Coming in WordPress 6.8 – The algorithm used for passwords is changing from phppass portable hashing to bcrypt.
WordPress to Change to Using Bcrypt
John Blackbourn @ make.wordpress.org • 5 days ago
How to Wrangle the WordPress Comment Cookies
Joost deValk • 2 months ago
Joost got more feedback on his blog than expected and ran into a problem with caching. This led him down a rabbit hole to understand how the WordPress comment system works and how he could make it work with his site caching.
WordPress 6.7.1 Scheduled
Jonathan Desrosiers @ make.wordpress.org • 3 months ago
WordPress 6.7.1 is scheduled for Thursday. There were some issues. Apparently a big one related to loading translations.
WordPress 6.7 Released
Matt Mullenweg @ wordpress.org • 3 months ago
WordPress 6.7 has been released. I’ve updated 2 sites. It seemed slow and I got an error on one site about a bad gateway, but then retried and it succeeded.
Look at the Twenty Twenty-Five Theme
Frank Klein @ youtube.com • 4 months ago
Here is a great overview of 2025 theme and of a few useful features coming in WordPress 6.7.
Updates to the HTML API
Dennis Snell @ make.wordpess.org • 4 months ago
There is a major update to the HTML Processor API coming in WordPress 6.7.
WordPress 6.7 Roadmap Released
annezazu @ make.wordpress.org • 6 months ago
WordPress 6.7 is scheduled for November 12th. This post on the Make blog pulls together the list of features and enhancements currently targeted for 6.7.
Using the DataViews Component in Your Own Projects
JuanMa Garrido @ developer.wordpress.org • 6 months ago
WordPress has added the DataViews react component to core. It is currently being used in the Site Editor area for displaying Pages, Templates, and Patterns. In this developer blog article JuanMa Garrido shows how to use DataViews in your own projects.
WP Cron and the Free WP Crontrol Plugin
David McCan @ youtube.com • 6 months ago
In this video I look at WP Cron and the free WP Crontrol plugin. Many users don’t even know that WordPress has an event scheduler, how it works, or its limitations. However, this is good information to have, if only for troubleshooting and site maintenance purposes. The WP Crontrol plugin provides a nice interface for managing WP Cron.