How to Prepare Your Plugin or Theme for WordPress 7.0
A step-by-step compatibility process for shipping a WordPress 7.0-ready release — set up a test site, audit your blocks, fix the breaking changes, and ship with confidence.
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A step-by-step compatibility process for shipping a WordPress 7.0-ready release — set up a test site, audit your blocks, fix the breaking changes, and ship with confidence.
WordPress 7.0 enforces the iframed editor, broadens contentOnly mode, and drops PHP 7.3. Here are the breaking changes block and plugin developers must fix before users upgrade.
The headline feature of WordPress 7.0 is native AI in Core. Here is what the WP AI Client, the Abilities API, and the Connectors system actually mean for plugin developers.
PHP-only block registration, the Interactivity API's new watch() function, DataViews and DataForms, Block Bindings iterations — the new developer APIs in WordPress 7.0.
WordPress 7.0 overhauls wp-admin — a new Modern color scheme, view transitions, a command palette, a dedicated font library, and visual revisions. A tour of every dashboard change.
WordPress 7.0 adds block-level custom CSS, new Headings and Breadcrumbs blocks, a Gallery lightbox, and expanded dimensions controls. A tour of the new design tools.
Build a production-ready Astro frontend that consumes a WordPress backend via REST. Includes auth, ISR-like caching, and deploy-to-Cloudflare config.
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