
WordPress 6.9 RC Adds Saved Views for Custom Post Types
The release candidate lets editors store a filtered list of events, listings, or recipes and return to it. Agencies that live in CPTs will notice first.
August 21, 2026·Sam Calder

The release candidate lets editors store a filtered list of events, listings, or recipes and return to it. Agencies that live in CPTs will notice first.
August 21, 2026·Sam Calder

Contributor Day wants names on the table cards before the flight deals vanish. The form is short. The commitment is a Saturday.
August 20, 2026·Sam Calder

#48
Mara Ellison
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Freelance WordPress work on public marketplaces has thinned out since 2023. Mara Ellison walks through why retainers, productized services, and community referrals are replacing bid boards — and how AI changed the math.
August 19, 2026·Alex Harlan

A command-line run of Plugin Check is no longer a gist you copy from Slack. Contributors can fail a zip before they open a ticket.
August 18, 2026·Sam Calder

The switcher is no longer a widget that hopes a classic theme still exists. A few vendors built a block that survives a header template part.
August 17, 2026·Sam Calder

The next major release spends its energy on listing screens, not another writing surface. We look at what actually changed for editors and site builders.
August 16, 2026·Sam Calder

A long-requested workflow lands: pull a hosted site down, work locally, and push changes back without a third-party migration plugin. We look at what it solves — and the edge cases it still leaves open.
August 14, 2026·Sam Calder

Opinion: a site with forty plugins is not ‘mature.’ It is a support contract wearing a dashboard.
August 13, 2026·Alex Harlan

Store names, directive stability, and what you can break in a minor. The docs now say it in a voice that is not a hallway conversation.
August 12, 2026·Riley Cho

#47
Jonah Hale
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Jonah Hale’s path runs from printmaking studios to hosting ops to theme leadership. We talk about the overlap of craft and logic in WordPress work, and why community contribution still feels like the point.
August 12, 2026·Alex Harlan

Unnamed pixel soup will bounce. Patterns that travel between themes need a shared idea of ‘large.’
August 10, 2026·Sam Calder

More tickets and travel support for first-time contributors. The application is short on purpose. The report-back is not optional.
August 9, 2026·Riley Cho

Contributors can now boot a Pull Request in WordPress Playground from the GitHub UI. The loop from patch to clickable site just got shorter, which matters if you review with your eyes as much as your diffs.
August 8, 2026·Sam Calder

Not everyone wants to live in Gutenberg. A hosting-and-performance path joins the usual docs and core tables.
August 7, 2026·Riley Cho

Store managers can refund a line without leaving the order screen for a gateway tab from 2018. The honest versions log it as a store note.
August 5, 2026·Riley Cho

#46
Elena Voss
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
WordPress can overwhelm new builders with options. Educator Elena Voss explains why she left, why she came back, and how pacing, defaults, and better onboarding beat another settings screen.
August 5, 2026·Alex Harlan

Opinion: the WordPress admin does not need another tab. It needs fewer decisions on day one and a door to the rest.
August 4, 2026·Alex Harlan

A catalog of one-click WordPress environments lands for contributors, educators, and plugin authors who are tired of README install novels.
August 2, 2026·Sam Calder

Opinion: a canvas without an onboarding path is not ‘powerful.’ It is unfinished retail.
August 1, 2026·Alex Harlan

The contact-form market is rebuilding itself as blocks. Some of the rebuilds are real products. Some are shortcodes wearing a block wrapper.
August 1, 2026·Sam Calder

A plain list of titles and dates ships next to the cinematic cards. Teachers and newsrooms asked for the boring one.
July 31, 2026·Riley Cho

Make WordPress teams posted their representatives for the coming year. We outline who is stepping in, what the roles actually decide, and why these unglamorous seats shape the release train.
July 30, 2026·Riley Cho

#45
Theo Marczak
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Theo Marczak spent a year poking at WordPress hosts that sell “secure hosting.” Most WordPress-specific issues still slipped through. We unpack what the tests showed, and what buyers should ask next.
July 29, 2026·Alex Harlan

The props graph on profiles now goes back far enough to look like a career, not a weekend. Hiring managers, you have a URL.
July 28, 2026·Sam Calder

The next default theme cuts the pattern library nearly in half. The remaining ones are built to be finished, not screenshotted.
July 27, 2026·Sam Calder

Emailing backup codes to the same inbox that just got phished was a tradition. A round of plugins now force a download at enrollment.
July 26, 2026·Sam Calder

A CC-licensed deck, a one-page reporting path, and language that is not copied from a 2014 wiki. Local groups can still make it local.
July 24, 2026·Sam Calder

A proposal to describe what a plugin can do, in a machine-readable way, is getting comments. The interesting fight is over who is allowed to declare an ability.
July 22, 2026·Riley Cho

#44
Priya Sen
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Priya Sen argues that accessibility-ready WordPress themes are mostly disciplined HTML, not a mysterious extra track. We cover skip links, headings, alt text, and why block themes can actually help.
July 22, 2026·Alex Harlan

Canonical titles and schema are less wrong when the plugin can see the actual blocks on the page. A few vendors got there. Most still parse the classic field.
July 21, 2026·Riley Cho

Opinion: the launch party is not the expensive part. The month after, when the plugin update lands, is.
July 20, 2026·Alex Harlan

A packed Saturday is being split so newcomers can leave with a merged patch before the hallway track takes over.
July 19, 2026·Sam Calder

A surge of near-duplicate plugins, many clearly machine-written, is clogging review. New guidelines ask authors to disclose automated generation and to ship something a human could defend.
July 18, 2026·Riley Cho

A maximum size so a heading cannot become a billboard on a TV. Clamp() with a ceiling, documented.
July 17, 2026·Sam Calder

A handbook note tells you when a noindex on an archive is a feature and when it is a support ticket. Query loops made this urgent.
July 15, 2026·Sam Calder

#43
Lukas Novak
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Outdated PHP is still sitting under a shocking number of WordPress sites. Lukas Novak explains the security and performance cost, and why “the plugin isn’t ready” is a weaker excuse every year.
July 15, 2026·Alex Harlan

Opinion: calling the directory a marketplace makes slop inevitable. Calling it infrastructure makes curation a duty.
July 14, 2026·Alex Harlan

A notice when another redirect plugin is already active. Late. Still better than a loop that takes the homepage with it.
July 13, 2026·Riley Cho

More than half of newly submitted block themes now meet accessibility-ready criteria on first review. Theme developers say the block markup did more of the work than they expected.
July 11, 2026·Sam Calder

Not a sponsor perk. A line item. Organizers want to know if the community will fund it when it is not optional.
July 10, 2026·Riley Cho

A cluster of popular classic themes now document how to leave. That is rarer than a changelog that says “improved performance.”
July 9, 2026·Riley Cho

What to do in the first hour of a compromised site, written for people who do not live in incident response. Hosts are already linking it.
July 8, 2026·Riley Cho

#42
Dana Whitfield
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Abuse doesn’t respect brand boundaries. Dana Whitfield talks about sharing signals across hosts, why trust is the scarce resource, and what a healthier incident response looks like.
July 8, 2026·Alex Harlan

Opinion: props are not a gold star. They are how a volunteer economy tells the next person the door opens.
July 7, 2026·Alex Harlan

Hosting teams are updating the handbook language. Sites still on 8.1 are not illegal. They are just on borrowed time.
July 6, 2026·Riley Cho

Restore-to-Playground is a small feature with a large teaching use: show a client the broken site without touching production.
July 4, 2026·Sam Calder

Review volunteers now have a one-page test for the first tab stop. Overlay menus are the usual failure.
July 3, 2026·Riley Cho

A set of CC-licensed decks lands so a Thursday meetup can talk about the latest release without a custom Keynote from scratch.
July 2, 2026·Riley Cho

ga.js snippets that survived in ‘just in case’ settings are finally getting deleted. The page weight thanks you. Legal might too.
July 1, 2026·Sam Calder

#41
Irena Kovac
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
University programs that grant credit for WordPress contribution are growing. Irena Kovac explains why businesses should care, and what curricula still get wrong.
July 1, 2026·Alex Harlan

Interaction to Next Paint on the editor canvas gets a round of boring, important patches. Writers with large posts will feel it.
June 30, 2026·Sam Calder

Opinion: asking WordPress to narrate its future like a SaaS company is how you get slides instead of software.
June 29, 2026·Alex Harlan

This year’s event circuit is putting first-time contributors in the center of the schedule, not the hallway. Organizers are adding mentor tables, shorter contributor days, and tickets held for newcomers.
June 28, 2026·Riley Cho

A weekly hour for people who send a link instead of a Docker file. Syllabus-friendly, timezone-honest, no install theater.
June 27, 2026·Sam Calder

Opinion: three stagings, a design preview, and a ‘final-final’ subdomain is not process. It is fear with a DNS record.
June 26, 2026·Alex Harlan

A smaller, named spacing scale is replacing the anything-goes pixel soup. Designers who loved 13 unique paddings will need a meeting.
June 25, 2026·Sam Calder

Block, pattern, template part, and the words people actually search. A two-week push to make the handbook less of a dialect.
June 24, 2026·Riley Cho

Editors can search openly licensed images without leaving wp-admin. Attribution is attached. The usual caveats about taste still apply.
June 22, 2026·Sam Calder

If reviewers cannot read it, they cannot ship it. A few shops stopped treating tokens as a trade secret.
June 21, 2026·Sam Calder

Opinion: every year we add power. Every year a new user drowns in it. The next leap for WordPress is not another surface — it is the courage to hide more on day one.
June 20, 2026·Alex Harlan

Less custom-table mystery, more REST, more backups that actually restore lessons. A few of the rebuilds are real.
June 19, 2026·Riley Cho

After a decade of supporting every gateway poorly, several membership tools are going Stripe-only. The forums are loud. The checkout is quieter.
June 18, 2026·Riley Cho

#40
Noah Okoye
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Noah Okoye walks through a week in plugin review: the bugs that are boring, the ones that are dangerous, and why a 2,000-line readme is not a security policy.
June 17, 2026·Alex Harlan

The notes are long, slightly awkward, and more useful than a polished recap. Teams, teams, and the spaces between them.
June 15, 2026·Sam Calder

A letter that a consulate can read, with the dates and the role filled in. Organizers were writing these by hand at midnight.
June 14, 2026·Riley Cho

Opinion: the WordPress dashboard is not your billboard. It is a room people are trying to leave.
June 13, 2026·Alex Harlan

One button for the day a laptop walks away. The API was always there. The admin screen finally grew up.
June 12, 2026·Sam Calder

IonCube and friends are out. If reviewers cannot read it, it does not ship. A few commercial authors are loudly surprised.
June 11, 2026·Riley Cho

#39
Hannah Briggs
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Hannah Briggs argues that most pattern libraries fail because they look finished in a screenshot and unfinished in a real site. We talk constraints, defaults, and saying no.
June 10, 2026·Alex Harlan

A pretty dark homepage that fails the primary button is no longer accessibility-ready on a technicality.
June 9, 2026·Riley Cho

The commit log does not make a press release. It still tells you whether a project is alive. This year, it is.
June 8, 2026·Riley Cho

A small interoperability note so two spam plugins do not both hide a field and both miss it. Forms authors asked. A few vendors answered.
June 7, 2026·Sam Calder

Opinion: if every project starts from a secret stack, you do not have a practice. You have folklore.
June 6, 2026·Alex Harlan

#38
Omar Siddiq
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Omar Siddiq has tuned stores that sell socks and stores that sell industrial parts. The same three bottlenecks keep showing up. We name them.
June 3, 2026·Alex Harlan

New notices tell you when a full-page cache and a persistent object cache are fighting. The notice is late. It is still welcome.
June 1, 2026·Sam Calder

Not a lanyard. A two-hour walk, a shared album, and credits that show up on profiles. Photo Day’s little sibling.
May 31, 2026·Sam Calder

A volunteer photo crew will shoot Make-profile portraits at three upcoming WordCamps. Bring a shirt that is not a lanyard.
May 30, 2026·Riley Cho

A new generation of starters ships without a library the block editor does not need. Classic leftovers have to justify themselves.
May 29, 2026·Sam Calder

Not every site needs a full block theme tomorrow. Hybrid setups — block templates on a classic backbone — are getting clearer docs.
May 28, 2026·Sam Calder

Opinion: a wave at a camera is not a license for a Make blog, a sponsor reel, and a slide three years later.
May 27, 2026·Alex Harlan

#37
Sofia Núñez
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Sofia Núñez has shipped bilingual editorial sites that did not become two WordPress installs taped together. We talk language switchers, SEO, and editors who do not want a new dashboard.
May 27, 2026·Alex Harlan

Fewer duplicate banners, fewer scripts that ask twice. The option is boring. That is the point.
May 25, 2026·Riley Cho

Opinion: the heaviest thing on most WordPress homepages is not PHP. It is a carousel of stories nobody edited for the field.
May 23, 2026·Alex Harlan

#36
Ben Choi
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Ben Choi has run Contributor Days that felt like a hallway and ones that felt like a workshop. The difference is not the snacks. It is the table cards.
May 20, 2026·Alex Harlan

A pattern that hard-codes a brand palette cannot pretend to be global. Reviewers get a label. Users get a warning.
May 18, 2026·Riley Cho

A Saturday for students who have never filed a ticket. The bar is a docs edit or a test, not a clever patch.
May 17, 2026·Riley Cho

Local batch compression is giving way to on-the-fly transforms. That is faster for editors and weirder for anyone who likes files on disk.
May 16, 2026·Riley Cho

Opinion: you cannot buy your way out of an editorial decision. You can only hide the invoice.
May 15, 2026·Alex Harlan

Uploads that changed since yesterday, not another 40 GB zip. Restore still wants the last full. The daily run gets lighter.
May 14, 2026·Sam Calder

#35
Claire Davenport
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Claire Davenport runs a newsroom that lives in WordPress. She has opinions about revisions, lockouts, and writers who paste from Google Docs like it is 2014.
May 13, 2026·Alex Harlan

Community colleges and adult-ed programs can now join the education track with a lighter syllabus and a real contribution goal.
May 11, 2026·Sam Calder

A variation can now shift a single template without forking the whole theme. Magazine sites with a dark homepage and a light article will cheer.
May 9, 2026·Riley Cho

A global weekend for locales that are always ‘almost caught up.’ Live office hours, not a Slack that goes quiet at 17:00 UTC.
May 8, 2026·Sam Calder

When to fork templates, when to use a variation, and when you are just scared. The handbook finally says it in that order.
May 6, 2026·Sam Calder

Opinion: if the only people who know you contributed are the people in the Slack huddle, the project will keep looking like a closed room.
May 4, 2026·Alex Harlan

Keys move to a restricted referrer setup and a server proxy. The ones that still print a key in HTML are now the story.
May 3, 2026·Riley Cho

A round of mail plugins is storing credentials in a secrets API instead of a define() that gets committed to git. About time.
May 2, 2026·Riley Cho

Opinion: a first site can be a heading, a paragraph, and a photo that does not explode. That is still WordPress.
May 1, 2026·Alex Harlan

#34
Chris Lang
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Chris Lang ships one plugin, answers every ticket, and still sleeps. We talk support hours, the directory, and saying no to a companion add-on.
April 29, 2026·Alex Harlan

A remote session a week after the event keeps hallway conversations from dying in an airport. Calendars are on Make.
April 27, 2026·Riley Cho

The conversations that used to happen in a lobby get a room and an end time. Introverts get a map. Extroverts get a fence.
April 26, 2026·Riley Cho

A fixture for open, close, escape, and the page behind the menu. Overlay navs that were ‘good enough’ have a new exam.
April 24, 2026·Riley Cho

#33
Yara Mensah
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Yara Mensah runs WordPress where the homepage is a public service. Lockouts, embargoes, and writers who paste from Google Docs anyway.
April 22, 2026·Alex Harlan

Pick a text color that fails WCAG and the editor will tell you before a reviewer does. It is not a full audit. It is a seatbelt.
April 22, 2026·Sam Calder

Opinion: stars measure feelings. Review measures whether the zip should exist. Do not confuse the two in a sales deck.
April 20, 2026·Alex Harlan

Opinion: a CMS you cannot copy to a laptop is a landlord. WordPress should stay a suitcase.
April 18, 2026·Alex Harlan

#32
Felix Rahman
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Felix Rahman reads autoload and leftover options for a living. We name the plugins that leave a suitcase in wp_options.
April 15, 2026·Alex Harlan

#31
Nina Kovacs
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Nina Kovacs teaches spacing scales to people who think in Figma. No shame, no PHP first, and a lot of named tokens.
April 8, 2026·Alex Harlan

#30
Joel Park
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Joel Park ships WordPress where a RFP is a character. Accessibility, records retention, and why ‘just a theme’ is never just a theme.
April 1, 2026·Alex Harlan

#29
Aisha Rahman
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Aisha Rahman runs a network of school sites that cannot all be administrators. Roles, updates, and the principal who wants a slider.
March 25, 2026·Alex Harlan

#28
Tomas Berg
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Tomas Berg used block bindings to stop building a custom field UI for the fifth time. We talk what still needs PHP.
March 18, 2026·Alex Harlan

#27
Keiko Sato
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Keiko Sato lives where a string that fits in English does not fit in the button. We talk GlotPress, context, and release week.
March 11, 2026·Alex Harlan

#26
Mateo Ruiz
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Mateo Ruiz has seen the spreadsheet that was supposed to be the source of truth. We name the sync jobs that lie.
March 4, 2026·Alex Harlan

#25
Ruth Keller
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Ruth Keller builds donation pages that cannot look like a checkout from a sneaker brand. Receipts, recurring gifts, and the board packet.
February 25, 2026·Alex Harlan
WordPress 6.9 RC Adds Saved Views for Custom Post Types
WordCamp Europe Opens Mentor Applications Early
#48 – Mara Ellison on Leaving Marketplaces for Direct WordPress Work
Plugin Check CLI Lands Alongside Core Tooling
Translation Plugins Ship Language Switcher Blocks
WordPress 6.9 Beta Puts Data Views in the Spotlight
WordPress Studio Adds Two-Way Sync for Local Sites
Stop Measuring WordPress Health by Plugin Count