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Bring Your Local Community to the Global Chat
1w ago00:05:54Tap to summarizeIf you have your own local community and want to take advantage of the benefits of global communication, WordPress has already begun integrating multiple communities into the global Slack. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { var player = document.getElementById("player-6a3289f191be8"); podlovePlayerCache.add([{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/publisher\/8141","data":{"version":5,"show":{"title":"WordPress Podcast (English)","subtitle":"WordPress Community Information","summary":"Information, news, and interviews about the WordPress Community.","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/dd\/28ee03a4963838d31567f5d8474591\/wordpress-podcast-english_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast"},"title":"Bring Your Local Community to the Global Chat","subtitle":"If you have your own local community and want to take advantage of the benefits of global communication, WordPress has already begun integrating multiple communities into the global Slack.","summary":"","publicationDate":"2026-06-16T00:00:00+00:00","duration":"00:05:54.229","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/60\/7458e13f6aa4d5fa17e4c0a38f834e\/bring-your-local-community-to-the-global-chat_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast\/bring-your-local-community-to-the-global-chat\/","chapters":[],"audio":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/366\/s\/webplayer\/c\/website\/wordpress-podcast-en-e143.mp3","size":"5767224","title":"MP3 Audio (mp3)","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"files":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/366\/s\/webplayer\/wordpress-podcast-en-e143.mp3","size":"5767224","title":"WordPress Podcast","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"contributors":[{"id":"5","name":"Alicia Ireland","avatar":"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIGNsYXNzPSJoLTYgdy02IiBmaWxsPSJub25lIiB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMjQgMjQiIHN0cm9rZT0iY3VycmVudENvbG9yIj4KICA8cGF0aCBzdHJva2UtbGluZWNhcD0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS1saW5lam9pbj0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMiIgZD0iTTUuMTIxIDE3LjgwNEExMy45MzcgMTMuOTM3IDAgMDExMiAxNmMyLjUgMCA0Ljg0Ny42NTUgNi44NzkgMS44MDRNMTUgMTBhMyAzIDAgMTEtNiAwIDMgMyAwIDAxNiAwem02IDJhOSA5IDAgMTEtMTggMCA5IDkgMCAwMTE4IDB6IiAvPgo8L3N2Zz4K","role":{"id":"1","slug":"host","title":"Host"},"group":null,"comment":null}]}}, {"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/config\/default\/theme\/wppodcast-blocks","data":{"activeTab":"chapters","subscribe-button":null,"share":{"channels":[],"outlet":null,"sharePlaytime":false},"related-episodes":{"source":"podcast","value":null},"version":5,"playlist":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/podcast","theme":{"tokens":{"brand":"#15803D","brandDark":"#15803D","brandDarkest":"#15803D","brandLightest":"#fff","shadeDark":"#000","shadeBase":"#000","contrast":"#000","alt":"#fff"},"fonts":{"ci":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":800},"regular":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":300},"bold":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":700}}},"base":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/podlove-web-player\/web-player\/"}}]); podlovePlayer(player, "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/publisher/8141", "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/config/default/theme/wppodcast-blocks").then(function() { player && player.classList.remove("podlove-web-player-loading"); }); }); Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from June 8 to 14, 2026. The Core team has integrated into the WordPress 7.1 development branch the system that enables user registration with email accounts compatible with UTF-8 characters. The is_email() and sanitize_email() functions now natively accept these addresses, and a new WP_Email_Address class is added that allows access to both the ASCII representation of the address — useful for HTML attributes like the href of a mailto link — and the Unicode representation, designed to be displayed to the user. Support can be disabled via filters for cases where a plugin integrates with an external service that doesn’t yet support this type of address. Important notice for those using WP Now in their local development flow: <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/playground/2026/06/08/wp-now-is-deprec...
Transcribe →WordCamp Europe 2026
2w ago00:11:40Tap to summarizeFollowing the launch of WordPress 7.0, the largest WordPress event on the planet took place, bringing together 2,500 people from the ecosystem to review the state of WordPress and the upcoming WordPress 7.1 version. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { var player = document.getElementById("player-6a3289f1a30bc"); podlovePlayerCache.add([{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/publisher\/8135","data":{"version":5,"show":{"title":"WordPress Podcast (English)","subtitle":"WordPress Community Information","summary":"Information, news, and interviews about the WordPress Community.","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/dd\/28ee03a4963838d31567f5d8474591\/wordpress-podcast-english_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast"},"title":"WordCamp Europe 2026","subtitle":"Following the launch of WordPress 7.0, the largest WordPress event on the planet took place, bringing together 2,500 people from the ecosystem to review the state of WordPress and the upcoming WordPress 7.1 version.","summary":"","publicationDate":"2026-06-09T00:00:00+00:00","duration":"00:11:40.268","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/88\/3ac02bd55907271caaf3583191435f\/wordcamp-europe-2026_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast\/wordcamp-europe-2026\/","chapters":[],"audio":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/365\/s\/webplayer\/c\/website\/wordpress-podcast-en-e142.mp3","size":"11423496","title":"MP3 Audio (mp3)","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"files":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/365\/s\/webplayer\/wordpress-podcast-en-e142.mp3","size":"11423496","title":"WordPress Podcast","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"contributors":[{"id":"5","name":"Alicia Ireland","avatar":"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIGNsYXNzPSJoLTYgdy02IiBmaWxsPSJub25lIiB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMjQgMjQiIHN0cm9rZT0iY3VycmVudENvbG9yIj4KICA8cGF0aCBzdHJva2UtbGluZWNhcD0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS1saW5lam9pbj0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMiIgZD0iTTUuMTIxIDE3LjgwNEExMy45MzcgMTMuOTM3IDAgMDExMiAxNmMyLjUgMCA0Ljg0Ny42NTUgNi44NzkgMS44MDRNMTUgMTBhMyAzIDAgMTEtNiAwIDMgMyAwIDAxNiAwem02IDJhOSA5IDAgMTEtMTggMCA5IDkgMCAwMTE4IDB6IiAvPgo8L3N2Zz4K","role":{"id":"1","slug":"host","title":"Host"},"group":null,"comment":null}]}}, {"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/config\/default\/theme\/wppodcast-blocks","data":{"activeTab":"chapters","subscribe-button":null,"share":{"channels":[],"outlet":null,"sharePlaytime":false},"related-episodes":{"source":"podcast","value":null},"version":5,"playlist":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/podcast","theme":{"tokens":{"brand":"#15803D","brandDark":"#15803D","brandDarkest":"#15803D","brandLightest":"#fff","shadeDark":"#000","shadeBase":"#000","contrast":"#000","alt":"#fff"},"fonts":{"ci":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":800},"regular":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":300},"bold":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":700}}},"base":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/podlove-web-player\/web-player\/"}}]); podlovePlayer(player, "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/publisher/8135", "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/config/default/theme/wppodcast-blocks").then(function() { player && player.classList.remove("podlove-web-player-loading"); }); }); Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from June 1 to 7, 2026. WordCamp Europe 2026 took place June 4-6 in Krakow, Poland, with 2,458 attendees from 81 countries, nearly a quarter of whom were attending their first WordCamp Europe. The event kicked off with Contributor Day, where all teams worked in parallel, with special focus on bringing new contributors on board through mentors and welcome tables. The opening keynote was delivered by the CERN team, the European laboratory where the World Wide Web was born, which announced that home.cern is now running on WordPress, automatically migrated to production that same day, with a custom platform that provisions new sites in Kubernetes in roughly a minute and plans to release as open source. WordPress 7.0 was the thread running through much of the program. A panel with launch contributors walked through how a version of this magnitude is coordinated, and several sessions explored in detail the possibilities opened by nati...
Transcribe →WordPress Turns 23
3w ago00:06:12Tap to summarizeIt’s been 23 years since May 27, 2003, when version 0.70 of new software known as WordPress was released. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { var player = document.getElementById("player-6a3289f1b564a"); podlovePlayerCache.add([{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/publisher\/8131","data":{"version":5,"show":{"title":"WordPress Podcast (English)","subtitle":"WordPress Community Information","summary":"Information, news, and interviews about the WordPress Community.","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/dd\/28ee03a4963838d31567f5d8474591\/wordpress-podcast-english_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast"},"title":"WordPress Turns 23","subtitle":"","summary":"","publicationDate":"2026-06-02T00:00:00+00:00","duration":"00:06:12.252","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/4b\/64b9e44073019e52525f8b45dc679d\/wordpress-turns-23_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast\/wordpress-turns-23\/","chapters":[],"audio":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/364\/s\/webplayer\/c\/website\/wordpress-podcast-en-e141.mp3","size":"6059928","title":"MP3 Audio (mp3)","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"files":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/364\/s\/webplayer\/wordpress-podcast-en-e141.mp3","size":"6059928","title":"WordPress Podcast","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"contributors":[{"id":"5","name":"Alicia Ireland","avatar":"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIGNsYXNzPSJoLTYgdy02IiBmaWxsPSJub25lIiB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMjQgMjQiIHN0cm9rZT0iY3VycmVudENvbG9yIj4KICA8cGF0aCBzdHJva2UtbGluZWNhcD0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS1saW5lam9pbj0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMiIgZD0iTTUuMTIxIDE3LjgwNEExMy45MzcgMTMuOTM3IDAgMDExMiAxNmMyLjUgMCA0Ljg0Ny42NTUgNi44NzkgMS44MDRNMTUgMTBhMyAzIDAgMTEtNiAwIDMgMyAwIDAxNiAwem02IDJhOSA5IDAgMTEtMTggMCA5IDkgMCAwMTE4IDB6IiAvPgo8L3N2Zz4K","role":{"id":"1","slug":"host","title":"Host"},"group":null,"comment":null}]}}, {"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/config\/default\/theme\/wppodcast-blocks","data":{"activeTab":"chapters","subscribe-button":null,"share":{"channels":[],"outlet":null,"sharePlaytime":false},"related-episodes":{"source":"podcast","value":null},"version":5,"playlist":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/podcast","theme":{"tokens":{"brand":"#15803D","brandDark":"#15803D","brandDarkest":"#15803D","brandLightest":"#fff","shadeDark":"#000","shadeBase":"#000","contrast":"#000","alt":"#fff"},"fonts":{"ci":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":800},"regular":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":300},"bold":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":700}}},"base":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/podlove-web-player\/web-player\/"}}]); podlovePlayer(player, "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/publisher/8131", "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/config/default/theme/wppodcast-blocks").then(function() { player && player.classList.remove("podlove-web-player-loading"); }); }); Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from May 25 to 31, 2026. WordPress celebrated its 23rd birthday on May 27, and Matt Mullenweg marked it with a post on the official blog reflecting on a year he describes as the strongest and most precarious in the project’s history. On the positive side, he highlights the launch of WordPress 7.0: within just seven days, 46% of all installations worldwide had already updated automatically and without incident. On the darker side, Matt spends much of the post on the legal conflict with WP Engine and its parent company Silver Lake, which he says is consuming time and energy from key project people and has reached the point of attempting to dissolve the WordPress Foundation. Matt publicly calls on Silver Lake to end the litigation, and closes the post on a very personal note, acknowledging the human cost it’s taking on him and those around him. The Core team has announced that WordPress 7.1 will upgrade React: moving from version 18 to 19, a change that will arrive first in the Gutenberg plugin in version 23.3 and will be integrated into Core with WordPress 7.1. WordPress 7.0.1 is being planned for mid to late June. The most urgent...
Transcribe →WordPress 7.0: Louis "Armstrong"
4w agoTap to summarizeArguably one of the most complicated versions to launch, but it’s finally here. WordPress 7.0 is now a reality, and AI integration in WordPress is too. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { var player = document.getElementById("player-6a3289f1c488d"); podlovePlayerCache.add([{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/publisher\/8126","data":{"version":5,"show":{"title":"WordPress Podcast (English)","subtitle":"WordPress Community Information","summary":"Information, news, and interviews about the WordPress Community.","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/dd\/28ee03a4963838d31567f5d8474591\/wordpress-podcast-english_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast"},"title":"WordPress 7.0: Louis \"Armstrong\"","subtitle":"Arguably one of the most complicated versions to launch, but it's finally here. WordPress 7.0 is now a reality, and AI integration in WordPress is too.","summary":"","publicationDate":"2026-05-26T00:00:00+00:00","duration":"00:00:00.000","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/5f\/52bd6edb47a8bebe684275a0183ad1\/wordpress-7-0-louis-armstrong_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast\/wordpress-7-0-louis-armstrong\/","chapters":[],"audio":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/363\/s\/webplayer\/c\/website\/wordpress-podcast-en-e140.mp3","size":"7891656","title":"MP3 Audio (mp3)","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"files":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/363\/s\/webplayer\/wordpress-podcast-en-e140.mp3","size":"7891656","title":"WordPress Podcast","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"contributors":[{"id":"5","name":"Alicia Ireland","avatar":"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIGNsYXNzPSJoLTYgdy02IiBmaWxsPSJub25lIiB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMjQgMjQiIHN0cm9rZT0iY3VycmVudENvbG9yIj4KICA8cGF0aCBzdHJva2UtbGluZWNhcD0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS1saW5lam9pbj0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMiIgZD0iTTUuMTIxIDE3LjgwNEExMy45MzcgMTMuOTM3IDAgMDExMiAxNmMyLjUgMCA0Ljg0Ny42NTUgNi44NzkgMS44MDRNMTUgMTBhMyAzIDAgMTEtNiAwIDMgMyAwIDAxNiAwem02IDJhOSA5IDAgMTEtMTggMCA5IDkgMCAwMTE4IDB6IiAvPgo8L3N2Zz4K","role":{"id":"1","slug":"host","title":"Host"},"group":null,"comment":null}]}}, {"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/config\/default\/theme\/wppodcast-blocks","data":{"activeTab":"chapters","subscribe-button":null,"share":{"channels":[],"outlet":null,"sharePlaytime":false},"related-episodes":{"source":"podcast","value":null},"version":5,"playlist":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/podcast","theme":{"tokens":{"brand":"#15803D","brandDark":"#15803D","brandDarkest":"#15803D","brandLightest":"#fff","shadeDark":"#000","shadeBase":"#000","contrast":"#000","alt":"#fff"},"fonts":{"ci":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":800},"regular":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":300},"bold":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":700}}},"base":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/podlove-web-player\/web-player\/"}}]); podlovePlayer(player, "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/publisher/8126", "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/config/default/theme/wppodcast-blocks").then(function() { player && player.classList.remove("podlove-web-player-loading"); }); }); Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from May 18 to 24, 2026. It’s here. On May 20, WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” was officially released, named in honor of Louis Armstrong, the jazz trumpeter who transformed the genre into a soloist’s art and introduced improvisation as a universal musical language. The launch was coordinated by Matias Ventura as release lead and involved more than 875 contributors from around the world, over 200 of them participating for the first time, resulting in more than 420 improvements and fixes. We’ve already covered this version’s updates in detail, so if you want to review them, check out the previous episode where we walked through everything thoroughly. And if you haven’t updated yet — now’s the time. The same day WordPress 7.0 shipped, the development branch was already open for WordPress 7.1, something that normally happens earlier, but was kept closed during this cycle to better manage the removal of real-time collaboration and the extension of the release window. The next day saw the&nbs...
Transcribe →What WordPress 7.0 Brings
May 1900:15:51Tap to summarizeWordPress 7.0 arrives on May 20 and brings many updates, though some of the most notable have been left out. Here’s a rundown of everything in this new version. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { var player = document.getElementById("player-6a3289f1cdcb9"); podlovePlayerCache.add([{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/publisher\/8122","data":{"version":5,"show":{"title":"WordPress Podcast (English)","subtitle":"WordPress Community Information","summary":"Information, news, and interviews about the WordPress Community.","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/dd\/28ee03a4963838d31567f5d8474591\/wordpress-podcast-english_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast"},"title":"What WordPress 7.0 Brings","subtitle":"WordPress 7.0 arrives on May 20 and brings many updates, though some of the most notable have been left out. Here's a rundown of everything in this new version.","summary":"","publicationDate":"2026-05-19T00:00:00+00:00","duration":"00:15:51.515","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/0d\/184312ecc0c9e9ddba760a76a9606f\/what-wordpress-7-0-brings_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast\/what-wordpress-7-0-brings\/","chapters":[],"audio":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/362\/s\/webplayer\/c\/website\/wordpress-podcast-en-e139.mp3","size":"15486888","title":"MP3 Audio (mp3)","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"files":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/362\/s\/webplayer\/wordpress-podcast-en-e139.mp3","size":"15486888","title":"WordPress Podcast","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"contributors":[{"id":"5","name":"Alicia Ireland","avatar":"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIGNsYXNzPSJoLTYgdy02IiBmaWxsPSJub25lIiB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMjQgMjQiIHN0cm9rZT0iY3VycmVudENvbG9yIj4KICA8cGF0aCBzdHJva2UtbGluZWNhcD0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS1saW5lam9pbj0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMiIgZD0iTTUuMTIxIDE3LjgwNEExMy45MzcgMTMuOTM3IDAgMDExMiAxNmMyLjUgMCA0Ljg0Ny42NTUgNi44NzkgMS44MDRNMTUgMTBhMyAzIDAgMTEtNiAwIDMgMyAwIDAxNiAwem02IDJhOSA5IDAgMTEtMTggMCA5IDkgMCAwMTE4IDB6IiAvPgo8L3N2Zz4K","role":{"id":"1","slug":"host","title":"Host"},"group":null,"comment":null}]}}, {"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/config\/default\/theme\/wppodcast-blocks","data":{"activeTab":"chapters","subscribe-button":null,"share":{"channels":[],"outlet":null,"sharePlaytime":false},"related-episodes":{"source":"podcast","value":null},"version":5,"playlist":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/podcast","theme":{"tokens":{"brand":"#15803D","brandDark":"#15803D","brandDarkest":"#15803D","brandLightest":"#fff","shadeDark":"#000","shadeBase":"#000","contrast":"#000","alt":"#fff"},"fonts":{"ci":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":800},"regular":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":300},"bold":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":700}}},"base":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/podlove-web-player\/web-player\/"}}]); podlovePlayer(player, "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/publisher/8122", "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/config/default/theme/wppodcast-blocks").then(function() { player && player.classList.remove("podlove-web-player-loading"); }); }); Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from May 11 to 17, 2026. This week, after the release of RC3 and RC4 that were actual release candidates, WordPress 7.0 ships, and it’s not just any release. With over four hundred closed tickets in Core, nearly five hundred editor improvements, and nearly five hundred bug fixes, it’s the most feature-packed launch since Gutenberg was integrated. Let’s run through everything it brings, starting with what users will notice first and ending with what matters to developers. The first thing users will notice when updating to 7.0 is that the WordPress admin has a fresh look. The default color scheme, called “Fresh,” has been replaced with a new one called “Modern”: cleaner, with better contrast, improved typography, and a look more consistent with the block editor. This change is purely visual — no structural changes or CSS class renames. Additionally, navigating between admin screens now includes smooth transitions thanks to the browser’s View Transitions API, though they only activate if the user hasn’t configured a motion reducti...
Transcribe →WordPress 7.0, Without Real-Time Collaboration
May 1200:08:38Tap to summarizeFinally, Real-Time Collaboration will arrive in WordPress 7.1 and not 7.0, given the performance issues and the changes needed for its new implementation. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { var player = document.getElementById("player-6a3289f1d6a0a"); podlovePlayerCache.add([{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/publisher\/8117","data":{"version":5,"show":{"title":"WordPress Podcast (English)","subtitle":"WordPress Community Information","summary":"Information, news, and interviews about the WordPress Community.","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/dd\/28ee03a4963838d31567f5d8474591\/wordpress-podcast-english_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast"},"title":"WordPress 7.0, Without Real-Time Collaboration","subtitle":"Finally, Real-Time Collaboration will arrive in WordPress 7.1 and not 7.0, given the performance issues and the changes needed for its new implementation.","summary":"","publicationDate":"2026-05-12T00:00:00+00:00","duration":"00:08:38.891","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/17\/b6c9b308c29694fe4aeb85261b4c5f\/wordpress-7-0-without-real-time-collaboration_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast\/wordpress-7-0-without-real-time-collaboration\/","chapters":[],"audio":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/361\/s\/webplayer\/c\/website\/wordpress-podcast-en-e138.mp3","size":"8452560","title":"MP3 Audio (mp3)","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"files":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/361\/s\/webplayer\/wordpress-podcast-en-e138.mp3","size":"8452560","title":"WordPress Podcast","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"contributors":[{"id":"5","name":"Alicia Ireland","avatar":"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIGNsYXNzPSJoLTYgdy02IiBmaWxsPSJub25lIiB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMjQgMjQiIHN0cm9rZT0iY3VycmVudENvbG9yIj4KICA8cGF0aCBzdHJva2UtbGluZWNhcD0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS1saW5lam9pbj0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMiIgZD0iTTUuMTIxIDE3LjgwNEExMy45MzcgMTMuOTM3IDAgMDExMiAxNmMyLjUgMCA0Ljg0Ny42NTUgNi44NzkgMS44MDRNMTUgMTBhMyAzIDAgMTEtNiAwIDMgMyAwIDAxNiAwem02IDJhOSA5IDAgMTEtMTggMCA5IDkgMCAwMTE4IDB6IiAvPgo8L3N2Zz4K","role":{"id":"1","slug":"host","title":"Host"},"group":null,"comment":null}]}}, {"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/config\/default\/theme\/wppodcast-blocks","data":{"activeTab":"chapters","subscribe-button":null,"share":{"channels":[],"outlet":null,"sharePlaytime":false},"related-episodes":{"source":"podcast","value":null},"version":5,"playlist":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/podcast","theme":{"tokens":{"brand":"#15803D","brandDark":"#15803D","brandDarkest":"#15803D","brandLightest":"#fff","shadeDark":"#000","shadeBase":"#000","contrast":"#000","alt":"#fff"},"fonts":{"ci":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":800},"regular":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":300},"bold":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":700}}},"base":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/podlove-web-player\/web-player\/"}}]); podlovePlayer(player, "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/publisher/8117", "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/config/default/theme/wppodcast-blocks").then(function() { player && player.classList.remove("podlove-web-player-loading"); }); }); Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from May 4 to 10, 2026. The big news this week around WordPress 7.0 is that real-time collaboration will not be in the final release. Matt Mullenweg made the decision to remove it, citing attack surface problems, race conditions, server load, memory efficiency, and recurring bugs found in fuzz testing. It’s a difficult call given the work invested, but it’s made in the interest of shipping a stable release. The feature will be re-evaluated during the WordPress 7.1 cycle, and in the meantime remains available through the Gutenberg plugin for anyone who wants to keep testing it. The technical data behind that decision has also been published. Eight different hosting environments, including configurations with and without persistent object caching, participated in the performance tests. The analysis makes it fairly clear that a dedicated table storage strategy combined with object caching for user presence detection is the winner: roughly 52% faster than the current impl...
Transcribe →Presence API
May 500:02:30Tap to summarizeWith the Presence API, a column of active editors appears in the post list, an indicator in the admin bar shows avatars of who is on that same screen, and a pair of dashboard widgets rounds out the feature. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { var player = document.getElementById("player-6a3289f1e01d9"); podlovePlayerCache.add([{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/publisher\/8112","data":{"version":5,"show":{"title":"WordPress Podcast (English)","subtitle":"WordPress Community Information","summary":"Information, news, and interviews about the WordPress Community.","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/dd\/28ee03a4963838d31567f5d8474591\/wordpress-podcast-english_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast"},"title":"Presence API","subtitle":"With the Presence API, a column of active editors appears in the post list, an indicator in the admin bar shows avatars of who is on that same screen, and a pair of dashboard widgets rounds out the feature.","summary":"","publicationDate":"2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00","duration":"00:02:30.885","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/0f\/6dc3c0eba12d22cebb93f373b7bc64\/presence-api_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast\/presence-api\/","chapters":[],"audio":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/360\/s\/webplayer\/c\/website\/wordpress-podcast-en-e137.mp3","size":"2441184","title":"MP3 Audio (mp3)","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"files":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/360\/s\/webplayer\/wordpress-podcast-en-e137.mp3","size":"2441184","title":"WordPress Podcast","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"contributors":[{"id":"5","name":"Alicia Ireland","avatar":"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIGNsYXNzPSJoLTYgdy02IiBmaWxsPSJub25lIiB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMjQgMjQiIHN0cm9rZT0iY3VycmVudENvbG9yIj4KICA8cGF0aCBzdHJva2UtbGluZWNhcD0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS1saW5lam9pbj0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMiIgZD0iTTUuMTIxIDE3LjgwNEExMy45MzcgMTMuOTM3IDAgMDExMiAxNmMyLjUgMCA0Ljg0Ny42NTUgNi44NzkgMS44MDRNMTUgMTBhMyAzIDAgMTEtNiAwIDMgMyAwIDAxNiAwem02IDJhOSA5IDAgMTEtMTggMCA5IDkgMCAwMTE4IDB6IiAvPgo8L3N2Zz4K","role":{"id":"1","slug":"host","title":"Host"},"group":null,"comment":null}]}}, {"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/config\/default\/theme\/wppodcast-blocks","data":{"activeTab":"chapters","subscribe-button":null,"share":{"channels":[],"outlet":null,"sharePlaytime":false},"related-episodes":{"source":"podcast","value":null},"version":5,"playlist":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/podcast","theme":{"tokens":{"brand":"#15803D","brandDark":"#15803D","brandDarkest":"#15803D","brandLightest":"#fff","shadeDark":"#000","shadeBase":"#000","contrast":"#000","alt":"#fff"},"fonts":{"ci":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":800},"regular":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":300},"bold":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":700}}},"base":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/podlove-web-player\/web-player\/"}}]); podlovePlayer(player, "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/publisher/8112", "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/config/default/theme/wppodcast-blocks").then(function() { player && player.classList.remove("podlove-web-player-loading"); }); }); Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from April 27 to May 3, 2026. The Core team has published an experimental plugin called Presence API, intended as a starting point for potential integration into WordPress core. The idea is straightforward: add a presence layer to the administration dashboard to know who is logged in, which screen each user is on, and which posts they are currently editing. Today, if two people are editing the same post simultaneously, WordPress gives no warning until a lock collision has already occurred — by which point work may have already overlapped. With the Presence API, a column of active editors appears in the post list, an indicator in the admin bar shows avatars of who is on that same screen, and a pair of dashboard widgets provides an at-a-glance overview. All of this is restricted to users with the capability to edit posts. On the technical side, the plugin uses its own dedicated table for ephemeral data with a 60-second time-to-live, which avoids the performance problem identified during WordPress 7.0 development, where storing high-frequency data in...
Transcribe →WordPress 7.0 in 3 Weeks
Apr 28Tap to summarizeWordPress 7.0 has a release date again — with a 4-week cushion past the deadline when an update had been promised. If everything stays on track, we’ll have this new major version on May 20. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { var player = document.getElementById("player-6a3289f1e883a"); podlovePlayerCache.add([{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/publisher\/8106","data":{"version":5,"show":{"title":"WordPress Podcast (English)","subtitle":"WordPress Community Information","summary":"Information, news, and interviews about the WordPress Community.","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/dd\/28ee03a4963838d31567f5d8474591\/wordpress-podcast-english_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast"},"title":"WordPress 7.0 in 3 Weeks","subtitle":"WordPress 7.0 has a release date again \u2014 with a 4-week cushion past the deadline when an update had been promised. If everything stays on track, we'll have this new major version on May 20.","summary":"","publicationDate":"2026-04-28T00:00:00+00:00","duration":"00:00:00.000","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/b6\/bcee0bad0e1fbec4a1f10e1ff8865d\/wordpress-7-0-in-3-weeks_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast\/wordpress-7-0-in-3-weeks\/","chapters":[],"audio":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/359\/s\/webplayer\/c\/website\/wordpress-podcast-en-e136.mp3","size":"8590104","title":"MP3 Audio (mp3)","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"files":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/359\/s\/webplayer\/wordpress-podcast-en-e136.mp3","size":"8590104","title":"WordPress Podcast","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"contributors":[{"id":"5","name":"Alicia Ireland","avatar":"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIGNsYXNzPSJoLTYgdy02IiBmaWxsPSJub25lIiB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMjQgMjQiIHN0cm9rZT0iY3VycmVudENvbG9yIj4KICA8cGF0aCBzdHJva2UtbGluZWNhcD0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS1saW5lam9pbj0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMiIgZD0iTTUuMTIxIDE3LjgwNEExMy45MzcgMTMuOTM3IDAgMDExMiAxNmMyLjUgMCA0Ljg0Ny42NTUgNi44NzkgMS44MDRNMTUgMTBhMyAzIDAgMTEtNiAwIDMgMyAwIDAxNiAwem02IDJhOSA5IDAgMTEtMTggMCA5IDkgMCAwMTE4IDB6IiAvPgo8L3N2Zz4K","role":{"id":"1","slug":"host","title":"Host"},"group":null,"comment":null}]}}, {"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/config\/default\/theme\/wppodcast-blocks","data":{"activeTab":"chapters","subscribe-button":null,"share":{"channels":[],"outlet":null,"sharePlaytime":false},"related-episodes":{"source":"podcast","value":null},"version":5,"playlist":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/podcast","theme":{"tokens":{"brand":"#15803D","brandDark":"#15803D","brandDarkest":"#15803D","brandLightest":"#fff","shadeDark":"#000","shadeBase":"#000","contrast":"#000","alt":"#fff"},"fonts":{"ci":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":800},"regular":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":300},"bold":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":700}}},"base":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/podlove-web-player\/web-player\/"}}]); podlovePlayer(player, "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/publisher/8106", "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/config/default/theme/wppodcast-blocks").then(function() { player && player.classList.remove("podlove-web-player-loading"); }); }); Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from April 20 to 26, 2026. WordPress 7.0 now has a release date: May 20, 2026 — six weeks after the originally planned April 9. The new schedule published this week confirms what was already apparent: the cycle is effectively restarting, just not in name. RC3, planned for May 8, behaves like a new Beta 1, and RC4 will function as the real Release Candidate 1. On April 24, ahead of all this, a call went out to hosting providers to test compatibility, with a dedicated tool that stress-tests multi-user connections in the editor’s collaborative screens. The interesting detail is that the team has kept the RC numbering rather than reverting to betas — something we already explained: if WordPress published a “Beta 7” after an RC2, PHP’s version_compare function would not recognize it as newer, and automatic updates would break. So RC3 and RC4 are, in practice, a new beta and a new release candidate in disguise. What we don’t know yet is whether these six extra weeks wil...
Transcribe →Matt Mullenweg questions the direction of WordPress
Apr 21Tap to summarizeMatt Mullenweg has published an extensive and self-critical assessment of the WordPress project’s state, questioning a process culture that — in his view — paralyzes decision-making, overshadows individual contributors in favor of companies, and has turned Five for the Future into a program generating useless data. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { var player = document.getElementById("player-6a3289f1f179b"); podlovePlayerCache.add([{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/publisher\/8102","data":{"version":5,"show":{"title":"WordPress Podcast (English)","subtitle":"WordPress Community Information","summary":"Information, news, and interviews about the WordPress Community.","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/dd\/28ee03a4963838d31567f5d8474591\/wordpress-podcast-english_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast"},"title":"Matt Mullenweg questions the direction of WordPress","subtitle":"Matt Mullenweg has published an extensive and self-critical assessment of the WordPress project's state, questioning a process culture that \u2014 in his view \u2014 paralyzes decision-making, overshadows individual contributors in favor of companies, and has","summary":"","publicationDate":"2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00","duration":"00:00:00.000","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/87\/a072bc9cb617bb4fc51d144c701dec\/matt-mullenweg-questions-the-direction-of-wordpress_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast\/matt-mullenweg-questions-the-direction-of-wordpress\/","chapters":[],"audio":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/358\/s\/webplayer\/c\/website\/wordpress-podcast-en-e135.mp3","size":"10469976","title":"MP3 Audio (mp3)","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"files":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/358\/s\/webplayer\/wordpress-podcast-en-e135.mp3","size":"10469976","title":"WordPress Podcast","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"contributors":[{"id":"5","name":"Alicia Ireland","avatar":"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIGNsYXNzPSJoLTYgdy02IiBmaWxsPSJub25lIiB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMjQgMjQiIHN0cm9rZT0iY3VycmVudENvbG9yIj4KICA8cGF0aCBzdHJva2UtbGluZWNhcD0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS1saW5lam9pbj0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMiIgZD0iTTUuMTIxIDE3LjgwNEExMy45MzcgMTMuOTM3IDAgMDExMiAxNmMyLjUgMCA0Ljg0Ny42NTUgNi44NzkgMS44MDRNMTUgMTBhMyAzIDAgMTEtNiAwIDMgMyAwIDAxNiAwem02IDJhOSA5IDAgMTEtMTggMCA5IDkgMCAwMTE4IDB6IiAvPgo8L3N2Zz4K","role":{"id":"1","slug":"host","title":"Host"},"group":null,"comment":null}]}}, {"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/config\/default\/theme\/wppodcast-blocks","data":{"activeTab":"chapters","subscribe-button":null,"share":{"channels":[],"outlet":null,"sharePlaytime":false},"related-episodes":{"source":"podcast","value":null},"version":5,"playlist":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/podcast","theme":{"tokens":{"brand":"#15803D","brandDark":"#15803D","brandDarkest":"#15803D","brandLightest":"#fff","shadeDark":"#000","shadeBase":"#000","contrast":"#000","alt":"#fff"},"fonts":{"ci":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":800},"regular":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":300},"bold":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":700}}},"base":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/podlove-web-player\/web-player\/"}}]); podlovePlayer(player, "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/publisher/8102", "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/config/default/theme/wppodcast-blocks").then(function() { player && player.classList.remove("podlove-web-player-loading"); }); }); Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from April 13 to 19, 2026. At WordCamp Asia in Mumbai, a seemingly routine question during the closing Q&A triggered the most intense internal debate the WordPress community has seen in a long time. An attendee asked the panel what the best way was for a company to contribute to the project. Two of core’s most active committers, Peter Wilson and Sergey Biryukov, gave the same answer: sponsor full-time contributors. Matt Mullenweg, following the event remotely, publicly disagreed in real time, transmitting his response through the Automattic communications team. What followed was a week of criticism and self-criticism that put long-unanswered questions back on the table. The first thread started on Make Core, where Matt published a reflection on a photo of a conference badge from the event that he saw circulating on social me...
Transcribe →AI Tools for Creating Training Content
Apr 1400:04:51Tap to summarizeThe WordPress Training team has proposed a set of tools and prompts to standardize the creation of WordPress learning materials. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { var player = document.getElementById("player-6a3289f20bb77"); podlovePlayerCache.add([{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/publisher\/8097","data":{"version":5,"show":{"title":"WordPress Podcast (English)","subtitle":"WordPress Community Information","summary":"Information, news, and interviews about the WordPress Community.","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/dd\/28ee03a4963838d31567f5d8474591\/wordpress-podcast-english_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast"},"title":"AI Tools for Creating Training Content","subtitle":"The WordPress Training team has proposed a set of tools and prompts to standardize the creation of WordPress learning materials.","summary":"","publicationDate":"2026-04-14T00:00:00+00:00","duration":"00:04:51.507","poster":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/cache\/podlove\/ab\/c8db75b21c393da825cf4a25439664\/ai-tools-for-creating-training-content_500x.png","link":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podcast\/ai-tools-for-creating-training-content\/","chapters":[],"audio":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/357\/s\/webplayer\/c\/website\/wordpress-podcast-en-e134.mp3","size":"4723032","title":"MP3 Audio (mp3)","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"files":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/podlove\/file\/357\/s\/webplayer\/wordpress-podcast-en-e134.mp3","size":"4723032","title":"WordPress Podcast","mimeType":"audio\/mpeg"}],"contributors":[{"id":"5","name":"Alicia Ireland","avatar":"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIGNsYXNzPSJoLTYgdy02IiBmaWxsPSJub25lIiB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMjQgMjQiIHN0cm9rZT0iY3VycmVudENvbG9yIj4KICA8cGF0aCBzdHJva2UtbGluZWNhcD0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS1saW5lam9pbj0icm91bmQiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMiIgZD0iTTUuMTIxIDE3LjgwNEExMy45MzcgMTMuOTM3IDAgMDExMiAxNmMyLjUgMCA0Ljg0Ny42NTUgNi44NzkgMS44MDRNMTUgMTBhMyAzIDAgMTEtNiAwIDMgMyAwIDAxNiAwem02IDJhOSA5IDAgMTEtMTggMCA5IDkgMCAwMTE4IDB6IiAvPgo8L3N2Zz4K","role":{"id":"1","slug":"host","title":"Host"},"group":null,"comment":null}]}}, {"url":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/config\/default\/theme\/wppodcast-blocks","data":{"activeTab":"chapters","subscribe-button":null,"share":{"channels":[],"outlet":null,"sharePlaytime":false},"related-episodes":{"source":"podcast","value":null},"version":5,"playlist":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-json\/podlove-web-player\/shortcode\/podcast","theme":{"tokens":{"brand":"#15803D","brandDark":"#15803D","brandDarkest":"#15803D","brandLightest":"#fff","shadeDark":"#000","shadeBase":"#000","contrast":"#000","alt":"#fff"},"fonts":{"ci":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":800},"regular":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":300},"bold":{"name":"Outfit","family":["sans-serif"],"src":[],"weight":700}}},"base":"https:\/\/www.wppodcast.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/podlove-web-player\/web-player\/"}}]); podlovePlayer(player, "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/publisher/8097", "https://www.wppodcast.org/wp-json/podlove-web-player/shortcode/config/default/theme/wppodcast-blocks").then(function() { player && player.classList.remove("podlove-web-player-loading"); }); }); Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from April 6 to 12, 2026. Gutenberg 22.9 has arrived with two main highlights. The first is background gradient support in the Group block, which can now be combined with background images without conflicts. A gradient selector appears in the Background panel and works independently of the existing color controls, making it possible to create overlay effects on top of images or combine multiple backgrounds at once. This new background gradient support is also available to block developers and lays the groundwork for an eventual unification of the background system across all blocks. The second is an experimental improvement to the command palette, which now organizes actions into sections — recent commands and context-aware suggestions — instead of showing only an empty search field. To try it, enable the “Workflow Palette” experiment in Gutenberg settings. Among the additional updates, a notable one is the arrival of an EmptyState component in the wordpress/ui package, which standardizes how empty states are displayed across the interface. Real-time collaborat...
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