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Why WooCommerce Is Building Its Admin on DataViews

August 10, 2026• Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • WordPress Guides

WooCommerce killed its block product editor and is now committing publicly to DataViews for the admin. Here is what that bet actually looks like....

Gutenberg 23.7 Ships Its Last Fixes Before 7.1 RC1

August 9, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

Gutenberg 23.7 landed on August 5 alongside WordPress 7.1 RC1 with the Gallery Detach rename, RTC fixes, and the last round of editor polish....

WordPress 7.1 Responsive Block Styles Land in Global Styles

August 6, 2026• Category: Blog

WordPress 7.1 adds responsive block styles and configurable viewports to Global Styles and theme.json. Here is what shipped and how I would migrate....

Defensive Data Design: WordPress’s Safety Rules for AI Agents

August 4, 2026• Category: Blog • Enterprise Solutions • WordPress Guides

Matt Mullenweg's defensive data design principles show what safe AI-agent defaults should look like inside WordPress before 7.1 GA....

WordPress 7.1 JSON Schema Preparation for AI Clients

August 3, 2026• Category: Blog

WordPress 7.1 adds a shared JSON Schema preparation layer that makes REST, Abilities API, and AI provider schemas portable by default....

WordPress 7.1 Site Editor Screen Filters: A First Look

August 2, 2026• Category: Blog

WordPress 7.1 ships four PHP Site Editor screen filters for Pages, Templates, Template Parts and Patterns. Server-side curation, finally....

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....

Background Gradient Block Support Ships in WordPress 7.1

July 27, 2026• Category: Blog

WordPress 7.1 adds background.gradient block support that finally layers over images. Five core blocks adopt it. Here is what to do....

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