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How I've enabled Claude Code to access all abilities registered with the Abilities API via MCP in the wordpress-develop environment.

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Development of a WordPress plugin which appends the modified date to the Post Date block when it is different from the published date.

**In-Person MeetUp at the [NW Portland Hostel](https://www.nwportlandhostel.com/)**, 479 NW 18th Ave, Portland, 97209. The most recent release of WordPress includes many p

When Mary and Joseph fled Judea to protect Jesus from Herod, would they have been welcomed as refugees in America if he had been born today?

WordPress 6.9 broke site layout theinfoprovider (@theinfoprovider) 1 week, 6 days ago After the automatic update to WordPress 6.9 (and/or Gutenberg plugin 19.5), the entire front-end design of our …

This guide outlines major developer features and breaking changes in 6.9 and is published in the Release Candidate phase to help inform WordPress extending developers, Core developers, and others. …

This post is the latest in a series of updates focused on the performance improvements of major releases (see 6.8, 6.7, 6.6, 6.5, 6.4, 6.3, and 6.2). WordPress 6.9 is the second and final major rel…

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We at Speed Kit are now extending Google's LCP thresholds in all our dashboards by adding two additional buckets to show more details for page loads faster than 2.5s.

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I've joined WP Engine to contribute full time to WordPress core, continuing the performance work I started while at Google.

Analysis of the LCP impact for optimizations featured by the Performance Lab plugin and proposed for WordPress core. Presented at WCUS 2025.

My blog is now passing the CWV assessment on desktop and mobile in CrUX and has 100 in Lighthouse! But the web performance journey isn't over.

Since so many of my teammates and colleagues are converging on my hometown of Portland, Oregon for WordCamp US, I've put together a list of some of my favorite things to do which may be helpful for WC...

Enforces a Strict Content Security Policy on the frontend and login screen to help mitigate any XSS vulnerabilities.

I just learned that Gemini Code Assist for GitHub supports a .gemini directory which can be used for configuration. One of these configuration files is a styleguide.md. This PR introduces an initia...

The implementation here is described in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63589#comment:23 Instead of re-introducing the separate STYLE tag for the Customizer's Custom CSS in the Customiz...

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…

Adds speculative loading to the WP Admin for prerendering links with moderate eagerness in the Admin Bar and Admin Menu. Experimental. - westonruter/speculative-loading-admin

The new No-cache BFCache plugin enables instant back/forward navigations, especially while logged in.

Adding fetchpriority=low to script modules and moving them from the head to the footer can improve LCP by >9%!

tl;dr Several official WordPress projects use PHPStan for static code analysis of PHP files as part of their development tooling and quality control. It’s used by thousands of WordPress plugins and…

To share heartwarming AI-generated bison videos from Veo 3, I had to improve CLS in WordPress by adding width, height, and aspect-ratio.

Adding fetchpriority=low to script modules and moving them from the head to the footer can improve LCP by >9%!

Earlier this year I re-built this site using the Twenty Twenty-Five theme, finally adopting a block theme over the veritable Twenty Twenty classic theme I had been using. In this rebuild, one thing th...

Overview of my contributions to the WordPress project with the goal of finding new sponsorships to continue contributing.

This article explains how to use dedicated, modern HTML and CSS features together to create fully-customized <select> elements. This includes having full control over styling the select button, drop-down picker, arrow icon, current selection checkmark, and each individual <option> element.

What? Closes #54089 Experiment with replacing footnote links (which take the reader to the end of the content to read the footnote) with footnote buttons which open the footnote inline in a popove...

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Prioritizes the loading of images and videos based on how they appear to actual visitors: adds fetchpriority, preloads, lazy-loads, and sets sizes.

Find out how visitors on mobile can get an instant loading experience without eagerly prerendering all links on the page.

WordPress 6.8 introduces speculative loading, which can lead to near-instant page load times by loading URLs before the user navigates to them. The feature relies on the Speculation Rules API, a we…