Dev Chat Agenda โ€“ December 17, 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 […]

Planning for 7.0

With 6.9 out in the world, our collective attention has already turned to 7.0. Core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org., together with Matt and Mary, had a call to discuss […]

Summary, Dev Chat, December 10, 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 @benjamin_zekavica ๐Ÿ”— Agenda post. Announcements ๐Ÿ“ข WordPress 6.9ย is now available! WordPress 6.9ย is now available for download. Huge thanks to all contributors who made this release possible.ย  GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is […]

Dev Chat Agenda โ€“ December 10, 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 […]

Summary, Dev Chat, December 3, 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 @benjamin_zekavica ๐Ÿ”— Agenda post. Announcements ๐Ÿ“ข WordPress 6.9ย is now available! WordPress 6.9ย is now available for download. Huge thanks to all contributors who made this release possible.ย  GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is […]

Dev Chat Agenda โ€“ December 3, 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 […]

Ability to Hide Blocks in WordPress 6.9

WordPress 6.9 now includes a built-in feature to hide blocks, making it easy to tuck content away without deleting it. You can now hide blocks: select a 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 […]

Summary, Dev Chat, November 26, 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 @benjamin_zekavica ๐Ÿ”— Agenda post. Announcements ๐Ÿ“ข 6.9ย 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 […]

Dev Chat Agenda โ€“ November 26, 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 […]

WordPress 6.9 Field Guide

Edit 11/25/25: The Miscellaneous Editor Changes developer note was published after the Field GuideField guide The field guide is a type of blogpost published on Make/Core during the release candidate phase of the WordPress release cycle. The field guide generally lists all the dev notes published during the beta cycle. This guide is linked in […]