WordPress 7.1 Beta 1: What Shipped and What to Test

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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

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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....

Classic Block Stays in the WordPress 7.1 Inserter

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WordPress 7.1 reverses course: the Classic block stays fully available in the inserter, and here is what the reversal tells us about TinyMCE and migrations....

WordPress 7.1 Design System Theming Merge Proposal

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WordPress 7.1 gains a design system theming layer: wp-theme handle, ThemeProvider React component, DTCG tokens. What actually ships....

Responsive Styling Lands in Gutenberg 23.5 for WordPress 7.1

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Responsive styling in WordPress 7.1 ships in Gutenberg 23.5 with a public call for testing. Per-viewport styles from the editor, no CSS....

WordPress Core Abilities Expansion Proposed for 7.1

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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

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

Connector Field Registry Proposed for WordPress 7.1

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Gutenberg PR #79373 proposes a PHP connector field registry that closes the api_key-only gap left by the 7.0 Connectors screen....

Gutenberg Core Sync Guidelines Are Now Written Down

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

Dynamic Template Parts in Block Themes Without Duplication

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How to use the render_block_data filter to swap dynamic template parts in block themes without duplicating templates. Practical pattern for WordPress and...

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