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First-time contributors were paired with seasoned table leads who guided them through their first steps into open source contribution. Longtime contributors reconnected with their teams and advanced ongoing initiatives, while new voices added fresh perspectives and momentum. The spirit of mentorship was woven throughout, ensuring that Contributor Day was productive and welcoming.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results spoke for themselves:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Polyglots</strong> translated more than 12,000 strings, expanding WordPress’s accessibility worldwide.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Community team</strong> celebrated the approval of two brand-new local meetups.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Training team</strong> achieved its objective of updating outdated course thumbnails.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Core team</strong> worked through a live bug scrub, with 9 committers and 16 contributors collaborating on improvements.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Documentation team</strong> completed numerous content updates to keep resources fresh and reliable.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Momentum carried through every table, with participants reporting measurable progress and a renewed sense of shared purpose. Contributor Day once again highlighted the unique power of collaboration in shaping the open web, proving that every contribution matters through code, translations, training, or community building.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Showcase Day: WordPress in Action</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, August 27, was the popular Showcase Day, spotlighting real-world innovation in WordPress. Initially expected to draw about 250 participants, Showcase Day welcomed more than 800 attendees — a powerful sign of how much energy and curiosity the community brought to Portland. The sessions demonstrated how WordPress powers meaningful work across industries from nonprofits to newsrooms, agencies to global enterprises, while staying true to open source values.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day opened with a keynote by Amy Sample Ward: <em>The Tech That Comes Next</em>. Drawing from their co-authored book with Afua Bruce, Amy highlighted the inequities embedded in today’s technologies — from dataset bias to accessibility gaps — and challenged attendees to rethink how tools are funded, built, and deployed. Their talk invited technologists, funders, and community leaders to imagine a more equitable digital future, rooted in collaboration and shared responsibility.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WordCamp US 2025 - Amy Sample Ward &quot;The Tech That Comes Next&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/RKnM75GFZxw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</div></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, <a href=\"https://youtu.be/PGvh7fCOUk0\">Joeleen Kennedy</a> of Human Made shared how Full Site Editing (FSE) shapes the refresh of Wikimedia’s ongoing user experience. Her session <em>Modernizing at Scale</em> detailed how FSE is simplifying workflows, improving accessibility, and making the multilingual platform more sustainable for the long term. Attendees gained a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the world’s largest open knowledge platforms is leveraging WordPress innovation.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/F4NEPcwGRCI\">Josh Bryant</a> took the stage to explore what happens when Gutenberg leaves the WP-Admin dashboard. His talk, <em>Reimagining WordPress Editing</em>, walked through embedding the block editor into a standalone React application to support Dow Jones’s newsroom workflows. From decoupling Gutenberg to managing custom data stores, the session showcased advanced techniques for scaling editorial tools while maintaining the flexibility of the WordPress ecosystem.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hands-on learning was a hallmark of Showcase Day, with Jamie Marsland’s workshop leading participants through building and launching their own professional portfolio sites — no coding required. Attendees left with a fully functioning site, demonstrating WordPress’s continued ability to empower anyone, anywhere, to publish online.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the afternoon, Jeffrey Paul’s session <em>Scalable, Ethical AI</em> addressed one of the most pressing topics in today’s digital world: how to integrate AI without sacrificing ownership, privacy, or open standards. Walking participants through practical use cases with ClassifAI and local LLMs, Paul emphasized how WordPress can help content creators harness AI while maintaining autonomy over their data.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day closed with a forward-looking community highlight: <a href=\"https://events.wordpress.org/campusconnect/\">WordPress Campus Connect</a>. Panelists <a href=\"https://youtu.be/ARqM9U0ESvo\">Destiny Kanno, Andrés Parra, Javier Montes de Blas, Mauricio Barrantes, and Elineth Morera Campos</a> shared how this initiative brings WordPress into classrooms and universities worldwide. Student Andrés Parra received a scholarship to attend WordCamp. During the panel, Elineth also announced that Fidélitas University will begin offering its students a <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2025/07/introducing-wordpress-credits-a-new-contribution-internship-program-for-university-students/\">WordPress Credits</a> program starting in October 2025, making it a mandatory addition sometime in 2026, enabling them to contribute directly to WordPress as part of their studies.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>By connecting students and educators with the open web, Campus Connect is building the next generation of contributors and innovators, ensuring that WordPress remains both a learning tool and a pathway to opportunity.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taken together, Showcase Day affirmed that WordPress is more than just a CMS — it is a platform for equitable technology, global collaboration, cutting-edge enterprise solutions, and the future of digital education. WordPress has the power to be both a platform and a community tool for education, equity, and innovation.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presentation Days: Learning, Inspiration, and Connection</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first full day of sessions at WordCamp US 2025 opened with warm remarks from the organizing team, who reminded attendees: <em>“The most important thanks goes to all of you. The mix of new energy and veteran experience is what makes WordCamp so special, so thank you for being here.”</em> That spirit of gratitude and community carried throughout the event.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sponsor Hall became a hub of activity, complete with raffles, the return of Career Corner, and even a Voodoo Donut Truck parked outside. Attendees lined up to test their luck at a claw machine stuffed with plush Wapuus, while others sought guidance at the Happiness Bar — a hands-on help desk for WordPress questions big and small. Between these activities, the steady buzz of conversations made it clear: the “hallway track” remained one of WordCamp’s most valuable experiences.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WordCamp US - Danny Sullivan &quot;How (and why!) Google Search Keeps Evolving&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZF_sxLdfTbY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</div></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The program itself set a high bar. Danny Sullivan’s keynote shed light on how search has evolved to meet the needs of new generations, from 24/7 demand and mobile expectations to short-form video and AI. His session gave attendees a deeper understanding of how search intersects with publishing today and sparked conversations about how WordPress can continue adapting in an era where AI shapes discovery and content.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, the schedule unfolded across multiple tracks. The Core AI panel — featuring <a href=\"https://youtu.be/v_0O6dQ4Q4E\">James LePage, Felix Arntz, and Jeffrey Paul</a> — offered a look into how AI tools are woven into WordPress core. 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At the same time, Adam Gazzaley’s keynote, <em>A New Era of Experiential Medicine – AI and the Brain</em>, invited attendees to consider the human side of technology, exploring how digital tools can advance health and well-being.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second day of presentations, Friday, August 29, opened with creativity and imagination. <a href=\"https://youtu.be/O7FPiFpRI3o\">John Maeda’s</a> keynote, <em>Cozy AI Cooking: WordCamp Edition</em>, used the metaphor of a kitchen to demystify AI, blending storytelling with technical insight to show how curiosity and care can guide builders in integrating AI into their work.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in the day, <a href=\"https://youtu.be/ORnJTpjA-4w\">Tammie Lister’s</a> <em>The System is the Strategy</em> illustrated how design systems provide structure and scalability for growing WordPress projects. At the same time, Adam Silverstein’s Unlock Developer Superpowers with AI showcased new ways developers can use emerging tools to speed up workflows and problem-solving.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Community stories also took center stage. In Creators around a Campfire, Anne McCarthy, Jamie Marsland, Christian Taylor, Mark Szymanski, and Michael Cunningham reflected on how YouTubers and content creators shape the WordPress ecosystem. Their session highlighted the role of storytelling and education in expanding WordPress’s reach to new audiences worldwide.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sponsor Hall remained lively between sessions — with attendees meeting companies, testing demos, and swapping ideas that extended far beyond the conference halls. They also shared moments together at the arcade built for the event and added smiles, hugs, and laughter, which underscored the atmosphere: WordCamp US was as much about connection as code.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Together Into the Future</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As the event drew to a close, WordPress Cofounder Matt Mullenweg took the stage to share the current state of WordPress and a vision for its future. He highlighted the growth in social media for WordPress with 124,726 new followers since last WCUS — and the WordPress.org website growing over 10% in users along with almost 20% in new users. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt also spotlighted community initiatives shaping the future of open source education and diversity: WordPress Campus Connect, which has already reached 570 students across 11 events. Combined with the growth in overall events (77) which is a 32.76% increase over 2024. 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The final notes of the keynote carried into a closing party in downtown Portland, where attendees capped off the week with music, conversation, and the unmistakable joy of a community coming together.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Closing</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>WordCamp US 2025 once again demonstrated what makes the WordPress ecosystem extraordinary: a community committed to building tools, resources, and opportunities that empower people everywhere.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year also marked the debut of the <a href=\"https://airtable.com/appWF6hdXuEOFQMvV/shrV5RZIv0aJjjU00\">Open Horizons Scholarship</a>, which funded six recipients — two organizers, three volunteers, and one speaker — from five countries. A total of $14,670 supported their journeys to WCUS. 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In that scenario, anytime this kind of problem happens, you can kind of, when this outage was there, the API was still working and we actually, for all of our customers, we leveraged our API to make sure that any request does not proxy via Cloudflare, but instead it just goes directly to our server just for the moment in time until Cloudflare is back in the game.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:42] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Oh, so you could turn the proxy off via the API.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:45] <strong>Saumya Majumder:</strong> Via the API, yes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:46] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Right. So the fact that the rest of us couldn&#8217;t log in because Turnstile was down, we couldn&#8217;t authenticate into the Cloudflare network on the web. The API was still available, so you could turn the proxy off for a variety of your customers, and the domains and the websites that they had.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, that&#8217;s really interesting. So they had a few minutes of downtime. 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And that helped us to mitigate the downtime as much as possible for the customer, even though Cloudflare was technically down.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you would have been hosting your Nuxt or React or Next.js kind of application on Cloudflare, where you are using Cloudflare workers and things like that as your host, in that scenario, you couldn&#8217;t push anything.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:49] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, the API is not going to help you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:51] <strong>Saumya Majumder:</strong> Yes, yeah. It was bad but it&#8217;s going to happen. It can happen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:54] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I think that&#8217;s kind of the message, you know? Nothing that humans create is immutable. Everything has a moment of breaking. But, you know, if you were to cast your mind back until, well, just Monday when everything was, you know, just plain sailing, Cloudflare was working as normal, then everybody was entirely happy. We had this period of time, it was maybe something like 8 hours where everybody&#8217;s kind of throwing their arms in the air and, you know, moaning on whatever social networks are still working.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But now we&#8217;re onto Wednesday, that whole thing is long behind us. That ship sailed, whatever, move on. Confidence, I think basically what you&#8217;re saying is you can be confident in Cloudflare. They&#8217;re going to have hiccups because they&#8217;re like any other company, things will go wrong.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:22:33] <strong>Saumya Majumder:</strong> Everything can have hiccups. So it&#8217;s not just, so you have to understand this, right? Again, I&#8217;m saying that Cloudflare is not just a CDN provider, but if you look at Cloudflare and all the things that they do, the complexity of it is like mindbogglingly crazy, you know? Like it&#8217;s immense, immensely complex. It makes things super easy for you. Okay, you just toggle this on and it&#8217;s done. But if look at under the hood, and all the things and chains it has to go through, and that happens in a blink of milliseconds, it&#8217;s crazy complicated.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I said, right, like I&#8217;m not saying that Cloudflare is bad. I think Cloudflare is amazing because two things, they have super transparency, so anytime anything happens, the blog article that you are like referencing here, they didn&#8217;t hide behind anything like, oh, it was not my problem, like not doing the blame game thing. No, no, no. Like, it was our problem. This is the problem.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, in that blog article, they could have completely, don&#8217;t talk about the DDoS thingy, right? They could have just said, oh, this was the configuration file problem. We fix this, it&#8217;s done. But no, they actually literally walk you through how exactly they process the problem, which is really great. And then they actually learns from their mistakes to make sure that particular mistake never happens again, while they are like growing rapidly and building things, pushing things like crazy, like always pushing new things, which is like amazing to me.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:23:50] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I think the article even started, if it wasn&#8217;t the first set of words, it was definitely in the first couple of sentences. It was something like, we let you down. It was full ownership, I think. So bravo to them.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you&#8217;re right, the complexity behind it, you know, like you said earlier, the internet, the fact that anything works on the internet is an utter miracle of engineering, of computer engineering.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, the fact that we&#8217;re on a platform that we are staring at each other. I can see your image, you can see my image, you can hear my audio, I can hear your audio. You are on the, a different side of the planet, but it&#8217;s happening like you&#8217;re stood next to me. And the millions of packets of information that have flown during the course of this conversation, it&#8217;s insane. And Cloudflare add a whole layer of other stuff on top of that, which makes it even more insane.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:33] <strong>Saumya Majumder:</strong> Yeah. And you have to ask the question, like, why all these big companies are using Cloudflare like if it is so bad. Because they are doing things that nobody else even think about doing at a scale. And it&#8217;s like mindblogglingly crazy. It&#8217;s crazy.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:46] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, yeah, it really is. So we&#8217;ll leave that for another day. But obviously over at BigScoots, you&#8217;ve really attached your wagon, if you like, to Cloudflare. And when you agreed to come on the podcast to talk to me, it became obvious to me that the pay grade that you are at is very different to the pay grade that I&#8217;m able to keep up with.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we&#8217;re going to talk about what you&#8217;re doing over at BigScoots. I&#8217;m going to try to keep up, but if I misunderstand something, or I have to ask you to repeat something, I hope that&#8217;s okay with you. But I&#8217;m just curious because Tammie Lister, like I said at the beginning of this episode, she&#8217;s somebody whose opinion I respect a lot, and she said that you are doing some really innovative, interesting things with your connections to Cloudflare at BigScoots. So just lay out some of the interesting engineering work that you&#8217;ve been doing. I&#8217;ll try to hold on.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:25:30] <strong>Saumya Majumder:</strong> First I&#8217;m to Tammie is great. Tammie is amazing. But yeah, I mean, I think BigScoots have been one of the first to utilise Cloudflare Enterprise in the hosting world. I know we didn&#8217;t do any kind of huge marketing like other hosts, but we have been the first to leverage Cloudflare Enterprise in our hosting ecosystem. And it was such early days, like back then, all of these things, this market wasn&#8217;t there. So we were building things that people didn&#8217;t even test it out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So as I said in the beginning, like I, along with one of my colleagues, we invented the CDN level page caching. This is way before APU and all of that. So all of those things actually build upon the architecture systems as we build on, including APU and the workers and stuff.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So at BigScoots, the Cloudflare thing, especially the Cloudflare Enterprise thing opens up a whole new door for us because it now allowed us to provide CDN level page caching for every single user at a super high cache hit ratio. I mean it&#8217;s like, every time you hit a page, chances of that getting, coming out of cache is much higher, compared to if you are, or like a free plan or any other plan, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that was the beginning. And on top of that, we build our own proprietary plugin called BigScoots Cache, which allows you to not only leverage and take advantage of the Cloudflare page caching, but giving you the ability to fine tune every aspect of page caching that you would like on webpage.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:26:56] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I&#8217;m going to pause you right there. Firstly, because I&#8217;m sure that almost everybody in the audience, because their WordPress aligned, is going to understand what a cache is. They&#8217;re going to understand this process of kind of, okay, let&#8217;s remember something for next time so that when we need it next time, it&#8217;s kind of ready. But they may not understand how Cloudflare does this on their Enterprise plan.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what is it that&#8217;s different? Because we may be familiar with, I don&#8217;t know, a WordPress plugin and we&#8217;ve got some idea that there&#8217;s a cache. It&#8217;s sitting on the server somewhere in a file, it&#8217;s an HTML file or something like that. You are describing something not in one location, but like really just spread globally so it&#8217;s ready at the point of least distance from wherever somebody is. So tell us a bit more about that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:27:35] <strong>Saumya Majumder:</strong> So let me explain that with like an analogy, right? So before CDN level page caching, I think pretty much everybody would remember, like we used to have caching plugins. I&#8217;m not going to name anything, but they were caching plugins. So when you turn them on, what they essentially did was they would create like an advanced-cache.php. 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So with Cloudflare Enterprise you get a very high cache hit ratio. So when it&#8217;s getting the cache, it stays on the cache for a very long time. On top of that, we got tiered cache and regional tiered cache and all of those crazy things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which that means is, we have tiering systems. So when you make a request, the request first gets cached in the upper tier. And when a lower tier, so let&#8217;s say, how can I explain this to you? So let&#8217;s say you are in Phoenix, okay? And in Phoenix there&#8217;s a data center, or a PoP that is called, in case of CDN, a PoP is there in Phoenix but the upper tier PoP is Chicago.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let&#8217;s say someone made a request from Chicago, the page was cached in Chicago data center, okay? Now, as we have this tiered cache system, when you, from Phoenix, is making the request, instead of that PoP directly sending the request to the origin, it would first internally within the intranet of Cloudflare, not the internet, okay? The intranet of Cloudflare. The internal network like, hey, does anyone in the upper tier has this page cached to you? And if they say yes, they would fetch it from the upper tier, which is like crazy fast because there&#8217;s no traffic, and it&#8217;s like a internal network of Cloudflare.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if it does not, then it pass on the request to the upper tier, because the upper tier is the only one who has the power to pull the request from origins. It goes to the upper tier. Upper tier pulls it from the origin, creates a copy, and it&#8217;s upper tier, and then send it back to the lower tier. So in that way, in the tiered architecture, it makes sure that the cache hit ratio is insanely high.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:32:24] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Let me just sort of read that back to you just to make sure I&#8217;ve understood. And I&#8217;m imagining that, the simplest way my head is understanding that is a bunch of concentric circles. So in the center is me, and I wish to find something on, let&#8217;s say, the outer circle. So the first thing I&#8217;m going to do is go to my inner circle, and if the inner circle doesn&#8217;t have it, we need to go to the next circle out, and the next circle out, and the next circle out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in the old world, if you like, or the non-enterprise version of Cloudflare, at some point we have to go further out of the circles in order to find what it is that we&#8217;re looking for. But what I think you are saying is that on the enterprise level, that outer circle is constantly pushing things towards the inner circle on a much more local basis. So rather than having to go out circle, another one, another one, another one, it can just hop one circle out, get what it needs, and then hop right back. In other words, every single thing is always closer, geographically, than it would be in any other setup.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:22] <strong>Saumya Majumder:</strong> Yes, and on top of that, if you look at the opposite architecture of this, right? So imagine you are in Phoenix, Phoenix doesn&#8217;t have it in cache. Phoenix sends a request to origin, now someone from Mississippi makes a request, they don&#8217;t have it in cache, their PoP makes a request too.. So all these PoPs are making requests to the origin because they don&#8217;t have it in their own local cache, which is bad because that would then mean the request to the origin would increase dramatically, which we are trying to reduce.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in this sense we have, imagine like a fixed set of upper tier data center, then we have like a middle tier and then the lower tier, right? So if lower tier doesn&#8217;t have it, it asks the middle tier, middle tier checks if any of the middle tier across the world have it. If they do, immediately send it. And that&#8217;s happening within the internal network of Cloudflare and not on the open internet, okay? It&#8217;s like crazy fast.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:11] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Right, okay. So again, forgive me, I&#8217;m going to make a leap of faith here, I could have this wrong. I&#8217;m guessing that on the Cloudflare side, they have their own bespoke hardware to route all of this stuff. So like you said, you described it as an, it&#8217;s like an internet intranet, almost, the scale that they&#8217;re on. But they&#8217;ve got their own hardware, which will be able to route that information presumably more quickly, and with less, I don&#8217;t know, less latency than you and I might have.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:36] <strong>Saumya Majumder:</strong> Yeah, it&#8217;s a intranet, it&#8217;s not internet. It&#8217;s a private channel, right? So no one talking there except for Cloudflare. And the best part of that is, so imagine let&#8217;s say you are making a request from Mississippi, and there is like a upper tier data center in Mumbai, India, right? So what happens is, even though it&#8217;s not cached in US, it&#8217;s going to see that, okay, I have it cached in Mumbai, let&#8217;s take it from there instead of making a call to the origin, reducing the call origin, yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:35:05] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, that bit I didn&#8217;t understand. So the entire network is aware of where the closest thing is even before it needs to have it. I got it. Okay. That&#8217;s fascinating. And do they own the cables? Do Cloudflare own the cables connecting these things?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:35:18] <strong>Saumya Majumder:</strong> Yes. Yes, they have their own data center, their own backbone, all of that. And on top of that, like at BigScoots we even have direct physical connections to Cloudflare service. That&#8217;s called CNI. That&#8217;s like a next step. So again, let me kind of paint a picture. This is you as a user, right? This is Cloudflare sitting in the middle, acting as a reverse proxy, and this is origin, okay?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the way it works is you make a request, right? So let&#8217;s say you, a request is received by this in a reverse proxy Cloudflare. Then it process that thing, whether it has to show you a WAF page, whatever the logic is, right? Does it have it in cache and all of that? You know, if it is not being blocked or challenged, do I need to show it in cache? Do I have it in cache? You&#8217;re talking to the internal network, all of that. And that&#8217;s happening in this middle tier, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this middle tier is now connected to their entire Cloudflare chain, right? So if, let&#8217;s say Mumbai has it, and it pulls from Mumbai, give it back to you. So the request never goes to the origin, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, for whatever reason, you make a request to Cloudflare, Cloudflare checks it&#8217;s internal network, it doesn&#8217;t have it itself, so it has to make a request to the origin, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s the interesting part. This bit of connection that is you and the Cloudflare, that&#8217;s happening over the open internet, right? Because like you making and the request goes by the open internet and lands to Cloudflare, right? And then this is your origin, so your Cloudflare to origin, right, that also generally happens by open internet. Cloudflare then makes a request, and that request goes by the internet and, you know, lands on the data center.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here&#8217;s the magical part that we have done. As we run and own our own data center, what we have done is we have connected a physical cable, like literally optic fibre cable with super insanely high bandwidth with the Cloudflare servers, with our servers. So what happens is, anytime Cloudflare has to fetch something from our origin, instead of sending that request by the open internet, which could be slow, there could be congestion and whatnot, it then sends via that private network that we have created, that private optical fiber cable and lands directly to our origin. Like, oh, this is hosted on BigScoots. We need to talk to BigScoots. Okay, send via this channel, which is not part of the open internet. And boom, it gets there, comes back, it&#8217;s like insanely fast.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:37:32] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. How did that happen? Like, is that some sort of agreement that you have struck up directly with Cloudflare so that you can tap, you know, in a sense it feels like you&#8217;ve become a third party piece of their network infrastructure almost.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:37:47] <strong>Saumya Majumder:</strong> Think of like, if Cloudflare is like a one gigantic network, our systems are also plugged into their network so that they can use the intranet system to fetch data directly from us, instead of using the open internet, which is much slower, there could be congestion and whatnot. To making that request between the Cloudflare, the proxy and the origin, making that instantly fast.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:38:10] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So how did that whole thing come about? How is it that you fell into this agreement? Because I don&#8217;t know if many other organisations do this, you know, outside of the web hosting space, maybe this is a typical thing where you could follow a roadmap from another company that had done it. I&#8217;ve not heard of this, so that&#8217;s kind of interesting. How did that relationship come about?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:38:26] <strong>Saumya Majumder:</strong> If you don&#8217;t run your own data center, it is very hard to do this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:38:29] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I do not.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:38:30] <strong>Saumya Majumder:</strong> Yeah, because you have to literally connect your servers and routers and everything to the Cloudflare network, you know? So most of the hosting companies out there, they don&#8217;t run their own data center on their own space. They actually lease, what I call lease their hardwares and services from other cloud providers. 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[plugin author][enterprise]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#relevant-bug-fixes-for-backward-compatibility-checks-theme-author-plugin-author-site-admin\">Relevant bug fixes for backward compatibility checks [theme author] [plugin author][site admin]</a></li></ul></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#new-blocks-all\">New Blocks [all]</a><ul><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#accordion-block\">Accordion Block</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#term-query-block\">Term Query Block</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#time-to-read-block\">Time to Read 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class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#cover-block-improved-video-handling-all\">Cover Block improved video handling [all]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#details-block-end-user-site-admin-plugin-author\">Details Block [end user][site admin][plugin author]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#gallery-block-all\">Gallery Block [all]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#heading-block-css-specificity-fix-all\">Heading Block CSS specificity fix [all]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#navigation-block-all\">Navigation Block [all]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#query-loop-blocks-all\">Query Loop Blocks [all]</a><ul><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#content-block\">Content Block</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#date-block-supports-custom-dates\">Date Block supports custom dates.</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#query-title-get-post-type-label\">Query Title get Post Type label</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#query-total\">Query Total</a></li></ul></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#rss-block-end-user\">RSS Block [end user]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#separator-block-theme-author-site-admin-plugin-author\">Separator Block  [theme author][site admin][plugin author]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#social-icons-block-developers-enterprise\">Social Icons Block [developers][enterprise]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#table-block-end-users-site-admin\">Table Block   [end users][site admin]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#video-block-all\">Video Block [all] </a></li></ul></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#theme-json-and-global-styles-developers-enterprise-site-admin\">Theme.json and Global Styles  [developers][enterprise][site admin]</a><ul><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#form-elements-in-theme-json\">Form elements in theme.json</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#border-radius-presets-supported\">Border Radius presets supported </a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#button-element-inherits-typography\">Button element inherits typography</a></li></ul></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#a-closer-look-at-performance-optimizations-developers-enterprise\">A closer look at performance optimizations  [developers][enterprise]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#improved-accessibility-across-core-and-block-editor\">Improved accessibility across Core and Block editor</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#new-and-updated-apis-for-developers-developers-enterprise\">New and updated APIs for Developers [developers][enterprise]</a><ul><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#abilities-api\">Abilities API</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#block-bindings-api\">Block Bindings API</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#dataviews-and-dataform\">DataViews and DataForm</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#interactivity-api\">Interactivity API</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#output-buffering-for-the-rendered-template\">Output buffering for the rendered template </a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#blocks-efficiently-find-and-traverse-blocks-in-a-document\">Blocks: Efficiently find and traverse blocks in a document. </a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-9-source-of-truth/#more-developer-notes-for-wordpress-6-9-release\">More Developer Notes for WordPress 6.9 release</a></li></ul></li></ul></nav>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"changelog\">Changelog</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Any changes are cataloged here as the release goes on.</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>11/25/2025 \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Added <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#more-developer-notes-for-wordpress-6-9-release\">Dev Note</a> on miscellaneous block editor changes </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added link to the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/25/wordpress-6-9-field-guide/\">Field Guide</a> </li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>11/24/2025</strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Added <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#more-developer-notes-for-wordpress-6-9-release\">Dev Notes</a> on HTML API updates and pn PHP 8.5 Support</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>11/21/2025 </strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Updated screenshots and videos for <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#stretchy-text-for-heading-and-paragraph-blocks-all\">Stretchy Text section</a>, reflecting changes in RC2.  </li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>11/20/2025</strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>added <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#improved-accessibility-across-core-and-block-editor\">accessibility updates section</a>. </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#more-developer-notes-for-wordpress-6-9-release\">Dev Notes</a> on Admin Search query, IE-related updates and URL escaping functions. </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Updated the featured image to the <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/71818#issuecomment-3556808505\">latest version of the highlight grid</a>.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>11/19/2025: </strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Added credits</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added tags to headings,</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=42536&amp;action=edit#more-developer-notes-for-wordpress-6-9-release\">Dev Notes</a> on WordPress email, UTF-8 support</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added horizontal scroll bar feature to Math Block</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed some typos.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"important-note-guidelines\">Important note/guidelines</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Please do not copy and paste what is in this post since this will be shared with many people. This should be used to inspire your own content and to ensure that you have the best information about this release. If you do copy and paste, keep in mind that others might do the same, opening the door for some awkwardness around duplicated content out on the web. </p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Each item has been tagged using best guesses with different high-level labels so that you can more readily see at a glance who is likely to be most impacted.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Each item has a high-level description, visuals (if relevant), and key resources if you would like to learn more.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"overview\">Overview </h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note: As always, what’s shared here is being actively pursued but doesn’t necessarily mean each will make it into the final release of WordPress 6.9.</em></p>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress 6.9 introduces several new features and performance enhancements.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key new features include:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Collaborative Feedback and Content Control:</strong> Block-level Notes facilitate team feedback, allowed blocks UI, Abilities API, visual drag and drop, binding blocks to external controls.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>New Blocks:</strong> Discover Accordion, Terms Query, Math, and Time to Read blocks.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Typography Enhancements:</strong> Benefit from new text-fitting typography.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dashboard-wide Command Palette:</strong> The Command Palette will  help users streamline their workflow across WordPress Admin pages. </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Performance improvements include:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Optimized Loading:</strong> On-demand block-style loading and faster emoji detection.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Efficient Scheduling:</strong> Optimized cron execution.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, WordPress 6.9 lays the groundwork for future AI integration with the new Abilities API, which enables secure automation through machine-readable WordPress capabilities.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-9\">WordPress 6.9</a> is set to be released on December 2, 2025. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of note, this release includes Gutenberg plugin versions 20.5 &#8211; 21.9.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"important-links\">Important links:</h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/07/28/roadmap-to-6-9/\">Roadmap to 6.9</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-9/\">WordPress 6.9 Development Cycle</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>What’s new for developers: <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/06/whats-new-for-developers-june-2025/\">June</a>, <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/07/whats-new-for-developers-july-2025/\">July</a>, <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/08/whats-new-for-developers-august-2025/\">August,</a> <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/09/whats-new-for-developers-september-2025/\">September</a>, <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/10/whats-new-for-developers-october-2025/\">October</a>, <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/11/whats-new-for-developers-november-2025/\">November</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/25/wordpress-6-9-field-guide/\">6.9 Field Guide</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/state-of-the-word/\">State of the Word 2025</a> will include highlights and demos of the most important features of this release. The event will be <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/wordpress\">livestreamed on YouTube </a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"assets\">Assets </h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1z0ilv8vH2AVWVt-1tPI9qPUoTOSGahuB\">Google Drive folder</a> you can view all assets in this document.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tags\">Tags</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To make this document easier to navigate based on specific audiences, the following tags are used liberally: </p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>[end user]</strong>: end user focus. </li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>[theme author]</strong>: block or classic theme author. </li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>[plugin author]</strong>: plugin author, whether block or otherwise.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>[developer]</strong>: catch-all term for more technical folks. </li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>[site admin]</strong>: this includes a “builder” type. </li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>[enterprise]</strong>: specific items that would be of interest to or particularly impact enterprise-level folks</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>[all]</strong>: broad impact to every kind of WordPress user. </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p>How can you use these? Use your browser&#8217;s <strong>Find</strong> capability and search for the string including the brackets. Then use the arrows to navigate through the post from one result to the next. </p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\">Short video on how to use the tags to navigate the post. \n<p></p>\n\n\n\n		<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-videopress jetpack-videopress-player\">\n			<div class=\"jetpack-videopress-player__wrapper\"> </div>\n			\n			\n		</figure>\n		</details>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"command-palette-everywhere-all\">Command Palette everywhere <sup>[all]</sup></h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of years ago the Command Palette was first released for the Site Editor. It provides content creators and administrators with a quick search and command execution tool. Invoked by Ctrl+K or Cmd+K. It is now available from any admin screen and helps streamline content creation as well as administering a WordPress site. It provides shortcuts to places otherwise only available by navigating multiple menu levels deep. </p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"Command Palette now available from the dashboard\" class=\"wp-image-42912\" height=\"402\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Command-Palette-everywhere-1024x631.png?resize=652%2C402&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Technically, this change extracts navigation commands from `@wordpress/edit-site` to `@wordpress/core-commands`, making them universally accessible. This architectural shift sets the foundation for admin-wide command integration in WordPress 6.9 and beyond, potentially reducing the need for repetitive clicking through admin menus.</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For developers the new useCommands hook was introduced. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71603\">71603</a>)</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-editor-updates\">Block editor updates</h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes-all\">Notes     <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Asynchronous collaboration comes to WordPress via the new Notes feature and rings in the 3rd Phase of Gutenberg. Site owners, Editors and Authors can collaborate by leaving comment directly on the post or page, attached to the blocks in the editor. The notes are threaded, resolveable, and can be reopened as well. Add an access notes from the Block toolbar and via the sidebar. Post authors will receive email notification when notes are added to the content.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"Collaborative Notes in WordPress 6.9\" class=\"wp-image-42914\" height=\"465\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Notes-in-WordPress-6-9.png?resize=652%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes are by default enabled for Posts and Pages. They can be enabled also for other content post types via the `register_post_type` function. </p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kevinbatdorf-code-block-pro cbp-has-line-numbers\"><span>PHP</span><span class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button\" style=\"color: #575279; display: none;\" tabindex=\"0\"><pre class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-pre\"><textarea class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-textarea\" readonly=\"readonly\" tabindex=\"-1\">register_post_type( \'book\', array(\n	\'label\' => \'Books\',\n	\'public\' => true,\n	\'show_in_rest\' => true,\n	\'supports\' => array(\n		\'title\',\n		\'editor\' => array( \'notes\' => true ),\n		\'author\',\n	),\n) );\n</textarea></pre><svg fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><path class=\"with-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2m-6 9l2 2 4-4\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path><path class=\"without-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path></svg></span><pre class=\"shiki rose-pine-dawn\" style=\"background-color: #faf4ed;\" tabindex=\"0\"><code><span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #D7827E;\">register_post_type</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">(</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">\'book\'</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #B4637A; font-style: italic;\">array</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">(</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">	</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">\'label\'</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #286983;\">=&gt;</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">\'Books\'</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">	</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">\'public\'</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #286983;\">=&gt;</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #D7827E;\">true</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">	</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">\'show_in_rest\'</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #286983;\">=&gt;</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #D7827E;\">true</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">	</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">\'supports\'</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #286983;\">=&gt;</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #B4637A; font-style: italic;\">array</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">(</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">		</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">\'title\'</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">		</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">\'editor\'</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #286983;\">=&gt;</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #B4637A; font-style: italic;\">array</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">(</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">\'notes\'</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #286983;\">=&gt;</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #D7827E;\">true</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">),</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">		</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">\'author\'</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">	</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">),</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #797593;\">)</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">);</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"></span></code></pre></div>\n\n\n\n<p>More details on handling Notes programmatically can be found in the Dev Note: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/15/notes-feature-in-wordpress-6-9/\"><strong>Notes feature in WordPress 6.9</strong></a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"visual-drag-drop-end-user\">Visual Drag &amp; Drop <img alt=\"🐉\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f409.png\" style=\"height: 1em;\" /> <img alt=\"💧\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f4a7.png\" style=\"height: 1em;\" />  <sup>[end user]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Drag-and-drop just got smarter. Blocks now show live visual feedback as you reposition them, making layout building more intuitive and precise. You&#8217;ll see exactly where elements land before releasing, accelerating the creative process. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/67470\">67470</a>). Currently, this only works for single blocks. Drag and Drop of multiple blocks is slated for WordPress 7.0.</p>\n\n\n\n		<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-videopress jetpack-videopress-player\">\n			<div class=\"jetpack-videopress-player__wrapper\"> </div>\n			\n			\n		</figure>\n		\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ui-for-managing-allowed-blocks-in-templates-and-patterns-end-user-site-admin\">UI for managing allowed Blocks in Templates and Patterns.     <sup>[end user][site admin]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress now makes managing allowed blocks simpler with a new UI tucked in<strong> Advanced</strong> settings. Previously, developers had to edit block markup directly in code view—not user-friendly. This updates makes things easier for website admins, theme builders, and agencies enforcing specific block rules in patterns and templates. While agencies already handled this via code, the new interface offers a nicer interaction model. It&#8217;s part of WordPress&#8217;s broader mission: letting users build complex sites without touching code at all.  (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/72191\">72191</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n		<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-videopress jetpack-videopress-player\">\n			<div class=\"jetpack-videopress-player__wrapper\"> </div>\n			\n			\n		</figure>\n		\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hide-and-show-blocks-end-user-site-admin\">Hide and Show Blocks  <sup>[end user][site admin]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress 6.9 introduces long-awaited control to hide blocks in the editor while preserving their structure within templates. This initial implementation provides content creators and designers with the ability to manage blocks that are not always displayed, such as seasonal content or conditional elements.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of deleting and recreating blocks, users can now simply toggle their visibility, retaining all settings. This foundational feature paves the way for more sophisticated conditional display options in future releases, potentially including role-based or time-based visibility controls. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71203\">71203</a>) </p>\n\n\n\n		<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-videopress jetpack-videopress-player\">\n			<div class=\"jetpack-videopress-player__wrapper\"> </div>\n			\n			\n		</figure>\n		\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42922\" height=\"279\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Additional-CSS-Sidebar.png?resize=399%2C279&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"399\" /></figure>\n</div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"additional-css-control-moved-end-user-site-admin-theme-author\">Additional CSS control moved <br /> <sup>[end user][site admin] [theme author]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Theme builders might go searching for the <strong>Additional CSS</strong> controls. They were moved into the ellipsis menu in the header of the Styles page on either side of the screen (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71550\">71550</a>) </p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42923\" height=\"238\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Additional-CSS-dark-side.png?resize=652%2C238&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"copy-styles-keyboard-shortcut-end-user-site-admin\">Copy Styles keyboard shortcut    <br /><sup>[end user][site admin]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A new keyboard shortcut helps with pasting styles from one block to another and can speed up content creation workflows: cmd/ctrl + options/alt + v<strong> (</strong><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/69196\"><strong>69196</strong></a><strong>) </strong></p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-style-variations-in-style-book-end-user-site-admin-theme-author\">Block Style Variations in Style Book<br /> <sup>[end user][site admin] [theme author]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To make the Stylebook even more comprehensive, it now surfaces block styles for core blocks as well as custom blocks. This makes it possible to change block style variations site-wide in one screen (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70448\">70448</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n		<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-videopress jetpack-videopress-player\">\n			<div class=\"jetpack-videopress-player__wrapper\"> </div>\n			\n			\n		</figure>\n		\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-starter-patterns-modal-for-all-post-types-theme-author-plugin-author-enterprise\">The Starter Patterns modal for all post types. <sup>[theme author] [plugin author][enterprise]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With WordPress 6.9, contributors addressed a limitation in the starter pattern modal, which previously appeared exclusively when creating pages. This restriction is now removed from the `StartPageOptions` component, enabling the modal to display across all post types where patterns exist. The fix resolves a regression introduced in earlier pulls, expanding design flexibility for WordPress content creators working with diverse content structures.(<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/69753\">69753</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"why-iframe-the-post-editor-plugin-author-enterprise\">Why iframe the Post Editor? <br /><sup>[plugin author][enterprise]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The process to <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/29/blocks-in-an-iframed-template-editor/\">restructure how the WordPress post editor works</a> started a few years ago.  WordPress 6.9 begins transitioning the editor into this isolated iframe, with full completion coming in WordPress 7.0.  Think of an iframe like a sandbox—a separate container within a webpage. Currently, the editor runs in the same space as WordPress&#8217;s admin interface, causing styling conflicts. This separation prevents admin styles from interfering with content editing, making the editor preview match what readers actually see. Plugin developers need to update older blocks to work with this new setup or they might stop functioning properly. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dev note <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/12/preparing-the-post-editor-for-full-iframe-integration/\">Preparing the Post Editor for Full iframe Integration</a> has more details. And in the comments many immediate questions have been answered. </p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"relevant-bug-fixes-for-backward-compatibility-checks-theme-author-plugin-author-site-admin\">Relevant bug fixes for backward compatibility checks <sup>[theme author] [plugin author][site admin]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Certain bugs have been around for a while and developers often have found work arounds. Now that those bugs are fixed, it might be possible that the work around don’t work any more and it’s feasible to remove it. </p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Comments Pagination: Remove unwanted bottom margin from links. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70360\">70360</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remove screencast.com embed block variation. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70480\">70480</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tag Cloud: Remove unnecessary full-width padding. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/69725\">69725</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li>HTML Block: Remove space below textarea. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70055\">70055</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fix : Calendar block: Colors do not change between global styles and theme.json. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70184\">70184</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Image Block: Preserve line breaks in media caption. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70476\">70476</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Search Block: Move search setting to inspector. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70144\">70144</a>)</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"new-blocks-all\">New Blocks <sup>[all]</sup></h2>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress 6.9 brings six new blocks to WordPress editor: an Accordion block and its nested InnerBlocks, a Time-to-read block that also can show the word count of a post or page, the Term Query block, and the Math block to display mathematical formulas in science and essay posts. Comment handling also became easier with two more blocks, Comment Count and Comment Link. </p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"accordion-block\">Accordion Block</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Accordion Block has been long awaited and it is now available to all WordPress users. It’s a nested structure using Accordion Block, Accordion Item, Accordion Heading and Accordion Panel blocks. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Accordion block has multiple Accordion Items, each comprising of a Accordion Heading + Icon and an Accordion Panel with the content. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>The default styling is minimal and opens a lot of design possibilities for theme builders to cover all the use cases. On the Developer blog you’ll find a <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/10/styling-accordions-in-wordpress-6-9/\">tutorial of the various methods for styling an Accordion block</a>, using the example of an FAQ page (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/64119\">64119</a>)(<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71222\">71222</a>)(<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71388\">71388</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Snippets section of the Developer Blog shows how to add <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/snippets/schema-org-microdata-for-accordion-block-faqs/\">Schema.org microdata for Accordion block FAQs</a></p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42932\" height=\"495\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Accordion-block.png?resize=652%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"term-query-block\">Term Query Block</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditionally, creating category and tag pages has been complex and required custom queries and workarounds. The new Terms Query block offers a built-in way to display and organize categories and tags, similar to how the Query block manages posts. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70720\">70720</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also supporting blocks: </p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Term Template block</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Term Name block</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Term Count block</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Together with the already existing Term Description block, this additional support for display of categories or tags is particularly useful for directory and magazine sites who provide content filters and subpages for their readers. The interface provides an `order` and `order-by` sorting in a single dropdown. All blocks have the necessary design tools for styling and the Term Count block also has a toggle to make it a link. For those working extensively with taxonomies, the ongoing <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/49094\">hierarchy discussion</a> outlines future enhancements to taxonomy handling in WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42936\" height=\"381\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Term-Query-Block.png?resize=652%2C381&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"time-to-read-block\">Time to Read Block</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Time to Read block, available in the Gutenberg plugin for a long time went through an extended accessibility review before it was added to WordPress Core. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>It now has a toggle control to display a range of time rather than a fixed average reading time. It also comes with a variation to display a word count for the post or page it’s used on (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71606\">71606</a>) (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71841\">71841</a>). </p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42941\" height=\"93\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-17.25.42.png?resize=435%2C93&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"435\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"Time to Read / Word Count block WordPress 6.9\" class=\"wp-image-42940\" height=\"229\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-17.25.17.png?resize=652%2C229&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"math-block\">Math Block</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Math Block content creators can now add mathematical formulas in LaTeX syntax to their post and pages. The LaTeX syntax can also be used together with the inline Math format.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42944\" height=\"287\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Math-Block-WordPress-6.9.png?resize=652%2C287&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42943\" height=\"457\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Math-block-inline-format.png?resize=652%2C457&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Longer formulas are handled with a horizontal scrollbar.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43026\" height=\"108\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Math-block-horizontal-scroll.png?resize=525%2C108&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"525\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"comment-count-and-comment-link-blocks\">Comment Count and Comment Link Blocks</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Two new comment blocks help theme builders to handle comment count and comment links separately. Both blocks have been available in the Gutenberg plugin for a few years and only for the Site editor. Earlier this year, they came out of experimentation and were made available for all editor screens. So now a content creator can for instance include a links to the comment section on top of the post and be more deliberate in allowing access to comments only on certain posts. </p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"Comment Link and Comment count in Template\" class=\"wp-image-42951\" height=\"194\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Comment-Link-Comment-Count.png?resize=652%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"updates-to-existing-blocks\">Updates to existing blocks </h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For WordPress 6.9, contributors standardized most blocks&#8217; Inspector settings to use the <a href=\"https://wordpress.github.io/gutenberg/?path=/docs/components-toolspanel--docs\">ToolsPanel component</a>, bringing visual consistency across the editor. The shift grants users granular control over displayed settings while simplifying how developers inject additional options into existing groups. The ToolsPanel aligns Inspector controls with the Styles sidebar, already leveraging the component extensively, creating a cohesive authoring experience. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/67813\">67813</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"stretchy-text-for-heading-and-paragraph-blocks-all\">Stretchy Text for Heading and Paragraph blocks. <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Heading and Paragraph blocks now support a new &#8220;Stretchy&#8221; variation that stretches text to the full width of its container. The transform tool from the button tools bar allowing users to convert text into this stretchy format. </p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43081\" height=\"271\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Sstretchy-Heading-2025-11-21.png?resize=277%2C271&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"277\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43082\" height=\"252\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Stretchy-Paragrapph-2025-11-21.png?resize=279%2C252&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"279\" /></figure>\n</figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42955\" height=\"158\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Stretchy-slash-command.png?resize=289%2C158&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"289\" /></figure>\n</div>\n\n\n<p>Content creators can find these variations also in the Block inserter or via the Slash command. </p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42956\" height=\"307\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Stretchy-in-inserter.png?resize=354%2C307&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"354\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Stretchy Text offers designers and content creators an additional creative tool, opening up numerous possibilities for visually appealing text, especially when paired with suitable fonts. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developers can add support for this feature to any Custom text block via block.json. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73148\">73148</a>)(<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73056\">73056</a>) (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73067\">73067</a>)(<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/72923\">72923</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kevinbatdorf-code-block-pro cbp-has-line-numbers\"><span>JSON</span><span class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button\" style=\"color: #575279; display: none;\" tabindex=\"0\"><pre class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-pre\"><textarea class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-textarea\" readonly=\"readonly\" tabindex=\"-1\">{\n	\"supports\":{\n		\"typography\":{\n				\"fitText\": true,\n		}\n	}\n}\n</textarea></pre><svg fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><path class=\"with-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2m-6 9l2 2 4-4\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path><path class=\"without-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path></svg></span><pre class=\"shiki rose-pine-dawn\" style=\"background-color: #faf4ed;\" tabindex=\"0\"><code><span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">	</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">supports</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">		</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">typography</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">fitText</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #D7827E;\">true</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">		</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">	</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"></span></code></pre></div>\n\n\n\n		<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-videopress jetpack-videopress-player\">\n			\n			\n			\n		</figure>\n		\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"button-block-end-user-siteadmin\">Button Block <sup>[end user] [siteadmin]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Button Block now sports HTML element selection in <strong>Advanced</strong> settings, letting creators choose between semantic &lt;a&gt; links and true &lt;button&gt; elements. This tackles accessibility headaches where users mistakenly treat buttons as links, confusing screen readers. The dropdown educates users about proper usage, empowering developers and non-coders alike to build accessible interfaces without custom code (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70139\">70139</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"cover-block-improved-video-handling-all\">Cover Block improved video handling <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cover Block now supports poster images for videos, enhancing accessibility for users with slow internet or mobile devices. These images can be easily added by dragging and dropping the file onto the Poster Image control, streamlining the post creation process (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70816\">70816</a>) (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71039\">71039</a>)  (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70939\">70939</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42961\" height=\"397\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Cover-Block-Updates.png?resize=652%2C397&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"details-block-end-user-site-admin-plugin-author\">Details Block <sup>[end user][site admin][plugin author]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Formatting features are now enabled for the Details Block, similar to the Paragraph block. Users can now use special formatting like Strikethrough, Sub or Superscript, and highlighting. This also opens up the list to be extended via plugins. </p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"gallery-block-all\">Gallery Block <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This next WordPress version adds the support for gallery-wide aspect ratio setting to the Gallery Block. User can now set the same aspect ratio for all images in the gallery with one click from the sidebar. <strong>(</strong><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71116\"><strong>71116</strong></a><strong>) (</strong><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/72104\"><strong>72104</strong></a><strong>).</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42962\" height=\"415\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Gallery-block-aspect-ratio.png?resize=652%2C415&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Theme developers can control the availability via theme.json. The code snippet shows an example of removing the default choice <code>defaultAspectRatios</code> and only offering two choices in the editor.</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kevinbatdorf-code-block-pro cbp-has-line-numbers\"><span>JSON</span><span class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button\" style=\"color: #575279; display: none;\" tabindex=\"0\"><pre class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-pre\"><textarea class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-textarea\" readonly=\"readonly\" tabindex=\"-1\">\"settings\":{\n        \"blocks\" {\n            \"core/gallery\":{\n                \"dimensions\":{\n                    \"defaultAspectRatios\":false,\n                    \"aspectRatios\": &#91;\n                        {\n                             \"name\": \"Square - 1:1\",\n                             \"slug\": \"square\",\n                             \"ratio\": \"1\"\n                        },\n                        {\n                             \"name\": \"Wide - 16:9\",\n                             \"slug\": \"16-9\",\n                             \"ratio\": \"16/9\"\n                        }\n                  &#93;\n             }          \n         }\n    }\n</textarea></pre><svg fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><path class=\"with-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2m-6 9l2 2 4-4\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path><path class=\"without-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path></svg></span><pre class=\"shiki rose-pine-dawn\" style=\"background-color: #faf4ed;\" tabindex=\"0\"><code><span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;settings&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">        </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">blocks</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #B4637A;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">            </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">core/gallery</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">dimensions</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                    </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">defaultAspectRatios</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #D7827E;\">false</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                    </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">aspectRatios</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&#91;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                        </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                             </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">name</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;Square - 1:1&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                             </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">slug</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;square&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                             </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">ratio</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;1&quot;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                        </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">},</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                        </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                             </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">name</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;Wide - 16:9&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                             </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">slug</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;16-9&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                             </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">ratio</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;16/9&quot;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                        </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">                  </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&#93;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">             </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\">          </span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">         </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">    </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"></span></code></pre></div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"heading-block-css-specificity-fix-all\">Heading Block CSS specificity fix <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress 6.9 fixes a <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/72837\">specificity issue with the Heading block&#8217;s</a> background padding. Previously, padding styles applied to headings with backgrounds were affecting other blocks that use heading elements, such as the Accordion Heading block. This fix ensures that background padding is only applied to actual Heading blocks.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CSS selector for applying padding to headings with backgrounds has been made more specific. The selector now targets <code>.wp-block-heading.has-background</code> instead of just heading element tags (h1, h2, etc) with the <code>.has-background</code> class. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dev note: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/12/heading-block-css-specificity-fix-in-wordpress-6-9/\">Heading Block CSS Specificity Fix in WordPress 6.9</a></p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"navigation-block-all\">Navigation Block <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Navigation block in this WordPress release has been significantly  improved. Builders can now find the create page functionality directly from the link UI dropdown and the process of creating a page is streamlined by an additional “publish immediately” checkbox. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71188\">71188</a>)(<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71487\">71487</a>)</p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img alt=\"navigation page link, add page feature. \" class=\"wp-image-42968\" height=\"368\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/navigation-create-new-page.png?resize=520%2C368&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 326px; height: auto;\" width=\"520\" /></figure>\n</div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img alt=\"Navigation create page and immediately publish.\" class=\"wp-image-42969\" height=\"291\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/navigation-create-new-page-publish.png?resize=527%2C291&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 372px; height: auto;\" width=\"527\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly the button block inside the navigation block also has the option to create a new page. It’s a slightly different approach, but it helps with streamlining site building work. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/69368\">69368</a>)<br /></p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img alt=\"Navigation button with create page feature. \" class=\"wp-image-42971\" height=\"343\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/navigation-button-create-page.png?resize=398%2C343&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 399px; height: auto;\" width=\"398\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Site builders can now customize aria-labels independently of menu titles, which is great for accessibility. The text box is located under <strong>Advanced &gt; Menu Name</strong> (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/66935\">66935</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"Customize the name of the navigation menu\" class=\"wp-image-42972\" height=\"570\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/navigation-menu-name.png?resize=283%2C570&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"283\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The hamburger icon now consists of individual SVG lines, opening up more styling and animation possibilities. Plus, the automatic panel expansion for Navigation options in site editing makes the workflow smoother. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/71791\">71791</a>)(<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/56346\">56346</a>) (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/69343\">69343</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p>To improve the robustness of the Navigation, the Navigation Link Block is now creating the URL dynamically and even if the slug of the page changes the link will be automatically updated.(<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/72422\">72422</a>) A similar mechanism also was applied to the Navigation Submenu block. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>The submenu control of the background is now much easier. A new slider control for the overlay helps with the design. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/69379\">69379</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"Navigation submenu overlay slider \" class=\"wp-image-42973\" height=\"278\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Navigation-submenu-background-overlay.png?resize=652%2C278&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In template part view, a new button <strong>Edit Navigation</strong> helps users to update Navigation block settings and menu items directly from this view.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42976\" height=\"126\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/navigation-edit-button-template-part-edited.png?resize=552%2C126&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"552\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"query-loop-blocks-all\">Query Loop Blocks <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Blocks primarily used in a Query Loop context received a few quality-of-life enhancements and accessibility controls. </p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img alt=\"content block HTML element selection. \" class=\"wp-image-42977\" height=\"297\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/content-html-element.png?resize=284%2C297&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"284\" /></figure>\n</div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"content-block\">Content Block</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Content block in WordPress 6.9 now features a `tagName` selector in its Advanced Settings. This allows theme builders to replace the default div wrapper with semantic HTML elements (like main, section, or article), improving accessibility, SEO, and content structure. This powerful tool enhances how blocks align with web standards.<strong> </strong><strong>(</strong><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70698\"><strong>70698</strong></a><strong>)</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"date-block-supports-custom-dates\">Date Block supports custom dates.</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Date block has undergone significant enhancements. It now supports custom dates, and its existing Post Date and Last Modified Date variations have been updated to utilize Block Bindings. This change involved creating a new binding source, core/post-data, which exposes the publish date as date and the last modified date as modified for any given post (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70585\">70585</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42980\" height=\"378\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/date-publish-modified.png?resize=278%2C378&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"278\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42979\" height=\"338\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/date-select-format.png?resize=283%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"283\" /></figure>\n</figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"query-title-get-post-type-label\">Query Title get Post Type label</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Query Loop block now supports a new <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71167\">Post Type Label variation</a>. This feature enables users to display the post type of the current item within the block, which is especially helpful for showcasing the post type name when creating custom post type archive templates. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71167\">71167</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img alt=\"Query block post type labels\" class=\"wp-image-42984\" height=\"570\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/query-post-type-labels-edited.png?resize=652%2C570&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 498px; height: auto;\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"query-total\">Query Total</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of query results return are displayed via the Query Total block. In WordPress 6.9, this block received color controls for styling. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/69500\">69500</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"rss-block-end-user\">RSS Block <sup>[end user]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The RSS Block is a block to display another website&#8217;s RSS feed in a post or template. This version holds two small updates: An added option to display the links in a new tab or window and to control the `rel` attributes. RSS feeds from third-party sources sometimes include HTML entities in their titles. In a bug fix, the RSS Block now displays titles correctly. </p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"separator-block-theme-author-site-admin-plugin-author\">Separator Block <br /><sup>[theme author][site admin][plugin author]</sup></h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42982\" height=\"590\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/separator-html-element.png?resize=431%2C590&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 218px; height: auto;\" width=\"431\" /></figure>\n</div>\n\n\n<p>A small update to the Separator block opens the styling options for designers: The HTML element can now be changed from a `&lt;hr&gt;` to a `&lt;div/&gt;` tag in not only increasing the range of design option but also accessibility. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70185\">70185</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"social-icons-block-developers-enterprise\">Social Icons Block <sup>[developers][enterprise]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The update to the Social Icons Block enables now extenders to register custom Social Icons variations. This way, any group of Social Icons that are relevant to the site owner can be created and used in the content, for instance icons of various Podcast directories, or to add icons for payment systems not available in core. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the WordPress Developer Block developers will find a tutorial on <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/08/registering-custom-social-icons-in-wordpress-6-9/\">how to register their own social media icons</a><strong>. </strong>Plugin developers can now remove existing icons and register their own. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70261\">70261</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42985\" height=\"111\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/social-icons-more.png?resize=513%2C111&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"513\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42986\" height=\"136\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/social-icon-podcasts.png?resize=380%2C136&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"380\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A bug fix now makes sure the social icons honor theme.json styles for typography. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70380\">70380</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kevinbatdorf-code-block-pro cbp-has-line-numbers\"><span>JSON</span><span class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button\" style=\"color: #575279; display: none;\" tabindex=\"0\"><pre class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-pre\"><textarea class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-textarea\" readonly=\"readonly\" tabindex=\"-1\">\"core/social-links\": {\n		\"typography\": {\n			\"fontSize\": \"var(--wp--preset--font-size--x-large)\"\n		}\n},</textarea></pre><svg fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><path class=\"with-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2m-6 9l2 2 4-4\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path><path class=\"without-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path></svg></span><pre class=\"shiki rose-pine-dawn\" style=\"background-color: #faf4ed;\" tabindex=\"0\"><code><span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;core/social-links&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\">: </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">		</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">typography</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">			</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">fontSize</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;var(--wp--preset--font-size--x-large)&quot;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">		</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\">,</span></span></code></pre></div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"table-block-end-users-site-admin\">Table Block   <sup>[end users][site admin]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Table block received more robust handling of Markdown table parsing, specifically retaining alignment from a Markdown table. </p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\">| A &#8211; Left | B &#8211; Centered | C &#8211; Right | D &#8211; None |</p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\">| :&#8212;&#8212;- | :&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-: | &#8212;&#8212;&#8211;: | &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; |</p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\">| 100      |     150      |       200 | 250      |</p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\">| 200      |     250      |       300 | 350      |</p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\">| 300      |     350      |       400 | 450      |</p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\">| 400      |     450      |       500 | 550      |</p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\">| 500      |     550      |       600 | 650      |</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The above Markdown example parsed into the block editor canvas is automatically converted to the Table block.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42987\" height=\"232\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/table-block-markdown.png?resize=652%2C232&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"video-block-all\">Video Block <sup>[all]</sup> </h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Video Block can now handle multiple language tracks with the option to set one as the default track. It’s also possible to add a poster image to the video block to improve accessibility for visitors with slow internet connections (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71039\">71039</a>) (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70939\">70939</a>)(<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70227\">70227</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42989\" height=\"370\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/video-tracks-handling.png?resize=652%2C370&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42988\" height=\"368\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/video-with-language-tracks.png?resize=652%2C368&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"theme-json-and-global-styles-developers-enterprise-site-admin\">Theme.json and Global Styles <br /><sup>[developers][enterprise][site admin]</sup></h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"form-elements-in-theme-json\">Form elements in theme.json</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress theme development reaches new enrichment with theme.json support for form element styling. Developers can now target text-based controls and select/dropdown elements through the styles.elements property, defining colors, borders, and typography directly in Global Styles. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>This eliminates custom CSS dependencies, allowing search forms, comment forms, and plugin-generated forms to automatically inherit the site&#8217;s design system. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34198\">34198</a>) (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70378\">70378</a>) (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70379\">70379</a>) Below snippet shows an example for the textInput element. </p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kevinbatdorf-code-block-pro cbp-has-line-numbers\"><span>JSON</span><span class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button\" style=\"color: #575279; display: none;\" tabindex=\"0\"><pre class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-pre\"><textarea class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-textarea\" readonly=\"readonly\" tabindex=\"-1\">\"elements\": {\n	\"textInput\": {\n			\"border\": {\n				\"radius\": \"0\",\n				\"style\": \"solid\",\n				\"width\": \"1px\",\n				\"color\": \"red\"\n			},\n			\"color\": {\n				\"text\": \"var(--wp--preset--color--theme-2)\"\n			},\n			\"typography\": {\n				\"fontFamily\": \"var(--wp--preset--font-family--inter)\"\n			}\n		}\n}\n</textarea></pre><svg fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><path class=\"with-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2m-6 9l2 2 4-4\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path><path class=\"without-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path></svg></span><pre class=\"shiki rose-pine-dawn\" style=\"background-color: #faf4ed;\" tabindex=\"0\"><code><span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;elements&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\">: </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">	</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">textInput</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">			</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">border</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">radius</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;0&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">style</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;solid&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">width</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;1px&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">color</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;red&quot;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">			</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">},</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">			</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">color</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">text</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;var(--wp--preset--color--theme-2)&quot;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">			</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">},</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">			</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">typography</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">fontFamily</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;var(--wp--preset--font-family--inter)&quot;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">			</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">		</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"></span></code></pre></div>\n\n\n\n<p>An additional resource is the tutorial on the WordPress Developer blog: <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/11/how-wordpress-6-9-gives-forms-a-theme-json-makeover/\">How WordPress 6.9 gives forms a theme.json makeover</a></p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"border-radius-presets-supported\">Border Radius presets supported </h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It’s now possible to define border radius presets in the `theme.json` for your theme. The user experience changes slightly with the numbers of presets: up until eight, a user can enable the border radius along a slider. For nine and more present the user uses a drop-down select menu. Users can always access custom value input through the custom button to the right of the control.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42991\" height=\"261\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/border-radius-presets.png?resize=560%2C261&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As an example you can add the following to the `settings` property of your `theme.json` file. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/67544\">67544</a>). \\</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kevinbatdorf-code-block-pro cbp-has-line-numbers\"><span>JSON</span><span class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button\" style=\"color: #575279; display: none;\" tabindex=\"0\"><pre class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-pre\"><textarea class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-textarea\" readonly=\"readonly\" tabindex=\"-1\">{ \n\"settings\"{\n	\"border\": {\n		\"radiusSizes\": &#91;\n				{\n					\"name\": \"Small\",\n					\"slug\": \"small\",\n					\"size\": \"2px\"\n				},\n				{\n					\"name\": \"Medium\",\n					\"slug\": \"medium\",\n					\"size\": \"4px\"\n				},\n				{\n					\"name\": \"Large\",\n					\"slug\": \"large\",\n					\"size\": \"6px\"\n				}\n			&#93;\n	}\n}</textarea></pre><svg fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><path class=\"with-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2m-6 9l2 2 4-4\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path><path class=\"without-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path></svg></span><pre class=\"shiki rose-pine-dawn\" style=\"background-color: #faf4ed;\" tabindex=\"0\"><code><span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">settings</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #B4637A;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">	</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">border</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">		</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">radiusSizes</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&#91;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">					</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">name</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;Small&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">					</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">slug</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;small&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">					</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">size</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;2px&quot;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">},</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">					</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">name</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;Medium&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">					</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">slug</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;medium&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">					</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">size</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;4px&quot;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">},</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">					</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">name</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;Large&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">					</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">slug</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;large&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">,</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">					</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">size</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;6px&quot;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">				</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">			</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&#93;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">	</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span></span></code></pre></div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Dev note has been published: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/12/theme-json-border-radius-presets-support-in-wordpress-6-9/\">Theme.json Border Radius Presets Support in WordPress 6.9</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>A step-by-step guide can be found on the WordPress Developer blog: <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/09/border-radius-size-presets-in-wordpress-6-9/\">Border radius size presets in WordPress 6.9</a>. </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"button-element-inherits-typography\">Button element inherits typography</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With the release of WordPress 6.9, the button element defined in the default `theme.json` can inherit typographical styles from its parent. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70676\">70676</a>) </p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full styles for the element now look like this:</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kevinbatdorf-code-block-pro cbp-has-line-numbers\"><span>JSON</span><span class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button\" style=\"color: #575279; display: none;\" tabindex=\"0\"><pre class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-pre\"><textarea class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-textarea\" readonly=\"readonly\" tabindex=\"-1\">{\n	\"styles\": {\n		\"elements\": {\n			\"button\": {\n				\"typography\": {\n					\"fontSize\": \"inherit\",\n					\"fontFamily\": \"inherit\",\n					\"fontStyle\": \"inherit\",\n					\"fontWeight\": \"inherit\",\n					\"letterSpacing\": \"inherit\",\n					\"textTransform\": \"inherit\",\n					\"lineHeight\": \"inherit\",\n					\"textDecoration\": \"none\"\n				}\n			}\n	}\n}</textarea></pre><svg fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" 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In other words, do you have a forms dedicated crew where you&#8217;ve got, I don&#8217;t know, a bunch of people who just work on forms? You&#8217;ve got a bunch of people working on VideoPress and VaultPress and all of these different bits and pieces. Or is it, you work with Jetpack and you kind of move from team to team? I&#8217;m just curious as to what it looks like inside of Automattic and the different bits that make up Jetpack.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:14] <strong>Devin Walker:</strong> Yeah, so this is really an interesting time at Automattic, where they&#8217;re going from that functional organisation where it&#8217;s product focus. Where Jetpack did, a year ago, have a dedicated development team, designer team, and the person that was in my role before, it was just like a classic company structure in a way, within Automattic.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now it&#8217;s shifting to more of a matrix organisation where there&#8217;s one architecture team. 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AI&#8217;s going to become a big thing. We have to pick and choose based on our resources, what are the most important things for our shared initiative? But what that means is they work better together. I think you&#8217;re going to see in the future a lot more benefit of running WooCommerce and Jetpack together.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, we&#8217;re not going to force you to log into wordpress.com to use WooCommerce, but to get some of that benefit, you will need to OAuth in to using Jetpack. And that is a requirement, because a lot of the Jetpack, what you get for free and the secret sauce is based on our cloud servers. You basically are starting to use our infrastructure for free. And Automattic is huge on privacy. And so I don&#8217;t quite understand that whole conflict of folks that don&#8217;t like that. 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And we experienced this at Stellar as well. They purchased a bunch of plugins, brought them all in, the vision was for them to all work well together. We went from functional organisation to this matrix type of organisation. And so this isn&#8217;t my first rodeo doing it, I know it can work. But it does take a concerted effort, and it&#8217;s still ongoing right now. It hasn&#8217;t been 18 months, it&#8217;s been like six months. And we&#8217;re still trying to figure things out. So me stepping in at this time, I&#8217;m really trying to figure it out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a blog post called, or a P2 post called Connecting the Dots, where I&#8217;m just trying to find which experts and which products on Jetpack they know better. 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And then all of a sudden there&#8217;s bits which do work, there are bits which you can extend and upgrade and, you know, you might have to log in with .com to make that bit combine with this bit.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then there are bits where, you know, it feels like the classic themes work well in some areas, and then if you&#8217;ve got a block-based theme, other things don&#8217;t work quite so well. I&#8217;m thinking like social sharing and things like that. And it&#8217;s bit of a, mess is the wrong word, but it&#8217;s incredibly confusing, I think, to a novice user. And so I&#8217;m, I&#8217;m going to put words into your mouth, I&#8217;m guessing this is one of the challenges that you are going to try and tackle to take that confusion away. Because, I don&#8217;t know, it doesn&#8217;t matter how many times I log into Jetpack, there&#8217;s always a bit of a surprise. Oh, okay, it works that way. That&#8217;s curious. I wasn&#8217;t expecting it to do that. And I&#8217;ve been doing this for absolutely ages, and I&#8217;m still surprised by the way things work.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:18:33] <strong>Devin Walker:</strong> You&#8217;re not alone. So one of the things that Matt&#8217;s been saying since I&#8217;ve come on board is we don&#8217;t really need to build much more new things. We need to focus and improve what&#8217;s already there, especially in Jetpack and .com. And simplifying it and making it make more sense to the end users. And Jetpack is a prime candidate for a really fresh look at how that can happen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve been doing exercises as the product team for a framework called Jobs to Be Done. 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But more or less everything that&#8217;s in Jetpack has been available in some form or other for a decade or more. You know, forms is, it&#8217;s not a new thing. There&#8217;s some interesting ideas that people have come up with that maybe we&#8217;d want to integrate, but backups, it&#8217;s not a new thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the idea of not having new, well, features is probably the wrong word, but not having a new product and just finessing what you&#8217;ve already got, I think that would be music to any subscriber to Jetpack. One of the paid plans that you got, I think they would absolutely love that. Just finesse what you&#8217;ve already got. We&#8217;ve already got this thing, we know what we&#8217;ve got, we know how it works, but finesse it, give us a few more features here and there in the bit, like for example, forms or what have you. That seems like music to my ears.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;ve said it. The cat is out the bag in this episode now, AI. AI is smuggled into Jetpack in the most, it&#8217;s kind of hidden. It&#8217;s almost entirely hidden, and yet incredibly profound. I don&#8217;t know if, dear listener, you&#8217;ve experienced Jetpack and it&#8217;s AI features, but if you switch it on and you just go, I don&#8217;t know, make a blog post or something like that, when you go to publish, it will just helpfully write your excerpt and your featured image, it will create that for you on the fly. It all happens in the background. It&#8217;s really incredible. How did that get under the radar? And is that going to be a big feature?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:02] <strong>Devin Walker:</strong> That is going to be a huge feature. I just came back from New York with our AI engineering team led by James LaPage, who&#8217;s one of the brightest, young stars, I want to say, in WordPress. And he&#8217;s one of the reasons that I&#8217;m so excited for what AI can become with Jetpack, and where it&#8217;s going to go from here. It&#8217;s really great that you are already like what&#8217;s there? But that&#8217;s just scratching the surface from what we&#8217;re going to be doing in the near future.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve got quite a large team working on this. This is a 50 plus engineering team. It&#8217;s a huge focus of Automattic. And Jetpack&#8217;s the way we&#8217;re going to bring a lot of what we&#8217;re bringing to .com to self-hosted users. And it&#8217;s not going to cost you really much at all and it&#8217;s gonna be done in the WordPress way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now it tries to be your content companion, is kind of how I call it, but it&#8217;s going to do that a lot better, and it&#8217;s going to reach outside of the post editor and do a lot more helpful items for you in the WP admin. 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You know, I can&#8217;t remember the last time I saw something engaging, like a YouTube video or somebody experimenting on their YouTube channel with a Jetpack thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas with third party plugins, it&#8217;s happening all the time, you know? And so it feels like that&#8217;s going to be a very big part of where you are, you know, you&#8217;ll build hopefully some amazing things, but then trying to turn the tide and get people to be engaged and interested and see the utility of it. I&#8217;m guessing that&#8217;s going to be a part of the job which is separate to the technological part.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:27:46] <strong>Devin Walker:</strong> It will, absolutely. I think for quite some time it was almost build it and they will come here. And for many, many years they did come. And now it&#8217;s harder because the marketplace has expanded quite a bit. There&#8217;s a lot of other folks out there doing really cool things with WordPress and have a lot more focused marketing efforts behind them.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, point and case was GiveWP, we were just, people weren&#8217;t turning to Woo or Gravity Forms because we made it that it was the number one solution you had to go do it. We just hammered that point through WordCamps, through videos, through podcasts, whatever it was, that was our mission.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for Jetpack, we really need to refocus on that and do that a lot more. It&#8217;s very engineering led organisation. I think marketing to some point is built into their roles and they&#8217;re not doing that part as much as I would like.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And on another aspect, I think we definitely just need more marketers. I&#8217;m not going to say the exact numbers, but it was a surprisingly low number of marketers to the size of the organisation when I came in. 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My name is Nathan Wrigley.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, how we might reimagine sponsoring WordPress contributions.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m keen to hear from you and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to wp tavern.com/contact/jukebox, and use the form there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So on the podcast today we have Roger Williams. Roger leads community and partner engagement at Kinsta, a company specializing in offering managed hosting for WordPress. 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And if you&#8217;re approaching it that way, that&#8217;s going to catch someone&#8217;s attention much better.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, and then just ask also just simple questions. Hey, do you have a formal sponsorship contribution project for WordPress? And if they say no, maybe, hey, would you like me to help you set that up? If they say yes, then it&#8217;s, hey, what&#8217;s the process for getting involved in that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are just very simple questions. It&#8217;s just a conversation, right? I say this, I&#8217;ve been in sales for decades now. It&#8217;s second nature to me. I understand that for a lot of people, this isn&#8217;t second nature for them. And that&#8217;s also what I&#8217;m trying to help with in this conversation is, it&#8217;s not just the organisations I&#8217;m trying to educate, but it&#8217;s also the contributors and the people that are in the project. 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Okay, we&#8217;re going to give away, I don&#8217;t know, a hundred thousand dollars this year, but we&#8217;re not going to ask anybody at all, at any point to sort of mention our company name. That&#8217;s probably unrealistic, but I like what you said there about the gentle approach to it, the write a blog post about it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there&#8217;s something to be explored there because there&#8217;s got to be a way of surfacing good work. So it doesn&#8217;t have to necessarily be a big clarion call. Look, I did this because Kinsta paid for it. More tangentially, I did this great work and I did this, and WordPress benefited as a result of this, and I would just like to thank Kinsta for making that possible.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ve just got to figure out what that piece looks like because, you know, you can&#8217;t give away money for free. There does need to be some ROI, but we have to figure out how gentle that approach is, and how gung ho it can be or not. 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And so using that as a promotion, and again, the indirect branding benefits. My fingers are crossed, I&#8217;m sure my CMO&#8217;s watching this and going, either he is loving it or he is gritting his teeth. I get the sense everybody&#8217;s very happy. Hey Matt, how are you?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way I am approaching this is very much as an outsider and I&#8217;m trying to be very respectful of the fact that this community&#8217;s been around for a very long time. I am sure this is not the first time that these conversations have happened. I&#8217;m not the first person to bring these things up. I just see it as, I&#8217;m here as a unique person in this point in time and I see a need and I&#8217;m, we&#8217;ve gotten our organisation to help, start helping. And what I&#8217;m trying to promote is getting other organisations to also realise this, and also start promoting and sponsoring and contributing to the project.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:13] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I think one of the things that will be really interesting is if, let&#8217;s say that you become the fulcrum for all of this, and so Roger Williams is known at Kinsta. He&#8217;s the person to go and speak to. Having that clarity is going to be really beneficial. So you don&#8217;t have to go through those email hoops of, okay, you just use the contact form on the website and then get put through nine different people who all say, actually it&#8217;s not me. Knowing who you&#8217;ve got to speak to, and having that clear process, that contact form, whatever that may be, that intake form that we talked about earlier, that&#8217;s really interesting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m just going to pivot it slightly, and I&#8217;m wondering what the kind of contributions that might fall into scope for you at Kinsta. So obviously the software itself, the core project, WordPress Core would I&#8217;m sure be in view.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what about other things like, oh, I don&#8217;t know, people who write documentation, you mentioned Polyglots? There&#8217;s obviously people who do event organising. There are people who do content creation, podcasts, YouTube channels, those kind of things. Do you have any constraints around the kind of contribution that you&#8217;d be interested in looking at, or will you listen to anybody?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:35:16] <strong>Roger Williams:</strong> Excellent question. And before I dive into that, I want to make sure that I&#8217;m not the only person taking credit for this at Kinsta. I have two amazing colleagues on the front lines with me. Marcel Bootsman, as you&#8217;re very familiar with, I think he&#8217;s been on your show before, he handles for Europe. And then Alex Michaelson, who is in APAC region. These are both amazing individuals who, we all three of us are on the front line, talking with contributors, sponsoring them, figuring all of this stuff out. So I definitely don&#8217;t want to take all of the credit here and make it seem that way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>As far as figuring out who to sponsor and who to contribute, this is the big question. The amazing thing is that this point in time, my bosses, our bosses at Kinsta have given us amazing leeway to really choose who we want to be sponsoring, and who we want to be working with.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so there&#8217;s a bit of objective focus for who we&#8217;re sponsoring. Core contributors obviously, like they&#8217;re directly impacting the project by actually changing the code and adding features and fixing bugs. So that&#8217;s obviously very important.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just as important is these other groups that are making sure that when a new person wants to use WordPress, there&#8217;s documentation that explains how to use the WordPress. When they want to go to a WordCamp and meet somebody, I mean Aaron Jorbin has a great story about meeting someone at one of the first contributor days that he went to. And they then became a core contributor within a short amount of time. And so that contributor day didn&#8217;t just happen, right? Like, people had to make that event happen, and organise it and have coffee and treats and lights and all of the things that go into that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I think that there&#8217;s a lot of levels here. Whether it&#8217;s directly sponsoring a contributor inside of the open source project. 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Kinsta&#8217;s got some intention to sponsor, and we know who the people are, we know the kind of things that they want to sponsor. Maybe there&#8217;s going to be some sort of landing page for that or some intake form. And so hopefully people who have it in mind that they wish to be sponsored, they&#8217;ll be clearer on what kind of things are in scope, what kind of things are out of scope. How many people they need to jump through the hoops to get that sponsorship sorted out. So that kind of thing is really interesting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think about the idea of, so we haven&#8217;t discussed this, I&#8217;m just going to throw this in there. Do you think this is a company by company thing? So in other words, is Kinsta always going to be siloed in its approach to sponsoring? Or is there any kind of, I don&#8217;t know how this would work, but some kind of more overarching approach that may be required? So let&#8217;s say for example that, I don&#8217;t know, Kinsta do, they sponsor person X, person Y, person Z, as we say in the UK, but obviously that leaves all these other myriad people without sponsorship. Is there a way that you could communicate to other organisations?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look, this person, they came to us, it was very close, but we didn&#8217;t manage to get them on the sponsorship roster this year. But we feel that they were really credible. Here&#8217;s somebody else that you can go and talk to. Do you know what I mean? Something just a little bit, a bigger umbrella organisation above Kinsta, maybe. Organisation, substitute that word for any kind of structure or governance as you like.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:12] <strong>Roger Williams:</strong> Yeah, there is a lot of stuff already around this. Courtney Robertson has WPCC.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:18] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> WP Community Collective.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:20] <strong>Roger Williams:</strong> Thank you. And so the idea with that group is kind of to create an organisation that handles the mechanism aspect of distributing funds and finding people to sponsor and contribute. I could see a consortium of hosting companies coming together and somehow working on this, but that adds additional complexities, right? You have now more organisations, you have more bodies deciding things and making decisions.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And again, going back to what I propose at the very end of the project is, don&#8217;t wait, just get started. My worry about having consortiums and larger organisations is it&#8217;s going to slow the process down, it&#8217;s going to complicate the process.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s mostly just because I have a big phobia of organisations and meetings. This is a personal kind of thing rather than, you know, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s ways to figure this out more. I have a job, right? I have to balance all of these things between working on what I need to actually work on inside of the company. Working on sponsoring contributors and focusing on the open source. So there&#8217;s a lot of balancing that goes on. I am open to having these discussions with people and organisations and seeing what can come of it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, going back to feeling like an outsider and knowing that there&#8217;s already a ton of people and a ton of organisations involved in doing all of this work. I&#8217;ve reached out to many of them. They&#8217;ve given me great advice. They&#8217;ve really helped me get our program organised the way it is. They help me with my presentation and kind of figuring out what to talk about in here. And so I want to remain mindful that I don&#8217;t have all the answers, I&#8217;m not the only person that&#8217;s doing all of this, and I welcome people to come to me with suggestions and ideas, and I&#8217;m always open to talking.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:41:03] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s one size fits all really, is there? Because the WPCC feels like a really great initiative. It has more of a kind of escrow kind of service feel to it. In other words, Kinsta, you put in your X amount of dollars and then the WPCC will figure out where that might go. But it may be that, you know, you guys at Kinsta would like to have more of a kind of one-to-one relationship with the people that you are sponsoring. And so that&#8217;s fine.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you will have back channels to the people who do similar work at different companies. And so it will be more kind of laissez-faire than something a little bit more organised. Maybe it&#8217;ll just be more back channel kind of thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that&#8217;s really interesting. Honestly, the time has got away with us. We&#8217;re at 45 minutes so far, so I think we&#8217;re fast approaching the amount of time that we&#8217;ve got available for us. Is there anything in this that we missed out? Was there any kernel, any little nugget somewhere that we failed to mention, or do you think we&#8217;ve covered the whole thing off?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:41:57] <strong>Roger Williams:</strong> You know, I think the one thing that maybe we skipped through a little bit is how to get your organisation bought into this. We&#8217;ve talked about the reasoning. We&#8217;ve talked about how to sell it from the outside. We&#8217;ve talked about how to deal with the individual contributors. Inside of your organisation there&#8217;s, again, three ways that I approach this. I like the number three, I guess.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when you&#8217;re making your internal pitch, this is all in the slide deck as well, understanding your organisational goals. So understand like, hey, we&#8217;re a hosting company, what&#8217;s important for a hosting company? Well, performance and security are pretty top things. So maybe that&#8217;s where you want to focus.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, also we have a ton of customers that are non-English speaking, so Polyglots makes a lot of sense. Understand the organisational goals so that when you go to your executives, you go to your leadership, whoever&#8217;s got the money, you&#8217;re framing this out in terms of how it benefits your organisation.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second one is being patient, but being ready. So I started this conversation, I want to say late 2023, inside of Kinsta. And then about a year later, suddenly, out of the blue, hey, here&#8217;s your budget, go get to work. And so I needed to be ready. So we all needed to be ready. And we were. The good news is Marcel and Alex and myself, were already out in the community talking with people. We already were having some conversations about, ooh, who would we like to sponsor, who could use the sponsorship?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so as soon as the budget was given to us, we were ready to go. And the reason that I recommend being ready is, these can be fleeting, right? Just because the executive has approved it this month doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s necessarily going to be there the next month.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:43:37] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> And also the contributor might not be, you know, I&#8217;ve got two weeks now, I can do something right away.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:43:42] <strong>Roger Williams:</strong> Yeah, so be ready because they&#8217;re going to want to see results. And the results should be, the way you framed it, the results should just be, hey, we&#8217;re sponsoring contributor X, they&#8217;re doing Y and Z, oh, and I had them on a Kinsta Talk, and here&#8217;s actual proof of we&#8217;re doing stuff. So have all of that ready to go. Have a spreadsheet that tracks everything so you can track where the money&#8217;s going and it&#8217;s all clear.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understand how your organisation wants to handle these things, right? Is it going to be as simple as, hey, here&#8217;s a credit card and here&#8217;s a GitHub sponsorship page? Is that going to be okay? Or does it need to be a little bit more, I say complicated, involved, right? Do you need to have a non disparaging contract, right? So that it&#8217;s understood, hey, we&#8217;re sponsoring you, it&#8217;d be best if you didn&#8217;t say bad things about us, please. Get that cleared, like figure that stuff out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then be ready for common objections, right? So they&#8217;re going to immediately come to you with, hey, why would we spend money on this? It&#8217;s something that we get for free. And be ready with that strategic and the operational and the second order benefits conversations. And know which of those is going to land with which manager, executive best. So getting that internal pitch ready and really creating the project so it&#8217;s ready for success from day one is really important.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:45:03] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, that&#8217;s really interesting because a lot of it, most of what we talked about in this conversation didn&#8217;t really dwell on that. It was more about the nuts and the bolts of trying to connect the two different sides. But you&#8217;ve obviously laid out the groundwork inside Kinsta to have this ready. 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Highlights include insights on AI-powered site building, the importance of collaboration tools like block comments, new blocks such as accordion and stretchy text, and the enhanced plugin security review. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellen Bauer shares her experiences from WordCamp Kansai and speaks on the impact of AI in making WordPress site building more accessible. They also touch on improvements for theme authors, plugin developers, and the upcoming WordCamp Asia. The episode wraps up with community announcements and a look ahead to features planned for WordPress 7.0.</p>\n\n\n\n<p></p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-124-gutenberg-22-wordpress-6-9/#shownotes\">Show Notes</a> / <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-124-gutenberg-22-wordpress-6-9//#transcript\">Transcript</a></p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Editor: <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandy-reed/\">Sandy Reed</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Logo: <a href=\"https://markuraine.com/\">Mark Uraine</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Production: <a href=\"https://icodeforapurpose.com\">Birgit Pauli-Haack</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size\" id=\"shownotes\"><strong>Show Notes</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Special Guest: Ellen Bauer</h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://x.com/ellenbauer\">On X (former Twitter) @ellenbauer</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/ellenbauer.bsky.social\">Bluesky</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://www.elmastudio.de/en/\">ElmaStudio</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Previews appearances on the show\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-117-woocommerce-starter-theme-and-blocks/\">Gutenberg Changelog 117 – WooCommerce Starter Theme and Blocks, WordCamp Europe, and Gutenberg 20.7 and 20.8</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-105-gutenberg-18-9-block-themes-and-woocommerce/\">Gutenberg Changelog #105 – Gutenberg 18.9, Block Themes and WooCommerce</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-88-wordpress-6-4-and-gutenberg-16-5/\">Gutenberg Changelog #88 – WordPress 6.4 and Gutenberg 16.4 and 16.5.</a></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Talk at WordCamp Kansai: <a href=\"https://kansai.wordcamp.org/2025/session/building-a-woocommerce-store-using-block-themes-and-ai-site-building/\">Building a WooCommerce Store Using Block Themes and AI Site Building</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Announcements &amp; Community</h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/06/update-on-phase-3-2025/\">Update on Phase 3: Collaboration efforts (Nov 2025)</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2025/10/29/plugin-check-plugin-now-creates-automatic-security-reports-update/\">The Plugin Check Plugin now creates automatic security reports after each plugin update</a>. </li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/internet-archive-wayback-machine-link-fixer/\">Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer</a> </li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://ma.tt/2025/10/wayback/\">Wayback Machine Joint</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.com/blog/2025/10/08/introducing-blueprints-in-wordpress-studio-1-6-0/\">Introducing Blueprints in WordPress Studio 1.6.0</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Talks about Playground Blueprings by Birgit Pauli-Haack\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.tv/2025/09/30/streamlined-block-theme-development-using-wordpress-playground-and-github-for-no-code-version-contr/\">Streamlined Block Theme Development: Using WordPress Playground and GitHub for No-Code Version Control of Site Editor Changes</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.tv/2025/06/07/from-zero-to-demo-mastering-wordpress-playground-blueprints/\">From Zero to Demo: Mastering WordPress Playground Blueprints</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.tv/2025/04/30/create-a-demo-with-playground/\">Create a demo with Playground</a><br /></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s Released</h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/07/wordpress-6-9-beta-4/\">WordPress 6.9 Beta 4</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tutorials on WordPress Developer Blog\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/11/how-wordpress-6-9-gives-forms-a-theme-json-makeover/\">How WordPress 6.9 gives forms a theme.json makeover</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/10/styling-accordions-in-wordpress-6-9/\">Styling accordions in WordPress 6.9</a> </li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/09/border-radius-size-presets-in-wordpress-6-9/\">Border radius size presets in WordPress 6.9</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/08/registering-custom-social-icons-in-wordpress-6-9/\">Registering custom social icons in WordPress 6.9</a></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-22-0-05-november/\">What’s new in Gutenberg 22.0? (5 November)</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s in the works or discussed?</h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/72032\">WordPress Scripts: A vision for a v2 version</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developer Hours: <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-online-workshops/events/311854653/\"><strong>WordPress 6.9: developer updates</strong></a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Stay in Touch</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Did you like this episode? <a href=\"https://lovethepodcast.com/gutenbergchangelog\"><strong>Please write us a review </strong></a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ping us on X (formerly known as Twitter) or send DMs with questions. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/gutenbergtimes\">@gutenbergtimes </a>and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/bph\">@bph</a>.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>If you have questions or suggestions, or news you want us to include, send them to <a href=\"mailto:changelog@gutenbergtimes.com\">changelog@gutenbergtimes.com</a>. </em></li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Please write us a review on iTunes! <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/itunes/\">(Click here to learn how)</a></em></li>\n</ul>\n</div></div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\" id=\"transcript\"><strong>Transcript</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Welcome to our 124th episode of the Gutenberg Changelog podcast. In today&#8217;s episode, we will talk about Gutenberg 22.0 and WordPress 6.9 and so much more. I&#8217;m your host, Birgit Pauli-Haack, curator at the Gutenberg Times and a full-time core contributor for the WordPress open source project sponsored by Automattic. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today on a Saturday morning, Ellen Bauer joins us from New Zealand. She works for Automattic as a product manager, works with themes, blocks and the AI site building tool. And as a former agency owner and professional theme builder and designer, she brings important perspectives to the software powering millions of merchants at WooCommerce of the World. She&#8217;s also a longtime friend and I&#8217;m delighted you join me again, Ellen, to the show. Welcome and how are you today?</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>Thank you very much. That was a lovely introduction. I should copy that for my who I am. I actually like that. Thanks, Birgit. I&#8217;m very well. It&#8217;s very early in the morning for me, so please bear with me everyone. If I&#8217;m babbling a little bit. I yeah, I&#8217;m very well. I&#8217;m actually very recharged because I just returned from Botkin Kansai in Japan, and I added a little personal holiday on top of that with my family. So yeah, that was a lovely time away and it&#8217;s always good to connect to the community and attend WordCamps because yeah, you just feel recharged and inspired. So yeah, I&#8217;m feeling really excited and I&#8217;m happy to be on that podcast here again.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Always so glad you&#8217;re here. So don&#8217;t worry as long as you don&#8217;t snore. We are, we take anything that you want to say.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>Inspired my by my Japan travels. I&#8217;m having a green tea next to me so that should keep me running.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah, and I have green tea too, but that&#8217;s now from a shop that I saw in Taipei two years ago at WordCamp Asia. So I&#8217;m really kind of every time I have a cup of tea, I&#8217;m thinking back on that. </p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WordCamp Kansai, WordCamp Asia</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So you gave a talk at WordCamp Kansai about building a WooCommerce store using block themes and AI site building. So how did it go and what did you learn from putting it together actually.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>So I was again, it&#8217;s a very new topic for me, so I was like, oh, what did I do to myself presenting that. But it was very exciting and there were a few AI talks that were really, really cool at the WordCamp. So it&#8217;s a good idea to check out the YouTube stream from the WordCamp other videos there. It was really cool to talk about a topic that I&#8217;m very excited about and just kind of getting into more and more with my work at Automatic as well. So I learned a lot. I looked at a lot of competitors and what they&#8217;re doing and obviously AI inside. It&#8217;s pretty wild what is happening and fast paced. So I think it was good to also bring the topic to a WordCamp and I had really, really positive feedback. Everyone was excited. The room was packed which I didn&#8217;t expect with an English speaking talk at a WordCamp. They had a live translation which worked really well and that was cool. A lot of questions in the end as well and a good conversation and yeah, just an exciting new opportunity for me. I see it as just AI is a possibility to help us fix or help us with the problems users have with site building because it&#8217;s not easy to do us to build your front end site for WordPress Store or any website. So if AI tools can help users, our WordPress users, us to do these things a little easier and faster and maybe more inspirational with real content, like more related content and images that relate to the site you actually want to build. I think that&#8217;s just very exciting. And yeah helps for me seeing users struggle with our themes as well and finding the right theme for what they wanted to build over the years. I think it&#8217;s just a great opportunity to make it easier for users and also kind of then yeah make WordPress attractive on another level to very beginner users and can just do so much. It&#8217;s an exciting time, honestly I think.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah, yeah, no, I hear you. Yeah, There is this. WordPress.com has started with the AI site builder and I find it really helps with the onboarding of users that just want to get a site built. You still have to make the decisions about what&#8217;s your content about and what are the images that you want to do but. But it kind of gets out of the way in putting those things in and you don&#8217;t have to search for things too much. I think that WordPress 6.9 also and we&#8217;re going to talk a little bit later about the whole release that&#8217;s coming up with a command palette. Yeah, you can really shortcut some of the things, but you still need to know what you want to do to put the command in to get to where you want. But it&#8217;s also, yeah, there&#8217;s a lot of help out there. And I&#8217;m really excited also for the AI site building that ends up with a block theme and with a really fast site. So it&#8217;s a really cool thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer</em>: Yeah. What I like about it too, that it&#8217;s on the blocks patterns. Block theme foundation. What you can test. I really like it for something that is difficult for nonvisual users is you can get color palettes, ideas, you get template ideas. Because one of the things I always hear also with patterns from users, it&#8217;s like how do I decide which. You maybe have a pattern library in a theme, but it&#8217;s like how do you decide to put a page together with these patterns? It&#8217;s very challenging. Users don&#8217;t really know should I have testimonials in the bottom or at the top or what is most important? So there&#8217;s template page templates, suggestions shown and you can just pick one. It makes it way easier and more appealing. Same with like fonts. How should I know if the font is a professional font or a classic or more modern? It&#8217;s very difficult to tell. That&#8217;s like very advanced decisions you need to make on the design side as well. So if we can give suggestions and help, I think that makes it just easier and also more fun to build sites. Yeah. Another thing I probably have mentioned on the podcast is the word telex and doing. And you can test about it. Probably. Yeah. Because that&#8217;s also another thing I was like, oh, that&#8217;s so exciting because you can build blocks with AI and it&#8217;s so difficult to build blocks, but now it&#8217;s easy to have an idea and build a block.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah. There was this blocktober fund by Tammie Lister which is now came to end. But there are 31, I think blocks that she built and she had some great ideas. I will put a link to it in the show notes again, but because what you can learn from there is also how you prompt the telex to actually get something out of it. So it was a really cool thing. And other people did also some, some great thing with Telex, the experimental block builder. Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer:</em> So that was also part of my talk prompting tips. And I think you could do a whole talk just about that and it will be way more important moving on how we. Yeah. How we talk to AI to actually make it efficient.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah, absolutely. </p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>And I&#8217;m really looking forward to the next flagship WordCamp where that will probably be even more prominent because the next one is WordCamp Asia in Mumbai. And I submitted some Talks there, not AI talks, but I&#8217;m still in the you build it yourself kind of block theme. I will do a workshop on block themes and how the different workflows work together. And so the good news was that the WordCamp Asia speaker team extended the deadline for speaker submission to December 15, which is kind of another month out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer:</em> So I thought it was November, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah. And that was. They made a mistake on their Twitter account. I clarified that in the WC Asia channel on WordPress Slack so you can read up about it. But because there was a discrepancy between what the website said under speaker submission, what the tweet said. And it&#8217;s actually December 15th. Yeah, you don&#8217;t have to worry. Hurry next week.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer:</em> Oh, that is nice. The WordCamp Asia in Mumbai is. I just checked the date April 9 to 11 for everyone looking for travel dates and I submitted a talk as well. I will submit maybe a better version, improved version if I now have more time, which is great because it was a rushed application. But yeah, I&#8217;m really excited for that outcome and really, really hope I can make it there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah, yeah. It&#8217;s the week after Easter so if you want to go a little bit earlier, you have some Easter holidays to cover your vacation, not to have to take. Well, in Germany we have three days, no two days vacation or holidays that are around Easter. So it&#8217;s a Good Friday as well as the Easter Monday they are off in Germany. So we have another holiday weekend that we could go there. So we plan to be a little bit ahead of time in Mumbai in India. So yeah, it&#8217;s going to be interesting. They also have a schedule of when they release tickets so you can go on the website and see that at the WordCamp Asia website, I think November 11th and then they have two more dates where they release tickets because the first one actually sold out within an hour or something like that. Yeah, yeah, I think it&#8217;s going to be a huge bootcamp.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>I think I got my tickets already for us, so. Yeah, but that&#8217;s nice that they released the dates.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah, yeah. The Guternberg Times, I also applied for media partners, so either speaker or media partner, maybe I will get my tickets that way. </p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Announcements</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So yeah, so we&#8217;re coming through the announcements. The first one that I wanted to talk about is that Anne McCarthy updated us in her post update on phase three collaboration efforts November 2025 on the state of the phase three, the progress made, what&#8217;s in the works for the Future and especially WordPress 7.0. Now we&#8217;re talking 7.0 on the eve of release candidate for 6.9; there is not a whole lot of more information out there and the post is talking about the real time collaboration with multiple authors. Edit the content simultaneously without conflict. Now this feature has been tested with a small group of clients from WordPress VIP, but they&#8217;re loving it it seems, and they are bringing things to Core WordPress 6.9 has the asynchronous notes of collaboration. That&#8217;s the commenting on blocks that comes to WordPress December, but it allows you to add comments directly on the content blocks and there will be refinements and additional features kind of coming in the future. And what&#8217;s also prepared for WordPress 10.0 is behind the scenes the contributors are rebuilding the admin screens with a new Data View and Data Forms tools. There&#8217;s a whole new Fields API that kind of runs the data form components and then you organize and display information on admin pages. Part of it is also Media Library revamp and the extensibility for plugin developers. So that&#8217;s pretty much kind of a short rundown of what&#8217;s in the post. It&#8217;s much more detailed information with links to GitHub issues and PRs and all that. Any comments?</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>I&#8217;m actually really, really excited about that and the start of that. It&#8217;s cool to see that in 6.9 already. I think just collaboration in general within WordPress is one of the things missing to have this thing like in Google Docs we all kind of love it. It&#8217;s so easy and yeah, I&#8217;m just so, so excited to get that in because we have always run our Elmo Studio blog with two people and at some point like even we had guest authors. So yeah that just makes it so much easier to actually work together in WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah and well we use Google Docs for any of the articles be it on the developer blog or internally at Automattic or for the Gutenberg Times. And this would just eliminate one step because you still have that step left that you need to copy paste things over and put the images in. And if you can start drafting already in WordPress it eliminates so much time that you kind of win there. It&#8217;s really cool.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>I never, I can&#8217;t even write in Google Docs, and I&#8217;m actually I&#8217;m using Notion as a drafting tool because it just doesn&#8217;t look as nice so. And yeah just easier if you can just collaborate within your save so much time and effort and it just, it&#8217;s just Nice to see the people you&#8217;re working with in your post and kind of work together there, the comments and feedback and I think even also for design stuff like I love Figma comments as well. It&#8217;s just. Hello, it&#8217;s so good to give feedback. So even if we can have a block section or even on patterns, we can comment on design topics as well there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer:</em> So yeah, even for the visual part of feedback on pattern designs and stuff, it will be really exciting to use that too.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah, absolutely.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>For writers and content creators.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah. So what is probably coming to WordPress 7.0 is that you also can highlight text. Not right now, you only can comment in the notes, just on single blocks. Yeah. So if the block is a long paragraph, you cannot just highlight things and then comment on that. So it&#8217;s not like Google Docs yet. But I think that&#8217;s the aim that developers have to make that work as well. I&#8217;m really excited for what&#8217;s to come. We&#8217;ll see. But it&#8217;s a lot of work. But the last half a year there has been some great progress there. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>All right, so the next thing that I wanted to point out here is the new the plugin review team has this plugin check plugin that you can as a plugin developer kind of use and check your plugins before you submit it. So you don&#8217;t get a whole lot of back and forth with the review team until they approve your plugin. That plugin also has a new version and the review team announced it just last week that they now not only screen new plugins that come to the repository, but also will screen updated plugins or plugin updates for security, compatibility and compliance. Right now it&#8217;s in testing form so currently the team evaluates the information only internally and sends reports to authors if needed. And they want to kind of. It&#8217;s like the normal WordPress way, you kind of look what it does and then you iterate on it. Yeah, they want to observe the behavior during updates and put in some refinements. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>And after that initial testing phase, automated security reports will be emailed to authors right after the plugin updates. This is such a huge progress because plugins account for 96% of WordPress vulnerabilities in 2024 in a report. And that increased scrutiny on the WordPress plugins repository is really a huge impact on the health of the whole WordPress ecosystem and it definitely will make the web a better place with 43% of all websites being WordPress having that additional layer There is really going to be huge.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer:</em> I love that too because yeah, it&#8217;s funny, I just remembered when you said that most of the. As a theme author, I can&#8217;t even count the number of times I get support requests for something is broken. And first thing I always said, oh yeah, I kind of sensed, oh, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s a plugin. It&#8217;s most of the time the theme is not affected because there&#8217;s not much to a theme. You have to deactivate all your plugins and check the list when the error occurs. I think. I don&#8217;t know how much time I spend on plugin support actually as a theme author.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah. I mean security, if you put a point to it, is actually something the server or the hosting company should really implement as well as an agency. When we were dealing with other websites from other people that actually support their businesses. Yeah. We made sure that they are on a hosting company that actually has their own security screening and the automating, removing of malware if that occurs. The plan might be a little bit more expensive, but it&#8217;s kind of that peace of mind for all of us is really important. But yeah, even then things could get through.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>So yeah, yeah, this is like very important help.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Absolutely.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>I think that if the offerings also for Hostess got better over the years, I think and more awareness. But yeah, just funny. It&#8217;s like part of my WordPress history is fixing plugin update issues.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer:</em> Gosh.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah. But I, I, that was work that I really hated.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>Yeah. Although it&#8217;s money because I was like, I&#8217;m just. It&#8217;s a theme, but it&#8217;s not the theme.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>No, no. It wasn&#8217;t something I thought or something like that. Or it was more like it&#8217;s not work that I would like to do. 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But yeah, that can also happen. Not in a security context. It&#8217;s just kind of. Yeah, it broke my site. Yeah. So some update because it was a plugin conflict and the site health plugin is really helpful for that. </p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community Contributions</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So there&#8217;s WordPress Studio. I think I&#8217;m not sure if we ever mentioned it here at the podcast. It&#8217;s an open source local development tool and it now can handle blueprints and those are Playground blueprints. So they&#8217;re lightweight and they&#8217;re fast to implement and it&#8217;s a topic close to my heart. This year I did many talks about Playground and the blueprints and you can watch three of them on WordPress TV and I will have the link in the show notes. They are now available also to be used in Studio because Studio is based on Playground so it makes spinning up new sites so much faster. You can select three pre-built blueprints. One is just a quickstart WordPress.com website or a site for building plugins or themes, or creating an online store with WooCommerce and companion plugins pre-installed. But you could also kind of build your own and have all the plugins that you ever want to need for any site and spin up a new site with the theme or with some standards that you in an agency or as a freelancer always use and then can work on it. And I love this local development tool and paired with Playground CLI. Yeah it made my testing and development so much easier. It&#8217;s really great.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>I use it every day as well. Yeah, I didn&#8217;t. I wasn&#8217;t aware that there&#8217;s a WooCommerce version of the blueprint as well. That is cool because you don&#8217;t need to go ahead and test. Sometimes you just need to test a store and you don&#8217;t want to install all the plugins yourself a little bit annoying. So that can be.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>It&#8217;s absolutely handy.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>The next update I will cover that and it&#8217;s actually kind of an interesting thing and Matt blogged about it on his personal blog as well. So you can check out that link. It&#8217;s that a new plugin called the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer. That&#8217;s a long name for plugin, but it helps to get an archived link to any kind of broken link that you have. Which for a lot of us who have older WordPress blogs or websites that is probably the case. And I actually I haven&#8217;t installed the plugin yet, but I will go to do that this weekend because yeah, that&#8217;s exciting. You can just get a link to any, any broken link to the Wayback Machine version, archived version of that website or blog post. And yeah, check out that post on Matt&#8217;s blog where he talks about it quickly and introduces it and yeah, I think that&#8217;s a really cool additional plugin that we have available to help with broken links. Really exciting. I love that. I will, I will test it and then maybe I blog about it too.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah, yeah. So go ahead. The plugin is free, but you need a free account on the Internet Archive site to obtain an API key because you tap in right into this and to connect your site to the interactor Archive. And then step two and three, you just have to make some additional decisions. But they&#8217;re very well explained about if you want automatically your site kind of put into the Wayback Machine and all that. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just for people who don&#8217;t know, the Internet Archive is a nonprofit library of millions of free text, movies, software, music, websites and more. 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So when I started Gutenberg Times I had the 2019 default theme on it. And then somewhere in 2020 I think I switched to the Excel theme by Anders Noren and there were a few things that didn&#8217;t work that way in the other themes. So I just kind of adopted. And then now I come back and kind of compare what was the old one and what was the new one. It was, it was really interesting because I&#8217;m now building the third theme for, for the site and I want to do it myself and now I can do whatever I want with it without having to follow a theme, but I still wanted to make sure that I have all the things that I thought were important also in the new theme. So we&#8217;ll see. 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Contributors have decided to not move ahead with the enhanced template management feature for this version. The content only editing was also punted to 7.0 as well as the updated block binding UI for external sources, there were a few issues with all three of them during testing sessions and that can&#8217;t be While the content only editing was earlier decided that it&#8217;s not going to come to 6.9, but the other two, there were issues that couldn&#8217;t be resolved in the remaining time before the strength freeze in release candidate one, which is Tuesday. So yeah. Ellen, what are your favorite features for 6.9? Anything standing out for you?</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>Yes, I was looking forward to the template management feature of course we have to wait. We have to wait for that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> It&#8217;s still in Gutenberg. Yeah, it&#8217;s still in the plugin. It&#8217;s just not.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>Then second pick. 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And he will publish that probably in about two weeks or three. We&#8217;ll see how that comes. Yeah. There&#8217;s also on the developer blog where additional theme related things like the border radius, size presets that come into WordPress 6.9 and also I mentioned it, the social icons, custom icons that you want if you want them. Also a tutorial on the developer blog register custom social icons and we have one more that is the how to style forms with theme JSON that comes also with six point nine.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>That&#8217;s a big one. Oh, that&#8217;s cool.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Absolutely.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>Very exciting because that&#8217;s one of the things you miss that was missing always for themes and our custom icons. Actually I think it&#8217;s a bigger feature than you think because that was always for years one of the requests like how do I get my own icon in there? Like, oh, it&#8217;s missing. Like maybe certain countries have their big individual icons that were not what kind of icons icons, but tools, social.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> I can. Websites. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>I remember there was a German one we were always asked for. I don&#8217;t remember what it was, but from different communities you get different requests.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah. In Germany there was this ext or next or something like that was a social one. Right. But that kind of folded into LinkedIn now. So. 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So they&#8217;re now getting into a variation for 6.9. I have not seen that issue or the pull request actually be merged, but we&#8217;ll see if it&#8217;s going to be in Release candidate one or it still stays as it is and comes in 5.7, 7.0. Why 5.7? That&#8217;s wrong. Yeah. The latest comments block now has an option to display full comments so there were only two versions. One was just the title and then an excerpt. And then now you can have all the full comments displayed in your post template or page template. So that&#8217;s also pretty cool.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer:</em> One additional new update is also in the global styles and actually Birgit had to help me figure that out. Global styles are now, can now be accessed in the post editor. But you need to have. What is it? You need to have Active show template template. Yeah, show template. And it&#8217;s like, okay, where is show template Burgundy? Had to help me out with that one. 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And yeah, it&#8217;s kind of just a shortcut for.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>I think it also builds like having that connection also builds a little bit more awareness for users of the connection between where what a template actually is and that you can. What global styles are that you have that connection of. Oh, the global styles are connected to the template of this post and if I change something there, it&#8217;s changed in the post. I think there&#8217;s still difficulty for users to understand that connection if the templates are hidden and the global styles are hidden in just the site editor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>So that&#8217;s a good point.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>It just builds that connection.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>That&#8217;s a good point. Yeah. Thank you. I haven&#8217;t even thought about it, but that helps people figure out because the template, new WordPress users might not have that problem, but long time WordPress users, they never had to deal with templates because it was all, it was all something that the theme developer would do for them and they were just using it. But now that they have control over it, they also kind of need to be aware what they&#8217;re doing with it. And the enhanced template management is Also part of it, that it needs to be a little bit less confusing. And also follow some. Some things that they say if I change something on a template, I don&#8217;t want it to go public without me knowing. So I want a draft section there and keep the other template going until the other one, the new one is finished. So that is something that comes with enhanced template management and I&#8217;m really looking forward to that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer:</em> That will be exciting also to make templates more exciting to play with because. Yeah, I think there&#8217;s still an amazing amount of confusion of what a template versus a page actually is. So just if users play more with custom templates and build their own, I think that builds more awareness of that. The difference between these two.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah, definitely. Yeah. So I think one of the last things that we want to talk about here is the. That the math block, which is a new block coming to 6.9. Yeah. Yeah. I&#8217;m love it. I actually was in school, I had all these big formulas to talk about. To write and. Yeah. And I was never kind of thinking, oh, I could do a blog post about things that. Because I had no way of knowing how to do the formulas. 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Alan, is there something that you want to remind people about upcoming events or releases.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>Actually I can&#8217;t think of anything at the moment.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> So if people want to connect with you, where would they find you on the.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>I&#8217;m definitely on the Slack WordPress Developer Slack or on social. I think I&#8217;m moving more and more to Blue Sky.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Okay.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>And yeah also on X and there and YouTube is like a thing I want to be more present and add more content to. So yeah, I have a YouTube channel. I think you can find me just under my name on all of these or maybe Elmer studio on the YouTube. I&#8217;m not sure. I think both is possible.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Okay. Yeah I will share share this all in the show notes and as always. Oh I wanted to announce something. Sorry on November 13th. That&#8217;s next week. If you listen to this over the weekend you get the chance to see the developer hours come back to the online workshops on Learn on Meetup and JuanMa and Jonathan Bosinger are going over the developer parts of WordPress 6.9 one is the Data Views and Data Forms and Fields API. The other one is the Abilities API and they might even be covering Interactivity API, seeing what kind of time they have. But that&#8217;s on meetup on November 13, just to let you know.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>Exciting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yes. As always, the show notes will be published on GutenbergTimes.com/podcast. This is episode 124. 124. 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And then I got a job where I was really working on the infrastructure behind it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I continue to grow, I keep learning that there&#8217;s always another layer to WordPress. And I think I&#8217;m getting close to the bottom, but that&#8217;s what I thought every layer. So I did a little bit of contributing last year when I was here at WordCamp, and I&#8217;m just excited to keep growing and keep learning more about the power that we have in that WordPress environment.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:18] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Thank you for that. So you&#8217;re at WordCamp US, obviously, you&#8217;re talking to me, we&#8217;re in the same room. Presentation that you did or doing?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:26] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Did.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:26] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Did. We&#8217;ll get to that in a minute. It was called Reimagining WordPress Editing: How We Embedded Gutenberg Into Our Product Ecosystem. I might read some of the blurb in a little bit, but first of all, how did it go?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:37] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> I think it went well.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Good.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:39] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yeah. I told the story in the presentation that I teach teenagers a lot. And it was a couple years ago, I&#8217;m in the middle of a lesson and I looked down and nobody&#8217;s paying attention to me because one of the students had gotten so bored, he had started ripping apart his styrofoam cup and he had been eating it. He was halfway through eating the cup. Halfway through my presentation, I look and nobody had done anything sort of like that. So I felt like the presentation went well, people were paying attention. That&#8217;s kind of my benchmark.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:08] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That&#8217;s a good one.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:08] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> I think I&#8217;ve gotten better.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:10] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So here&#8217;s the blurb. And I won&#8217;t do it all, I&#8217;ll get maybe through the first paragraph and hopefully, dear listener, it&#8217;ll give you some context for what&#8217;s going to come in the next 40 minutes, half an hour or so.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens when you take the Gutenberg editor out of WordPress? This talk explores how we decouple the block editor from WP Admin and the Loop, embedding it in a standalone React application to power custom editorial workflows, while still saving to a traditional WordPress database.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now there&#8217;s a lot in there. And I think that subject would be curious if it was just, you know, the mom and pop website, but the fact that you are actually dealing with, forgive me if I get this wrong, dowjones.com. I don&#8217;t know if it is dowjones.com, but it&#8217;s certainly the Dow Jones.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:50] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> So Dow Jones as an entity, a fun fact, they no longer own the Dow Jones market. They sold it. But they do own a lot of publishing websites. So they own websites like the Wall Street Journal, Barron&#8217;s, Mansion Global. We&#8217;ve purchased more, I don&#8217;t know if I can say any of the other names right now, but we own all of those entities and so they are on a Multisite.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so right now our publishing system, all of our editors publish from those websites in our WordPress Multisite environment. And all of that, we can talk about headless, but all of that actually goes into this all knowing database in the sky, where our front end systems pick them up. So WordPress itself doesn&#8217;t render wsj.com. We have a mobile team that does that. One way, we have a web team that does it a different way, and they all read from this all knowing database.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we use WordPress and our editors use it, we call it NewsPress, and we use it to publish all of our content. Our editors find it easy to use, and we like all of the features that WordPress offers. So we&#8217;ve leveraged the power of WordPress to do those things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:03] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Some of those names were really enormous entities. Did you say the Wall Street Journal, or?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:08] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:09] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I mean, these are ones that I&#8217;ve heard of and I don&#8217;t live in this country, so that&#8217;s pretty profound. So I guess they&#8217;ve got an incredible appetite for traffic, but also an incredible need to be there a hundred percent. Not this 99.8% of the time. This is 100% of the time, I&#8217;m guessing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:26] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Right. And the topic that we&#8217;re going to talk about today, and it applies to all news, but when there&#8217;s breaking news, being first to market matters. Being 10 seconds ahead of your competitor when Taylor Swift gets engaged is an important amount of time when you&#8217;re sending out a push notification. Or in the case of MarketWatch, when there are going to be fluctuations in the market and we have editors listening in on board meetings, being able to send that information out and get that to our readers as soon as possible is the most important thing to our publications.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:59] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So is this a project, or an infrastructure, let&#8217;s go with that, that you inherited or were you bought in to build this?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:06] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Both. In the most simple terms, I can explain it, we&#8217;ll say we have three systems. We have a React based planning tool. We have a WordPress editing tool, where we actually write the articles, save the content, control user permissions, lock and unlock posts. And then we have the front end that then takes what they publish and display it in any way that they need across all of our publications. So we have planning, editing and rendering. And those are three completely separate buckets that have been there for quite some time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:43] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So we&#8217;re at a WordPress event and we&#8217;re surrounded by WordPressers, so it is kind of a bit of a bubble that we&#8217;re in at the minute. Everybody in this hall, in this place, kind of would understand what you&#8217;ve just described. However, dear listener, hopefully I&#8217;m not besmirching you, but there&#8217;s going to be a bunch of people listening to this who, what you just said went completely over their head.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>They download WordPress, they pay a few dollars a month to pop it on a host that they believe is reliable, and they know there&#8217;s a database somewhere but they&#8217;re kind of using the front end. And that&#8217;s all that they need to concern themselves about. Just explain in more detail what you just said. This React, this editing and this front end. What even is that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:10:20] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Right. I mean you can think of them as three separate applications on your phone. You might use one app, like your calendar, to plan things out. That&#8217;s what our planning tool is. It essentially lets us coordinate with each other and say, hey, we need to have a steady stream of stories. And we also want to attach, our photographers are going to put some images in those stories, so we might add that to the calendar invite description. Those are the kind of things we do in the planning tool.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then in the WordPress tool, it&#8217;s a lot like what anybody does in WordPress. We&#8217;re writing posts, we&#8217;re adding images, and in the case of the newsroom, they might do a couple things around SEO, and add some metadata that we want to show up on Google. And I think everybody should be familiar with creating posts.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then a completely different system picks it up and says, okay, I&#8217;m going to show everybody what it looks like. And that part is not really important because that&#8217;s the headless part. But you don&#8217;t really need to understand that there&#8217;s another system that does this thing differently, to understand what we&#8217;re going to talk about as far as, we moved our editor into, let&#8217;s say, a very simplified tool.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>One example that I like to think about is, when we have done this project, we did it very specifically for the newsroom&#8217;s needs. So we tailored it very, very specifically. But I like to think of the applications of, I like to collect people who have great quotes. When I hear a great quote, I&#8217;m like, oh, I need to write that down. I don&#8217;t want to forget it. I like to think of it as, I want to pull up something like Twitter or Bluesky, and I want to just type in a field, hit send, and then it publishes a post on my WordPress dashboard. It&#8217;s a custom post that says, here&#8217;s a notable tweet. And it posted it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That way I don&#8217;t lose that and I can have it in my WordPress, which is where I keep most of like, I keep my recipes, and my notes, and my blogs, and everything that I want to remember. It&#8217;s like my personal online notebook. But now we&#8217;ve created a mechanism where we can kind of take that and extend it anywhere we want outside of just the WP Editor, and be able to pull something up and say, hey, there&#8217;s a different application. You type it in, you hit send, and then it all runs through WordPress itself.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:12:48] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> What are the reasons why that needed to be done? So just sort of going backwards a bit, really. Obviously that is what is possible, but why is just a default version of WordPress on red hot hosting not something that is suitable in this situation? What affordances does it get you? What performance does it buy you? What UI does it allow you to create that makes this possible? And I think you said you built your own proprietary system. What did you call it, press news or news?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:15] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> NewsPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:15] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> NewsPress, sorry. Wrong way around. So, why? What are the limitations in WordPress that were unignorable that required this?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:22] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> I don&#8217;t think there were necessarily limitations. We are talking about shaving seconds off the editor process. And so there are a lot of things in our WordPress system that we want editors to do before they publish a normal article. We want them to have certain SEO titles listed. We want them to have fallback images for headline videos. We are okay with the way everything operates inside of WordPress, but we&#8217;re talking about shaving seconds off by putting it, first of all, in a tool that the editors are already in. They&#8217;re planning their day, they&#8217;re planning their month in the planning tool. And it&#8217;s a single page application. There&#8217;s no page reload. It&#8217;s all in React. There&#8217;s no calling a database that we have to worry about.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re literally just pulling up the Gutenberg editor, typing out a breaking news or a market watch, we call them pulse, some update that we need to get to our readers. And if there&#8217;s a bunch of information that comes in, we need to be able to hit 10 posts with as limited information as possible and get it to publish all the way to the front end, and do 10 in a row as quickly as possible.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:37] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So the raison d&#8217;etre there then is time. It&#8217;s all about shaving seconds off because in the industry that you are in, if you&#8217;re five seconds late, you might as well not publish.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:46] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Right. It&#8217;s time, and it&#8217;s also distraction for our editors. They don&#8217;t have the full editor experience anymore. They don&#8217;t have the sidebar, and all the tabs because we have a lot of stuff in our editor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:58] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so in this three step process where you&#8217;ve got the React, and we&#8217;ll talk about ripping out Gutenberg and pushing it to this React app in a minute. But we&#8217;ve got the React app where the planning is done, then presumably when the planning is finished, and I&#8217;m going to use the word publish, maybe it&#8217;s not publish, but you hit a button, presumably that pushes it down the funnel towards the WordPress install, which then pushes it to the front end. So there&#8217;s this kind of like one way cycle.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the idea of the React, Gutenberg bit is that it&#8217;s fast, really fast and distraction free. There&#8217;s just no clutter. It&#8217;s just, you&#8217;re familiar with that interface. Because with the best one in the world, WordPress, there&#8217;s a lot of things going on. When you click publish, quite a lot can happen at that moment. You don&#8217;t want any of that. You just want publish. Boom. Done.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:39] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Right.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:40] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. So you&#8217;ve pulled the Gutenberg editor out of WordPress. And, okay, I think it&#8217;s important at this point to say, Gutenberg is an open source project. We&#8217;re mostly familiar with it sitting inside of WordPress, but it doesn&#8217;t belong there. And you&#8217;ve put it inside of this React app. How have you customised it to get it there, and what have you stripped out, what have you added in?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:01] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yeah, great question because part of the reason we decided to continue to use Gutenberg instead of some other React tool is that we&#8217;ve already invested so much time and effort into the business logic around our custom plugins and around the workflow, and we&#8217;ve put so much into our WordPress environment that we asked ourselves, how can we maintain all the equity we have in WordPress and leverage the power of WordPress, but put it in a slightly different place where we can take care of all of our editor&#8217;s needs? And so that was really the driving factor behind, okay, we&#8217;re going to move it here, but we still want all the things we have there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so what we did is we limited the number of blocks. While we might have most of the Core blocks in our regular editor, we have the paragraph and list block in our planning.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:01] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That&#8217;s it?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:01] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yeah, because that&#8217;s all we needed. That&#8217;s all we needed. And we have a couple custom plugins that we&#8217;ve moved into our planning tool. For instance, in MarketWatch, if you&#8217;re writing a story about Target, you&#8217;re going to want to tag the Target company, and we call it tickers, the stock tickers. And that lets our front end know, hey, this is a story about Target, let&#8217;s put the real time stock ticker information into this article, so it&#8217;s not like, when I wrote it a week ago, this is what the the stock ticker looked like.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s, when I&#8217;m looking at it right now, this is the real time stock ticker data. We put a lot of time and effort into building that plugin for WordPress, and so we wanted to find a way to not have to rewrite any of that code, not have to redo any of that work, but take what we&#8217;ve already done and just move it to the planning tool and have it work in both locations in the same code base.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:55] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So I&#8217;m just trying to understand what that looks like. So let&#8217;s say that I&#8217;m in this planning tool. Somehow I get to that planning tool. I don&#8217;t know where it lives, whether I&#8217;m on a desktop or a website, or an application which lives on Mac OS. I don&#8217;t know. I probably don&#8217;t need to know, but I&#8217;m in it. And it looks like Gutenberg, yeah? I mean it is Gutenberg. Everything&#8217;s the same, except you&#8217;ve got this tiny limited arrangement of blocks. So paragraph, list, and then a couple of others, bespoke ones which you obviously need.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what happens then when I&#8217;m doing that planning and then I click, I&#8217;m going to use publish again, I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve overhauled the UI to make it something else, but let&#8217;s click publish. What happens at that moment? Where does that go? And how does it fit into the whole flow that we talked about?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:18:36] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Right. So everything that you do in a normal WordPress editor, you can also do using this thing called the REST API. And they&#8217;re just endpoints that exist that you can call to do things like lock a post, save a post, publish a post. And so when we do anything like that inside of our planning tool and we hit publish, it just hits this backend location that says, hey, post number 1, 2, 3, I want you to do what you normally do WordPress, and publish that post for me. And it doesn&#8217;t have to load anything inside of WordPress, it just hits that endpoint and WordPress says, well, I know how to publish. Okay, I&#8217;m going to publish.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we didn&#8217;t have to load the page, we didn&#8217;t have to hit the WP Admin. It just skips all those steps and says, okay, I&#8217;ll publish for you. And then that sends it off downstream and they all do their thing. So it&#8217;s essentially the same, we just skip some steps.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:34] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. So again, just to emphasise, the whole point of that was to save time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:39] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:39] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That&#8217;s fascinating. That&#8217;s fascinating that time is such an important commodity. I&#8217;ve never come across a scenario, I mean I just don&#8217;t live in that world. I don&#8217;t have a scenario in my head where the amount of time it takes to hit publish and wait for WordPress to do its checks and balances and what have you, or load it up and all of that. But those few moments is important enough.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you build the React app, it looks like Gutenberg, you hit publish via the REST API, it goes to WordPress, but it misses out all the intermediary things that may happen, and we can get into that in a minute. And then it just hits, it just publishes it immediately.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:15] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Right.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:15] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That is fascinating.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:16] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> And the great thing about keeping WordPress in the loop there is that if there&#8217;s a breaking news article, we do as rapidly as we can. We&#8217;re going to publish that article. But now it exists in the WordPress database, and we can go back to it and do all of the things that we normally do, but it&#8217;s already published.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it&#8217;s out there, but now we can go and, just like the regular WordPress editor, we can add images, we can add SEO data, we can do all of those things we&#8217;d normally do. We can post updates, but the post is already out there. So we&#8217;re no longer in a rush, but we still are going to make that story more robust.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:53] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So I&#8217;m just trying to be clear, because in your, the blurb for your presentation, you used this phrase, which was custom editorial workflows. I think we just went through that. So React app, WordPress, it gets published, we&#8217;re on the front end. But then at that moment, any modifications, let&#8217;s say, I don&#8217;t know, there&#8217;s an update, somebody has to modify something about it. At this point, you&#8217;re in the middle step. You&#8217;re going to the regular WordPress site and you&#8217;re updating it in there. Have I got that right? You&#8217;re not back the first step.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:20] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Right. We&#8217;re doing all of that in the planning tool. And then if you&#8217;ve been to some of our websites or I think any news website, you&#8217;ll see, last updated, and it&#8217;ll give you a timestamp. That&#8217;s when you get that notification that, hey, this has been updated. It&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve gone back into WordPress and we&#8217;ve added more information that our readers are going to find interesting or important. And we sent it down and there it goes again. Version two is out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:45] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Is this kind of standard practice in the journalism industry to have something akin to this because time&#8217;s so important? Or is it something of an affordance that you can have because those publications are already so successful?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I&#8217;m imagining it&#8217;s not all that cheap to put that together and maintain. Presumably there&#8217;s got to be developers surrounding it all the time and making sure it&#8217;s updated and kept alive. So I was just curious as to whether or not this is typical or something that you think is pretty unique.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:22:13] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Well, I&#8217;ll tell you this. This is the first time ever in my career that I have tried to Google things and got zero results. So I don&#8217;t think that it happens a lot. I think it&#8217;s pretty unique. I know our parent company, they own a bunch of other publishing corporations and none of them have done anything like this either. I think this is something that we pioneered and that it&#8217;s great, it was very unfortunate for me to try to figure it out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:22:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Were there headaches along the way? Was it really quite a challenge? Have you learned things which other people listening to this podcast, they may think, okay, I need to talk to Joshua. I have a similar crisis on my hands. Was there a lot of learning along the way?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:22:51] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> I think the main thing that I learned was that WordPress has a lot of really good documentation for using it the way that it should be used.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:23:01] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> The normal way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:23:02] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yes. And so if you want to learn how to use WordPress, the documentation&#8217;s great. If you want to learn how to misuse WordPress, there is not a lot of good documentation out there. And you&#8217;re going to have to read a lot of Trac tickets and GitHub issues and Slack threads and, you know, read through the code.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so, yeah, I will say that, pro, WordPress, great at documenting, but if you&#8217;re going to do something out of the box like this, you&#8217;re going to have to find those alternate sources of documentation, which is just, and how they built it. That was a good lesson and a good learning curve. And I learned a lot about the contributor process through that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:23:40] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. Oh yeah, I&#8217;m sure you did. Did it deliver, or does it deliver in the way that was anticipated at the planning state? So when the stakeholders were sat down and the green light was given to this project, did it come out exactly as expected, or were there things where suddenly you figured, oh, we cannot do this particular thing? Maybe it worked out better than you had originally intended.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:00] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yeah, so actually, we rolled it out for MarketWatch first and it worked, and they have not complained, at least to me about it. But it was so good that they rolled it out to wsj.com next, and we developed it in such a way that it would be very extendable. And when they rolled it out to wsj, I didn&#8217;t know about it. So it really was a seamless transition. Now we have two of our biggest newsrooms using it, and I think we&#8217;re going to roll it out to Baron&#8217;s next. I don&#8217;t anticipate having to do any work for that either.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:32] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I find this so curious. I think you maybe made yourself fairly indispensable.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:37] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> I wouldn&#8217;t go that far.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It certainly sounds it. So let&#8217;s get into the sort of technical bits and pieces about it, because I&#8217;m reading, cribbing from my notes here. You mentioned in the talk, simulating the global WP Object. And whilst that sounds interesting and is no doubt complicated, what are the critical components of the doing that? How did you replicate it? What was the biggest challenge? Stripping out the editor and making it work somewhere else.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:59] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Well, that&#8217;s one of the great things that I learned about the way WordPress works behind the scenes. When you&#8217;re building plugins, you import a lot of WordPress packages that do very specific things. And my assumption was always, when I build my code, it&#8217;s putting all of those packages into the code in one file and then ships it to my website. And that&#8217;s how it works.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s not exactly how it works. The bundle process for WordPress actually pulls all of those scripts out for speed and efficiency. You don&#8217;t want 20 plugins to have 20 different versions of the same code. And so they&#8217;ve pulled all of that out and it just uses one version of that code. 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We&#8217;re going to have to import those packages and set them at the global namespace level just so that the WordPress code will run.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:26:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> And how challenging was that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:26:40] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Well, discovering it was the challenge. Implementing it was the easy part. We went through many iterations of, why is it not working? How will it not communicate? Before we realised that WordPress is doing this for us. And then once we had that realisation, the implementation was rather simple.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:26:59] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> To me, that would&#8217;ve been quite a frustrating process. Going backwards and forwards there. Why isn&#8217;t it working? Why isn&#8217;t it working? And then sort of suddenly realise, oh, it&#8217;s not working because, as you&#8217;ve just described. Yeah, that&#8217;s really interesting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you are happy that you went through that process. There&#8217;s no bit at which you thought, okay, we&#8217;re backing out. We&#8217;re not going to use WordPress. We&#8217;re going to use some sort of custom CMS that you can buy off the shelf, any of that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:27:22] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Right. Oh yeah. I mean, if you had asked me a week into my back and forth, I would&#8217;ve said no. And it gives me a deeper understanding of WordPress too, and a deeper appreciation for the decisions that the contributors made when they built it to make it efficient. I never thought about how the WP build process helps developers build efficient websites, even if they don&#8217;t really know what&#8217;s going on. You type in WP scripts build, and then a lot of things happen. But the developers don&#8217;t need to know everything that happens. It just happens. And that&#8217;s great for developers.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when I went that step further and I&#8217;m like, why is this happening? I went down the rabbit trail of figuring out what does WP scripts build do, and how can I break it? I want to do something else with it. And then coming all the way back to realising, no, they&#8217;re doing it the right way, the good way. And now that I understand what it does, I can design our system to be in alignment with that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:28:26] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, it sounds like you kind of went full circle there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:28:28] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Oh, I did.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:28:28] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, that&#8217;s really interesting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:28:30] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Circle, spiral.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:28:31] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, yeah, I&#8217;m sure there was a few spirals. So without giving anything away, how do your stakeholders that need to be a part of the first stage, the planning tool, how do they get to that? Can they access that with their phones? Can they access that with their desktop? How do they interact with that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:28:46] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yes, two things are important for us. We want to be able to access it in the office, on a desktop, plan out things. But we also want our reporters to be able to give us breaking news in the field, wherever they are.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:01] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Right. That was where I was going with that, yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:03] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Right. And so that is one driving factor for the decisions that we make when we make these design decisions, and make these application decisions. We need to remove as many barriers from our editors to publishing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And sometimes that&#8217;s, how can we reduce the number of clicks to get a full fledged story out the door? Or it&#8217;s, how do we make this work with as few distractions as possible on a mobile phone when somebody&#8217;s sitting in the back of a boardroom?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:32] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. So available on everything, everywhere. Where there&#8217;s an internet connection, you can get to this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:37] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, okay. One of the curious things, and again, we&#8217;re going to go into the technical details here, so forgive me if this question is misplaced, because you specifically mentioned replacing Core / Editor with Core / Block Editor. I&#8217;m not really familiar with what that distinction is, but the fact that you mentioned that kind of gave me an intuition that there was something there. So why was that important? And you are going to have to go slightly gently on me cause I don&#8217;t really understand.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:30:01] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> I will gently wade into the weeds here. When we&#8217;re building custom blocks in our process here, a lot of times we use the data stores. And there&#8217;s an editor data store, and a block editor data store. What does that look like in the WP admin? When you pull up a post the block inserter, when you hit the plus on the top left, or you hit add, all of the blocks that show up, that&#8217;s one part of the Gutenberg editor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The big chunk in the middle is the second part where you do all your typing, you put your post, you add your images. And then the sidebar on the right, where you make adjustments, is the third part. All three of those components are the Block Editor. Everything that exists outside of that is the broader editor. Think of that as like a giant wrapper around the entire thing. That has like the save button, the publish button. It has information about the post and all of its attributes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so it has much more information. The Block Editor just needs to know what blocks exist on the page. The Editor needs to know about a much broader context inside of WordPress. When we moved the Editor, we moved the Block Editor. So the save button isn&#8217;t there. We&#8217;re not using that. We wrote our own save button that hits the API.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:31:23] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Can I just pause you there? So when you say the Block Editor, you are describing the three things. The panel on the left, the central area where you create the content, and the sidebar on the right, if you like, where the settings for those might be. But not the wrapper.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:31:36] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Right. And we actually went one step further and said, we don&#8217;t need the left or the right. We just need the part in the middle. We want to make it as distraction free as possible and move it over. So we have the option to put the sidebar there, and the sidebar works, but we have chosen as a business decision, we don&#8217;t want it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And since we&#8217;re headless, whether they change the font or the colour, none of that actually affects our front end. We don&#8217;t want editors to be able to bold and italicise and make all the text red that they think is important because they would go crazy. They think all my text is important.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yeah, we moved all of just that middle piece, just that Block Editor is what we moved over. And we have a save button, and a publish button that don&#8217;t interact with the WordPress Editor, they interact with the WordPress API.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:32:28] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> The REST API pushing it to the regular WordPress site. Okay, and again, just harking back to what you mentioned a moment ago, when we began this conversation, I was imagining a different thing. I was imagining that you pulled the Block Editor in its entirety out. So I&#8217;ve learned something there. So this is just that content creation area.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And by stripping out the left, and the right, and the publish and all of those things, that&#8217;s where the time saving comes, is it? Is that where the few seconds can be shaved off because it&#8217;s the bare bones of what it requires to create some text on a screen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:00] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yes, exactly. Because a lot of times it&#8217;s headline, paragraph, send. That&#8217;s it for the first iteration of that article.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:07] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So one of the questions that I had, which now appears to be not necessary, but I&#8217;m going to ask it anyway. I was asking about things like, for example, manually editing the content that you would make in the React app, undoing things, history, and so on. That&#8217;s not really what&#8217;s going on. You&#8217;re doing it this one time in the React app, then everything after that is happening in the WordPress website.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the history and everything is stored in the regular way, the bolding, the italicising, the, I want to make it red, that&#8217;s all done posthumously after the fact, once it&#8217;s been published, or at least shunted via the REST API to the WordPress, you know, the database, the regular WordPress website. So that all happens there. The amendments happen there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:49] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Right. And we still have access to all of the toolbar options. So if you want to add a link, you would do it the exact same way that you add a link in your WordPress post. So we have some of that available to us, but we&#8217;ve locked it down. Not because it won&#8217;t work, but because we don&#8217;t want it to be a distraction for our editors.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:09] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So is there any type of content that, I&#8217;m trying to imagine a scenario where, presumably not everybody needs the React app. So for example, if I&#8217;m writing a piece about, I don&#8217;t know, gardening or something, you know, it&#8217;s really not time sensitive. I could write this next year and it&#8217;s just as important, or a recipe or something like that. Do I need to be in the React app? Or is that just for the kind of, the journalists out in the field who need things quick? So have you got like this two tier system of editing, the, I need it extra, specially quick, you are in React, but the gardening post is just done as a regular post?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:41] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yes. And that&#8217;s the majority of our posts, are all regular posts, and they&#8217;ve had time to plan it out and gather their assets, which they do in the planning tool, and all of that information syncs over to WordPress. But they don&#8217;t do any editing other than our breaking news.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:58] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. It&#8217;s the breaking news React app then basically.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:35:01] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:35:01] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, that&#8217;s curious. Sorry, this is sort of sidestepping slightly. So they just create text. They create text and lists and that&#8217;s it. Paragraphs and lists. That&#8217;s all they&#8217;ve got. And when they hit the REST API, does it publish automatically or do they hit some other editorial workflow where somebody more senior gets to look at it? Because I&#8217;m guessing in this scenario where Taylor Swift got married, you just want to go straight to front end.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:35:28] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yeah. It goes straight to the front end. They have a paragraph and list, that&#8217;s for the core, but they also have some of our proprietary plugins that, like we have a correction, and we have a ticker inserter, and there are a couple ones that we moved over, like our byline. We have a author database, and so they can say, hey, I wrote this. And so that&#8217;s a block that we wrote, and it works in WordPress and it also works in the planning tool, but it&#8217;s very limited what they can do because that&#8217;s all they needed. So we said we&#8217;ll strip everything else out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:36:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Is it a common workflow then where the same author who&#8217;s written this really time sensitive piece will hit publish over there, it goes from React app, REST API, to WordPress, to the front end? They would then almost immediately, do they at that point let go of it or do they then almost immediately go back to the WordPress website and think, actually, do you know what, I do want that bit bold, I would like to underline that? So yeah, I&#8217;m just curious what that workflow looks like.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:36:26] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> I think it depends on the situation. And so in one case, while it is a breaking news story, as long as we don&#8217;t convert it to a full article, we can make updates in the planning tool. So he can go back, we can edit that and say, well, I wanted it bold, I&#8217;m going to do it in the planning tool. But if you wanted to, you could also do it in the WordPress environment. When we say convert to an article, we mean, this was breaking news, but I&#8217;m going to click a button and that&#8217;s going to let other editors know, we&#8217;re about to make this a full fledged article.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:36:56] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Oh, I see.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:36:57] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yeah. Because a lot of times we have multiple editors working on the same article. And so we need to be in coordination, especially around breaking news. Hey, this is happening right now. I&#8217;ve pushed it out. I&#8217;m going to pass this off to you. Can you go in? Hopefully there are no typos, but fix any typos, or change the headline, or add SEO data. So they really work as a team, especially around breaking news and then pass that off to other editors.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:37:24] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I guess because you&#8217;re in the weeds of this, it&#8217;s so self-evident what this workflow is. It&#8217;s just for me, it&#8217;s so curious that there&#8217;s all these interesting little steps, and behind it all is this desire to save seconds. And it really is absolutely, this is nothing like a WordPress site that I&#8217;ve come across in the past. Hope you&#8217;ll forgive my ignorance for keeping asking the same kind of question. But I find that really fascinating.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the gardening post is done on the website, the important timely post is done in the React app, and yet there&#8217;s a convert to, I don&#8217;t know, regular content or something like that, button that an editor can go in and, yeah, it&#8217;s wheels within wheels. It&#8217;s absolutely fascinating.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:38:01] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yes. This is why I said earlier, there were so many business rules and so much time spent into building our WordPress system that we didn&#8217;t consider another tool very seriously. Because we have so much invested in there, and there&#8217;s so much power in the WordPress system that we&#8217;ve, first of all out of the box, but second, what we&#8217;ve built on top of it that we said, we need to leverage this in this use case here.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:38:28] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. Honestly, I think we could probably spend all day talking about this, but we probably should move on.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m curious as to whether any of this knowledge that you&#8217;ve acquired building this, because I know that in the WordPress community, most people don&#8217;t do headless, but there is a hardcore of people like you who just love this stuff.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m just curious as to whether the knowledge that you&#8217;ve gained in the building of this, whether or not any of that gets put back into the open source project, whether there&#8217;s a commitment on your side, on the Dow Jones side to make this available, to open up a repo, to give away the content, the way that you&#8217;ve done it, the knowledge that you&#8217;ve acquired along the way?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:02] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Yeah, I think that is ultimately my goal. I started a repo just to show how we moved Gutenberg. There&#8217;s a lot of proprietary stuff that I had to take out of there. This is just my repo at this point. It&#8217;s lacking a lot of the, how do you get a custom block to work over there, at this point? I want to continue to add to that, but I think I&#8217;m also considering what, does this do for the broader WordPress community? How can this be applied to help Core, or to help contractors, or to help people who have a lot of clients.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve thought about is, if we have clients who may be difficult, right? I think we&#8217;ve all run into people at one point or another that said, I don&#8217;t like WordPress. I&#8217;ve heard the word React. I want React. People say, React is cool, right? Or I want a Vue project, or I want it to look like this. I don&#8217;t want to go to WordPress backend.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is opening up a whole different set of opportunities where we can say, okay, I&#8217;m going to throw together, I&#8217;m going to vibe code, which I hate, but I want to vibe code a one page React application, and rely on the WordPress API to give me database, to give me user management, post saves, revision history. You can use WordPress as its own complete system and then just slap React on top of it, and have the full Gutenberg editing experience and save all of your information and still do all the things that you know how to do in WordPress, and your client&#8217;s happy and they don&#8217;t know anything about it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:40:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It&#8217;s kind of like WordPress without the WordPress. It&#8217;s the look and feel of WordPress without the overhead of WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:40:43] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> It&#8217;s the power of WordPress. And what I say is the power of WordPress at the speed of breaking news. But it&#8217;s the power of WordPress at whatever the client wants. And so if they want one thing, you can give it to them there. And if you have a lot of clients and you have people spinning up different interfaces, maybe it&#8217;s React, it&#8217;s Vue. You have eight different clients, you can put them all into one Multisite and you can use WordPress as the backend for all of them. And each application looks completely different, tailored to those needs, and it all just goes through the same old WordPress functionality.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:41:20] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I guess that the way the interface looks is kind of the key bit there. You could make it look like Gutenberg, you could make it look nothing like Gutenberg. It could be anything that you liked. Simple, complicated, whatever.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing this is really enterprise stuff, though. 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I guess the beauty of the open source project, and thank you for honoring the commitment there, hopefully we&#8217;ll get the knowledge distributed, is that the first time around you doing it, it would&#8217;ve been very expensive because you&#8217;re a developer, your time is valuable. So presumably all of that got wrapped into this project. The company that you are working for could afford that. But maybe now it&#8217;s going to be a slightly easier bridge to cross. And I guess communicating with you might make that a little bit easier. I don&#8217;t mean to open up your calendar or anything, but would you potentially make yourself available through email or Slack or whatever? And if that&#8217;s the case, where would people find you?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:42:54] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> Of course. I would say that I would love to pass this off. I try to tell myself, when I do something new, I always say, this is going to be the worst it ever is. And so when I&#8217;m looking at this, I see a lot of potential, but I also realise that this state that we&#8217;re in right now is the worst this idea is ever going to be. And I would love for people to come and make it better, and tell me what I did wrong and tell me what I can do better. And to say, but what if we did this instead? And that&#8217;s the beauty of open source. We want to see it grow. We want to see all of the possibilities that we can do with this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so please, first of all, take it, run with it, make it better. And second of all, yes, I&#8217;d be glad to meet and talk with anybody about it. And if I could save somebody the two week spiral, or the two week loop, I would love to do that as well. So yeah, I will absolutely make myself available.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:43:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Where can you be found? What&#8217;s the best place to find you?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:43:50] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> The best place to find me would probably be at my personal email address, which is j b r y a 0 2 9 at gmail dot com. And that is a carryover from my college years, so it&#8217;s a little weird, but it&#8217;ll work.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:44:06] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I&#8217;ll make sure not to put that into the text on the WP Tavern website, but it&#8217;s in the audio now, so hopefully people can find it. Anything that we&#8217;ve talked about, if I can find a link to it, I will put that in. So listeners, head over to wptavern.com, search for the episode of Joshua Bryant. That&#8217;s Joshua, J-O-S-H-U-A and Bryant, B-R-Y-A-N-T. Search over there and you will find all of the bits and pieces.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll link to the presentation that Joshua gave at WordCamp US, and maybe that&#8217;ll be on WordPress TV by the time you come to consume this. Anything else that Joshua wants to send me, I&#8217;ll put on there as well. So, Joshua Bryant, thank you for shepherding me through something that was much harder to understand than I&#8217;m capable of. So thank you so much.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:44:49] <strong>Joshua Bryant:</strong> No, thank you. You ask great questions and I appreciate it.</p>\n</div></details>\n\n\n\n<p>So on the podcast today we have <a href=\"https://us.wordcamp.org/2025/speaker/josh-bryant/\">Joshua Bryant</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joshua works at Dow Jones, helping power some of the world’s largest publishing sites, including the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and MarketWatch, all on a WordPress multisite platform. 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