We are a looking for questions and potential discussion points for the WordPress AI Panel about what we're building, next week at #WCUS: us.wordcamp.org/2025/session...
If you have something you'd like to have us discuss or cover, please reply to this thread!
Introducing... View Transitions is the latest WordPress plugin from the Core Performance Team, replacing the hard page loads between URLs with smooth animations to improve UX.
Previously this required a complex SPA, now it simply works with a plugin.
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This new cadence creates more space to focus on performance, bug fixes, and community contributions. Learn more about what’s changing and why:
make.wordpress.org/project/20...
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Here's my recap of the CloudFest Hackathon:
Enabling AI-Powered WordPress Development with WP-CLI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
pascalbirchler.com/wordpress-mo...
Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness!
devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...
Screenshot of an image generation example in the AI Playground, using one of Google's Imagen models to generate a photorealistic picture of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel sunbathing at an oasis.
Version 0.5.0 of the AI Services plugin for WordPress is out now, and it is the biggest release so far! You can now generate images and implement AI function calling with it - either using its PHP or JavaScript APIs, or by using the AI Playground admin screen.
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Looking forward to lead a project on WP-CLI and MCP (Model Context Protocol) at this year's CloudFest Hackathon. Learn more in this intro interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta-s...
That’s a great project idea. I saw your post shortly after I asked @felixarntz.bsky.social on LinkedIn whether he considered adding MCP to the AI Services plugin. WP CLI sounds awesome, too. Good luck at CloudFest!
Dashed off a quick post this morning:
Getting the Block Editor Ready for AI
If WordPress wants to survive, it needs to take generative AI seriously.
These are the top five areas WordPress needs to focus on to prepare for AI, but I'm open to discussion!
www.briancoords.com/getting-the-...
I was thinking about it this week after watching your video explaining how to use Cursor to write a WordPress plugin. The applications for Create Block will quickly drop as AI improves or the scaffolding will be mostly responsible for providing the configuration for AI 😀
Thank you!
We just released version 20.0 of the Gutenberg plugin which marks the 200th release and about eight years of work.
Thank you to every single person that has helped along the way ❤️
make.wordpress.org/core/2025/01...
An interesting example is the Avatar block in core which renders differently inside the comment, inside the post, and outside of both of them. It sort of implements visibility pattern internally.
For me these go in pair as today is randomly handled in core blocks:
- Logged in/out block could be represented as two blocks controlled by user session state
- Query and Comments block have the block with no results that render only when the items count is 0, the rest of inner blocks otherwise
I personally also would like to see a working group that shapes the development of core blocks so we figure out the process of adding new blocks to core or as canonical blocks. There should be also guidelines introduced of how to structure more complex blocks with children blocks.
These issues I shared are already triaged so we want to solve them, or close them if we decide they should not be implemented. Overall, I think it’s all the same problem of who makes these decisions no matter what project board gets created.
Developer Hours: Improve your workflows with WordPress development tools #WordPress developer.wordpress....
I mostly shared it for inspiration if you decide to create a project. From my perspective the projects with defined scope and duration work best so I would be happy to see the format replicated for every major WP release.
There is this issue with the frequent discussion topics about what’s missing in WordPress core in terms of extensibility: github.com/WordPress/gu...
So, what part(s) of my Block Visibility plugin should be added to WordPress?
Share your thoughts here: github.com/WordPress/gu...
I often hear that we disregard Extensibility and developpers in Gutenberg #WordPress. 🔌
On top of my head, here are just some of the tools and extensibility APIs that were recently introduced (2024 and far from complete)
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❓If you had a magic wand, what quick win / feature / enhancement / bug fix would you want to see implemented in Gutenberg / WordPress ?
(Not asking about huge projects / features)
Join @nickdiego.com and I tomorrow at 16:00 UTC where we discuss ways to improve your #WordPress development workflows.
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PSA: your WordPress blog can benefit from Speculation Rules API today! There's a plugin called "Speculative Loading". Also add this bit of CSS for smoother transitions: `@view-transition{navigation: auto}`. You can see it all in action on calendar.perfplanet.com and phpied.com
Looking forward to Developer Hours next week with Justin Tadlock and @ryanwelcher.bsky.social.
Currently flying back from a team meetup, where we spent the majority of our time experimenting with the Block Bindings API. So many applications...
RSVP on Meetup 👉 meetup.com/learn-wordpr...
While on eyes are on the #WordPress 6.7 release today, some of us already started about what should come next.
I'm really excited about this proposal to improve the templates architecture and behavior in block themes. github.com/WordPress/gu...
Please send the feedback our way. Thank you.
