Coming in WordPress 6.8 – The algorithm used for passwords is changing from phppass portable hashing to bcrypt.

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 is scheduled for Thursday. There were some issues. Apparently a big one related to loading translations.

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.

Here is a great overview of 2025 theme and of a few useful features coming in WordPress 6.7.

There is a major update to the HTML Processor API coming in WordPress 6.7.

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.

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.

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.