{"id":122564,"date":"2026-04-27T14:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/?p=122564"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:52:39","slug":"presence-api-feature-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2026\/04\/27\/presence-api-feature-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Presence API Feature Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Presence API<\/a> is an experimental feature pluginFeature Plugin<\/span> A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> that provides a system-wide awareness layer \u2014 who is logged in, what adminadmin<\/span> (and super admin)<\/span><\/span><\/span> screens they are on, and which posts they are editing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This idea of presence I think is really cool and seeing where people are\u2026 you log into your WordPress, I see oh Matias is moderating some comments, Lynn is on the dashboard maybe reading some news\u2026 that idea of like you log in and you can kind of see the neighborhood of like who else is also there.<\/p>\nMatt Mullenweg, WordPress 7.0 planning session<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Problems this aims to solve<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • There is currently no way to see who else is logged into the WordPress admin at the same time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Posts being actively edited by another user are only surfaced when a lock collision occurs, by which point work may already overlap.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The post list provides no indication of which posts have active editors until a user tries to open one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Here\u2019s what that looks like in practice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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