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WordPress 7.1 Design System Theming: Admin Tokens Land

August 1, 2026• Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 ships Design System Theming: --wpds-* design tokens, a ThemeProvider React component, and a foundational admin theming layer....

WordPress 7.1 Upgrades jQuery UI to 1.14.2: What Changes

July 31, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 bumps jQuery UI to 1.14.2, keeps back-compat on, drops IE/Edge Legacy and retires four helpers. Here is the audit....

WordPress 7.1 Abilities API Filters: Four Hooks to Know

July 30, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 lands four Abilities API filters that let plugins short-circuit, reshape input, override permissions, and rewrite results....

Media Library Infinite Scrolling Is On by Default in 7.1

July 28, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 flips Media Library infinite scrolling back on by default. What changed, why it was off since 5.8, and the per-user opt-out....

WordPress 7.1 Client-Side Media Processing With wasm-vips

July 23, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 moves client-side media processing to the browser via wasm-vips. What Chromium gets, what Safari does not, which hooks stop firing....

Selective Plugin Loading Cuts WooCommerce.com Memory 50%

July 22, 2026• Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • WordPress Guides

WooCommerce.com cuts memory 50%+ per route with selective plugin loading. Here is the mu-plugin pattern, the caveats, and when to copy it....

WordPress 7.1 Icons API: The v15 Breaking Change You Missed

July 21, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

The @wordpress/icons v15 flip to fill=currentColor and the new register_icon() surface in the WordPress 7.1 Icons API rewrite plugin CSS. Here is what breaks....

WordPress 7.1 Beta 1: What Shipped and What to Test

July 16, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 is out. Notes, responsive styling, media, and the toolbar all moved. Here is what to test this week before WooCommerce 11.0....

WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release: 31 Bug Fixes Before 7.1

July 13, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.0.1 maintenance release ships 31 bug fixes across Core and the Block Editor. Update before 7.1 Beta 1 pins trunk on July 15....

WordPress Core Abilities Expansion Proposed for 7.1

July 5, 2026• Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • WordPress Guides

The WordPress core abilities merge proposal for 7.1 adds three read-only primitives that give AI clients a canonical protocol....

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