The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 26th January 2026
Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last seven days, chunked into the usual helpful sections.
Sadly, there was no “This Week in WordPress” Show, as the platform we use for the LIVE feed had a problem! Sorry about that!
WordPress Core
I’ve been here a little over a year now. In that time, I’ve seen what works, where things get stuck, and how much care and effort contributors bring to this project every day…
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Although there was a downturn in publishing over the holidays, I found a plethora of posts and plugins again. This edition catches up on most of it…
This release covers typography, patterns, images, and responsive design. The Font Library now works with classic and hybrid themes. Pattern Overrides expanded to custom blocks. The Image block got focal point controls. And there’s an experimental feature for hiding blocks based on screen size…
WordPress 6.9.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing…
Following up on my series from WordPress 6.9 (v1, v2), I thought I’d do another round for 7.0. We’re just barely less than one month out from beta 1 and so much is coming together…
Customizable Navigation Overlays are a new feature for WordPress 7.0 that gives you full control over “mobile” navigation menus using blocks and patterns…
Community
In this episode of WP Tavern, I chat with Charly Leetham about her journey as a digital nomad using WordPress…
This course is designed to introduce new WordPress community members into the Test Team practices and become a full fledged quality assurance specialist within the project knowing with detail all the best practices and being able to communicate and collaborate with other Test Team members with ease…
Why I moved my personal blog from WordPress to MDX, and how flat file structures unlock powerful AI workflows…
Emily Rapport from Jamestown, NY writes about how her desire to share her art led her into a career as a WordPress developer…
WordCamp Asia 2026 is getting ready to welcome contributors, creators, and community organizers from across the region…
Plugins / Themes / Blocks / Code
6-week cohort program starting February 12th, 2026 – Limited to 75 spots…
Add term queries, user queries, and meta comparisons to the GenerateBlocks Query block. Build category pages, team directories, and advanced post loops without custom PHP…
PHP is actually insanely good now. TypeScript-level types, no build steps, immutability via readonly, enums, and more. Just write code and deploy…
WooCommerce 10.5 will introduce an experimental caching engine for REST API endpoints, delivering significant performance improvements…
Find out about the updates to Studio CLI in WordPress Studio 1.7.0 for managing local sites more efficiently…
Find Anything in Seconds – With Search, Filter, and Sort That Just Works. Give your users a faster, smarter way to explore your WordPress or WooCommerce site…
The future of WordPress development is here, but the real story isn’t the 1.0 milestone – it’s how we think front-end development should actually happen…
Stop firefighting WordPress sites. Try ToggleWP, the modular toolkit for freelancers and boutique hosts to secure builds, hide critical plugins, and manage renewals…
Simple maintenance mode for block themes. Shows a maintenance template to logged-out visitors…
Check out new feature – Default Form Style Template, Dynamic Text Autocomplete and more improvements and fixes…
For a long time, the logic of a WordPress® theme lived primarily in functions.php. If you wanted to add support for a custom logo, wide alignment, or editor styles…
A.I.
AI code agents are getting better at writing WordPress plugins and themes, but testing can still be the slow part. WordPress contributor Brandon Payton has published wp-playground, a new AI agent skill designed to run WordPress via the Playground CLI, giving agents a fast, repeatable way to run WordPress and verify their work as they iterate…
Here are four small, WordPress development-focused apps I built using AI. Each one scratches a specific itch…
Deals
Security
In a test covering 18 hosting providers we found that most common security solutions are ineffective against WordPress vulnerabilities…
Learn about the latest WordPress vulnerabilities and essential updates to protect your website from automated attacks…
Events
Plans to expand meetups to include hands-on contribution come as influx of new people join the project from WordPress’ education initiatives…
After attending five WordCamps back-to-back, patterns emerged that deserve honest conversation. This reflection explores how Contributor Day often feels more like pre-networking than focused contribution…
Contributor Day at WordCamp Asia has always been about learning, collaboration, and giving back to WordPress. Alongside the traditional Contributor Day format, this year we are introducing a set of focused, hands-on workshops designed for attendees new to WordPress or contributing…
We’re teaming up with The WordPress Foundation and WordCamp Central. Together, we’re offering two scholarships for WordCamp Asia 2026…
Mumbai is not a city you merely live in. It is a city you eat with. From Irani cafés in South Mumbai to seafood lanes in Mahim Koliwada, from Matunga’s breakfasts to Bandra’s experiments, this is a curated journey across the places that feed the city’s soul…
Mumbai doesn’t “welcome” you. It sweeps you into its chaos, offers you cutting chai in a paper cup, and somehow makes the madness feel like home. This is not a city you visit quietly. It’s a city you experience with your senses fully switched on…
Our third speaker announcement brings powerful voices from across the WordPress ecosystem, sharing real experiences, fresh ideas, and practical insights…
WP [Business & Agency] Summit can only happen at CloudFest – web agencies join CSPs, web hosters, and the commercial WP ecosystem for an ROI- and business development-focused gathering…
Learn about the transformative trends defining WordPress in 2026 and what they mean for teams using the platform…
WP Builds
In this episode, Nathan Wrigley talks with Carl Alexander, creator of Ymir (a scalable WordPress hosting technology), and Paul Carter from BuiltFast, about their new partnership…
Jobs
Not WordPress, but useful anyway…
Read the book online for free…
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems…
How a weekend hack became one of GitHub’s fastest-growing projects, got legal pressure from Anthropic, lost its name to crypto scammers, and somehow kept going…
What’s New in Vivaldi? Drag and drop tiling of tabs, it’s pretty cool…
Andy Bell is completely redesigning his personal site from scratch and breaking down each part to educate and hopefully, inspire you to build your own corner of the internet…
Analysis finds at least 150 channels on messaging app that have distributed AI-generated images and video…
Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees…
The one where I question reality. Mozilla published a new State of Mozilla. It’s absolute slopaganda. A mess of trippy visuals and corpo-speak that’s been through the slop wringer too many times…
Counter to the previous post ^^^…
In his latest blog post, Salvatore Sanfilippo argues that coding assistants are a great democratizing technology, provided that they are not solely in the hands of a few big companies…
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