It looks like WordPress 7.0 will be launching tons of great new features besides the previously explored AI integrations. I’ve collected quite a few of those features, and especially visual revisions have my attention!
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Let’s start with some WordPress 7.0 goodies that we’ll see in the upcoming latest and greatest:
- We finally have
in-editor visual revisions . Huge upgrade to what has always felt like a bare-bones solution. - The WordPress Dashboard is getting a
new coat of paint . If you’re a plugin or theme developer, now’s the time to start testing how your solutions look with the new paint. - WordPress 7.0 will drop support for
PHP 7.2 and 7.3 . This is fantastic for performance, but… at this rate we’ll hit PHP 8.0 as the minimum version with WordPress 8.0. 😓 - The
font library will be made available for classic themes , at last. This will allow basically anyone to serve their fonts locally instead of just Block Themes. Custom CSS for individual blocks . This is also a great addition.
And these features are, of course, on top of the AI goodies I mentioned in my previous newsletters. With Beta 3 released this week, we now have the
For full reference, the WP AI Client Connectors allow WordPress 7.0 to make AI integration dead simple with auto-detected providers,
- Pavel Ciorici from WP Zoom announced a plugin that does a lot;
go ahead and check it out , but the feature that stood out for me is when a user changes their email on your WordPress site, it’s difficult to find them by their original email. For instance, when it’s an order.
Something I learned recently for someone who purchased my
- Since WordPress 6.7, plugins can extend the editor’s Preview dropdown. Want to add your own custom preview experience?
Learn how to use PluginPreviewMenuItem to build a Social Card Preview that reflects unsaved edits in real time.
- If you still haven’t really looked at Telex, have
this article be your convincer . The examples given should certainly inspire you to try out your own blocks.
- We can bitch and moan about
PHP-only block registration only now being available, but we can also just go ahead and learn how to do this and spread the news!
- Balazs Piller tried to make AI image generation and editing feel like part of WordPress Core.
WP Banana is a free plugin that works everywhere: Gutenberg, Classic Editor, WooCommerce, Elementor, ACF, and more!
- Nick Hamze fulfilled a childhood dream of making a WordPress version of Clippy. I don’t know if the world was waiting for this to happen, but hey… why not give it a go?
Try Dewey .
- My friends over at Human Made published an interesting article I had missed:
WordPress: From CMS to agentic platform . Well worth a read.
- Now this is an article I implore every single one of you to read. My friend Jamie Marsland asks us this: “A
re We in WordPress Asking the Right Question? ” And he couldn’t be more right to ask this question.
Go on,
WordPress.org now serves Markdown output for AI Agents and Developers . Great summary by Rae Morey.
This is making a huge difference
- AI Experiments saw
an update to 0.4.0 . This version now allows you to generate images in the Editor, generate images in the Media Library, generate review notes, and lots of UI and Editor improvements.
- Brandon Dove wrote his own SEO plugin. That’s not special; there are plenty of folks who’ve done this over the years, but what is special is
his reasoning on why Yoast SEO or Rank Math was no longer a good option .
🚀 Performance & Security
- “Your website is slow because your organisation doesn’t understand the web. Not because performance is hard. Not because browsers are limited. But because you’ve lost control of your systems, culture, and vision” –
Jono Alderson .
HEAR, HEAR!!
- Save $60 on my
Make WordPress Fast course while it’s still in pre-launch. You only have 14 days left before I raise the price! - Most WordPress performance advice focuses on assets. Compress images, minify CSS, defer JavaScript, etc. You’ve seen them. And, those things matter, but they’re not the layer that ultimately decides whether your site scales. Headers do.
Some of my favorite WordPress tools:
- My two favorite forms for WordPress:
Gravity Forms and WS Form - These are the themes I use:
Ollie , Rockbase and GeneratePress - And, obviously,
Scanfully for all my Site Health & Performance monitoring
🔆 Within WordPress Highlight
So cool to see this mobile menu feature go from a proof of concept Mike McAlister made in just a week to a plugin that thousands of people love. And now,
💡 Interesting Finds
- In case you missed it, Cloudflare has
a new MCP server . Full API coverage, tiny context footprint. - Google introduced the
Google Workspace CLI : built for humans and agents. It accesses your Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and every Workspace API. Plus, 40+ agent skills are included. - Stanford and Harvard just published the most unsettling AI paper of the year. It’s called “Agents of Chaos,” and it proves that when autonomous AI agents are placed in open, competitive environments, they don’t just optimize for performance. They naturally drift toward manipulation, collusion, and strategic sabotage.
It’s a massive, systems-level warning .
🛒 WooCommerce News
- WooCommerce 10.5.3 includes an
important security patch for the Store API . Update ASAP, if you haven’t already. - WooCommerce 10.6 introduces a minimum per_page value of 1 for products StoreAPI endpoints. Developers using
per_page=0 will need to implement pagination instead. What’s coming for developers with 10.6 , which is currently scheduled for March 10, 2026. This new release includes numerous performance improvements, refines to Product Collections, Cart, and Checkout blocks, and updates experimental features.
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Soon you can share your reports with whomever. End clients, friends, haters, your choice. Very soon!
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
Best, Remkus
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