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Gutenberg 24.2 is here. You can now keep notes open in a margin next to your content while the Settings sidebar stays in view. Navigation menus accept any link from a single search, and galleries can be sorted and tinted with a single duotone filter. https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/

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The Gutenberg plugin adds editing, customization, and site building to WordPress. Use it to test beta features before their official release.
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If you build with WordPress, the October developer roundup is worth a read. WordPress 7.2 Beta 1 lands on October 20, and you can already test the new default theme, Ipsum, plus the design tools now enabled across nearly every Core block. https://wp.me/pe6QtA-1Ft

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What’s new for developers? (October 2026)
Your October guide to WordPress development: the 7.2 roadmap, the Ipsum theme, new block APIs, and what to test before Beta 1.
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You can now run examples from the WordPress Code Reference directly in your browser, powered by Playground. The September developer roundup explains how it works and covers more changes from Gutenberg 23.8 and 23.9. https://developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=6392

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What’s new for developers? (September 2026)
Gutenberg 23.8 and 23.9 bring declarable block keyboard shortcuts, theme.json schema fixes for responsive states, and a batch of new deprecations.
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Piplet is a small, self-modifying wiki from WordPress. Its PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, appearance settings, and notes live in 1 deployable file, with no database, package install, build step, or network dependency. The full version includes authentication, atomic saves, conflict handling, browser draft recovery, integrity checks, and snapshot tools. https://github.com/wordpress/piplets

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GitHub - WordPress/piplets: A piplet is a way of life, a reminder we can always improve ourselves. It's also a self-modifying PHP (more languages possible) script that stores its data in the PHP code itself. There is no database, package install, build step, or network dependency.
A piplet is a way of life, a reminder we can always improve ourselves. It's also a self-modifying PHP (more languages possible) script that stores its data in the PHP code itself. There is no d...
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WordPress 7.1 will bring responsive block styles to Core on August 19. You can define tablet and mobile styles in Global Styles or theme.json, and themes can configure their own breakpoints. RC2 is available now, so there is still time to test your plugins and themes. https://developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=6352

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What’s new for developers? (August 2026)
WordPress 7.1 ships August 19, and the Field Guide is out. Responsive block styles, pseudo states, the SVG Icon API, and an always-iframed post editor coming soon.
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Passing a typed event object to do_action() instead of loose arguments gives you named payloads, collision-free hook names via fully-qualified class names, and filter-like mutation without a return value to forget. https://developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=6338

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Rethinking do_action(): Events as objects, hooks as class names
How to use typed event objects to improve the payload you send to plugin and theme extenders.
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The WordPress Developer Blog has a new tutorial that walks through building an AI-powered plugin from scratch. It covers how the Abilities API, the WordPress AI Client, and the MCP Adapter work together in a single project. If you’ve been curious how these Core AI features fit together in practice, this is a good place to start. https://developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=6323

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Build your first AI-Powered WordPress plugin
If you've been watching the Core AI projects land and wondering how the pieces fit together in a real plugin, then this post is for you. We're going to build one together, step by step, focusing on how to implement each of the three AI building blocks.
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Block themes in WordPress show a plain maintenance message by default. This tutorial shows how to replace it with a branded template designed and toggled entirely in the Site Editor using a single hook. https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/07/on-brand-maintenance-mode-for-wordpress-block-themes/

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On-brand maintenance mode for WordPress Block Themes
Build a branded maintenance mode for WordPress block themes: add one small hook, then manage everything—design and activation—in the Site Editor.
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The July 2026 WordPress developer roundup covers the 7.1 beta cycle starting July 15, responsive styling now open for testing, React 19 compatibility tooling in Gutenberg 23.4, and a deprecation wave across @wordpress/components. https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/07/whats-new-for-developers-july-2026/

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What’s new for developers (July 2026)
July is the month the WordPress 7.1 cycle gets real. Beta 1 lands on July 15, betas follow weekly through the end of the month, and the final release is scheduled for August 19, 2026, timed with WordCamp US. If June was about wrapping up WordPress 7.0, July is about deciding what you need to test before 7.1 locks in.
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