Five real Claude Code failures on a 240,000-line WordPress plugin: a symptom patch, a dropped requirement, a green refactor that broke behaviour, scope creep and a runaway read, plus the four-minute…

TL;DR Gutenberg’s JavaScript unit and integration tests now use Vitest, bringing better support for modern JavaScript modules and real-browser component testing. Tests explicitly import Vites…

The core team is working hard on better release automation, including CLI scripts, AI skills, and updated documentation. Why is this work important? A minor WordPress release—including every securi…

Join us for the eighth edition of The Page Builder Summit and learn, grown, socialise with other freelancers and agency owners like you.

Ask your AI assistant about any WordPress.org Trac. Announcing the the WordPress Trac Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, or any other MCP client to read tickets, ch…

TL;DR: WordPress Contributor Toolkit v1.2.0 has been released providing full Core and Gutenberg contribution workflows for first-time contributors. The WordPress Contributor Toolkit was created to …

After a few rounds of doing releases at live events, first at State of the Word 2025 and most recently with WordPress 7.1 at WordCamp US, it’s time to iterate and move towards a live-streamed zoom …

After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.

In July, it was announced that WordPress meetup groups will be moving off Meetup.com and onto events.wordpress.org, built on GatherPress. And since August 28, the team working on the project has ha…

Hey hosts 👋 Testing and development on the real-time collaboration feature (“RTC”) has picked up again after initially being removed from WordPress 7.0. A new server-aware approach for …

Discover how Aditya Shah is making an impact in the WordPress community and leading the official chapter in Bhopal.

In June 2025 I started googling seaside venues near Palermo. A small spreadsheet, a very optimistic (!) business plan, and the idea that WooCommerce developers

The Portuguese WordPress community is putting on a dedicated AI event in Faro on October 24, with two tracks and a bilingual program.

A year after withdrawing its first official block theme, WooCommerce says the time it spent improving core blocks and the editor made Purple worth bringing back.

This security and maintenance release features 17 bug fixes on Core, 19 bug fixes for the Block Editor, and 11 security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update …

WooCommerce introduces Purple, its first official block theme for beta testing, offering extensive customization options and modern templates for e-commerce. Users can provide feedback via GitHub…

WordPress Playground has shipped two new features: an integrated Terminal for PHP and WP-CLI, and a group for developer tools options on the Dock. The compact Dock keeps the everyday actions in vie…

Update to WordPress 7.1.2 now. Plus the WordPress 7.2 roadmap, AI agents and WordPress, a plugin developer trust checklist, and the WP Engine antitrust ruling.

खम्मा घणी! पधारो म्हारे WordCamp Rajasthan! ❤️ The wait is over. After inviting our WordPress community to design the Wapuu for the first-ever WordCamp Rajasthan, we can finally introduce you to ou…

“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a remin…

Maintenance of the GitHub mirror of the WordPress build repository has recently being transferred to the WordPress.org systems team. In future, any syncing issues with the GitHub mirror should be r…

The “Post” (or “Page”) tab of the editor’s Settings sidebar is being rebuilt on top of DataForm, the same form that Quick Edit uses in the Site Editor. It’s avai…

Following this year’s nominations, we are pleased to announce our new Test Team Reps for the 2026-2027 term! 🎉 Join us in welcoming Erick Wambua and Huzaifa Al Mesbah to re…

Date: 16.10.2026Place: Hotel Lasaretti 8:00 – 9:00 Registration + morning coffee (lobby) Time Talks / Auditorium Workshops / Classroom 9:00 9:00 – 9:15Opening Remarks Auditorium 9:15 Sisu Talk 09:15…

Everything is changing, and quickly. I feel it every day I work on Miles. It’s hard to keep up with, and often exhausting. There are threats and opportunities everywhere. WordPress…

Automattic's board crisis explained, WordPress security survey 2026 results, agency profitability data, and why WooCommerce devs keep losing to their own to-do

One of the most important aspects of any open source community is mentorship. In many ways, WordPress is what it is today due in large part to the many established contributors who have been willin…

A practical look at how AI agents inspect, change, and test WordPress—and why skills and MCP still need real evidence.

WooCommerce 11.1.1 has been released with targeted fixes for security, and a bug around the Mini-Cart.

Right now, the Student Clubs pages on this handbook are mostly an agreement: what a club is, and what’s expected of it. They don’t say how a club should actually run week to week, who&#…

This week’s WordPress AI contributor update covers progress on the AI plugin’s markdown feeds experiment, PHP AI Client 1.5.0 and embeddings, Anthropic web search support, and ongoing Model Context…

Automattic's board crisis explained, WordPress security survey 2026 results, agency profitability data, and why WooCommerce devs keep losing to their own to-do

Curious what AI actually looks like inside WordPress? Now you can find out for yourself. With the release of WordPress 7.0, AI is built directly into WordPress core through the canonical AI plugin.…

Hadrian reproduced WordPress core's critical CVSS 9.2 path traversal (CVE-2026-87902) with a working PoC and safe detection template. Patch to 7.1.2 now.