Discover how the Accessibility Lab plugin provides core experiments and practical validation tools to improve WCAG compliance across WordPress.
Are you ready to step up? Learn how to join the team of WordPress 7.1.x release managers, coordinate minor updates, and triage core bugs.
The WordPress Hosting Team has updated its process for reporting WordPress 7.0 server compatibility recommendations, shifting detailed documentation directly to the Hosting Handbook.
WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.0 simplifies WordPress Core contributions by automating local setup, managing Trac ticket branches, testing patches, and streamlining pull request submissions.
WordPress core and WooCommerce are shifting admin management from legacy PHP table rendering to declarative, REST-driven primitives: DataViews, DataForms, and the Fields API. Learn how this architectural change impacts plugin extensions, state handling, and performance.
WordPress 7.1 completes the transition to an iframed editing environment across all core contexts. Discover why conditional fallback was removed and how to update block scripts using ownerDocument and useRefEffect.
WordPress 7.1 introduces foundational design system theming for administrative interfaces, featuring standardized CSS design tokens via the wp-theme stylesheet and a React ThemeProvider component.
To resolve Continuous Integration bottlenecks across WordPress core repositories, contributors implemented boundary testing, asset caching, and Docker retry logic. Here is how these infrastructure improvements reduced PHPUnit job-minutes by 54% ahead of WordPress 7.1.
Discover how the Make WordPress Hosting team plans to advance distributed testing, test runner multi-environment reporting, and handbook documentation during WordCamp US 2026 Contributor Day.
