In this month’s roundup, Ryan Welcher (Developer Advocate at Automattic) walks through all the key updates for WordPress developers — from Gutenberg enhancem...

It’s time to get WordPress 6.9 ready for release, and help is needed to ensure it’s smooth and bug-free. Whether you’re an experienced contributor or joining in for the first time, ever…

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What? Closes #16484 This pull request adds a an icon block based on @ndiego Icon Block. To be completed: Current implementation uses the html-react-parser library. Is this something we want to a...

The WordPress 6.9 release squad is officially assembled! This cycle continues the smaller, focused squad approach introduced in recent releases, with an emphasis on close collaboration with Make Te…

The sixth round of WordCamp US speakers showcases developers and innovators who are redefining what’s possible with WordPress,

In this recipe, we’re using block filters to sprinkle in a custom attribute and controls that let editors add notes to any block. We’ll also add a dash of cu...

Carleton University • October 15-17, 2025

I'm a huge fan of the wordpress/create-block package and all that it's enabled, but I think we need to address the fact that these days, it only sometimes is used to create blocks. Often it...