Introduction The media library has been an area of slow iteration during the first phases of the block editor. It’s time to put more focus on it. The main goals are to expand the media management c…| Make WordPress Core
In WordPress 6.7, HEIC image uploads will be automatically converted to JPEG on the server when possible. This allows you to view HEIC images in WP Admin and use them in posts and pages regardless …| Make WordPress Core
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Catch up on the latest WordPress Core Performance team updates from July 15, 2025: View Transitions 1.1 release plans, Performance Lab plugin discussions, WordCamp US Contributor Day planning, and bug scrub volunteer updates.| Make WordPress Core
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There are discussion meetings and office hours in #core-restapi at and on Friday the 14th. Our next team meeting is on . Please attend some of all of these, because We are meeting at to make a deci…| Make WordPress Core
Hi everyone! This is a break from your regularly scheduled release posts. We’re looking to gather some feedback on the lead up to merging into core, to assess what your thoughts are on the AP…| Make WordPress Core
WordPress 4.4 will add native responsive image support by including srcset and sizes attributes to the image markup it generates. For background on this feature, read the merge proposal. How it wor…| Make WordPress Core
In WordPress 5.5, images will be lazy-loaded by default, using the native HTML loading attribute which became a web standard earlier in 2020. This will drastically save bandwidth on both servers as…| Make WordPress Core
10 posts published by Joe McGill, Peter Wilson, ramonopoly, Sarah Norris, Emily Clarke, and Mukesh Panchal in the year 2024| Make WordPress Core
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WordPress 5.6 will finally see the introduction of a new system for making authenticated requests to various WordPress APIs — Application Passwords. The existing cookie-based authentication s…| Make WordPress Core
WordPress 5.9 will feature a brand new default theme named Twenty Twenty-Two. It arrives during an exciting time for WordPress themes. With the advent of Full Site Editing and Global Styles, themes…| Make WordPress Core
Posts about 6-8 written by Benjamin Zekavica, Francesca Marano, Jeffrey Paul, and Joe Dolson| Make WordPress Core
Each new WordPress software release is a substantial undertaking that can only succeed through the dedication and support of hundreds of contributors. The work can span many months and involv…| Make WordPress Core
Dev Chat Agendas | Dev Chat Summaries | Roadmap post | Bug Scrubs Schedule | Dev Notes | Field Guide | Help Test 6.7 | All Posts Tagged 6.7 | 6.7 Release Leads Channel WordPress 6.7 will be the thi…| Make WordPress Core
With WordPress 6.7 out the door, it’s time to plan for next year’s releases. The following dates try to account for flagship events and major international holidays: 6.8 – Beta 1 on March 4, stable…| Make WordPress Core
Please leave your feedback about the schedule and release squad size in the comments by July 19th. If you are interested in participating in WordPress 6.7’s release squad as a lead, please show int…| Make WordPress Core
As of WordPress 6.4, attachment pages for new WordPress installations are fully disabled for new sites. Learn how to update existing sites.| Make WordPress Core
About the Project The WordPress project is run by a core leadership team and led by co-founder and lead developer Matt Mullenweg. The team governs all aspects of the project, including core develop…| Make WordPress Core
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Introduction Now that blocks are able to model and express an entire site, it’s important to improve the way they can be organized, listed, and installed by users. The overall goal is to improve ho…| Make WordPress Core
Introduction Collaboration workflows require revisions and edit history to be clear, usable, and performant. The design of the traditional post revisions interface needs to evolve to become fully a…| Make WordPress Core
Reporting Security Issues While we try to be proactive in preventing security problems, we do not assume they’ll never come up. If you believe you’ve found a security problem in a relea…| Make WordPress Core
Dev Chat Agendas | Dev Chat Summaries | Roadmap post | Bug Scrubs Schedule | Dev Notes | Field Guide | Help Test 6.6 | All Posts Tagged 6.6 | 6.6 Release Leads Channel WordPress 6.6 will be the sec…| Make WordPress Core
WordPress 6.6 unifies the different slots and extensibility APIs between the post and site editors so plugin authors do not need to integrate their extensions twice anymore.| Make WordPress Core
WordPress 6.6 is set to be released on July 16, 2024. With a slightly shorter cycle, this release heavily builds on the foundation of the last with some new items, like section styles and overrides…| Make WordPress Core
WordPress 6.2 introduces WP_HTML_Tag_Processor – a tool for block authors to adjust HTML tag attributes in block markup within PHP. It’s the first component in a new HTML processing API…| Make WordPress Core
WordPress 6.5 is introducing a new way of extending blocks that substantially reduces the custom code needed to integrate different kinds of data in the block editor. This can now be done through t…| Make WordPress Core
A number of contributors have flagged a stalemate on a couple of different topics for WP6.5 this week. I want to first thank everyone who joined in the discussions on Github, Slack, and elsewhere. …| Make WordPress Core
Support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1 is dropped in WordPress 6.6, scheduled for release in July 2024. The minimum supported version of PHP from WP 6.6 is 7.2.24. The recommended version of PHP for WP 6.6 re…| Make WordPress Core
Introduced in WordPress 6.5, the Font Library allows users to manage fonts directly in the editor. It comes with a set of APIs that allow developers to control, adapt, and disable its behavior. Fon…| Make WordPress Core
Following the post Evolving the FSE Outreach Program, there was a transition period of six months after the 6.4 release and the end of Phase 2. Now let’s discuss what could happen after this period…| Make WordPress Core
What started as an experimental program in May 2020 with the expectation that the Site Editor would ship in the following 6 or so months turned into nearly 3.5 years of feedback loops, knowledge sh…| Make WordPress Core
“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a remin…| Make WordPress Core
WordPress 6.0 brings three new features to Themes to offer site owners patterns. Register selected patterns from the public pattern directory, add theme patterns to a separate folder /patterns, and…| Make WordPress Core
These “Core Editor Improvement…” posts (labeled with the #core-editor-improvement tag) are a series dedicated to highlighting various new features, improvements, and more from Core Editor related p…| Make WordPress Core
What if effortlessly creating performant, fluid, and idiomatic frontend interactivity on block-based WordPress sites was possible? Imagine plugins providing interactions like “heart this post…| Make WordPress Core
Introduction The primary aim of real-time collaboration is to build functionality into the block editors so that concurrent collaboration, shared edits, and online presence of peers are possible. S…| Make WordPress Core
Dev Chat Agendas | Dev Chat Summaries | Bug Scrubs Schedule | Dev Notes | Field Guide | All Posts Tagged 6.5 | 6.5 Release Leads Channel WordPress 6.5 will be the first major release of 2024. Relea…| Make WordPress Core
WordPress 5.8 comes with a new mechanism to configure the editor that enables a finer-grained control and introduces the first step in managing styles for future WordPress releases. Controlling set…| Make WordPress Core
Posts about 5.8 written by Jonathan Desrosiers, Evan Mullins, Jb Audras, marybaum, and Josepha| Make WordPress Core
This Frequently Asked Questions list comes from questions that new Core contributors ask in New Contributors Meetings. Look for the list to grow over time as more questions get asked and answered. …| Make WordPress Core
Introduction About a year ago, some early notions of how we could evolve the admin experience were shared. The site editor, and the foundation set by its fluid browsing and editing flows, provides …| Make WordPress Core
WordPress 6.4 introduces Block Hooks to allow developers to extend templates with blocks automatically via block.json and hooked_block_types.| Make WordPress Core
Hey, everyone! It’s that time of the year. A brand new default theme will be featured with the next WordPress 6.4 release: Twenty Twenty-Four. The Concept The idea behind Twenty Twenty-Four is to m…| Make WordPress Core
The core performance team spent a lot of time this year looking into the performance of the i18n/l10n system in WordPress, after proving that loading translations had a significant hit on response …| Make WordPress Core
“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a remin…| Make WordPress Core
Welcome to the Core Contributor Handbook, the place to learn how to get involved with the WordPress core development community, and start contributing to WordPress core. Whether you are a beta test…| Make WordPress Core
WordPress 5.8 release cycle is different than previous ones in several ways but release squad navigates it with ease, even though not entirely without pressure. One of these differences is a decisi…| Make WordPress Core
Last 1 Android versions.Last 1 ChromeAndroid versions.Last 2 Chrome versions.Last 2 Firefox versions.Last 2 Safari versions.Last 2 iOS versions.Last 2 Edge versions.Last 2 Opera versions.Browsers w…| Make WordPress Core
The WordPress 6.4 Field Guide brings together the changes in the release and some of the major highlights.| Make WordPress Core
WordPress 6.4 will be the third major release of 2023. The following release team and its cohorts are contributors who answered the call for leadership volunteers and interest. This release aims to…| Make WordPress Core
The WordPress 6.2 Field Guide brings together the changes in the release and some of the highlights.| Make WordPress Core
Move a directory quick and easily in WordPress 6.2. Fall back to copy_dir() if moving fails, and get useful informative error messages if anything goes wrong. Save on time, memory and disk space us…| Make WordPress Core
New feature, minimum height control is available to theme developers via theme.json and users via Dimensions control in the sidebar of the Site Editor in WordPress 6.2.| Make WordPress Core
WordPress 6.2 adds a new position block support feature, beginning with support for sticky positioning, with the Group block opted-in by default| Make WordPress Core
The end of Phase 2 of the Gutenberg project is approaching! As we prepare to ship and wrap the final touches, I want to remind us all that this doesn’t mean work on customization is complete. In th…| Make WordPress Core
Introduction Provide seamless collaboration during the entire editorial process, from draft to publication. Allow users to add comments, suggest edits, and tag other users for peer review. Ensure t…| Make WordPress Core
Over the last year, Phase 3 of the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ roadmap has begun to take form and with it comes a need for an update around what’s been done, how to follow along, and what to expect going forward. T...| Make WordPress Core
Over the last few years, the WordPress project has been transforming the way users create and manage content on their websites. The introduction of blocks and the editing experience surrounding the…| Make WordPress Core
