Introducing Core Team Reps for 2025

Now that the nominations process for Core Team Reps has concluded, I’m pleased to announce that @francina and @audrasjb have agreed to serve as CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team Reps for 2025 with @benjamin_zekavica joining them in a mentorship role to start […]

What’s new in Gutenberg 19.9? (19 December)

“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 (#gutenberg-new) appear on a biweekly basis after every Gutenberg release, […]

Block Bindings: Improvements to the Editor Experience in 6.7

WordPress 6.7 introduces various improvements to 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 […]

Roster of design tools per block (WordPress 6.7 edition)

A basic look up table on design tools supported per block.

Developer Blog editorial meeting summary 4 July 2024

Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress 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/.. Start of the meeting in Slack. Attendees: @welcher @milana_cap, @magdalenapaciorek, @bcworkz (async) and @bph (as […]

Roster of design tools per block (WordPress 6.6 edition)

A basic look up table on design tools supported per block.

Proposal: Server to client data sharing for Script Modules

Abstract Script Modules were introduced in WordPress 6.5. wp_add_inline_script is often used to initialize or make data available to Scripts. Feedback on Script Modules and explorations suggest this would be a useful feature for Script Modules, but nothing exists at this time. This post will describe the problem in detail and propose a solution. The […]

Gutenberg Index 2023

This page is the one place you can bookmark for 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/-related team posts of CoreCore […]

Hallway Hangout: Performance End of Year Review 2023

Following up on the prior performance related hallway hangout for WordPress 6.3, and hallway hangout for WordPress 6.4, @flixos90 @joemcgill and @clarkeemily co-hosted an end of year hallway hangout to review the WordPress performance enhancements from 2023, and a look ahead to 2024! The Hallway Hangout took place at  and the Zoom link was shared […]

Editor chat summary: October 04th, 2023

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript), held in the #core-editor 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, on Wednesday, October 04, 2023, 14:00 UTC moderated by @ajitbohra Accouncements Async key project updates Read the latest updates directly […]