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What’s new in Gutenberg 21.3? (30 July) “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…

What’s new in Gutenberg 21.3? (30 July)

Team Chat Agenda: 30 July 2025,  Here is the agenda for the upcoming Test Team Chat scheduled for , which is held in the #core-test Slack channel. Lurkers welcome! Agenda Attendance Note-taker and facilitator selection for the nex…

Team Chat Agenda: 30 July 2025, 

A Decade with WordPress: My Journey of Growth, Contribution, and Courage In a rare sequel essay, Monika Rao writes about how the last 10 years of life in WordPress have helped her grow.

A Decade with WordPress: My Journey of Growth, Contribution, and Courage

Performance Chat Summary: 29 July 2025 The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @westonruter highlighted the PR (#8815) for fetchpriority as one of the WordPress 6.9 roadmap items that s…

Performance Chat Summary: 29 July 2025

Dev Chat Agenda – July 30, 2025 The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor sectio…

Dev Chat Agenda – July 30, 2025

Announcing the Training Team Cohort: “WordPress Block Editor Basics” Are you ready to begin your WordPress journey but unsure where to start?Don’t worry — we’ve got you covered! We’re excited to announce the first cohort from the Training Team, titled “WordPre…

Announcing the Training Team Cohort: “WordPress Block Editor Basics”

WordPress Academy: A Case Study from WordCamp Krakow WordCamp Krakow 2025 became history on June 29th. And not just because it ended, but because it  showed us that there is a space where we can invite new members into our WordPress Community. O…

WordPress Academy: A Case Study from WordCamp Krakow

Training Team Meeting Recap – 22th July 2025 Meeting Agenda: Slack Log: Attendees: @sibokul @rithika3 @rjekic @ravigadhiyawp @rfluethi @dilip2615 @nikunj8866 @margheweb @vasantrajput @devmuhib @rollybueno @kishanjasani @vishitshah @jaydipgosw…

Training Team Meeting Recap – 22th July 2025

Themes team update July 29, 2025 i)  Theme directory stats Currently, 0 new tickets are waiting for review. 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks 0 tickets are older than 1 week 0 tickets are …

Themes team update July 29, 2025

Agency News Weekly Surprise! AI Isn't Going Anywhere... but People Don't Quite Trust it Yet. What to Expect from WordPress 6.9 This December. What GEO and AEO Mean for Your Client's SEO and Google AI Rankings. And More!

Agency News Weekly

Plugins Team: 28 Jul 2025 Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 282 Plugins rejected : 31 Plugins closed : 103 Plugins approved : 118 Plugin Queue Stats (current) Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2481 (old…

Plugins Team: 28 Jul 2025

Week in Test: July 28, 2025 Hello and welcome to another edition of Week in Test, the place where contributors of any skill level can find opportunities to contribute to WordPress through testing. You can find …

Week in Test: July 28, 2025

The First Onboarding Session & Workflow Review Disclaimer: This briefing was primarily generated using an AI tool from the video transcription. Last 25th of July 2025, an informal meeting of the WordPress Core Testing Team, focusing on a propos…

The First Onboarding Session & Workflow Review

Requiring the README to be written in English Every day, we review a significant number of plugins, and since last year, we have been receiving many more requests each week. In addition, our team is made up of a diverse group with different la…

Requiring the README to be written in English

Roadmap to 6.9 WordPress 6.9 is scheduled to be released on December 2nd, 2025 with plans for a simplified editing mode in the Site Editor, improvements to template management, block leveling commenting, and more…

Roadmap to 6.9

The Latest from Post Status Members A digest of updates shared in Post Status Slack.

The Latest from Post Status Members

Polyglots Week in Review: July 28, 2025 Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (July 27, 2025), a weekly roundup to keep everyone updated on the Polyglots Team’s stats, highlights, and ways to contribute. 📊 Weekly Stats…

Polyglots Week in Review: July 28, 2025

WordPress Test Team Launches Contributor Group To Improve Core Quality In an effort to raise the overall quality of WordPress Core contributions and address long-standing challenges in the contributor workflow, the Test team has

WordPress Test Team Launches Contributor Group to Improve Core Quality

WordPress Quality Analysis Report Signals Need For Test-Core Team Coordination The WordPress Core Test Team has published its “First Quality Analysis Report”, following six months of work within the contribution ecosystem and three

WordPress Test Efforts Severely Underused, Finds First Quality Analysis Report

Proposal: Responsible AI workflow for creating new documentation for WordPress 6.9 As part of our ongoing commitment to improving the contributor experience and the efficiency of our documentation efforts, this post outlines a proposed workflow for responsibly using AI to assist …

Proposal: Responsible AI workflow for creating new documentation for WordPress 6.9

Dev Chat Agenda – July 23, 2025 The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an op…

Dev Chat Agenda – July 23, 2025

Summary, Dev Chat, July 23, 2025 Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @benjamin_zekavica. 🔗 Agenda post. Announcements 📢WordPress 6.9 Planning Proposal and Call for VolunteersWhat’s new in Gutenberg 21.2?Forthco…

Summary, Dev Chat, July 23, 2025

Proposal: New Team Description The Hosting Team has evolved since its original creation, but the team description has not! A new team description could provide more clarity and context on the team’s role and projects. Background…

Proposal: New Team Description

Hosting Team Meeting Agenda 2025-07-23 Hello Hosters! The team’s upcoming meetings will be in the #hosting Slack channel on and . Hope to see you there! Agenda WordPress News Gutenberg 21.2  WP 6.9 How to Talk About and Suppo…

Hosting Team Meeting Agenda 2025-07-23

Introducing the WordPress Test Contributors Group On the 4th and 18th of July, two feedback sessions were held with many contributors in the current Test Team. Valuable insights were gathered to shape a future to improve the overall Quality of Cor…

Introducing the WordPress Test Contributors Group

Themes team update July 22, 2025 i)  Theme directory stats Currently, 0 new tickets are waiting for review. 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks 0 tickets are older than 1 week 0 tickets are …

Themes team update July 22, 2025

Documentation Team Update – July 22, 2025 🚨 New meeting times! The Documentation team meeting schedule: First Tuesday in a month – Discussion meeting 2-3 PM UTC Second Tuesday in a month – Monthly planning meeting 2-3 PM UTC Th…

Documentation Team Update – July 22, 2025

Summary of Docs Team meeting July 15, 2025 Attendance @ninianepress, @milana_cap, @atachibana, @dilip2615, @rollybueno, @estelaris, @ravigadhiyawp, @nikunj8866, @azharderaiya Housekeeping Where: #docs  channel on Slack When: …

Summary of Docs Team meeting July 15, 2025

Online monthly Docs Team Contributor Day August 26, 2025 The Documentation Team holds an online, monthly Contributor Day on the fourth Tuesday of every month. Any one may join who wishes to contribute to the team and who follows the Code of Conduct. The …

Online monthly Docs Team Contributor Day August 26, 2025

Training Team Meeting Recap – 15th July 2025 Meeting Agenda : Slack Log: Attendees: @vasantrajput @sumitsingh @jaydipgoswami @hemant-ahir @ravigadhiyawp @nikunj8866 @rjekic @kishanjasani @patelhitesh @nitspatel @dilip2615 @rollybueno @jadavsa…

Training Team Meeting Recap – 15th July 2025