Home

Core Tag Archive

WordPress 7.1 Release Day: What Happens Wednesday

August 18, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 ships Wednesday Aug 19 at 23:10 UTC, live from WordCamp US Phoenix. Here is the actual timeline, the code freeze, and what to do....

WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.0 Ships as a Desktop App

August 16, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

The WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.0 is a desktop app that collapses the Core contribution setup from four hours to forty minutes....

WordPress 7.2 Planning Opens Before 7.1 Even Ships

August 13, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.2 is targeting December 9, 2026. The call for volunteers opened August 12, one week before 7.1 ships. Here is the read....

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....

WordPress 7.1 Release Party Schedule: What Ships When

July 4, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

The WordPress 7.1 release party schedule is on the record: six Slack checkpoints from Beta 1 to General Release on August 19, 2026....

Gutenberg Core Sync Guidelines Are Now Written Down

June 30, 2026• Category: Blog

Make/Core publishes the first formal Gutenberg core sync process: weekly cadence, locked beta/RC pinning, and a commit-message template....

WordPress Knowledge Post Type Proposed for 7.1 Core

June 23, 2026• Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • WordPress Guides

Greg Ziolkowski has proposed merging the WordPress Knowledge custom post type into 7.1 core, with Guidelines as the first feature on top....

WordPress 7.0.1 Release Schedule: Bug-Fix Plan for July 9

June 20, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.0.1 release schedule is set: bug scrubs through June, RC1 July 1, general release July 9. Four co-leads, narrow bug-fix scope....

WordPress libvips Image Editor: 18x Faster Than Imagick

June 17, 2026• Category: Blog

A new Core Trac proposal would add a WordPress libvips image editor backend with major CPU and memory wins over Imagick. What it means....

Close Search Window
↑