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September 9, 2026

WordPress MCP Adapter 0.6: Public Abilities On By Default

The WordPress MCP Adapter 0.6 line flips the default so abilities marked public are served over MCP, drops the standalone Abilities API plugin, and requires WordPress 6.9. Then 0.6.1 repairs a release ZIP that could fatal on a web request.

Devs & AI Tooling

Developer's desk at night with a code editor and browser window open, illustrating WebMCP WordPress Playground tool calls

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September 4, 2026

WebMCP WordPress Playground: Abilities as Browser Tools

Playground now supports WebMCP, the draft browser API that lets an AI agent call actions as tools. Registering an ability is not enough: a plugin has to wrap it in a WebMCP tool, and a proxy carries calls through the nested iframe.

Devs & AI Tooling

Open server rack at night with a glowing encrypted key module, illustrating where the WordPress Secrets API would store credentials

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August 26, 2026

WordPress Secrets API Lands as a 7.2 Proposal: Four Functions, No Off Switch

Eric Mann's proposal for a WordPress Secrets API would give core a first-class place to store credentials, with encryption that cannot be switched off. It ships as a feature plugin first, and it has known limits.

Devs & AI Tooling

Developer laptop showing a version picker and a grid of test sites, illustrating WordPress Playground running older releases.

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August 25, 2026

WordPress Playground Runs Any Era, Adds Site Manager API

The Playground team shipped older-version support back to WordPress 0.7, a multi-site interface, a handbook and a Site Manager API. Here is what developers get.

Devs & AI Tooling

Developer workstation at night with a terminal and code editor open during the PHP 8.6 beta release cycle

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August 14, 2026

PHP 8.6 Beta 1 Hits Feature Freeze: What Shipped

PHP 8.6 reached feature freeze with Beta 1 on 13 August 2026. Partial Function Application made it, mbregex is deprecated, and three session INI defaults flip before release candidates start in late September.

Devs & AI Tooling

Developer desk at night with monitors showing code, illustrating WordPress 7.1 RC1 testing before the final release

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August 5, 2026

WordPress 7.1 RC1 Ships With 145 Fixes and an SVG Icon API

WordPress 7.1 Release Candidate 1 shipped with more than 145 updates, a new SVG Icon API and the Field Guide. The final release lands 19 August, the closing day of WordCamp US.

Core & Releases

Server rack and laptop in a dim data centre, illustrating what the PHP 8.6 alpha means for WordPress hosts to test

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July 2, 2026

PHP 8.6 Alpha: Partial Function Application Lands

PHP 8.6 Alpha 1 is out with partial function application, clamp(), secure session defaults and two deprecations. The release cycle runs to 19 November, and hosts have a narrow window to test.

Devs & AI Tooling