Meetups are the events the project needs to focus on to grow the community, and for that reason a significant effort will be made to improve documentation and better understand current needs.

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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 January 26 to February 1, 2026.

A new version of WordPress is about to be released. In this case, it will be the first minor release of the current branch, WordPress 6.9.1, which includes 23 core fixes and 25 editor fixes.

The Core AI team has full priority on moving AI Experiments and Abilities forward, and on preparing the groundwork so that the AI client and its components can land in WordPress 7.0 without being blocked by the release schedule.

Work is now focused on AI Experiments 0.3, with planned improvements such as refactoring the Abilities Explorer and better integration with editor tools.

Abilities remained a central topic, with progress on Settings and Core Post ...

Focus on Meetups