Dev Chat Agenda โ€“ August 6, 2025

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in theย coreย channel onย 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 haveย ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug […]

Dev Blog editorial meeting summary, October 3, 2024

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Dev Chat Agenda โ€“ October 1, 2025

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in theย coreย channel onย 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 haveย ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug […]

WordPressย 6.7.1ย RC1 is now available

WordPress 6.7.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing.

WordPress 6.5 Field Guide

This guide outlines major developer features and breaking changes in 6.5 and is published in the Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). cycle to help inform WordPress extending developers, CoreCore Core […]

WordPress 6.9.1 RC1 is now available

WordPress 6.9.1 Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 1 (RC1) is available for testing! Some ways you can help test this minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having […]

Accessibility Improvements in WordPress 7.0

WordPress 7.0 continues to polish accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both โ€œdirect accessโ€ (i.e. unassisted) and โ€œindirect accessโ€ meaning compatibility with a personโ€™s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) across WordPress CoreCore […]

Proposal: Bits as dynamic tokens.

A proposal for starting to introduce Bits (dynamic tokens/placeholders) into WordPress. When Blocks came into the scene Shortcodes were largely abandoned, but Shortcodes had value. They had many problems, but they also had value. It wasnโ€™t clear at the time how to bring them back without bringing back many of the problems they brought with […]

WordPressย 6.2.1ย RC1 is now available

WordPress 6.2.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing.

Summary, Dev Chat, August 6, 2025

Startย of the meeting inย 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/, facilitated by @audrasjb. ๐Ÿ”— Agenda post. Announcements ๐Ÿ“ข WordPress 6.9 Roadmap Theย roadmap for 6.9ย has been published. Please take a look to see whatโ€™s actively being worked on for release later in the year. […]