WordPress 6.9.2 was just released. It is a security update and it is recommended to update your sites immediately.

Lots of AI news. The WordPress team released an update to the AI Experiments plugin, adding built-in image generation and AI-assisted review tools directly inside the block editor and admin interface.

Here is an interesting discussion about how URLs and permalinks work in WordPress.

WordPress 7.0 will include the Abilities API, MCP Adapter, and the WP AI Client interface which can be used together for plugin, theme, and content creation.

The WordPress template hierarchy graphic shows how each template is chosen. In this video Marko Krstic turns that around and looks at it in terms of how content is sorted and displayed. It is a good video for new users who want to understand theme architecture.

Over on the Make blog the first AI guidelines for WordPress have been published. The idea is to set expectations on the use of AI in contributing.

Justin Tadlock shares a list of new features coming for Gutenberg and developers. These are not available in core yet, but are being worked on. They include responsive grid block, a dedicated font library admin screen, the ability to create blocks using PHP, and more.

The AI team has introduced a tool to evaluate how well an AI understands WordPress. It is in its early stages, so it is not super complete, but can be useful in the future for gauging AI models for use.

Here is an interesting update on Real-time Collaboration. This feature set is slated for WordPress 7.0 and has been in testing with WordPress VIP customers. For the most part the feedback has been very good.