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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 co...

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