chat Agenda – February 18, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 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 ticketticket 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 7.0 Updates

Discussions 💬

The discussion section of the agenda is for discussing important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the CoreCore 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.

  • The following tickets are waiting for review/tests:
    • From @pratiknawkar94:
      • #60029: New PR available for review.
      • #61796: New PR available for review.
    • From @justlevine:
      • #64596: “Unlike abilities themselves, we can’t iterate on this from a feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. like Experiments, so waiting until 7.1 adds a lot of friction and makes the potential impact on early adopters trying to work around the current limitations harder to to assuage.”
  • Proposal for merging WP AI Client into WordPress 7.0: Decision needed as betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 is scheduled on February 19.

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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