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Amy Kamala 12:40 am on October 7, 2026
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Dev Chat Agenda – October 7, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at 15:00 UTC 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 tracker. requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda or bring them up during the dev chat.

Announcements 📢

Discussions 💬

The discussion section of the agenda is for discussing important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team. To nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.

Open floor  🎙️

Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, as well as requests for assistance on tickets. Tickets in the milestone for the next major or maintenance release will be prioritized.

Please include details of tickets / PRs and the links in the comments, and indicate whether you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or will be async.

#7-1, #7-2, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Amy Kamala 12:18 am on September 30, 2026
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Dev Chat Agenda – September 30, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, at 15:00 UTC 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 tracker. requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda or bring them up during the dev chat.

Announcements 📢

Discussions 💬

The discussion section of the agenda is for discussing important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team. To nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.

  • @ericmann asked to open a conversation about the Secrets APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways., TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. #66187 . A PR for integrating 2FA has been opened and broader conversation on the API approach would be valuable to establish a trajectory prior to the 7.2 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. period.

Open floor  🎙️

Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, as well as requests for assistance on tickets. Tickets in the milestone for the next major or maintenance release will be prioritized.

Please include details of tickets / PRs and the links in the comments, and indicate whether you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or will be async.

#7-1, #7-2, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Jb Audras 7:54 pm on September 24, 2026
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Dev Chat summary: September 23, 2026

Start of the meeting in 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 🔗 See the agenda post.

Announcements 📢

7.2

7.1.x

  • WordPress 7.1.1 was released and contained 17 bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes on CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., 19 bug fixes for 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 API and user experience. Editor. It also contained 11 security fixes
  • Shortly after, WordPress 7.1.2 was released and fixed one important security issuesecurity issue A security issue is a type of bug that can affect the security of WordPress installations. Specifically, it is a report of a bug that you have found in the WordPress core code, and that you have determined can be used to gain some level of access to a site running WordPress that you should not have.

General

Discussion 💬

From @leemon

@leemon is waiting for feedback on these 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/ open issues. Some already have PRs associated with them:

  • Additional CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. styles are not generated for Navigation Link blocks on the frontend: #82171
  • Add Border and Spacing support to Navigation, Navigation Link and Navigation Submenu: #66392, #66483 and #68455
  • adding templateParts to child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/ disables random titles of other template parts: #39166
  • slimImageObject drops metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. fields added to attachments: #64415

From @afercia

Andrea would like to get some feedback on Trac ticket #65729, specifically on the 3 different potential approaches summarized in comment 6.

@audrasjb shared his preference for adding a parameter to wp_strip_all_tags(), which is Andrea’s least favorite option as function should ideally be responsible to do only one thing. Jb agreed.

@dmsnell added that probably trying to handle this in wp_strip_all_tags() could backfire. He also argued against calling html_entity_decode() first and then wp_strip_all_tags() since this would be a pretty severe anti-pattern as it creates mis-parses which lead to data corruption or worse. This all relates back to escaping late and making sure we don’t confuse HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. markup and plaintext. To make matters worse, the type of a post title in WordPress is HTML markup, which is different from the type of an HTML page’s title, which is plaintext. so in some cases things like attachment titles should be rendered as HTML and at other times the plaintext context should be extracted from it.

More discussion happened in this Slack thread. Further discussion welcome in the related ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.: #65729

Also, for the Build/Test tools component, Andrea is waiting for feedback on this ticket: #65621

#7-1-x, #7-2, #core, #dev-chat

Jb Audras 7:27 pm on September 22, 2026
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Dev Chat Agenda – September 23, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at 15:00 UTC 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 tracker. requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda or bring them up during the dev chat.

Announcements 📢

7.2

General

  • WordPress 7.1.1 was released and contained 17 bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes on CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., 19 bug fixes for 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 API and user experience. Editor, and 11 security fixes
  • WordPress 7.1.2 was released and fixed one important security issuesecurity issue A security issue is a type of bug that can affect the security of WordPress installations. Specifically, it is a report of a bug that you have found in the WordPress core code, and that you have determined can be used to gain some level of access to a site running WordPress that you should not have.

Discussions 💬

The discussion section of the agenda is for discussing important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the Core Team. To nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.

Open floor  🎙️

Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, as well as requests for assistance on tickets. Tickets in the milestone for the next major or maintenance release will be prioritized.

Please include details of tickets / PRs and the links in the comments, and indicate whether you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or will be async.

#7-1, #7-2, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Amy Kamala 3:04 am on September 16, 2026
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Dev Chat Agenda – September 16, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at 15:00 UTC 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 tracker. requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda or bring them up during the dev chat.

Announcements 📢

7.2

General

Discussions 💬

The discussion section of the agenda is for discussing important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team. To nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.

Open floor  🎙️

Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, as well as requests for assistance on tickets. Tickets in the milestone for the next major or maintenance release will be prioritized.

Please include details of tickets / PRs and the links in the comments, and indicate whether you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or will be async.

#7-1, #7-2, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Jb Audras 8:22 pm on September 10, 2026
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Dev Chat summary: September 9, 2026

Start of the meeting in 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 @amykamala 🔗 See the agenda post.

Announcements 📢

7.1

7.1.1

  • WordPress 7.1.1 RC1 is planned on September 10.

7.2

General

Discussion 💬

@drivingralle is asking for feedback on 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/ issue 79082 / PR 79146.

@n8finch is requesting feedback on two Gutenberg PRs: 82367 and 81944.

Background (apart from what’s in the Issue and PRs): these are two features that are available in 7.1, but are incomplete:

  • Icons: being able to use keywords in the search is invaluable
  • Placeholder: would be great for this to work outside the Site Editor, 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 API and user experience. Editor

@n8finch‘s team is pretty jazzed about these features, and would like to be able to use them. These PRs push the features over the finish line.

@oglekler proposed to move the new contributor meeting a bit earlier at 1 pm UTC so that it will be more convenient for people from Asia, but of course another shift in timing is something that people will need to get used to. She added that people from Asia are mostly who are attending, even if time isn’t ideal for them. Ideally we need to 2 meeting to cover all the globe.

@joefusco shared that tracking RTC’s polling cost and the Gutenberg & Presence APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. overlap in presence-api#444, for anyone following that space. Originating from this thread.

@ericmann shared that for those who didn’t see the comments on his make/core post about the Secrets API proposal, he have an initial working draft of a feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins live at https://github.com/ericmann/secrets-api and would love feedback on this. His hope is this also addresses some of the feedback we’ve gotten from hosts/providers about how they can integrate with their own platforms as well.

More chances to come as it develops and we work on interop with other systems, but feedback is absolutely welcome and encouraged

#7-1-1, #7-2, #core, #dev-chat

Amy Kamala 2:38 am on September 9, 2026
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Dev Chat Agenda – September 9, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at 15:00 UTC 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 tracker. requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda or bring them up during the dev chat.

Announcements 📢

7.2

7.1

General

Discussions 💬

The discussion section of the agenda is for discussing important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team. To nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.

Open floor  🎙️

Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, as well as requests for assistance on tickets. Tickets in the milestone for the next major or maintenance release will be prioritized.

Please include details of tickets / PRs and the links in the comments, and indicate whether you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or will be async.

#7-1, #7-2, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Jb Audras 7:29 pm on September 2, 2026
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Dev Chat summary: September 2, 2026

Start of the meeting in 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 🔗 See the agenda post.

Announcements 📢

7.2

7.1.1

General

Discussion 💬

From @jeffpaul

Jeff resurfaced this heads up from @annezazu, for anyone who’s working on something for 7.2 to ensure they flag that to Anne for the roadmap post:

Howdy! I’m starting to work on a roadmap for WordPress 7.2 since we’re less than 2 months from 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. I wanted to check in to see what might be coming up across the project that folks are dedicated to working on. As a reminder, roadmaps aren’t meant to be completely comprehensive but are meant to reflect the priority work slated for the release. As a result, I won’t include every little detail and instead focus on getting the broad strokes in place. As always, I’ll share drafts as I go but just want to flush out anything early as I have a long list already!

@annezazu – link to the Slack thread

@audrasjb: “On my side, I’d say this feature (ticket #65910) may be a huge thing for support teams (on dotorg as well as for plugins/themes support teams if we make it an APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.). Design welcome but I think we can probably make a POC with the existing dashicons and basic styling.”

From @pbearne

Paul would love to see some of his patches that add tests get merged.

#7-1-1, #7-2, #core, #dev-chat

Amy Kamala 12:54 pm on September 2, 2026
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Dev Chat Agenda – September 2, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at 15:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.

Dev chat is back on Wednesdays again!

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 tracker. requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda or bring them up during the dev chat.

Announcements 📢

7.2

7.1.1

General

Discussions 💬

The discussion section of the agenda is for discussing important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team. To nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.

Open floor  🎙️

Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, as well as requests for assistance on tickets. Tickets in the milestone for the next major or maintenance release will be prioritized.

Please include details of tickets / PRs and the links in the comments, and indicate whether you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or will be async.

Props to @audrasjb for collaborating on this agenda.

#7-1, #7-2, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Jb Audras 5:13 am on August 25, 2026
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Dev Chat Agenda – August 26, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, at 15:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.

Yes, the dev chat is switching back to Wednesdays starting this week!

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 tracker. requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda or bring them up during the dev chat.

Announcements 📢

Note: Dev Chat has been moved to Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC for the duration of the 7.1 release cycle.

7.1

7.2

General

Discussions 💬

The discussion section of the agenda is for discussing important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team. To nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.

Open floor  🎙️

Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, as well as requests for assistance on tickets. Tickets in the milestone for the next major or maintenance release will be prioritized.

Please include details of tickets / PRs and the links in the comments, and indicate whether you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or will be async.

#7-1, #7-2, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat