Dev Blog editorial meeting summary, October 2, 2025

Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting on Slack

• Meeting facilitated by @bph
• Attendees: @greenshady, @bph, @webcommsat @psykro @areziaal (async) @bcworkz (async)

Summary from last meeting on September 4, 2025 – props to @webcommsat

Site updates and new posts

New posts

• Border radius size presets in WordPress 6.9 by @greenshady
• Building a light/dark toggle with the Interactivity API
• @welcher led publishing. What’s new for developers? (September 2025)

@webcommsat: the What’s New for Developers series is a very useful tool and how we are using tags, making it easier to find the information.

Movements on some articles in progress

shout-out to @davidperez who is about to publish his first blog post next week, @magdalenapaciorek who will push her long-simmering article over the finish line 

There are two approved articles that still need a writer:

• #334 Linting all things in IDE – the ultimate doc
• #305 Extending User profile views natively with DataViews

If you know someone who might be a good fit, let @bph know, and we can onboard them quickly. @bph has been doing outreach to previous writers and those who have open issues.

New topic ideas

• Styling accordions in Gutenberg/WordPress GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue #410
• Styling inputs, textareas, and select dropdowns in WordPress 6.9 GitHub issue #411
  • @webcommsat: highlighted the importance of this piece, and offered to be one of the reviewers
• DataViews & DataForm Enhancements coming in WordPress 6.9 – GitHub issue #412
• How to Create and Use Custom supports in Gutenberg Blocks – GitHub issue #413

The next three are for a new topic categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. on the Developer Blog—Artificial Intelligence and WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. This will feature some areas from the new AI core team.

• An Introduction to the WordPress Abilities API – GitHub Issue #414
• An Introduction to the WordPress PHP AI Client – GitHub Issue #415
• An Introduction to the WordPress MCP Adapter – GitHub Issue #416
• Building Dynamic Experiences combining different WordPress/Gutenberg features: Word Switcher project – GitHub Issue #417

@webcommsat highlighted as a potential to add to the list of useful posts for meetups.

@psykro – personal plan is to get the Abilities post published close to the 6.9 release, the MCP adapter post soon after, and then follow up with the PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher AI SDK post. The aim is to try to build something that ties all three together so they can be read as a three-part series or individually. The proposal by @juanmaguitar for templates was suggested to be used as an example.

The new content items approved and @bph will create the issues later next week and assign them to writers.

It was agreed that WordPress 6.9 had some great feature in store for developers

Next meeting

The next Developer Blog editorial group meeting will be on November 2, 2025, at 15:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel.

Props to @bph for reviewing the notes.

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