Roadmap to 6.9

WordPress 6.9 is scheduled to be released on December 2nd, 2025 with plans for a simplified editing mode in the Site Editor, improvements to template management, block leveling commenting, and more.

WordPressย 6.2.1ย RC1 is now available

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

A Week in Core โ€“ March 4, 2024

Welcome back to a new issue ofย Week inย CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Letโ€™s take a look at what changed onย TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.ย between February 26 and March […]

WordPress 6.9 Beta 1

WordPress 6.9 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 […]

Whatโ€™s new in Gutenberg 21.5? (27 August)

โ€œWhatโ€™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 โ€˜blocksโ€™ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/โ€ฆโ€ posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress […]

Roadmap to 6.7

WordPress 6.7 is set to be released on November 12th, 2024. Along with a new default theme, there are new features, like the ability to zoom out to compose content with patterns, and new APIs, like the Template Registration APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact […]

Dev Chat Summary, January 24, 2024

Start of meeting on Slack facilitated by @webcommsat This DevChat starts with an experiment to shift the chat to synchronize discussions on open coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. proposals and release issues rather than reproducing links highlighted in the curated agendas. Discussion on […]

Roadmap to 6.8

WordPress 6.8 is set to be released on April 15th, 2025. This release continues refining foundational features introduced in previous versions, focusing on improving data views, query loops, and 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 […]

Dev Chat agenda, August 23, 2023

WordPress Developers Chat agenda for August 23, 2023 at 20:00 UTC including preparation for WordCamp US Contributor Day.

A Week in Core โ€“ January 8, 2024

Welcome back to a new issue ofย Week inย CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Yes, the Week in Core blogposts are back! ๐ŸŽ‰ Well, letโ€™s take a look at what changed onย TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker […]