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annezazu 10:53 am on March 13, 2026
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Twenty Twenty-Seven default theme: Call for Volunteers

After aligning with @photomatt and @4thhubbard, I’m excited to announce a call for volunteers to work on the Twenty Twenty-Seven default theme alongside @iamarinoh who has been chosen as the lead designer. Please comment below to express your interest in helping with the development of the theme.  As a reminder, the default theme ships with […]

Ben Dwyer 4:19 pm on March 11, 2026  

What’s new in Gutenberg 22.7? (11 March)

“What’s new in GutenbergGutenberg 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/…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg […]

Amy Kamala 5:53 am on March 11, 2026
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Dev Chat Agenda – March 11, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on 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 […]

Aditya Dhade 5:32 pm on March 10, 2026
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Performance Chat Summary: 10 March 2026

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets Performance Lab PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress […]

Gopal Krishnan 3:26 am on March 10, 2026
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Real-Time Collaboration in the Block Editor

Real-time collaboration (RTC) in the blockBlock 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 […]

Jonathan Desrosiers 3:49 pm on March 9, 2026
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Call For Feedback: Increasing Value of Release Party Testing Phase

Every WordPress release party includes a phase dedicated to community testing. Contributors from around the world come together synchronously, run through a set of testing scenarios, and report the results in the #core SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel. It’s a […]

Maggie Cabrera 10:06 am on March 9, 2026
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Pseudo-element support for blocks and their variations in theme.json

WordPress 7.0 adds support for pseudo-class selectors (:hover, :focus, :focus-visible, and :active) directly on blocks and their style variations in theme.json. Previously, this was only possible for HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. elements like button and link under the styles.elements key. BlockBlock Block is […]

Nick Hamze 9:56 pm on March 8, 2026
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Announcing the Featured Plugins Experiment

I pitched this to Matt directly and have been given the go ahead to pave the way here. This post begins that process and documents the Featured Plugins experiment currently underway on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code […]

Nik Tsekouras 4:35 pm on March 4, 2026
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Breadcrumb block filters

WordPress 7.0 introduces a new Breadcrumbs blockBlock 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 […]

David Smith 2:34 pm on March 4, 2026
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Customisable Navigation Overlays in WordPress 7.0

WordPress 7.0 introduces Customisable Navigation Overlays, giving site owners full control over their mobile navigation menus using the blockBlock 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 […]