WordPress 7.0 Release Delayed to Finalize Real-Time Collaboration Features
WordPress 7.0's release has been delayed to refine its real-time collaboration features, ensuring stability and long-term scalability.
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WordPress 7.0's release has been delayed to refine its real-time collaboration features, ensuring stability and long-term scalability.
The WordPress Themes Team has announced a call for volunteers to develop the Twenty Twenty-Seven default theme for WordPress 7.2, set to launch in December.
WordPress.org launches the Featured Plugins experiment to spotlight newer, high-quality plugins with fewer than 10,000 installs. Eight plugins are selected biweekly.
WordPress 7.0 RC2 is available for testing, introducing features like Real-Time Collaboration and Pattern Editing. Final release is set for April 9, 2026.
Gutenberg 22.8 introduces real-time collaboration improvements, pseudo-state styling for buttons, and new extensibility options for plugins. Available now!
WordPress 6.9 brings collaboration features, SpamGPT raises cybersecurity alarms, and WooCommerce 10.2 introduces performance updates.
WordPress 7.0 enters its second Release Candidate phase, introducing stricter backporting policies and finalizing the hard string freeze for translation readiness.
WordPress 7.0 RC1 introduces AI Connectors and RTC fixes, but core committers question readiness after a rushed release process.
Contributor Day at WordCamp Asia 2026 offers hands-on opportunities with WordPress Core Teams, including Gutenberg, AI, and WordPress 7.0 release tasks.
WordPress Core proposes a major overhaul of the admin left navigation menu, aiming to improve usability and organization for site operators and developers.