Also started noticing this on GitHub.

WordPress 6.8 is due out next week, please help test the latest release candidate to ensure the final release is as wonderful as our community can make it! wordpress.org/news/2025/04... #WordPress #OpenSource #WP68

🚀 The second Release Candidate (RC2) for WordPress 6.8 is here! Ready to test the latest features? Download or explore it from the WordPress Playground in your browser. Your feedback is essential before the final release on April 15, 2025. Read more: wordpress.org/news/2025/04/wo... #WordPress

Coming to Gutenberg 20.6 (now in RC1) The table of contents block now has a control to adjust the Heading levels listed in the table of contents. github.com/WordPress/gu... #WordPress #Gutenberg

Just published: Accessibility Improvements in WordPress 6.8. #a11y #WordPress make.wordpress.org/core/2025/03...

Are you using the WordPress Interactivity API? If so, please read on about what is going to change in WordPress 6.8. Spoiler alert: Performance enhancements incoming! make.wordpress.org/core/2025/03...

I really enjoy reading these posts. I always loved the "How It Works" format.

Source of Truth (WordPress 6.8) Ahead of WordPress 6.8 Beta release and in absence of Anne McCarthy, we publish the Source of Truth a second time on the Gutenberg Times. With me, I mean all the collaborators on this post: Krupal Lakhia, Justin Tadlock, Jonathan Bossenger, and JuanMa Garrido.…

WordPress 6.8 Beta 3 is ready for download and testing. Beta 3 contains more than 3 Editor updates and fixes since the Beta 2 release, including 16 tickets for WordPress core. Your feedback can help us make it even better. Give it a spin? wordpress.org/news/2025/03...

I have been missing the "What's new in Gutenberg?" posts on the Make Core blog lately, as I found this always to be helpful when checking what just got merged. So I decided to ask if any help is needed and how to make these, and did one this past weekend: make.wordpress.org/core/2025/02...

Building software is like playing an open-world RPG.🎮 The main quest is shipping features. The side quests are fixing debt, improving performance and tooling. Ignore them, progress slows. Obsess over them, you forget the goal. Balance is key. Here’s how I approach it ⬇️ riad.blog/2025/02/07/m...

RC1 for WordPress 6.7.2 is now available. You can see a full list of the changes in the release announcement. Please help test. make.wordpress.org/core/2025/02...

Building and scaling a great engineering culture is hard. Balancing quality and velocity? Even harder. I’d love to learn from you all—what tools, principles, and best practices have made the biggest impact in your teams? Reply and share your insights! 🚀

OpenAI right now

Did you know you can personally sponsor #WordPress contributors & help advance the #OpenWeb (even if you don't have the time or ability to do so personally)? Check out github.com/aurooba/spon... to find lots of folks like @aaron.jorb.in @karmatosed.art that are actively leading releases!

Hey WordPress, anyone built anything interesting with DataViews or DataForm so far?

Need to try this.

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...

The WordPress 6.8 release squad, timeline, and focus has been announced make.wordpress.org/core/2025/01...

Aaron is another contributor you could also sponsor and help keep the WordPress project moving along. His work is tireless, and he is truly amazing. He does so much unseen, with a heart of open source. Please consider supporting him this year if you can. Having people like him contributing matters.

There are many contributors to WordPress like me looking for sponsorship. This year consider sponsoring us. My focus today is on design system, clearing old tickets both through triage / commit and extensibility. I also always adore default theme triage and design reviews. github.com/sponsors/kar...

Now more than ever it's important for organizations that want to see WordPress continue to succeed to step up. I continue to be in search of more sponsors for the work I do on WordPress core. github.com/sponsors/aar...

Introducing my latest YouTube video on the Interactivity API 👇👇👇 Create a #WordPress Carousel with the Interactivity API! youtu.be/q8EgRPwHoRQ?... via @YouTube

I think this year, I want to experiment and build a RichText editor primarily for learning purposes. @riad.blog I think you mentioned doing the same in the past. Do you still have a repo?

This is so spot on. Two things: 1. Being focused on producing output the fastest way possible means that you will never prioritize "going deep" 2. Going deep (and down the rabbit hole) is how you learn more: but you need to balance it. Figure out how to do both: it's tricky!

I can't believe I finished a task that usually turns me into a procrastination super saiyan, months ahead of schedule. Here's a draft of the first dev note for #WordPress 6.8.

It's all quiet and cozy in the Gutenberg repo today, plus my neighbors are blasting Georgian covers of famous Christmas jingles 🎄

I wish GitHub had possible duplicate suggestions when someone creates an issue. I think Stack Overflow used to do this.

WordCamp Europe 2025 Tickets are now available! Get them while they're hot. Will I see you there?

I'm working on built-in profiling of both Client and Server Components in Chrome DevTools Performance tab. Thanks to the new performance.measure() extensions. h/t Andrés Olivares This works in any RSC environment. In fact, this screenshot is running RSC for Parcel. h/t @devongovett.bsky.social

Day [11] ✅ I got the Yeti one step closer to home at DebugDecember.com #DebugDecember

Day [10] ✅ I got the Yeti one step closer to home at DebugDecember.com #DebugDecember

Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!

I'm excited and scared. How in the world are we going to be upgrade WordPress with the removals. It's going to be a transition. WordPress developers, please address the console warnings in your plugins. With WP 6.7, you should see console warnings of the APIs removed in React 19.

React v19 is now stable! react.dev/blog/2024/12...

Having fun with Debug December. It's a fun morning routine for me now. www.debugdecember.com

❓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)

I’m looking for the best option to offer a dark mode toggle in our block themes. So far: - The theme TT4 dark mode (Github) by @justintadlock.bsky.social and @ryanwelcher.com - Dark Mode Toggle Block plugin (WP repo) by @rich.blog - Mosne Dark Palette plugin (WP repo) by Mosne Other suggestions?

Can also vouch that spending time answering support questions is valuable as well (Github, Discord), etc: - Gives you practice answering - Forces you to learn more about lib implementation and usage - Definitely gets you noticed by the maintainers :)

TIL: Another meaning for BFF abbreviation - back-end for front-end. I initially read it as "best friends forever-ey layer"; that was confusing.

You can append `_pretty=true` to #WordPress REST API requests, and the server will return a pretty printed JSON response. This is handy if you want to inspect requests in the browser. github.com/WordPress/wo...

Gonna try my luck: I'm looking for someone to do advanced technical support for my Search & Filter plugin. Someone who can do a bit of coding and debugging (PHP hooks for ex), write bug reports etc... No job listing up yet. 3-4 hrs per day. Let me know if you know anyone, RT for reach!

Decided to do a quick issue triage for #WordPress Block Editor. 2 hours later, and I forgot what I was planning to work on today. I guess it's time to take a break ☕️

Either people are becoming very official on GitHub repos or using AI tools for replies 🤷‍♂️

For those who have been to the philippines before? How much can you squeeze in in a week (outside Manila) and what are the hidden gems and things tourists might not be aware of. #WCAsia

This thread here actually reminded me of something else that has been staring in my mind for a while. And that is how Extensibility in WordPress Core used to drive a lot of contribution opportunities where it becomes harder and harder to use those same approaches. fabian-kaegy.com/wordpress-ex...

[email protected] is out today with a replacement for sibling pre-rendering. Give it a try and maybe we can ship React 19 soon? github.com/facebook/rea...

The performance annotations will be super handy.

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.

I like how you can just click a link in the Bluesky app and it opens in Safari. No more in-app browsers 🎉