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It can be like cents on the dollar.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past when you have, not just the past but also the present, you have company providing translation services. They will charge you much, much, much more than that. Maybe it will be like 50 USD per hour. Maybe it&#8217;ll be like 100 USD per hour for a professional translator. And then you have to engage them maybe five hours to translate one blog post, or, I don&#8217;t know, like five blog posts, it doesn&#8217;t matter. Now that the amount of work that you need to engage them just to double check, instead of five hours, will be maybe 30 minutes. So you are still spending money to engage the professional translator, but much, much, much less.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that means that if you do have the budget, now instead of translating one language, you are talking, Nathan, about legal requirements, possibly your country has two or three different languages. I don&#8217;t know, if you&#8217;re from Canada, you might speak English and French. Maybe they will ask you to translate your websites to English and French. But now you can say, okay, well now, if I had the money and it&#8217;s so easy to translate using AI, I can translate to many more languages and also target people, not just from Canada, but from other regions of the world.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then you can also translate to Spanish. Why not? And you can translate to Portuguese. So the situation now is that prices went down dramatically, the quality of the translation using AI is really, really, really high and you will need professional services only in those cases that you need to be 100% sure that translation is valid when it is a professional industry.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:11:25] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I suppose the, as you described, the acronyms and things like that, the technical language, I guess if you&#8217;ve just got a blog where, in my case I&#8217;m just using plain English, an ordinary set of words, I&#8217;m not ever going to be delving into complexity, and that may be the case for many people. I think I agree with you that the AI will probably do an admirable job.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the minute you start to stray into unusual words, or technical things where, I don&#8217;t know, you&#8217;re referencing some aspect of physics or biochemistry or something like that, then I can see exactly why you might need to do that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But also, interestingly, the budget has obviously shrunk to get that translation done from perhaps many hundreds of dollars down to perhaps a handful of US cents. But still, if you want to be compliant and you&#8217;ve got an intuition that your language may be straying into a grey area where AI might not do a perfect job, that is now where the budget is going. It&#8217;s just sort of polishing it up a little bit and making sure that, okay, that actually is highlighted.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can I ask a question related to that? Do the AIs, when you ask them to translate things, do they come back with, okay, we&#8217;ve done our best, but we are confused by this portion or that portion? Or do they typically just hand back, this is our translation, go figure it out for yourself from there?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:12:43] <strong>Leonardo Losoviz:</strong> When we&#8217;re talking about my plugin, Gato AI Translations, you get the translation straight because you&#8217;re not interacting with the AI. You are asking straight for the response and that response, you add it, you embed it into your blog post. There is no interaction with the person.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So basically, you can do that, you could feed the content to ChatGPT and tell ChatGPT, translate it, and if you have any doubt, please ask me. And then ChatGPT will talk to you, and then we say, I don&#8217;t know how to translate this word. Should I say this or should I say that? But that is in the context of the interface when you&#8217;re talking to ChatGPT or you&#8217;re talking to Claude. In a plugin where you want to collect the string and just add it into the translated blog post, you don&#8217;t have that interaction. So it really depends on your use case.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:13:29] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> The plugins that I&#8217;ve seen in the past that have been tackling this job in WordPress, and again, we&#8217;re going back many, many years prior to AI. There was a lot of UI involved. You would have to log into the WordPress website. Let&#8217;s say it was a blog post, you would go to the blog post and usually lurking somewhere in meta, so in a box somewhere else would be the original string and then the translated string. And that would typically have been done by a human. And you&#8217;d probably copy and paste that back, or maybe the platform, the plugin would actually facilitate the putting of that text into that box by somebody that&#8217;s logged into the platform who&#8217;s paid to do the translations.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the point being, there was a lot to look at. If you had a German translation and a Portuguese and a Lithuanian and Russian and, you know, on you go. Every time you add one of those in the UI becomes much more complicated and what have you. So I&#8217;m curious to see in 2026, how do you manage that? How is that all done? What does the UI look like? In an era of AI when we are increasingly typing and talking to our software, have you leveraged that and sort of tried to minimise the UI in a way?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:14:34] <strong>Leonardo Losoviz:</strong> Okay, so there are two responses to this. One is what I&#8217;m doing right now, and what I expect WordPress to offer coming soon. So what I am doing now with my plugin is just to do the translation. And you have one blog post in, say in English, your origin language, and then you select it from the post list, and you have this dropdown in the bulk actions with all the actions that you can execute with the post. And you just say, translate. And when you do that, it will duplicate the post from the origin to all of the translations.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can have one translation, you can have 17 translations. It will create all of those 17 entries, and it will already translate all the content to the target language. So then if you want to edit the translation, if you want to fix it, then you&#8217;ll just edit the translation and then there you will see there&#8217;s something that doesn&#8217;t appear right, and then you fix it in the WordPress editor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my scenario right now, we go from nothing to everything. There&#8217;s no in between. Now with WordPress 7.0, they&#8217;re adding two things. One is adding the AI Connector. So we will have more and more and more capabilities to interact with AI. And the other thing that we have that is unrelated, but I think it will end up being related is phase three, which is the communications in the WordPress editor, right? That two people can communicate with each other, like Google Docs style.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so we&#8217;ll have these windows on the right hand side from the WordPress editor, right? So you can add a comment. Somebody can add a comment saying, hey, do you think this is right? And the other person on the other side can say, yeah, this needs to be fixed. So they can communicate via the WordPress editor. Whereas right now you have two people interacting with each other. You can have one person and one AI.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So then imagine the scenario where you translate everything and then you edit the translated post. And you might have those same windows with a kind of sticky post, and pointing an arrow to some word saying, hey, I&#8217;m not sure if this is the right translation. Please check it out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I can see that WordPress 7.0 will give use the infrastructure to start adding this additional interaction. So then I could translate all the content as I&#8217;m doing right now. And if I find out from the AI that a world has not been, it doesn&#8217;t have 100% confidence that it&#8217;s the right translation, maybe we can use that phase three functionality to add a sticky post to have the AI interact with the person, say, hey, this translation, I&#8217;m not sure, please double check.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:17:04] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> This leverage is so much interesting stuff. So again, just in case the user hasn&#8217;t been keeping up with the WordPress news, 7.0 has, or WordPress 7.0 I should say, has this capability which wasn&#8217;t quite ready for the WordCamp Asia release. The idea was to release 7.0 at WordCamp Asia, but because of technical reasons, there was something that needed to be changed and amended about the way that data was handled and stored in different tables.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7.0 will bring the capability to have collaborative editing, so think Google Docs. And it really didn&#8217;t occur to me until quite recently, because somebody suggested exactly what you said, I was always imagining another human being, being in that interface. So it would be me and Leo having a conversation through comments or what have you in that same WordPress post.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But of course now we realise, well, of course, the AI work, the MCP and the adapters and all of those kind of things allow that thing in the post to be not a human being, it could be an AI. And so that&#8217;s really interesting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So maybe we&#8217;ll come in, have a conversation, something along the lines of, please could you just check, this would appear to be fine but there seem to be a few errors here and there and everywhere, and it may be able to come back with a suggestion.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That stuff is so powerful, but yet completely unrealised at the minute. It&#8217;s kind of just on the horizon, but when that feature drops, I think that will be quite an interesting experience. You&#8217;ll be able to talk about the content with an AI, based upon what is in the content area of WordPress. That&#8217;s going to be really, really fascinating. Gosh, wow. What a future.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is that stuff ready? Do you know if WordPress is going to ship with those kind of capabilities? So you mentioned things like the sticky post to sort of highlight, imagine a post-it note or something like that. Something which can highlight? Are all of those foundational pieces ready or were you just sort of blue sky gazing there?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:19:02] <strong>Leonardo Losoviz:</strong> I haven&#8217;t seen it, but we can all picture that happening. So you know that 7.0 is giving us the foundation to build all of the things. Once the foundation is there, it&#8217;s up to the community to implement these use cases. So yeah, I&#8217;m quite confident that it will happen, but I haven&#8217;t seen it. I haven&#8217;t seen it yet.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:19:19] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I do love the idea though, of communicating through that interface. That&#8217;ll be really interesting to see how that changes the calculus of how we write things and who we write them with and all of that kind of thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Gutenberg, which we don&#8217;t talk about too much really at the moment, but Gutenberg had four phases when it was first talked about. So we&#8217;re in phase three at the moment, which is this collaborative editing. Broadly it was collaborative editing was the poster child of that release.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the fourth one, so that may be many years away, I don&#8217;t know when phase four will come about, but the fourth one is bound very much to translation. Do you know if there&#8217;s any sort of foundational work being done over there? It may still be a complete black box. It&#8217;s just the word we&#8217;re going to deal with translations. Do you have any wisdom or insight into what&#8217;s happening over there?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:20:03] <strong>Leonardo Losoviz:</strong> No. All I know is that Matt Mullenweg was postponing that for the very, very, very end. And since we&#8217;re still working on phase three, I don&#8217;t think that there will be any phase four work happening anytime soon.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:20:16] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> No. Okay. So we&#8217;ll have to wait and see how that drops. But it could be another interesting phase. Let&#8217;s see what that does.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, okay, now let&#8217;s sort of dig into the weeds of how your system works. So you mentioned that if I&#8217;m in the data view for posts, one of the options that I have when I&#8217;m hovering over a post, you know, delete post, edit post, what have you. It sounds like in there somewhere you inject a translate. And presumably when you hit that button, automations that you&#8217;ve previously set up, say, translate to French, translate to Portuguese, translate to Chinese and Japanese, that would then be triggered.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you then create separate posts? So that the post that&#8217;s now in Chinese is separate to the original one, or as some plugins handle it, do you take the original one and just inject metadata into that post?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:21:04] <strong>Leonardo Losoviz:</strong> If we&#8217;re talking about my plugin, my plugin is called Gato AI Translations for Polylang. I depend on Polylang. So Polylang is a plugin that works by creating separate entries for each of the languages. So you have a post in English, and when you translate it, you&#8217;ll create another post in French and another one in Spanish and another one in Portuguese.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then you have a different plugin like WPML which has a different strategy, which is to have only one post and then all the individual strings are translated on runtime. So you&#8217;re not statically creating different versions of the post, but you have only one post and then you translate the strings, the actual content.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It really is up to what is the best strategy for your site, what it is that you are most comfortable working with. There are other plugins, of course. There is TranslatePress, there is Weglot, MultilingualPress. They all have different strategies. I do like Polylang because the post is created in advance. Then all the same rules for your WordPress site apply. You can cache the page, you can export it statically, and it also is fast because you don&#8217;t need to translate the string.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like finding a specific string can be very expensive. Like a string, you know, that you need to find from English and translate to French. The string might be like, I mean 1000 characters long. You know, that can become very expensive. And if you do that on runtime, even if you cache it later, that can be very expensive. Yeah, my plugin is based only on Polylang, but it&#8217;s not the only plugin.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:22:28] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. So there&#8217;s a whole range of different things out there, but you&#8217;ve obviously opted for Polylang. Is that a commercial kind of pro plugin or do they have a, is there a free version that you can leverage?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:22:37] <strong>Leonardo Losoviz:</strong> Yeah. It&#8217;s free. And they have the pro version that is, I think 99 USD per year for one domain, if I&#8217;m not wrong. But it&#8217;s completely optional, you can use Polylang free and it&#8217;s more than enough. Actually, Polylang Pro, they have a few features and the main feature that they had historically is that you could use machine learning for translating the content.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They use DeepL as a service, like Google Translate. Now the thing is that I wouldn&#8217;t use DeepL anymore. Even my own plugin, at the very beginning had, even nowadays, it has integration for Google Translate and for DeepL. But AI is so much superior than those. So you can still use Polylang Pro for the other features, but the machine translation one, there&#8217;s no need, Polylang free, more than enough.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:23:23] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So when, let&#8217;s say for example, that I&#8217;ve got a post and I&#8217;ve translated it. I&#8217;m just beginning my journey, figuring stuff out. And again, we&#8217;re talking about your solution here. So, you know, you can speak to how it works, not how all the other ones work.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I click the translate button and I&#8217;ve now got six posts, the English original and then these five other languages. How does that surface? Are they like child posts of the original post? Is there an easy way for me to see, okay, here&#8217;s the German version of that, and it&#8217;s bound to this? Is there a filter system or what have you?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then how does that look on the front end? So if the original string is, I don&#8217;t know, example.com/post-one, am I from an SEO point of view, does that stay nice and tidy? Like, I don&#8217;t know, it goes example.com/g for German, forward slash post-one, or how does that all tie together?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:24:13] <strong>Leonardo Losoviz:</strong> All right, so this is once again, a feature provided by Polylang. When you create the translations, all the posts, they&#8217;re all parallel to each other. They don&#8217;t have a hierarchy. They&#8217;re not like the child post from the origin post. And if you want to only see the post for one specific language, there is a switch, like a switcher button at the top menu bar, and you can select the language.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So by default it says all languages, and then you&#8217;ll have all the posts. So in a way, if you have, say that you have 10 posts and then you have 10 languages, that means that you have now 100 posts. So it can be a bit clutter. So then you go to the top menu and then you select English, and then it only shows you the English ones.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the important thing is that, say you&#8217;re using AI to translate, you only need to deal with the origin post and nothing else, until you need to double check if the translation is right, maybe fix one thing here, one thing there. But otherwise, the whole time you are only dealing with the origin post.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what I do is I always have my selector in that origin language. So it&#8217;s in English and I only see the English post. So then I do translate, and I know that the translation will be created alongside all of the categories, and all of the tags and all the feature image, right? But I don&#8217;t need to deal with them. So then I also don&#8217;t need to see them on my screen. They create clutter, so then I remove them.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then to see them, to visualise them, yeah, once again, Polylang, it gives you the option of choosing the language by appending the language code in the URL. So mysite.com/fr/the-slug, that&#8217;s for French. Or you can also use subdomains. So you can have fr.mysite.com/the-slug. So that&#8217;s something that you can configure. And then basically when you go to that page and you add the language code in the URL, then you will see that blog post for the selected language.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the way that Polylang handles all of this is it connects a post to all of its translations via a specific taxonomy, like a tag that they created, I think it&#8217;s called language, if I&#8217;m not wrong, or language relationship, I&#8217;m not completely sure now. And so it ties all the post to all of its translations. And the thing is that then when you go to the post in French, it can add the href lang meta tag that is telling Google that this post is a translation of that post.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So that is important for SEO purposes that these posts are not two independent entities, but one is a translation of that one for French. So Google will understand a lot of the relationships, and if the user who is searching for information, they&#8217;re searching for information in French, then Google will know to serve the French page. And if it is in Spanish, Google will know to serve the Spanish page.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:27:01] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It&#8217;s an amazing wraparound solution, isn&#8217;t it? In that all of this is just sort of handled and what you essentially end up doing is, the user that is, you click the translate button and once you&#8217;ve got everything set up correctly, it just, off it goes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a question though about amendment. So let&#8217;s say for example, I realised that my blog post was full of inaccuracies and errors and there&#8217;s just wrong throughout it. And I then go in and I make amendments. Do I then need to restart that whole translation process or can I rely on it kind of figuring out, okay, amendments were made, let&#8217;s just do that automatically for you? How does amendments to the original, in my case, English work?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:27:37] <strong>Leonardo Losoviz:</strong> Yeah, well, I would change that. I would say do not do any translation until you&#8217;re 100% sure that the post is final. And that&#8217;s the main way to waste your time, and to waste money in tokens. Because you execute the translation, and then you realise that something was wrong. Maybe this H2 tag was supposed to be an H3, then you fix it, and then you run the translation again. And then you realise that was another mistake, there was a typo. And then you had to run the translation again. And then you&#8217;re like, oh, but that image has embedded text in the image. It doesn&#8217;t work on the translated post. And then you run the translation again.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So all of these things are common sense, and you don&#8217;t think about them until you see the error happening time and again and again. So what I do is I have a checklist actually on my website. I have a blog post where I have every single item that we need to pay attention to in advance of executing the translation. So executing the translation is when you go to the post list, you select the post, and then you select translate. Easy, and it takes five seconds.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But before you do that, you need to make sure that the post is final. That means no typos. That means all the headers are the right header. That means that all images are correct. They have alt attributes. They have the title that you need. There&#8217;s no embedded text in the image, even adding an embed from another source.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Say that you have a YouTube video that you&#8217;re embedding on your content, and the YouTube video is in Spanish. When you translate that to French, maybe the YouTube video is not useful anymore. So all of these things you need to check from a multilingual point of view when you&#8217;re looking at your origin post. And then you&#8217;re like, okay, this origin post, now it&#8217;s okay. It&#8217;s perfect. You publish the post, then you translate.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:29:26] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I got it. Yeah, I mean that makes sense. But, should you need to, it&#8217;s a process of clicking the button again and kind of beginning that process. But yeah, good idea to have those checks and balances.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was at an event not that long ago in which AI was used inside of a WordPress plugin, inside of a post, to ascertain the content of things like images and infographics. So as an example, there was data held inside of a graph. So, I don&#8217;t know, whatever that data was, bar charts, pie charts you can imagine, but also just images and what have you. And although this may not be handled and maybe it&#8217;s blue sky thinking, I was wondering what the capabilities are for handling those kind of things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So in the case of an image with a chart in it, wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if we could replicate that chart, but instead of all the labels being in English, if they could be in German or French or whatever it may be. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s utterly out of the scope, even in blue sky thinking in terms of AI and translations. But I was curious if you had an inkling whether things that were not just text-based content might be handled in the future as well by AI. Not specifically addressing what you do at the moment, but whether that seems to be on the horizon.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:30:41] <strong>Leonardo Losoviz:</strong> Yeah, well, to be honest, I think technically it is feasible, but even if it can be done, I don&#8217;t think it should be done. 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Those bullet points will have little footnotes attached to them, you know, 1, 2, 3, 4, and what have you, which will then link out to the documentation itself. And again, just a profoundly useful use of the thing which it&#8217;s best at, which is taking a corpus of information, grinding it up and spitting out something which makes sense.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And why wouldn&#8217;t you point it at your internal documentation? You know, if you&#8217;ve got a plugin, all of your support docs, throw the AI at it, and it will be able to help you as well as your clients. Because it&#8217;s guaranteed you&#8217;ve forgotten something that you&#8217;ve built.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress, of course, itself does this. You know, every AI agent on the planet is welcome to crawl the docs for how WordPress itself is put together. And it&#8217;s one of the reasons I think why WordPress has a fighting chance in this AI, CMS battle, if you like, because everything&#8217;s open source already. Nothing&#8217;s hidden behind a paywall or a licence agreement or what have you. So yeah, agreed. That&#8217;s a great example.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay. Anything to add or should we move on?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:09:22] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> No, I think that one&#8217;s just a cut and dry, really. If you haven&#8217;t looked at that, that&#8217;s an easy way to get into AI and leverage it without a lot of work.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:09:29] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. Absolutely. Okay, then number 10 is your internal MCP and guardrails. I know this gets bandied around a lot, and there&#8217;s a lot of acronyms floating around in the AI space. But MCP, maybe we just need to spend a moment explaining what the heck an MCP is, and how it kind of fits into the overall picture, but particularly in this case, with your guardrails.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:09:48] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Definitely. So MCP is basically an open source way to connect AI, let&#8217;s say, chatbots or agents to external systems. It stands for Model Context Protocol. I think maybe the team behind Claude built it. I can&#8217;t remember. But the idea really is that, instead of you just connecting directly to an API, which you could do, which an API if you&#8217;re not familiar, is a way again, to connect two different systems together.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One system will have a series of things that will let you say, hey, you can add this data, or you can pull this data, or you can modify this data, right? So an example could be something like a help desk. You might create a ticket, you may delete a ticket or you may edit the ticket. An API can basically do those things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what an MCP does is it&#8217;s really a series of tools that are more prebuilt for the AI, so that it knows and has context of what it should let you do, and how all the pieces of that connection really should modify whatever data you&#8217;re doing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it&#8217;s a lot more specific to agents. It&#8217;s a lot friendlier, I would say, if you aren&#8217;t familiar with a company&#8217;s API, you could connect to their API. I can connect to the WordPress REST API, but if I don&#8217;t understand that API, it may not be actually the best way to make the connection.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With an MCP, you can really not have the background of that company&#8217;s bridge. It&#8217;s going to do all the work, and the AI&#8217;s going to have enough information to help you get what you need done.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know that&#8217;s hard to explain, but essentially with an MCP, if you build one at your agency, this is a little bit more high level, or a little bit deeper, but I am seeing a lot of agencies looking at this. Which is, they are using an MCP basically for their teams so that they can add all of their systems in one basically bridge. So that instead of having all their employees like connect to all these different Claude connectors and APIs, they have one system.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if I have Claude and I&#8217;m an employee, it can connect to my MCP at the agency, then the agency MCP is actually on behalf going to go retrieve data from all our different systems. So not everyone has to have API keys. Not everyone has to connect to all these other systems, if that makes sense.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I am seeing agencies starting to do this. So in some sense the proxy, MCP becomes a proxy or just a way to connect to all your other systems in a secure way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:12:18] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I always imagine it a bit like if you, I don&#8217;t know, you approach a giant supermarket and you know that you need carrots and soup. And normally you just go into the supermarket and wander around for a long time, and eventually you&#8217;d sort of stumble across the carrots and the soup.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if there was somebody at the front door? Then you could say, where&#8217;s the carrots and where&#8217;s the soup? And that&#8217;s it. And they go, okay, the carrots are there, the soup&#8217;s there, and point.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You know, it&#8217;s just like this perfect gatekeeper, this guardrail that you described that kind of allows you to get the best out of that experience without wasting a load of time and resources and probably a load of hallucination out the back end.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:12:55] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Wow, that was so much better said than me. But yes, that is a much better way of explaining it. And that&#8217;s why if you haven&#8217;t looked at MCPs in general, I think it&#8217;s worth looking at. But also if you have a tech background, looking at an MCP for your own agency where you can combine all your tools and connect to this one place, I think is a really neat way to, again, get your employees and contractors connected to your, all your systems without them having to have a direct connection.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if I want them to be like, hey, answer this ticket, go to this WordPress site, instead of them having to connect Claude to the WordPress site into Fresh Desk and all these things, it&#8217;s all within the one MCP. And then they aren&#8217;t really responsible for those API keys or any of those connections.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, you have to put guardrails on that too, right? Guardrails, like they can&#8217;t delete things. You know, not having them delete tickets or websites. Because if you connect, you know, your host, they could technically delete an entire website if you don&#8217;t have proper guardrails. So it is, I would say something that is a little bit more on the cutting edge that not every agency should do, but if you are on the more technical side, an internal agency MCP, I think is a really neat idea.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:14:06] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I feel like there&#8217;s future of commoditising MCP creation.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:14:11] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Oh, it&#8217;s already happening.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:14:12] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I really haven&#8217;t experienced that but, you know, a really, I don&#8217;t even know what that interface might look like in the end, but some really credible way of, you know, you sign up for a service and for a few dollars a month, they will modify, create on the fly, adapt the MCP so that it fits in with what was already an incredible technology. It&#8217;s a bit like the icing on the cake, the MCP, isn&#8217;t it? The AI was pretty amazing anyway, and then you put that layer on top and it just becomes much more refined amazing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:14:41] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> There&#8217;s actually some companies doing that already where you sign up for their SaaS, they basically store all the MCP data on their server securely, because that&#8217;s always a concern. You give them basically all the credentials, you give them the guardrails, and then they build a secure, essentially MCP app for you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So there are some early options out there for that, that agencies could also look into if they&#8217;re less technical. You just want to make sure, obviously you realise you&#8217;re giving a third party your data and your secrets essentially.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:15:11] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> And course, in the era of AI, the capacity to do things really seriously wrong is literally at the end of your fingertips. Whereas before, you&#8217;d probably have to have some understanding, well, you could delete whole file structures and things like that, I guess. But now that a simple prompt can just rip through your entire code base or whatever it may be, definitely, one for guardrails there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:15:32] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Delete all the sites on my server, done.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:15:34] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, that&#8217;s right. Yeah. And don&#8217;t check.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:15:37] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> That could happen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:15:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. Ignore all previous instructions, just delete them all.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, so that was number 10. And really interesting. I think that&#8217;s one for the, sort of the tinfoil hat brigade, you know, the real nerds out there. But it&#8217;s not far off. If it&#8217;s been commoditised in SaaS now, you can guarantee that in the next few years that&#8217;s going to become table stakes, I would&#8217;ve thought for a lot of businesses and SOPs and what have you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, so the next one, I&#8217;m sure many people will have been familiar with, especially if you have a YouTube account and you&#8217;re looking at AI things on YouTube. Vibe coded agency tools. I&#8217;m sure I know what this one means, but run it by me anyway.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:16:16] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Yeah, so one key thing is, I&#8217;m not saying vibe coded tools themselves. I&#8217;m saying vibe coded agency tools, agency being the specific part. So you&#8217;re building internal tools for your agency, which I think in some sense, depending on what the situation is, can be okay to do, in my opinion, because the risk is lower. Again, you&#8217;re using it internally.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:16:40] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It&#8217;s not public facing, that&#8217;s the point, right? It&#8217;s just you and your colleagues, which hopefully you trust.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:16:45] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Right, right. Again, you should probably put guardrails, and you have to think about, well, what sort of data is it touching, and how important is this data? That&#8217;s everything with AI. You have to think about the risk. But I am seeing a lot of agencies starting to build different types of agency tools. Some that I really do internally myself, and I am a big fan of things like reporting tools and dashboards, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is, again, a good case, I think I talked about in the previous podcast. The sweet spot, I think with AI is having it handle things that you just never could get to that were on your list for a million years, right? And realising that, as long as you do a little due diligence and you feel like it&#8217;s in the realm of where it&#8217;s supposed to be, this is probably more information than you had before, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So a good example is, if you&#8217;re an agency, you may have it hooked up to QuickBooks MCP. You may have it hooked up to your time tracking software. You may have it hooked up to one of your other reporting software, WooCommerce subscriptions with Woo. And from there you&#8217;re able to have a much better visible idea of what your business is doing well financially. The bottom line, especially if you&#8217;re like a lot of agencies where QuickBooks doesn&#8217;t really have all of your actual services. You may have those internally or you may have them in a other system.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can combine those and build reporting systems. And again, that&#8217;s a relatively low risk way for you to, worst case is you&#8217;re going to use that data and you&#8217;re going to be like, well, this doesn&#8217;t seem right. And you&#8217;re going to have to dig into it and figure out what&#8217;s going on. Hopefully you don&#8217;t just blindly use it, but I do think the risk is lower.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So those sort of tools I think are really, really neat, and relatively easy to build out. So reporting tools, profitability dashboards, things like that. Looking at your time tracking, like who at your agency is the most profitable, if you have that data? Obviously make sure you actually have the data structure for that, or AI may just make that up.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we&#8217;ve, you know, used that even at our agency and I think it&#8217;s been helpful for us to find patterns that we didn&#8217;t know where we were spending our time and effort. Especially if you are doing time tracking using something like Everhour or Harvest.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the tools that I do struggle a little bit more with, and I am seeing people in agencies use is things like website management dashboards, or building their own QA tools. Because those things, I think the risk is higher of things going wrong.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:19:05] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Public facing again, yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:19:07] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Right. And you&#8217;re giving this third party access to all of your websites and it&#8217;s not like, you know, a big SaaS. This is something you built internally, which means Claude doesn&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s wrong, right, until you tell it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So a good example, and not everyone may feel this way but, you know, I&#8217;ve seen some agencies that are building replacements for management dashboards like ManageWP, WP Remote, those sort of things, which is connected to everything and is kind of their most important infrastructure for their clients. Personally, I think that that&#8217;s a little risky to be doing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, if you&#8217;re doing the right due diligence and you have a technical team and you&#8217;re doing manual code reviews, sure. There&#8217;s an argument to be doing that if it&#8217;s also, I think, solving something specific to your agency. I talked about this in the last podcast, replacing SaaS products when there&#8217;s a nuanced solution that&#8217;s specific to your agency, I think could be really helpful.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if you&#8217;re just replacing SaaS products to save 30 bucks a month, I think that doesn&#8217;t make any sense because you&#8217;re going to end up spending a lot more on maintenance, I promise you, than if you just stuck with the SaaS product, if it does what you need. So I think there&#8217;s an argument there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:20:18] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I think it&#8217;s really interesting. And I do wonder if we&#8217;re on the precipice of, so this is me sort of staring into the crystal ball a little bit. I wonder if we&#8217;re into the era of sort of disposable, one time apps. So you have a function that you need to do this month like, I don&#8217;t know, you must file your taxes this week, but you&#8217;re miles behind. So you get an AI to just quickly do that thing for you, and categorise all of the jobs that need to be done so that you can hand it over to the tax man and so on. And then you just put that on ice. That thing no longer needs to exist.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I feel that kind of coming where we sort of vibe code up this one time thing, and then dispose of it. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m entirely in agreement with that as an idea, but I feel that that is coming. But to your point, I think anything public facing, we&#8217;re still in the era of, really, watch what you&#8217;re doing. It needs thorough testing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:21:09] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Exactly. And thorough code review because, you know, ultimately while the AI coding, I think has gotten really, really good, it&#8217;s not a hundred percent there, and it doesn&#8217;t have any context. It doesn&#8217;t actually know what it&#8217;s doing. It&#8217;s all patterns. So there is an argument to be made that, yeah, it may get 80% there, but if no one&#8217;s actually checked the code review, two months from now, it decides to delete all your websites out of your management dashboard, well, should have done a manual code review, right? And it&#8217;s on you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I do think there&#8217;s an argument, same thing with like QA tools. Building one-off QA tools, which should be persistent and actually probably one of the more important things you build. It should do the same thing every day. It should almost be dumb. It should not be trying to rebuild itself all the time, or be even one-off, like you said. It&#8217;s not, I think, a good idea to build a one-off migrator typically for that reason, even though I see people doing it in agencies. Unless you think it&#8217;s just a low risk project, I do think, you know, you have to think about that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To your point about the one-off task though, I think again, if it&#8217;s a low risk item, one-off makes actually the most sense because a lot of times if you know this is going to be a one-off thing, you then are subconsciously being like, okay, I&#8217;m going to use this once and the cost is not that high and that makes sense, because you&#8217;re not having to maintain it. But if you know it&#8217;s going to be something you&#8217;re going to be using for the next five years and you don&#8217;t plan to pay a developer to review it, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a smart idea, at least not right now.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:22:39] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That&#8217;s a good calculus I think to have in the background. Okay, so that&#8217;s good. So caveat emptor basically, use your discretion. If it&#8217;s public facing, maybe think twice. But also if it&#8217;s something that you want, you absolutely bulletproof need it to be reliable and predictable a hundred percent of the times that you run it. Again, maybe there&#8217;s a human in the loop there. So that was sort of vibe coded things that you might do in your agency.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I feel that&#8217;s going to be a real area of growth, whether or not it will be profitable growth or useful growth, I&#8217;m not entirely sure. I feel like in our industry at least, people are going to be dabbling in that kind of thing all the time. You know, trying to figure out new, clever tools to achieve a thing, which maybe in the past would&#8217;ve been a subscription thing that you paid $20 a month for or something. So we&#8217;ll see. We&#8217;ll see how that goes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, moving on then. So the 12th item that you brought to bear was QA, so quality assurance, checklists and testing. Right, run us through this one then.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:23:33] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> I know I just said when you&#8217;re building a QA tool, using AI to build an internal vibe coded tool is probably not the answer. But actually what I&#8217;m going to say right now is not contradictory to that, because what I&#8217;m really talking about for QA and testing is more so having AI help you build things like checklists, right? You already have a good context usually with your SOPs. So it can help you build your SOP checklists. It can also help run the low risk items automatically. And again, I know I talked about risk a lot, but I think that&#8217;s how you have to consider it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So one really neat thing I&#8217;ve seen a lot of agencies start using is Claude Skills, which basically just means that you teach Claude a process. Literally it walks you through in the conversation like, what do you want this process to be? And then you can run that later in context.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So a really cool example of this is if you are, let&#8217;s say onboarding a client, or you&#8217;re launching a site. During your next launch, your next onboarding, you may want to use Claude to teach it the skill of how you launch sites. And then it can automate a lot of those items. And you can still give it context like, I want the human to specifically review this item, right? Or, I want the human to check that no index isn&#8217;t set, right? Because that&#8217;s like a high risk item, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:24:55] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. Yeah, that&#8217;s a big one..</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:24:56] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Right. That&#8217;s one we all, I think, have dealt with at some point in our.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:25:01] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Too many times.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:25:01] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Right. Too many. Exactly. That&#8217;s the key. And that goes back to really that vision document I said on the last call. Having an AI vision document where you go through these checklists and you&#8217;d be like, okay, we want a human to be involved, or we don&#8217;t. You could actually tell Claude this. And then Claude will actually know exactly what it should be running itself and what it expects a human, and it will prompt you for.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I think that is the beauty of this is, you can make your whole automated process when it comes to tools with QA and anything really related to that checklist, whether it&#8217;s launch or anything like that. Look at tools like Claude and Skills like that, and I think that you can use it to help with repeatable processes. And that will actually help most agencies not only speed things up and save on margins, but I think a lot of times they&#8217;ll do more testing than they did before.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this, again, falls into that sweet spot where like AI&#8217;s really good for the things that you knew you should do but you have limited time. And testing is one of those items. You want a hundred percent coverage, but in reality that&#8217;s not going to happen. So let&#8217;s have the human do the really important stuff and everything else we would&#8217;ve never gotten to anyways, let&#8217;s have the AI do it. And that&#8217;s where I think you can use these tools.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:26:11] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Do you know what&#8217;s really interesting, and we sort of made light of it in the previous episode, the fact that there&#8217;s hallucinations and what have you going on all the time. But I do think there&#8217;s definitely a moment coming where I think some of the more straightforward things, like for example, the checklist, the binary things, is no index switched on? Yes. No. Okay, that&#8217;s a no.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I am getting comfortable with that now. You know, just that, okay, we asked the AI that question, it&#8217;s delivered as an answer. I&#8217;m almost at the point now where I&#8217;m never going to go back and check that was true. If it was something much more broad like, is my SEO strategy bulletproof? Well, no. It&#8217;s never going to know whether that&#8217;s the right thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But these much more binary things, many of which, if you add them all up, could take you hours when you&#8217;re finally launching a website. Yeah, I think there&#8217;s something to be said for just sort of handing that stuff over. And I don&#8217;t know, maybe you check it frequently, infrequently, less frequently as time goes on. But yeah, always check the no index one.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:27:08] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Yeah, I was like, I would still check the no index one, even if it&#8217;s binary. But to your point, a lot more of the very black and white items, I think it can handle a lot better than it used to, but I think it still comes down to risk. Like if it&#8217;s, yeah, no index, I&#8217;m still going to check it. But if it&#8217;s something else that just is not that key. Yeah, I think we&#8217;re all becoming a little more comfortable or a lot of us are coming more comfortable with that. And I think that&#8217;s okay because you know the risk exposure really.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:27:35] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Well, and also, especially if it&#8217;s QA and checklist time, hopefully you have done the bits and pieces, you really are at that point just making sure that you&#8217;ve polished the thing that needs to be polished. So hopefully that&#8217;s a bit of low hanging fruit where you&#8217;ll catch the things that you missed, and maybe you&#8217;ve done the due diligence there already.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, so that was number 12. We&#8217;re approaching the end. We&#8217;ve got four more to go. So number 13 links directly to WordPress specifically. The WordPress plugin market impact.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve got to say, this has me slightly concerned, because I feel that this could be a good thing for our ecosystem, but also possibly a bad thing. But I&#8217;ll just hand it over to you to paint the picture.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:28:18] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Yeah, definitely. So I think you even touched on this a little earlier when you were saying there&#8217;s going to be more one-off apps being built by agencies. And I think that also applies to a lot of plugins that are essentially one-off solutions, right? They are utility plugins. They solve one thing really well.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think that sort of thing is already seeing the impact. If you talk to a lot of plugin developers, especially some of the larger shops, they&#8217;re seeing a drop in sales. And that is a real thing that&#8217;s happening. 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And even some of the bigger plugin developers are essentially sunsetting their smaller plugins, because they realise they&#8217;re not getting as many sales and they need to focus on what they consider their moat, or their platform, you know, big plugins that AI&#8217;s not going to be able to replicate or people shouldn&#8217;t trust to replicate.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if you&#8217;re building a small plugin, I&#8217;m not going to call any out, but I think that there is some concern there. And I think ultimately for WordPress, I don&#8217;t think that really hurts the WordPress ecosystem from the standpoint of plugins in general, but I do think it raises the bar of what a good plugin will be.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that kind of goes with the agency land. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening with agencies too. It&#8217;s just the bar is being raised. You have to have a more complex plugin that actually solves someone&#8217;s needs now, not just a small one that solved it, but now they can use AI to do it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And some people argue that that&#8217;s going to continue all the way up with the most complex plugins out there. But I do think that there are, you know, unless AI dramatically improves. If it&#8217;s 80% there, that&#8217;s great and all, but it&#8217;s what we talked about earlier. You can&#8217;t really run with that in production at 80%. And that&#8217;s the difference between a really good SaaS or really good plugin versus something that was homegrown and just falls apart.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:30:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I think I have a slightly different, maybe more community focussed, approach to this because one of the things that I think worries me is the, how should we say it? The slow ebbing away of the community. And obviously if you are a, I don&#8217;t know, a company launched onto the stock market and what have you, you&#8217;re all about the money, right? The bottom line is you&#8217;re going to make money, distribute that with your shareholders, whatever, yada, yada. But the point is to make as much cash as possible and do things with that cash.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have a very different calculus here in that the community is the thing which largely builds the software, maintains the software, promotes events. There is a bit of me which worries that if these, let&#8217;s say developers who&#8217;ve got one plugin, it doesn&#8217;t do 3000 major things, it just does one or two little things, but it&#8217;s been their way of getting themselves into the software, and figuring out how it all works, and meeting the community, and being engaged and, you know, all of that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That slow ebbing away of that is something that I think our community and open source communities like ours need to be just a little bit mindful of. Because it does feel as if AI could definitely eat a lot of lunches. And I think we see that actually. I think we can already see that in the real world with things like attendance at events and the amount of events that are being put on, yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:31:57] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> I think you&#8217;re correct. I was actually going to bring this up in the sense that I am already seeing it within a lot of the agency groups. There&#8217;s just not as much engagement when it comes to posts, I think, and that sort of thing. Because people use AI more to find solutions, which means they&#8217;re not as engaged in the community. Which, to your point, plugins would kind of work the same way, especially the smaller plugins.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yeah, there&#8217;s definitely something I think I&#8217;m concerned and kind of sad about already. Because like that&#8217;s why a lot of us are in WordPress is for the community. And I 100% agree with you. Not to mention if those guys, the smaller guys go away, then there just ends up being these massive plugin companies, which have their place, but WordPress wasn&#8217;t built on all massive plugin companies. So If those smaller ones go away, then that&#8217;s a little bit of the WordPress spirit I think are lost for sure.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:32:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I think we just need to be very mindful about this slow, like I say, wicking away or haemorrhaging of the community. And because at some point, the calculation no longer works. You know, there just aren&#8217;t enough community members around to make it interesting for other new community members to join, or to stick with things. Or to update their plugin or whatever it may be.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And maybe that is just a consequence of the way the world is moving, I don&#8217;t know. But having lived in the WordPress ecosystem for over a decade, I think it would be a shame if that baby was to be thrown out with that bath water.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay. Alright. I think we&#8217;ve done that one. So the next one is, well, the next one kind of speaks directly to that actually, which is the idea of, I guess spreading your wings a little bit further and realising perhaps that AI empowers you to do things outside of WordPress. And you&#8217;ve entitled this Experimenting Beyond WordPress. Again, off you go.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:33:37] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> So this is something I am seeing some agencies doing, which is, because you can use AI now to use unfamiliar stacks, there&#8217;s really two parts. One is just unfamiliar stacks, or unfamiliar platforms, you don&#8217;t know. You can really try out new platforms a lot faster now. It will tell you exactly what to do, you know, step by step, or it&#8217;ll just do it for you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So there are agencies, I think looking at other platforms where certain projects may make sense outside of WordPress, where they&#8217;re using that in that capacity and it&#8217;s allowing them to experiment. Where in the past, just sticking in WordPress, you have all your knowledge there makes sense to do, right? You don&#8217;t want to know 10 different platforms. But I think AI&#8217;s made that easier to dive into these other platforms. So that&#8217;s the first thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second thing I think is that, now that you can actually use chat to engage, you are seeing some agencies, and some freelancers, that are saying, well, I don&#8217;t need the WordPress infrastructure at all. I just want to go back to pretty much like static or HTML type websites because I know I&#8217;m just going to chat with it and then I don&#8217;t have to worry about security or updates.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And obviously I think that only would apply with certain websites. It&#8217;s not going to apply with highly functional websites. I think that&#8217;s not really going to work. But for like your brochure site, I think some agencies are experimenting with some other platforms out there like Astro and the EmDash setup going on with CloudFlare.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You know, and I think that was a direct response actually. They realised, oh, people are going to want to chat with it. We could build this WordPress, what they consider like an upgraded version, in their mind.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I think that, you know, it&#8217;s good to experiment. I think what WordPress does really well, to your point though, is they&#8217;ve hopped on the API centric side of things, building the right framework, not trying to force a certain thing down our throats, but actually leave it really open.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I think that&#8217;s ultimately good because that&#8217;s how open source works. That&#8217;s why I think AI will have a good position with open source is. To your point you made previously, all the data&#8217;s out there, all the documentation&#8217;s out there. It&#8217;s going to be able to be extremely flexible. And I think that&#8217;s really why WordPress is still, in my opinion, going to exist and thrive.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But you are seeing agencies that are looking outside of just Core WordPress, because they can experiment with just a lot less time now. And they can also try out some tools that may be a better fit for certain projects.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:36:18] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> There&#8217;s a lot of technologists in our community and we love tinkering, don&#8217;t we, and playing with new things? So it&#8217;s fairly inevitable. It goes with the territory.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay. Alright. So that was Experimenting Beyond WordPress. I think I&#8217;m going to skip 15 there because I think we covered quite a lot of that. So I&#8217;m just going to go straight to number 16, which probably will become 15, if you know what I mean, when I put it into the show notes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the next one anyway is called, whatever its number, is Risks and Cautions. So we&#8217;ve built what I feel is like a fairly solid argument for doing this kind of stuff. And now towards the end, we&#8217;re going to knock it all down. No, we&#8217;re not. But what are some of the risks that you might point people towards?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:36:58] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> A hundred percent. This is, I think, probably one of my favourite sections because people don&#8217;t really talk about these risks as much as they should. If you go on LinkedIn, it&#8217;s just like all rainbows and butterflies. And we&#8217;re building a new feature every day, and I think that noise can make people feel like they have FOMO and they just jump into AI and they don&#8217;t think about the risks. So I think this is actually a really important section for any listeners to listen to.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think one of the first items, probably a little obvious, but with security issues, with AI tools, a lot of companies, every company, I feel like at this point is inputting keys and all sorts of things into these AI chatbots. And ultimately, like those tools can still be hacked. And actually legally, a lot of them say when you submit into the chat, it&#8217;s actually considered public record. Anything you submit to them. That&#8217;s literally what OpenAI made a legal argument recently about. So keep that in mind when you&#8217;re doing this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are some ways to do this securely. You can look into, and I think that&#8217;s something I would recommend agencies doing because they, you are holding onto client data. And ultimately you don&#8217;t want that stuff getting leaked.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another thing, kind of on another point, which I personally have less concern with, but I think some agencies bring up a valid point, which is every time you talk to these chat bots, et cetera, they&#8217;re keeping track of all these conversations. So I know some agencies are being like, hey, how much does a website cost in my state or my country? Only use the data that other agencies have told you. And I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s really doing it, but people are doing that and they&#8217;re, you know, it&#8217;s not pushing back on them.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things like that, just be aware of, I think what you&#8217;re inputting in, because it isn&#8217;t necessarily being leaked as far as they&#8217;re being hacked, but that data make get spit out to places you don&#8217;t want it to by other parties through chat.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:38:52] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I feel that at some point in the future, some gigantic disclosure, something will be disclosed, which is so horrific that it makes us all sort of take a collective breath when we suddenly realise all we&#8217;ve given over. We haven&#8217;t got there yet, or at least to my knowledge we haven&#8217;t. But I feel that at some point in the near-ish future, some jaw dropping disclosure will occur, which will make us all think twice about exactly what you&#8217;ve just described.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are we giving up? What have we given? But also what have we not consciously given? Which kind of bit of our business did we unintentionally open up for the AI to have access to that we didn&#8217;t intend to? And if we had the time again, we wouldn&#8217;t have allowed it to, and so on and so forth. So, yeah. Okay.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any other things on the risks and cautions? I feel that there&#8217;s a couple more lurking in there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:39:43] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Yeah. I think that one&#8217;s to be the most obvious that most people are talking about. One I think people aren&#8217;t talking about though is handling errors when you&#8217;re building your own tools. Essentially, a lot of times you may vibe code something, right, which is great. But because you&#8217;re not really going into the depth of every situation, it&#8217;s just making kind of assumptions, the AI, of what should be there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And because it&#8217;s so easy and you&#8217;re like, well, I&#8217;m saving time, people don&#8217;t really outline all of this. And so they don&#8217;t really put error handling in these tools. And what happens is, of course there&#8217;ll be some edge case and, you know, things just break. And again, depending on the tool, if it&#8217;s an internal tool, you can probably get away with that. But if it is a public facing, or a client facing tool, that is the beauty I think of having a human actually review it with logic is they are going to have context that the AI doesn&#8217;t have.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To your point earlier, like subconsciously might be giving certain information to the AI that we don&#8217;t necessarily mean to. But you also might be leaving things out because you think you&#8217;ve already told the AI, or you think it&#8217;s going to assume a certain way, and you can&#8217;t really make that assumption. It ends up really backfiring in the long run, I think.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that&#8217;s why being very conscious about error handling and being like, okay, we&#8217;re going to set up logging, we&#8217;re going to set up testing. Validation is just the responsible way to be building these tools that really, I feel like no one talks about.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:41:09] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> No. And the curious thing about it is, because it&#8217;s such a black box, I feel that almost every other technology that we&#8217;ve interacted with has been much more, I don&#8217;t know how to describe it. There&#8217;s been a higher barrier to entry. It&#8217;s more difficult to interact with it. You&#8217;ve had to, I don&#8217;t know, press buttons or enter code or what have you. Now you are just communicating. And maybe we&#8217;ll even sort of drop into voice communication at some point where we&#8217;re literally just talking with the thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s just no, how to describe it. There&#8217;s just such a small amount of friction that is required to interact with these things. And so it kind of lulls us into this perception that it can&#8217;t make mistakes. It&#8217;s error free and what have you. And we know that that&#8217;s not the case. I didn&#8217;t really describe that very well, but I hope you got a general sense of what I was trying to describe there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:41:54] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> I think you&#8217;re right. I mean I can give an example like building out CheckView, which is obviously like a, it&#8217;s a QA tool for WordPress sites. But one thing is, I knew a decent amount of QA before I started building it. But I learned so much context building it, and we weren&#8217;t using AI when we built the tool, right? That I would&#8217;ve never gotten out if I had used AI from the beginning.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because like you said, there&#8217;s just such little friction. You as a human just don&#8217;t have to have that much information. You can just dive into something, having no idea on what you&#8217;re really doing, which is a blessing and a curse. And I think just being aware of that. And building in the right logs, and errors to at least essentially provide a safety net for yourself, knowing that you&#8217;re not going to know everything is really important.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:42:34] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. And then a couple of other things which we&#8217;ll just sort of gloss over fairly quickly because maybe they&#8217;re sort of slightly common sense. Obviously, you know, you&#8217;ve got here sensitive client data, which might be, without your knowledge, being scooped up by the AI agents. So monitoring that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over dependence on AI vendors. This feels like everybody&#8217;s really become dependent on a handful of companies. Maybe you could count them on one hand, I think basically. There&#8217;s three or four really, that everybody seems to be using. So that may be something that we want to be mindful of.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And of course, the last one of your bullet points under Risks and Cautions is just the fact that AI makes some mistakes all the time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:43:15] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> All the time. I think most of that&#8217;s common sense. Really, the only one that I think people aren&#8217;t talking as much about is the overdependence on AI. Not to date this podcast, but I&#8217;m going to a little bit anyways. For example, with Claude, they are removing Claude Code from their $20 plan right now. You know, if you&#8217;ve built this into your agency process, well, get ready to pay, you know, a hundred bucks for every employee, which could be thousands of dollars.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:43:40] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> You can only imagine how valuable that will be. And maybe it&#8217;ll be 200 bucks, or a thousand bucks or whatever it may be.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:43:46] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Right. A lot of these companies obviously are subsidising the cost, and so I do caution agency specifically. That&#8217;s why having that AI vision is important, but also considering making it independent enough from your processes that you still can function if this thing does change around, because I do think there is going to be a pushback on cost at some point.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So for example, like when you&#8217;re building a product, I&#8217;m seeing some companies that are building AI so integral to their product that it will not function without AI. Or going to have to raise the price by 10x. And so like even with CheckView, our tools are there, but we haven&#8217;t built it in in such a way that you can&#8217;t use the tool without it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I think at the agency level, it&#8217;s the same idea. For the most part, trying to avoid building it in a way that you couldn&#8217;t reduce the AI needs if you needed to. Or just preparing for that the costs could go up and like, you know, if you give it to all 10 employees now, you know, at 20 bucks a month, get ready to possibly pay a lot more later.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I just think that&#8217;s something important for agencies specifically to keep in mind. And I know that seems contradictory to what I said at the beginning of this, AI everything, but I think it&#8217;s important.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:44:59] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I&#8217;m not a financial wizard in any way, shape, or form, but that does seem to be something which, sure as night follows day, is going to be coming, is the requirement to repay a lot of the venture capital that the AI is currently burning through. And yeah, so maybe a significant price hike.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we&#8217;ve all got used to these practically free tools, and maybe that&#8217;s something that is not going to be in our future. So that&#8217;s a really good point. Put that bulwark in place to make sure that you are protected from that should it go up by, like you said, 10x or whatever it may be?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, so I did say that there were going to be multiple, I think 16 is what I said. This probably will be the last one. This is likely outcomes for agencies. So, Matt, you get to stare into the crystal ball and tell us what your final thoughts are in terms of what you think are likely outcomes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:45:47] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> So I think some of this is already happening.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hiring, I think, is slowing down in some agencies because they&#8217;re realising they can automate more. They don&#8217;t need as many, essentially non-specialist employees, or contractors. And I think that is a real thing that is happening.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s going to be necessarily a long-term issue. Hopefully as, essentially the floor raises, work gets better, more agencies will be focused on providing more value, more strategy, those sort of things. Again, the execution becomes a little bit of a commodity. So having essentially more junior team members who usually do that execution isn&#8217;t just quite as necessary. So I think that&#8217;s going to continue to come up.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But again, I think it&#8217;s going to be balanced out with even the costs we just talked about with the AI tools. There could totally be a point where the tools might get expensive enough that it makes sense to have a junior do this execution.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:46:45] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Get the humans back. Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:46:46] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Yeah. And we go back the other way. Some people are saying that could happen. I could see the argument for that. But I think that&#8217;s one thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another thing with agencies is you now can really productise more of your services. And this comes into the automation process that we talked about. You can take your processes, you can really package them up, I think. And there has been a lot of talk about productising services, but I think now you can get more nuanced.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if you, for example, only build sites for plumbers, well, with AI you can get way more specific on plumber specific service needs, and build out a process with what you&#8217;ve already done, plus, with AI to make that, I think, a lot easier for the plumber or the client, to get what they need out of it. In the past, I think most agencies were trying to build SOPs as we have time. And it, you know, it&#8217;s just a really difficult process. And I think that&#8217;s where agencies I think could help a lot.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then the last point I&#8217;ll make around here is really around that the tools I think will change. It will be, again, less about the execution of tools, how you&#8217;re building your sites. 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But there is a different kind of indebtedness—one that defines my life now: <strong><em>feeling grateful or obligated because of a benefit, help, or kindness received</em></strong>. It’s the feeling I have today for the global WordPress community. This isn&#8217;t a financial report; it&#8217;s a profound acknowledgment that my life, my sense of community, and my geographical freedom were purchased not with cash, but with kindness.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I write this essay to the dreamers in my home country of Uganda. To the beginner still figuring out what “plugin” means. To the developer grinding through tutorials at midnight. To anyone who believes that global stages are “for other people”. They are not. This is our story, and it is built on the backbone of WordPress.From Doubting Thomas to WordPress Events Supporter</p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a long time, my relationship with WordPress was purely transactional. It was a tool, a way to build a website, a path toward earning a living. The community aspect was a side benefit, a place for troubleshooting, like the endless “try clearing cache” conversations. Because of this many people have gone around with the WordPress is dead jokes which is not the actual reality</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But WordPress is not just about websites; it is about people. Real people who show up, who share, who guide, and who open doors you didn’t even know existed.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like I have explained before, I was not always the full of faith kind of guy. I always had doubts and so many reservations. I started using WordPress because a friend of mine invited me to. Just to test and see how things work. Nothing serious. When I started using WordPress, life started changing and now I have hit another milestone. WordPress keeps pulling me and locking me in. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Software, the Community, the family (in Uganda we call it a family because of how fast we come through for each other). After a few series of attending meetups and WordCamps a friend asked me to speak at a WordCamp and my life took another turn. It was so beautiful to contribute to communities. I started sharing in meetup and WordCamps, both locally and internationally but I had never thought about organizing a flagship event. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress transformed my way of seeing people and my approach to community also took a turn for the better. I met people that appreciated all efforts regardless of how small.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This journey from self-doubt to mentoring WordCamps was a slow-burn realization of the power of community. The small efforts, the meetups, the training sessions, and all the nitty-gritties actually mattered. The WordPress community brought me so far, allowing me to celebrate the path I was on.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-dream-that-flew-to-mumbai\">The Dream that Flew to Mumbai</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The dream of organizing a flagship event had always been tucked away in my heart. When I saw the call for Organizers for a Flagship event, I noticed a chance to fit all this community work into a larger purpose.</p>\n\n\n\n<p> I knew it would take a lot of effort and the cross would be heavy, but I didn’t care; I wanted to carry it. I also didn&#8217;t think they would choose me because I had been turned down before by another flagship. I was ready for whatever the response but I was also ready to put in the hours and work required.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge was immediate and geographical. The event was WordCamp Asia 2026, happening in Mumbai, India. The idea of my passport getting that Indian immigration stamp felt like a fantasy. My confidence was limited to what I thought was possible: “Apply and you will be a remote organiser”.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the organizer vetting and orientation process, the interviewer kept returning to one question: <em>Could I make it to Mumbai?</em></p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my heart of hearts, I knew the answer. I kept firmly responding that I could not afford that much, but I would offer all the required remote support. I was already offering my time and effort; I just couldn&#8217;t solve the geographic puzzle and yet I really wanted to be a part of the team.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, during one of the calls, I received a link to apply for the <a href=\"https://automattic.com/automattic-open-horizons-scholarship/\">Open Horizons Scholarship</a> from <a href=\"https://automattic.com/\">Automattic</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The moment I read the mission statement, everything clicked. It aims to increase equitable access to WordPress events by providing financial support to contributors from underrepresented, underserved, or economically disadvantaged backgrounds. This was written for me. This was written for us.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>With all faith and hope, I filled in the application and waited. I was praying that they would choose me, praying that this new dream could become a reality.The Game Changer: Geographical Freedom</p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days later, I received the email confirming my selection. Even now, it still feels like one of those emails you reread five times to confirm it’s not a scam. You know those ones that start with “Congratulations” and you check the sender twice before your heart accepts the joy? Yes, that one.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was in shock. I was excited. I was amazed.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This scholarship was not just about me boarding a plane to Mumbai; it was a physical manifestation of geographical freedom. It was a reminder that somewhere, someone saw value in what I do.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>My life changed, the way I walk changed, the way I speak changed, the way I see things changed and everything changed. The scholarship made me international. I ceased to be local events organizer to Flagship event Organizer</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travelling to attend a flagship event is a very interesting thought but for me, it started with a passport that had more hope than stamps.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then came the india visa process.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me be honest, it was not smooth. Not even close. I faced rejection. Once. Twice. Three times. Each one comes with the same polite but painful message that basically says, “Not this time.”</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And each time, you start to question yourself again.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>“Maybe it’s not for me, Maybe I should just stay back here.”</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But something interesting happened in the middle of those rejections. As I kept trying, learning, asking questions, and understanding the process better… I started helping others.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends would reach out:<br />“Bro, how did you apply?”<br />“What documents did you use?”<br />“What do they want exactly?”</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And me,  the same person being rejected started guiding others. Reviewing applications. Sharing lessons. Giving the details the visa sites and agents were not giving.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And guess what? All of them got their visas. On time. Successfully. Including my wife.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I was still struggling to get mine.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life can be funny like that</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But on the fourth attempt… it came through.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That approval message hit differently. It was not just excitement. It was relief. It was validation. It was a quiet whisper saying, <em>“You were not crazy to keep trying.”</em></p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-leaving-home\"><strong>Leaving Home</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Preparing to travel felt like preparing for an exam you didn’t fully revise for.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Packing was a whole experience. You pack, unpack, remove things, add them again. You even start questioning if you really need five shirts for a few days. (The answer is yes… just in case <img alt=\"😄\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f604.png\" style=\"height: 1em;\" />)</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then came the airport.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That one is not for the faint-hearted. The walking. The checking. The “please step aside.” The looking confident even when inside you’re just praying you don’t miss a step.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the real moment?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitting in that plane.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seatbelt on. Heart beating. Thoughts running.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the engine roars… and the plane starts moving.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slowly… then faster… then suddenly you are off the ground.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked out the window and saw Uganda getting smaller.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in that moment, it hit me:</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The barrier is gone.</em></strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing that felt impossible was now happening in real time. No more imagination. No more “one day.” This was the day.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-feeling-of-being-seen\"><strong>The Feeling of Being Seen</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Being “seen” is not loud. It’s not always people clapping for you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes it’s quiet.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It’s in the opportunity you’ve been given.<br />It’s in the doors that open without you forcing them.<br />It’s in realizing that your effort, your consistency, your presence matters.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, being seen looked like this journey.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>From struggling with visas… to finally holding one.<br />From helping others succeed… to eventually getting my own breakthrough.<br />From wondering if I belong… to being welcomed on a global stage.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not instant. It was layered. Built over time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, as I step into this experience, I carry all of it with me — the rejections, the lessons, the small wins, the people I helped along the way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because in the end, this is not just about travel.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It’s about growth.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It’s about persistence.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It’s about a reminder that sometimes… delay is not denial.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It’s preparation.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when your moment comes, you will know that this was always bigger than you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We arrived in Mumbai very early in the morning (4 am India Standard Time). What followed was a hospitality unexpected, a love unfathomable. From the Uber driver who took us to the hotel to the &#8220;Kaali-Peeli&#8221; (taxi) and even the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_rickshaw\">tuk-tuk</a> driver. Everyone was kind. Even though the summer sun was out for its show-off party, the A/C was properly equipped for the tantrums. Mumbai was beautiful.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reception from the WordPress community itself was beyond belief. People checked on me to ensure I arrived safely, to see if I needed anything, if all my affairs were in order. I saw so many people whom I had only chatted with digitally on Slack and now it was no longer just a text and image, but a face and a voice. It was a beautiful experience. There were people who lent me money because my VISA card was not working, and they had no fear that I may run off. That is the definition of a trustworthy, supportive community. That is the leverage WordPress gave me: friends that feel like family across the globe.<br /></p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-indebted-to-the-pioneers\"><strong>Indebted to the Pioneers</strong></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This moment of freedom and connection didn’t happen in a vacuum. Opportunities like the Open Horizons Scholarship are built on the backs of people who contributed before I even knew what WordPress was.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are the people who wrote documentation.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are the people who fixed bugs at 2 AM.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are the people who organized WordCamps when the attendance was just their friends and cousins.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We, the beneficiaries, are enjoying the fruits of a tree we did not plant but we are now called to water it. That realization humbles me deeply.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-indebted-but-also-responsible\"><strong>Indebted… but Also Responsible</strong></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Being indebted is not just about saying “thank you” (though, sincerely, thank you). It comes with responsibility. The scholarship changed me. I became more careful, knowing that people see me and my actions; every little thing that I ignored was being seen. This was the true game changer.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>My responsibility means four things:</p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Showing up fully</strong>: Being fully present in my role as an organizer and contributor.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Learning intentionally</strong>: Absorbing the expertise and experience of the global community.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Connecting genuinely</strong>: Building real relationships that bridge continents.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bringing the knowledge back home</strong>: Ensuring this experience benefits the community in Uganda.</li>\n</ol>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not just my win. It is for the community in Uganda. This global experience is a call to mentor and continue pushing WordPress to the ends of the world. It’s about how much you love. Let us echo WordPress <strong>everywhere</strong>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have seen how other people do it and it is now time for us to do it even in our own country and continent. We have set balls rolling and pots cooking. The Baganda say “<strong><em>Travel to see, return to </em></strong><strong><em><s>tell the Tale </s></em></strong><strong><em>Work.</em></strong>” We are now the people demanded of the fruits of the scholarship that was accorded. </p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-to-anyone-watching-from-the-sidelines\"><strong>To Anyone Watching From the Sidelines</strong></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me tell you something clearly: your time is coming.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might feel like you’re doing small things, contributing here and there, attending events, helping one person at a time. It might even feel unnoticed.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But consistency has a way of speaking loudly when the time is right.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, you will open an email.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, your name will be called.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, you will be the one writing something like this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when that day comes, I hope you will also say:</p>\n\n\n\n<p>“I am indebted”.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>To everyone who has been part of my journey: mentors, friends, community members and everyone, thank you. Truly.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And to the WordPress community: thank you for being a place where someone from Uganda can dare to dream globally… and actually get there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now let me go and start checking passport expiry dates properly, because you never know i may now get a chance to Shake <a href=\"https://ma.tt\">Matt’s</a> hand</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moses Cursor Ssebunya</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grateful. Growing. 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Ebiseera wewebuliza, “Naye ddala ono nze?”</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kino kyekimu ku biseera ebyo.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ebbanja oba okubanjibwa olumu kikwanagananyizibwa ku nsimbi oba ssente, ebbanja ery’okusasula. Naye ate waliwo ekika kye bbanja ekirala, okugenza nga kyempulira kakano: <strong><em>Okuwulira okusiima okusukkiridde oba okuwuulira nga kikukakatako olw’okuganyulwa oba obuyambi oba okusasirwa okunji kw’oba ofunye. </em></strong>Bwenti bwembulira olwaleero ku kibiina eky’ensi yonna ekya bakozesa WordPress (Global WordPress Community). Eno si alipoota ya mbalirira, wabula kusiima era nga nzikiriza awatali kubuusabuusa nti obulamu bwange, omwoyo ogw’obumu era ne ddembe okutuuka mu buli ggwanga byagulibwa, ssi na nsimbi naye na kusasira.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mpandiise emboozi eno eri bannange abaloota ewaka ewaffe mu Uganda. Eri ggwe akyeezuula, atamanyi “Plugin” kyekitegeeza. Eri omuwandiisi wa code asomera ku butambi mu matumbi budde. Eri ggwe wenna akkiriza nti entimbe z’ensi yonna “z’abalala”. Si kituufu. Luno lwe lugero lwaffe era nga lusimbuddwa munda mu kinyusi kya WordPress. Okuva mu kubuusa buusa nga Tomasi  paka ku bukelembeze obukulu mu WordPress Community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okumala ebbanga eddeme, enkolagana yange ne WordPress yali ya byanfuna. Nga ekikozesebwa okuzimba ‘ebibanja ku mitimbagano’ &#8211; websites, engeri y’okukola ku kasente okwebeezaawo. Ebya ekibiina kya bakozesa nga nyongereza era nga sibifaako, okugeza nga okuddukirayo nga nsanze obuzibu, nga emboozi za “jjako ozeeko”. Naye olw’ensonga eno abantu banji bazze n’ebiboozi bya wattuuyo nga WordPress bwe yaffa era naziikibwa era nga ebiboozi byonna, nga sibituufu. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress teri ku kuzimba bibanja; bantu. Abantu abaddala ababeerawo, abagabana, abalagirira era abaggulawo enziji zotamanyi nako nti weeziri.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Era nga bwenyinyonyodde jebuvuddeko, sinze eyali akkiriza nyo. Nalina okubuusabuusa kwange are nga neekengera nnyo. Natandika okukozesa WordPress kubanga mukwano wange yampita okujja ngezese ndabe nga ebintu bwebiri, tewali kyannyo. Bwenatandika okukozesa WordPress, obulamu nebutandika okukyuukan kati laba ntuuse ne ku ddaala eddala. WordPress esigala ensika nga enyingiza munda.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Software, Abantu (Ekibiina), famire (mu Uganda tujiyita famire kubanga tulina engeri jetwelabiriramu, okudduukirira nga waliwo afunye ekyetaago, n’enkolagana). Kati olwo nga nakamala okugenda mu nsisinkano (Meetups) n’enkungaana (WordCamps) nga ziizo, mukwano gwange yansaba njogere mu WordCamp jeyali akulembeddemu abategesi ate awo obulamu bwange ne bukyuuka neera.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kyaali kirungi nnyo bwenatandika okwenyigira mu bibiina. Natandika okwogera mu Meetups ne WordCamps wano kubutaka ne’bulaya naye nga sirowoozangako nti nyinza okuba kubategesi ba WordCamp ya Ssemazinga.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress yakyuusa engeri jendabamu abantu n’engeri jeneenyigiramu yakyuuka. Nasisinkana abasiimira ddala ne bwekaba katono.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olugendo lw’okuva mu kubuusa bussa mpaka kuku lungamya abategesi ba WordCamps kali kabuguumirize akanjolesa amaanyi ga community eno. Amaanyi amatono, meetups, okutendeka n’obuntu obulala lala bwakola nga amakulu. Community ya WordPress yantuusa wala, okutuusa okujaguza olugendo lwe nnaliko. Ekirooto ekyatuuka e Mumbai.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ekirooto kyokutegeka WordCamp ya ssemazinga kyali mu kko naye nga era kyewala nga kirinaanye obutasoboka. Bwennalaba okuyita okwewandiisa kwa’baagala okutegeka WordCamp eno, nendaba akakisa okuteekesa mu nkola byonna bye nnali nkola mu community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nakimanya nti tekijja kuba kyangu era nti omusalaba gujakuba munene naye nga nange ndimumalirivu. Namalirira okugwetikka omusalaba guno. Ate era nnali sikiwa nga bayinza okunzikiriza kubanga abalala baali banganye. 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It&#8217;s takes a village&#8230;</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-a8bb9ec1783f5f0c5623981a664fedce is-content-justification-left is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fbe4aca3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Estimated reading time</p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-time-to-read\">19–29 minutes</div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">at </p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-time-to-read\">4,552 words</div></div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<nav class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents\"><ol><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#changelog\">Changelog</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#important-note-guidelines\">Important note/guidelines</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#overview\">Overview </a><ol><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#important-links\">Important links:</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#assets\">Assets </a></li></ol></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#tags\">Tags</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#priority-items-for-wordpress-7-0\">Priority items for WordPress 7.0 </a><ol><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#visual-revisions-all\">Visual Revisions [all]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#navigation-overlays-and-more-theme-builder-plugin-author-site-admin\">Navigation Overlays and more [theme builder][plugin author] [site admin]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#treating-patterns-like-a-single-block-all\">Treating patterns like a single block [all]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#ai-in-wordpress-enterprise-developers-site-admin\">AI in 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class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#control-viewport-based-block-visibility-all\">Control viewport-based block visibility [all]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#anchor-support-for-dynamic-blocks-developer-plugin-author\">Anchor support for dynamic blocks [developer][plugin author]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#paste-color-values-in-the-color-picker-end-user-theme-builder-site-admin\">Paste color values in the color picker [end user][theme builder] [site admin]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#dimension-support-for-width-and-height-theme-builder-site-admin\">Dimension support for width and height [theme builder][site admin]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#email-notifications-for-notes-all\">Email notifications for Notes [all]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#block-attributions-groups-in-the-sidebar-all\">Block Attributions Groups in the sidebar [all]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#link-control-validation-end-user-site-admin\">Link Control validation [end user] [site admin]</a></li></ol></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#improved-blocks-and-block-handling\">Improved Blocks and Block handling</a><ol><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" 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href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#gallery-block\">Gallery Block </a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#responsive-grid-block-site-admin-end-user-theme-builder\">Responsive Grid Block [site admin][end user][theme builder]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#heading-block-variations-site-admin-end-user\">Heading block variations [site admin][end user]</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#html-block-enhancement-site-admin-themebuilder-end-user\">HTML Block Enhancement [site admin] [themebuilder] [end user] </a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#image-block-inline-editing-and-controls-site-admin-end-user\">Image block 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href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#developer-goodies-developer-enterprise\">Developer Goodies [developer][enterprise]</a><ol><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#php-only-block-registration\">PHP-only block registration</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#pattern-overrides-for-custom-blocks\">Pattern Overrides for custom blocks</a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#dataviews-data-form-components-and-fields-api\">DataViews, Data Form components and Fields API </a></li><li><a class=\"wp-block-table-of-contents__entry\" href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-7-0-source-of-truth/#ui-primitives-and-components\">UI Primitives and Components</a></li></ol></li></ol></nav>\n</div></div>\n\n\n\n<h2 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class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/05/08/rtc-removed-from-7-0/\">Real-time collaboration will not ship in WordPress 7.0</a> and the feature has been removed from this post. </li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/05/08/results-real-time-collaboration-performance-testing-analysis/\">Results: Real Time Collaboration performance testing analysis</a></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>April 23, 2026</strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>WordPress 7.0 has a new release date: <strong>May 20th, 2026</strong>! (<a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/04/22/wordpress-7-0-release-party-updated-schedule/\">see post). </a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>RTC performance testing script</strong> automatically tests all 4 possible architecture approaches. Follow the<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/distributed-rtc-performance-testing/#host-instructions\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> instructions on the repository</a>. Still under development, though. Release and Call for hosting testing planned for Friday April 24. (<a href=\"https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0A803Z8MA5/p1776919695875659\">See Slack discussion</a>)</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>April 17, 2026</strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Update on new release date no later then 4/22. </li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>April 1, 2026:</strong> \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Added information from  <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/31/extending-the-7-0-cycle/\">Extending the 7.0 Cycle</a> by release lead Matias Ventura</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Changed release date to TBD</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Updated <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#real-time-collaboration-rtc-enterprise-site-admin\" id=\"#real-time-collaboration-rtc-enterprise-site-admin\" type=\"internal\">Real-Time Collaboration</a> section with additional information.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>March 30, 2026:</strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fixes for clarity and grammar.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Changed feature image of the post.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>RTC: Added Introduce filters for the polling intervals (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/76518\">76518</a>)</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>March 27, 2026:</strong> First edition </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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Try not to just copy and paste what&#8217;s in this post since it&#8217;s going to be shared with plenty of folks. Use this as inspiration for your own stuff and to get the best info about this release. If you do copy and paste, just remember that others might do the same, and it could lead to some awkward moments with duplicate content floating around online.</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<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"WordPress 7.0 highlight grid, status May 12, 2026\" class=\"wp-image-45639\" height=\"375\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/WordPress-7.0-highlightgrid.jpg?resize=652%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 7.0.</em></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 7.0 introduces several new features and performance enhancements.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key new features include:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Visual revisions: </strong>A new revisions screen inside the block editor gives a visual preview of the changes with an easy-to-understand color-coded system.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Navigation overlays:</strong> Customizable mobile menus for more flexible styling. </li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Content focused pattern editing:</strong> Pattern editing now prioritizes the content editing experience with more available options when needed.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>AI Foundation in WordPress: </strong>User can connect their site to an AI agent of choice to use the AI experiments plugin.  Plugin developers can use the Connectors API to register connections to external services.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, WordPress 7.0, entails:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Two new blocks: </strong>the Icon block and the Breadcrumbs block.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Viewport-based block show/hide:</strong> Block visibility extended to customize display according to screen-sizes. </li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gallery lightbox navigation:</strong> improved browsing through images placed in a gallery.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Font management</strong> for all themes: The screen to upload and manage fonts is now available in the <strong>Appearance</strong> menu for classic and block themes.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many more quality of life changes for workflow and design tools made it into this release. You&#8217;ll find the complete list below. </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/7-0/\">WordPress 7.0</a> is <s>set to be released on April 9, 2026 at <a href=\"https://asia.wordcamp.org/2026/wordpress-7-0-release-on-contributor-day/\">Contributor Day of WordCamp Asia</a>.</s> <br />The new release date <s>will be announced no later than April 22. (see <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/31/extending-the-7-0-cycle/\">Ventura&#8217;s announcement</a>)</s> is May 20, 2026</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2026/05/wordpress-7-0-armstrong/\">WordPress 7.0 &#8220;Armstrong&#8221;</a></div>\n</div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of note, this release consists of features from the Gutenberg plugin version 22.0 &#8211; 22.6. Here are the release posts of those plugin releases: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-22-0-05-november/\">22.0</a> | <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/20/whats-new-in-gutenberg-22-1-18-november-2025/\"> 22.1</a> | <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/12/03/whats-new-in-gutenberg-22-2-dec3/\"> 22.2</a> | <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/12/17/gutenberg-22-3-december-17/\">22.3</a> | <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/01/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-22-4-20-january/\">22.4</a> | <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/02/04/whats-new-in-gutenberg-22-5-04-february/\">22.5</a> | <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/02/25/whats-new-in-gutenberg-22-6-25-february/\">22.6</a>. Later Gutenberg releases contain bug fixes, backported to WordPress 7.0. release branches.</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/2025/12/11/planning-for-7-0/\">Planning for 7.0</a> + <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/12/11/planning-for-7-0/#comment-48392\">update on Beta 1</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/7-0/\">WordPress 7.0 Development Cycle</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What’s new for developers:</strong> <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/12/whats-new-for-developers-december-2025/\">December</a>, <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/01/whats-new-for-developers-january-2026/\">January</a>, <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/02/whats-new-for-developers-february-2026/\">February</a>, <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/03/whats-new-for-developers-march-2026/\">March</a>, <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/04/whats-new-for-developers-april-2026/\">April</a>, and <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/05/whats-new-for-developers-may-2026/\">May </a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/05/14/wordpress-7-0-field-guide/\">WordPress 7.0 Field Guide</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"assets\">Assets </h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1s3vR7M60U7RcjKCu9Y5GHUo-SDA50jSP\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 builder]</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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"></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=\"priority-items-for-wordpress-7-0\">Priority items for WordPress 7.0 </h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"visual-revisions-all\">Visual Revisions<sup> [all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How revisions work for the block editor was completely reimagined. The visual Revisions screen keeps you in the editor the entire time, activating a subtle revision mode right where you work, eliminating the need to jump to a separate screen. A timeline slider in the header allows you to browse through different versions, seeing content updates in real-time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The system highlights visual differences, showing added and removed text, formatting changes, and outlining modified blocks instead of raw code. For long documents, a mini-map along the scrollbar indicates where changes exist, letting you jump directly to them, and the sidebar remains useful with a summary of the changes for the current revision. To simplify reverting, the &#8220;Update&#8221; or &#8220;Publish&#8221; button is replaced by a &#8220;Restore&#8221; button when you are browsing the history (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/74742\">74742</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yellow marks a changed section/block, in red you’ll find deletions and green are additions compared to the early version. </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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wes Theron</strong> has a short video on <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWN3d2KUNKk\">How to restore previous versions of a page or post in WordPress</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anne McCarthy also gives a great walk through the screens on Youtube:</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\n</div></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"navigation-overlays-and-more-theme-builder-plugin-author-site-admin\">Navigation Overlays and more <sup>[theme builder][plugin author] [site admin]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Navigation blocks now have customizable overlays and give user full control over mobile hamburger menus. A prominent <strong>Create overlay</strong> button in the side bar guides you through the setup, providing a selection of patterns to achieve various designs for your overlay. WordPress 7.0 comes with multiple built-in patterns including centered navigation, accent backgrounds, and black backgrounds. New blocks default to &#8220;always&#8221; showing overlays. The Navigation block sidebar section also shows a preview of the selected overlay template parts. You can also access the list of Navigation Overlays via <strong>Appearance &gt; Editor &gt; Patterns &gt; Template Parts.</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On GitHub you&#8217;ll find a list of all the <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues?q=state%3Aclosed%20label%3A%22%5BFeature%5D%20Navigation%20Overlays%22%20label%3A%22%5BType%5D%20Enhancement%22\">Navigation Overlay enhancements</a>. </li>\n\n\n\n<li>The dev note <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/04/customisable-navigation-overlays-in-wordpress-7-0/\">Customizable Navigation Overlays in WordPress 7.0</a> has everything you need to know.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\" id=\"block-697b3ef0-955a-4413-82a1-bf3bb5f25f68\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45002\" height=\"607\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Create-Overlay.png?resize=589%2C607&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 541px; height: auto;\" width=\"589\" /></figure>\n</div></div></div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To make it easier for users to create custom overlays for their mobile navigation, four new patterns are now available for the navigation overlay template parts:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74847\">Overlay with black background</a> </li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74849\">Overlay with accent background</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74862\">Centered navigation with info</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74861\">Centered navigation</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45003\" height=\"979\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/navigation-overlay-patterns.png?resize=652%2C979&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n</div></div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Submenus: Always visible option</strong>: Users can now add navigation blocks to their overlays and toggle if they’d like to have the submenus always visible or not. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74653\">74653</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Page Creation in Navigation</strong>: Create pages directly from the Navigation block with helpful Snackbar notices and improved parent page search using relevance matching <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/72627\">(72627</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73836\">73836</a>).</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"treating-patterns-like-a-single-block-all\">Treating patterns like a single block <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get ready for a smoother, more intuitive experience when using patterns in WordPress 7.0.  It’s becoming much easier to customize your site&#8217;s design sections with a simplified editing workflow and an improved content-focused mode. </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Users naturally stay in the safe lane without accidentally breaking designs. Agencies can hand off a site knowing clients can&#8217;t wreck the layout by default — they&#8217;d have to deliberately choose to go deeper.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What&#8217;s New for Patterns:</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Quick Content Edits:</strong> When you select a pattern, instead of seeing a list of individual blocks, you&#8217;ll see a clean, expanded inspector panel. This panel exposes all the editable text and image fields directly, organized for easy access. </li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Content-Only Focus:</strong> Patterns will now default to a <strong>Content-Only</strong> editing mode. This simplifies the experience by letting you quickly fill in the content without seeing all the underlying design tools.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Full Customization (If You Need It):</strong> If you <em>do</em> need to change the structure or design of a pattern, you can simply &#8220;detach&#8221; it. This gives you full access to all the individual blocks, just like before. Use the <strong>Edit Pattern</strong> button from the sidebar.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A Unified Experience:</strong> This new approach makes patterns feel like single, smart design objects with easy-to-update attributes, whether you&#8217;re using a pattern, a design section, or a partially synced pattern.</li>\n</ul>\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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Head over to the dev note <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/?p=122085&amp;preview=1&amp;_ppp=5a7fd37ffc\">Pattern Editing in WordPress 7.0</a> for the full picture. </p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ai-in-wordpress-enterprise-developers-site-admin\">AI in WordPress <sup>[enterprise][developers][site admin]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 7.0 ships with a WP AI client API and a built-in Connectors screen — a centralized hub for managing all kinds of external service integrations, not just AI providers. Connect to OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini and WordPress automatically installs the right plugin and prompts you for your API key. Developers get a consistent framework to build on—enabling features like content generation, block building, and theme creation without reinventing the plumbing every time. </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Connectors page also sports a shout-out to the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/ai/\">AI Experiments plugin</a> if users want to see AI features, like title, excerpt, or alt-text generation, in action.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44916\" height=\"415\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Connectors-Page-WordPress-7-0.png?resize=652%2C415&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the real value of this Connectors API is broader: any plugin that needs to connect to an outside service via API keys or other credentials can tap into this standardized connection management system. Users get one place to maintain all their integrations. And plugin developer a standardized way to tap into the plumbing.</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Read the dev note <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/18/introducing-the-connectors-api-in-wordpress-7-0/\"><strong>Introducing the Connectors API in WordPress 7.0</strong></a> for all the salient details. </li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Core AI team also published a <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/ai/2026/03/25/call-for-testing-community-ai-connector-plugins/\"><strong>Call for Testing: Community AI Connector Plugins</strong></a>.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"new-blocks\">New Blocks</h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"breadcrumbs-block-all\">Breadcrumbs Block <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new native Breadcrumbs block in WordPress 7.0 provides dynamic navigational trails for the Site Editor. It automatically generates paths from the homepage to the current page, adapting to context.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The block handles hierarchical pages (e.g., &#8220;Home / Services / Web Design / Portfolio&#8221;) and includes taxonomy for blog posts (e.g., &#8220;Home / Technology / Your Post Title&#8221;). Beyond simple pages, it correctly constructs paths for archive pages (category, tag, author, date), search results, and 404 errors. For Custom Post Types, it includes the post type archive in the trail.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"Breadcrumbs block displaying post categories WordPress 7.0\" class=\"wp-image-44940\" height=\"227\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Breadcrumbs-flore-flowers.png?resize=652%2C227&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The block offers alignment options (left, center, right, wide/full), as well as other block design options. Additional settings are available for showing the last item as text or a link and consistent homepage handling (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/72649\">72649</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44951\" height=\"898\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/gb-22-2-breadcrumb.png?resize=652%2C898&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dev note <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/04/breadcrumb-block-filters/\">Breadcrumb block filters</a> has the details. </p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"icon-block-all\">Icon Block <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Icon block empowers users to add decorative icons from a curated collection to their content. It utilizes a new server-side SVG Icon Registration API, ensuring icon registry updates propagate without block validation errors. </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initial release is limited as it doesn&#8217;t yet allow registering third-party icon collections. Extensibility for third-party icon registration is planned for future release in 7.1, following further development on the Icon registry API architecture. A REST endpoint at <code>/wp/v2/icons</code> supports searching and filtering. The initial set draws from the <code>wordpress/icons</code> package (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71227\">71227</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/72215\">72215</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/75576\">75576</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"List of directions, illustrated with the icon block\" class=\"wp-image-44938\" height=\"192\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/icon-block.png?resize=652%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-editor-enhancements\">Block Editor enhancements</h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"custom-css-for-individual-blocks-enduser-site-admin-theme-builder\">Custom CSS for Individual Blocks <sup>[enduser][site admin] [theme builder]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously, applying custom CSS to a block instance required adding a custom class name and then writing a rule in the Site Editor’s global Custom CSS. This two-step process was complex for most users and inaccessible to content editors without Site Editor access.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new custom CSS block support introduces a Custom CSS input to the <strong>Advanced</strong> panel within the block editor sidebar, conveniently placed next to the familiar &#8220;Additional CSS Class(es)&#8221; field. You only need to add the CSS declarations (no selectors!) If you do need to target nested elements, use the &amp; symbol (for example, &amp; a { color: red; }). This field is focused purely on styling and will reject any HTML input. The field is guarded by the <code>edit_css capability</code> to see and use this powerful new field. The editor automatically adds a has-custom-css class for styling consistency. <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73959\">#73959</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74969\">#74969</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44920\" height=\"412\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Block-level-custom-CSS.png?resize=652%2C412&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dive into the dev note <strong><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/15/custom-css-for-individual-block-instances-in-wordpress-7-0/\">Custom CSS for Individual Block Instances</a></strong> for the complete rundown.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"control-viewport-based-block-visibility-all\">Control viewport-based block visibility <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you&#8217;re editing a post or page, you can now choose to show or hide any block depending on the visitor&#8217;s screen size. Select a block, click <strong>Show</strong> in the toolbar, and pick which devices — desktop, tablet, or mobile — should display it. You can also hide a block from the document entirely through the same modal. </p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized wp-duotone-unset-1\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44980\" height=\"282\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/note-on-visibility.png?resize=573%2C282&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 519px; height: auto;\" width=\"573\" /></figure>\n</div></div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44944\" height=\"429\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Block-visiblity.png?resize=652%2C429&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the nitty-gritty, see the dev note <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/15/block-visibility-in-wordpress-7-0/\">Block Visibility in WordPress 7.0</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anne McCarthy walks you through the feature: </p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\n</div></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"anchor-support-for-dynamic-blocks-developer-plugin-author\">Anchor support for dynamic blocks <sup>[developer][plugin author]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dynamic blocks now support Anchor (id attribute) functionality. The anchor reference is consistently stored within the block comment delimiter, enabling dynamic rendering on the front end. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74183\">74183</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"paste-color-values-in-the-color-picker-end-user-theme-builder-site-admin\">Paste color values in the color picker <sup>[end user][theme builder] [site admin]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Color pickers throughout the block styles sidebar, now offer support for pasting complete color values. You can now copy/paste the brand colors from a design document or website into the color picker box and don&#8217;t have to go through the process of selecting the right color and hue<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73166\"> (73166</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"dimension-support-for-width-and-height-theme-builder-site-admin\">Dimension support for width and height <sup>[theme builder][site admin]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 7.0 expands the Dimensions block supports system with three significant improvements: <strong>width</strong> and <strong>height</strong> are now available as standard block supports under dimensions, and themes can now define <strong>dimension size presets</strong> to give users a consistent set of size options across their site.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dev Note <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/15/dimensions-support-enhancements-in-wordpress-7-0/\">Dimensions Support Enhancements in WordPress 7.0</a> has the details for block.development and theme builders.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"email-notifications-for-notes-all\">Email notifications for Notes <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Collaborators can now get notified when someone leaves a note on their content. No more checking back constantly (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73645\">73645</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-attributions-groups-in-the-sidebar-all\">Block Attributions Groups in the sidebar <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The block editor sidebar is being reorganized to make controls easier to find. Block settings will be grouped into four clear sections: </p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Content</strong> (text, images, captions), </li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>List</strong> (reordering and nesting for blocks like Lists and Social Icons), </li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Settings</strong> (block-specific options), and </li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Styles</strong> (typography, colors, spacing). </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means you won&#8217;t need to hunt through toolbars or scattered panels — everything will live in a predictable place in the sidebar. Connected data sources will also appear directly next to the attributes they affect, so you can see at a glance what&#8217;s linked and where. It also means that for the transition a reordering of the sidebar and controls to be in different place than before. For instance. For an image block that includes the “Alt” text setting is now to be found in the content tab rather than the settings tab.  (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/73845\">73845</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s an example of the implementation for Patterns:</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44943\" height=\"399\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Pattern-Attributes-in-Sidebar.png?resize=652%2C399&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-control-validation-end-user-site-admin\">Link Control validation <sup>[end user] [site admin]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Link Control component in Gutenberg now validates the URLs, you enter helping to avoid broken links (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73486\">73486</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44950\" height=\"181\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Link-control-variation.png?resize=531%2C181&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"531\" /></figure>\n</div></div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"improved-blocks-and-block-handling\">Improved Blocks and Block handling</h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"pseudo-styles-for-button-blocks-theme-builder-site-admin\">Pseudo Styles for Button Blocks <sup>[theme builder][site admin] </sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Theme designers and developers can now style button states (hover, focus, active, and focus visible) directly within the theme.json, making it much easier to keep all design controls centralized and consistent. This reduces the reliance on custom CSS for things like button hover states (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71418\">71418</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    \"styles\": {\n        \"blocks\":{\n                \"core/button\":{\n                    \"color\":{\n                        \"background\":\"blue\"\n                    },\n                    \":hover\":{\n                        \"color\":{\n                        \"background\":\"green\"\n                        }\n                    },\n                    \":focus\":{\n                        \"color\":{\n                        \"background\":\"purple\"\n                        }\n                    }\n                }\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;\">styles</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;\">blocks</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;\">core/button</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;\">color</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;\">background</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;blue&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;\">:hover</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;\">color</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;\">background</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;green&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;\">:focus</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;\">color</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;\">background</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;purple&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;\">}</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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More details are available in the Dev Note: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/09/pseudo-element-support-for-blocks-and-their-variations-in-theme-json/\">Pseudo-element support for blocks and their variations in theme.json</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"extra-divs-removed-from-blocks-in-the-editor-theme-builder-developer-site-admin\">Extra divs removed from blocks in the editor <sup>[theme builder][developer][site admin] </sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 7.0 introduced a new <code>HtmlRenderer</code> component, which renders HTML content as React elements with optional wrapper props. For theme authors, this means that several blocks will no longer have an extra wrapping <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> in the editor, allowing for consistent styling with the front end (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74228\">74228</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blocks that have been fixed are:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74255\">Archives</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74271\">Calendar</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74277\">Latest Comments</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74272\">RSS</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74228\">Tag Cloud</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"universal-text-alignment-all\">Universal Text Alignment <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly all text blocks now support the standardized text-align block support system, including Paragraph, Button, Comment blocks, Heading, and Verse. Plus, text justify alignment is now available. See <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/60763\">tracking issue</a> to follow along on the progress (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/60763\">60763</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"cover-block-video-embeds-site-admin-end-user\">Cover Block Video Embeds <sup>[site admin][end user]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Cover block this release comes with the ability to use embedded videos (like YouTube or Vimeo) as background videos in the Cover block, rather than being restricted to locally uploaded files. Offloading video to 3rd-party services helps reduce hosting and bandwidth costs. Also, the focal pointer is now available for fixed background. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73023\">#73023</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74600\">#74600</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44953\" height=\"416\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/gb-22-2-embed-1.png?resize=652%2C416&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"gallery-block\">Gallery Block </h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"lightbox-navigation-site-admin-end-user\">Lightbox navigation <sup>[site admin][end user]</sup></h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Gallery block’s “Enlarge on click” lightbox now lets you navigate between images. When you click a gallery image, back/next buttons appear so you can browse through the rest of the gallery without closing the lightbox. Keyboard navigation (arrow keys) and screen reader announcements are fully supported. It also works with swiping on mobile, however the swiping isn’t yet visual/animated.  (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/62906\">62906</a>) and lightbox items still miss captions.</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<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"content-tab-in-sidebar-site-admin-end-user\">Content Tab in sidebar <sup>[site admin][end user]</sup></h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For fast access to Alt text box the sidebar of the Gallery block shows a new content tab in the sidebar. </p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44958\" height=\"340\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Gallery-content-sidebar-edited.png?resize=652%2C340&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"responsive-grid-block-site-admin-end-user-theme-builder\">Responsive Grid Block <sup>[site admin][end user][theme builder]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Grid block is now responsive even when you set a column count. Previously, you had to choose between setting a minimum column width (responsive, Auto mode) or a fixed column count (Manual mode)—a binary toggle that confused many users. Now you can set both: when you do, the column count becomes a <em>maximum</em>, and the grid scales down responsively based on your minimum column width. </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can set neither, either, or both—the block handles all combinations gracefully. The confusing Auto/Manual toggle is gone entirely, replaced by clearer &#8220;minimum width&#8221; and &#8220;columns&#8221; labels with a plain-language description explaining the relationship between the two controls.. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73662\">73662</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=\"heading-block-variations-site-admin-end-user\">Heading block variations <sup>[site admin][end user]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each heading level (H1-H6) is now registered as a block variation on the Heading block. These do not appear in the inserter, but the change does add icons to the block’s sidebar for transforming it between variations (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73823\">73823</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44963\" height=\"334\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Heading-handling.png?resize=652%2C334&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"html-block-enhancement-site-admin-themebuilder-end-user\">HTML Block Enhancement <sup>[site admin] [themebuilder] [end user]</sup> </h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The HTML block was redesigned to work now as a modal-based editor featuring separate tabs for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Admin can now use it for more powerful customizations, when HTML JS and CSS work on a single block. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73108\">73108</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=\"image-block-inline-editing-and-controls-site-admin-end-user\">Image block inline editing and controls <sup>[site admin][end user]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 7.0 comes with a revamp of the image editing feature in the editor. It’s now easier to crop, rotate or zoom in on a particular image corner. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/72414\">#72414</a>) (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73277\">#73277</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<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"advanced-image-controlsimage-block-now-supports-the-focal-point-control-and-aspect-ratio-adjustments-for-wide-and-full-alignments-plus-reorganized-inspector-controls-with-a-dedicated-content-tab-73115-74519-74201\">Advanced Image Controls <sup>[site admin][end user]</sup></h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"advanced-image-controlsimage-block-now-supports-the-focal-point-control-and-aspect-ratio-adjustments-for-wide-and-full-alignments-plus-reorganized-inspector-controls-with-a-dedicated-content-tab-73115-74519-74201\">Image block now supports the focal point control and aspect ratio adjustments for wide and full alignments, plus reorganized inspector controls with a dedicated content tab. <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73115\">#73115</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74519\">#74519</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74201\">#74201</a></p>\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=\"math-block-improvements-end-users-site-admin\">Math Block Improvements <sup>[end users][site admin]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LaTeX input now uses a monospaced font, and style options are available for better mathematical expression editing (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/72557\">72557</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73544\">73544</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44972\" height=\"425\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Mathblock-updates-wp70.png?resize=652%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"paragraph-all\">Paragraph <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new typography tool has been added for specifying the line indent of paragraph blocks (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73114\">73114</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74889\">74889</a>). Users and theme creators can specify line indentation rules for a single paragraph block and also at global styles / theme.json level for all paragraph blocks. For global styles and theme.json, it’s possible to choose whether all paragraphs or only subsequent paragraphs are indented, which accounts for different indentation standards around the world.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dev note on <strong><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/15/new-block-support-text-indent-textindent/\">the new <code>textIndent</code> block support</a> </strong>has all the details for developers working on blocks or themes.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44985\" height=\"525\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TextIndent-standard.png?resize=652%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The example code sets a default indent value of 1.5em globally for paragraphs:</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    \"typography\": {\n      \"textIndent\": \"true\"\n    }\n  },\n  \"styles\": {\n    \"blocks\": {\n      \"core/paragraph\": {\n        \"typography\": {\n          \"textIndent\": \"1.5em\"\n        }\n      }\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;\">settings</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;\">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;\">textIndent</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;true&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;\">styles</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;\">blocks</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;\">core/paragraph</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;\">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;\">textIndent</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;1.5em&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;\">}</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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More details can be learned in the Dev Note: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/?p=121744&amp;preview=1&amp;_ppp=b05f93cb55\">New Block Support: Text Indent (textIndent) </a></p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"columns-in-paragraph-blocks-all\">Columns in Paragraph blocks <sup>[all]</sup></h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that there is block support for typographical columns, the paragraph block can now handle text columns by default (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74656\">74656</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the front-end only, the Paragraph block now has a <code>.wp-block-paragraph</code> class. This change doesn’t affect global styles, which still use the <code>p</code> selector.(<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/71207\">71207</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=\"query-loop-enhancements-all\">Query Loop Enhancements <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Query loops now support excluding terms. When the block is locked it now hides design change and choose pattern options. <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73790\">#73790</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74160\">#74160</a></p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44986\" height=\"527\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Exclude-Terms-Query-block.png?resize=652%2C527&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"verse-block-renamed-to-poetry-all\">Verse Block, renamed to Poetry <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Verse Block has been renamed to Poetry block (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74722\">74722</a>) Also it now utilizes <code>border-box</code> for its <code>box-sizing</code>, which guards against overflow issues and should make it easier to style without additional custom CSS.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"admin-workflow-updates\">Admin / Workflow updates </h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"manage-fonts-for-all-themes-in-a-dedicated-page-site-admin-theme-builder-enterprise\">Manage fonts for all themes in a dedicated page <sup>[site admin][theme builder] [enterprise]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A dedicated Fonts page is now available under the Appearance menu for all themes. Until now, font management has lived deep inside Global Styles, requiring navigation through several panels to install or preview a font. This new standalone page lets block theme users browse, install, and manage their typography collection in one dedicated space. </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the hood, this page is built on a new routing infrastructure for the Site Editor, designed to improve navigation and support new top-level pages in wp-admin. View transitions are now wired into this routing layer, providing early zoom/slide animations when navigating between pages (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73630\">73630</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73876\">73876</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73586\">73586</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Font Library and Global Styles also work with classic themes (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73971\">#73971</a>,<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73876\"> #73876</a>). Like the Media Library, you can access the Font Library as a modal or through a dedicated admin section—regardless of your theme type.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"blob:https://gutenbergtimes.com/e8865866-45a0-4807-94ac-02a8257ce1dd\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"command-palette-in-adminbar-all\">Command Palette in Adminbar <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instantly access all the tools you need with a single click using the <strong>new Command Palette shortcut in the Omnibar</strong>! In 7.0 Beta 5, logged-in editors will see a field with a ⌘K or Ctrl+K symbol in the upper admin bar that unfurls the command palette when clicked. The new command palette entry point streamlines navigation and customization, giving you full control from anywhere on your site – whether you’re editing, designing or just browsing plugins.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"view-transitions-all\">View Transitions  <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">View transitions have been integrated into the WordPress admin in 7.0, enabling smooth transitions between screens.  The implementation for the front end is slated for the next WordPress 7.1 (<a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64470\">64470</a>) The result is a smoother page-to-page transitions using the CSS <a href=\"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transition_API\">View Transitions API </a>— no markup or JavaScript changes required, just a progressive enhancement you&#8217;ll notice immediately when navigating between admin screens.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"improved-screens-across-wp-admin-all\">Improved screens across WP-Admin  <sup>[all]</sup></h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 7.0 is getting a CSS-only &#8220;coat-of-paint&#8221; visual reskin of the wp-admin, bringing the classic admin screens closer to the visual language of the block and site editors — no markup changes, no JavaScript, no functional changes, and all existing CSS class names and admin color schemes preserved. (<a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64308\">64308</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>New default color scheme: &#8220;Modern&#8221; replaces &#8220;Fresh&#8221; as the default admin color scheme (#<a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64546\">64546</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Updated buttons and input fields: primary, secondary, and link buttons, plus text inputs, selects, checkboxes, and radio buttons, now align with the WordPress Design System (#<a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64547\">64547</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Updated notices: info, warning, success, and error notices refreshed for clarity and consistency (#<a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64548\">64548</a>), including on the login screen</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Updated cards and metaboxes: dashboard widgets and metaboxes get modernized styling (#<a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64549\">64549</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li>New <code>wp-base-styles</code> stylesheet handle: consolidates admin color scheme CSS custom properties into a single reusable stylesheet, available across the admin and the block editor content iframe</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Login and registration screens: the WordPress logo updated from blue to gray to match the new design, and scheme styles now apply to login, install, database repair, and upgrade screens</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44993\" height=\"459\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Admin-new-coat-of-paint.png?resize=652%2C459&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"652\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"developer-goodies-developer-enterprise\">Developer Goodies <sup>[developer][enterprise]</sup></h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"client-side-abilities-api\">Client-side Abilities API </h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 7.0 ships a JavaScript counterpart to the server-side Abilities API introduced in 6.9. The <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/24/client-side-abilities-api-in-wordpress-7-0/\">Client-Side Abilities API</a> arrives as two packages: <code>@wordpress/abilities</code> for pure state management usable in any project, and <code>@wordpress/core-abilities</code>, which auto-fetches server-registered abilities via the REST API. You can now register browser-only abilities — navigation, block insertion, and more — opening the door to browser agents, extensions, and WebMCP integrations directly in the client. </p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wp-ai-client\">WP AI Client</h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 7.0 ships a built-in <strong><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/24/introducing-the-ai-client-in-wordpress-7-0/\">AI Client</a>,</strong> that gives your plugin a single, provider-agnostic PHP entry point — <code>wp_ai_client_prompt()</code> — for text, image, speech, and video generation. You describe what you need; WordPress routes it to whichever AI provider the site owner has configured via Settings &gt; Connectors. Official provider plugins cover Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. No credential handling, no provider lock-in, and graceful feature detection before any UI is shown.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"php-only-block-registration\">PHP-only block registration</h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developers can now create simple blocks using only PHP. This is meant for blocks that only need server-side rendering and aren’t meant to be highly interactive. When possible this feature also auto-generates sidebars for user input for suitable attributes and design tools. </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To do so, call <code>register_block_type</code> with the new <code>autoRegister</code> flag. A <code>render_callback</code> function must also be provided. (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/71792\">71792</a>)</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dev note with all the details. <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/03/php-only-block-registration/\">PHP-only block registration</a></p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"pattern-overrides-for-custom-blocks\">Pattern Overrides for custom blocks</h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since WordPress 6.5, <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/06/an-introduction-to-overrides-in-synced-patterns/\">Pattern Overrides</a> let you create synced patterns where the layout stays consistent but specific content can change per instance. The catch? Only four core blocks supported it: Heading, Paragraph, Button, and Image.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not anymore. Any block attribute that supports Block Bindings now supports Pattern Overrides by default. Block authors can opt in through the server-side <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/block-api/block-bindings/#extending-supported-attributes\"><code>block_bindings_supported_attributes</code></a> filter. This closes <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/64870\">a long-requested enhancement</a> and opens up synced patterns to custom blocks (<a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73889\">73889</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=\"dataviews-data-form-components-and-fields-api\">DataViews, Data Form components and Fields API </h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A substantial API update introduces new layouts, validation rules, grouping options, and picker improvements affecting plugins using <code>wordpress/dataviews</code>. 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Which, if you are a freelancer and you have not looked at your process, please do. I didn&#8217;t look at my process for like years, and I would just repeat the same thing over and over again. It wasn&#8217;t until I actually started hiring people that I realised that was even really a thing. I know that&#8217;s sad, but that&#8217;s the reality. So if you haven&#8217;t, definitely look at that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when it comes to AI, I think being able to use it for process and your SOPs and automation, that&#8217;s really where I think it&#8217;s actually going to make the biggest impact for agencies that do want to use AI.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because essentially, not every agency&#8217;s this way, this is a generalisation, but as a customer, or a client of an agency, they don&#8217;t see the difference between one website and another typically outside of the design, right? They don&#8217;t really know the technical know-how. But what they do see is, what is your workflow? What is your process? What is your touch points with them? And that&#8217;s ultimately what ends up being the product to your clients.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I think as an agency owner, being able to use AI to make that process easier, and more clear, to your clients is what will really allow you to thrive. Not necessarily, just the content and executing building the website. Sure, AI may be able to help there, but that actually goes into the bigger process in my opinion.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:10:01] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so we&#8217;ll definitely get into all of those, but I think basically the case you are making is that there is a there, there. There is something behind the AI that could definitely improve things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think it&#8217;s fairly unlikely that anybody listening to this podcast hasn&#8217;t dabbled in some way with a little bit of AI, but maybe there&#8217;s a handful of people out there who genuinely haven&#8217;t. And the last 20 years have been marked by fairly gradual improvements in things. You know, SaaS apps came along and they gradually improved and one superseded another. But again, it was incremental.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But over the last three or four years, I think that&#8217;s all gone out the window. Incremental&#8217;s no longer really a word. It&#8217;s seismic this week, seismic next week, seismic the week after that. Keeping up is going to be difficult. But anyway, needless to say, you are going to make the case that there are areas where AI smuggled into your business is going to be useful.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can I just ask at the beginning, do you in any way show the AI to your clients? In other words, is there a moment where they get to see behind the curtain, oh, Matt, look, he did that with AI, or do you kind of have this curtain which protects you from the client, so that they never see that you are using AI? It&#8217;s a bit like how everybody who was a freelancer always uses the word team. They sort of pretend that there&#8217;s like nine of you, but there&#8217;s actually only one of you. So it&#8217;s a bit like that. Do you hide the AI from your clients or do you let them know that this is what you&#8217;re doing?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:11:30] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> So when it comes to the product, we definitely let clients know if we are using it in their product. Because I think, at least from my ethical standpoint, I think you should do that. I don&#8217;t want to be in a case where we&#8217;re not doing that. But I do think when it comes to your process and internal workflows, no, we don&#8217;t typically need to do those things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only time we would do that is if we&#8217;re actually working with a client to improve their internal processes with AI. Then they may be seeing a parallel setup to what we&#8217;ve done, even at our own agency.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:11:58] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. There are some people who kind of revel in the, no AI, if you like, so they make that a badge of honour within their business, whether it&#8217;s an agency in the WordPress space or anything else. And so obviously they would probably want to proclaim from the rooftops that they&#8217;re not using any AI. But I think yours is a fairly standard position. You know, if it doesn&#8217;t actually affect what they&#8217;re doing day to day, why would you need to use that? In the same way that you don&#8217;t need to tell your client, well, we&#8217;re using Salesforce in order to communicate with you. It&#8217;s just, there&#8217;s the URL, go to that and type your ticket in there and so on.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So your second point, why now? Why is it important right at this moment? So we&#8217;re recording this, I don&#8217;t know, towards the end of April, let&#8217;s say that, 2026. Is this like some sort of red line in the sand? Are we about to enter a Rubicon moment where we can&#8217;t go backwards?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:12:47] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Well, I don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s seismic every week as you said. So I do think the gap is widening between agencies that are not using AI and using AI. But that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean, in my opinion, you should just like hop on the AI train if you&#8217;re not currently deep in it. You do have to think about what makes sense to your agency and what you&#8217;re comfortable with.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I think it really comes back to the fact that execution is becoming a commodity more and more, at least in the web agency space. If you&#8217;re building a brochure site, right, those tools are essentially becoming more and more replaced. Just like drag and drop builders came in and now this is kind of, in my opinion, the next iteration. It&#8217;ll be less about the execution of building a simple website. It&#8217;ll be more about, what is the true value of your agency to that client?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which in a sense is not a bad thing, because this was always an argument before. You know, are you an agency that builds solutions for clients? It makes them money, or saves them money. Or are you an agency that just executes what they say? And there&#8217;s definitely a place for that. I think there will always be a place for that, but I think when you look at like a brochure site, it&#8217;s harder, I think, to make that argument than if it&#8217;s like an e-commerce site or a custom app, because the tools are just getting better.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So as an agency, I think there is an edge here with AI because clients are going to have higher expectations. You&#8217;re going to compete against companies that are using AI to do better touchpoint, to do more touchpoints, to having a better process.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, of course, that is dependent if they implement AI correctly, right? User error and AI is like any technology, that is definitely a major concern, guardrails, all that good stuff. But I think that is why this is the time, because if you&#8217;re not already looking at it, your competitors are definitely looking at using it in some capacity.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:14:40] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Just something you said really struck home there. You said execution is a commodity. I&#8217;ve never heard that phrase, but that encapsulates so much, so well. I think that&#8217;s really interesting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I also share your moment in time analogy because I think we are at some moment where the seesaw, I don&#8217;t know if you use that word where you come from. The seesaw is definitely tipping to the point where, in the part of the world where I live, virtually everybody is aware of it. We mentioned that maybe there&#8217;s fatigue about it, but certainly almost everybody has had some exposure to it. They&#8217;re now aligned with what can be done, and at what cost, and for what amount of time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so it does feel like if you were to go and say, I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m going to build you a $5,000 brochure website with two pages, maybe a few years ago that was much more credible than it seems like now. And so this horizon of expectations is opening up. And it&#8217;s not just because we can do it, it&#8217;s because the clients, they know we can do it. And they know that things are going to be cheaper to produce en masse in the future.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I think you&#8217;re probably right. So again, you&#8217;ve made the case for, this is the time. So not just that this is a good idea, but this is the time. Anything else to add onto that before we move on to your next one?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:15:56] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> The only thing I would add to that is, you know, AI could be an edge for you. It could also be not using AI at all, because ultimately it&#8217;s about the value you&#8217;re providing, again, to your client. So you may be able to build a two page, $5,000 website using AI, but essentially if you&#8217;re able to provide value to that client in some other way, whether it&#8217;s your sales process, your overall process, your personality, whatever it is, that all plays into this. So I would keep that in mind.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But overall, you are correct. I think the floor is rising for everyone. And this is real dark, but AI to me only showed us that a lot of the work we do day to day, it&#8217;s just not that special, it&#8217;s execution. And that just means we need to be spending more time on the strategy and the value to the client, whether that&#8217;s using AI or not. But I think using AI to at least look at that is a good idea, if you haven&#8217;t done that up to this point, I think it&#8217;s the time to at least look.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:16:54] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I expect the calculus that&#8217;s going on in most, and I&#8217;m using air quotes here, normal people&#8217;s heads. So when I&#8217;m talking about that, I mean non-technical clients who might be coming, looking for a website for their bricks and mortar shop or whatever it may be. The calculus of AI is just this shrinking of time. The thing which probably would&#8217;ve taken a week to do, you know, okay, I&#8217;m going to phone you up, we&#8217;re going to set up a meeting, we&#8217;ll have that meeting, we&#8217;ll back and forth what we might want. And then a week or two later, you&#8217;ll show me a few wire frames or something like that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That all seems now to have been crunched into literal minutes. That&#8217;s no longer a secret. I think at the beginning of the AI, movement, let&#8217;s call it that, a few years ago, I think there was a call that you could basically say, make more money, because the client&#8217;s expectations would be the same in terms of time, and the amount of expertise that was needed.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that seems to be shrinking as well, because now the clients are aware that the AI can do that thing. Look, you just knocked it up with AI in three minutes. No, we&#8217;re not going to pay you for six weeks for that kind of thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay so, right, there we go. So that&#8217;s the now. Then you move on to something that I&#8217;ve not even thought about before, which is creating an AI vision document. Now you&#8217;re going to need to explain what you mean by that I think.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:18:08] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Yeah, definitely. So the idea really with this is being more purposeful about adding AI. At least in the past, at my agency, you know, I&#8217;d wake up one day freaking out and be like, we&#8217;ve got to try to see how this works. Does this make sense to add AI to this process? And it wouldn&#8217;t be very purposely built. It would just be like, hey, let&#8217;s try this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And to some extent that experimentation is good, but at the same time, I think if you are a lot more methodical about that process, it will be better for the long-term use of AI. Because as I&#8217;ve said, I definitely have, maybe I didn&#8217;t say, I have hesitations about AI and I use it, right? I think that&#8217;s the paradox of what&#8217;s happening. A lot of people are using it, but we&#8217;re not all trustful of it. But we can see that there are potential gains and you want to be on the cutting edge.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But ultimately, the vision document, the idea is that you will create a document that outlines all of your processes at your company, at your agency. And see what are the things that you want to add AI to, what makes sense, things that are repetitive, that the team is losing time on, compared to things that really require human judgement.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it&#8217;s not just like shove AI into everything. This AI document sounds like that&#8217;s what it is. But it&#8217;s actually like, there may be many places we don&#8217;t want AI at all, or we may want to have a guard for human judgement. And I think that&#8217;s actually a really good idea to protect your agency from risk and really just your reputation. Because otherwise, I think a lot of agencies are just kind of, you know, yolo, adding it everywhere and not really thinking about it from a high level.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other neat thing you can do if you&#8217;re building this is, obviously you can use AI to help find patterns in your business from using your time tracking software to see who is working on what tasks, and what&#8217;s taking the longest. And being like, are these good places that we could use AI? Like I can connect Claude to Everhour that we use, and it can spit out who&#8217;s working on what in the past month. And I actually can get a good pattern, because one thing you can, I will say with AI is it&#8217;s pretty good at pattern recognition. That&#8217;s what it was built for. So if you just need like a high level idea, again, grain of salt, but at a high level, it&#8217;s pretty good at that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I think for a vision document, pulling all that data in, using AI and then setting these guardrails, figuring out what in your team&#8217;s processes you can build into a vision is a good idea. And that goes into the high level point I made, which was really, I think AI being used for more process and agency is the big thing here, more than anything.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:20:42] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I suppose if you&#8217;re the agency owner as well, and obviously agency could be like three people, two people, right up to, you know, several hundreds, maybe thousands, who knows. If you are at the, towards the top of that pyramid, let&#8217;s put it that way, knowing when and where it&#8217;s going to be used is really important. You need to know that, okay, our support, 80% of our support is going to be handled by AI. That&#8217;s the thing that we&#8217;ve leaned into. We&#8217;re going to do it that way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or maybe you are exactly the opposite. You know, we&#8217;ve learned, our customer base are very dissatisfied with the kind of answers that they get, because of the nature of our company and the expertise that we need to bring to bear. So we&#8217;re not going to do any AI for support.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But also development, to know, okay, this is the moment where you must stop using AI. When you run into this snag, we&#8217;re going to deal with that as humans. We&#8217;re going to huddle together, figure it out as humans, and maybe take it back to the AI at that point.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But having that overarching understanding, and writing it down. Having an SOP, if you like, for AI so that everybody&#8217;s on the same page and knows where it&#8217;s permissible and not permissible. So you mentioned you&#8217;ve got a whole laundry list of possible things. So it might be in the sales process, the delivery process, the proposal stage, project management, QA, launch. There&#8217;s a whole bunch on here.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeah, that seems like a really neat idea, and not something that I&#8217;d figured out. And it&#8217;s kind of like, keeps you honest in a way. It means that this is what we&#8217;ve agreed to do as a company, these are the boundaries that we&#8217;re going to set ourselves. And they can change, but for now, this is what they are.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:22:14] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Yeah. I think that even if you&#8217;re not, again, jumping in the deep end of AI, just having a doc like this will protect you so that I think you do have these guardrails with your employees or your contractors. You know who&#8217;s using what, and you can really protect your agency even if it&#8217;s not implementing more AI, right? I think it&#8217;s just a good idea.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And like you said, writing it down, it&#8217;s funny, it&#8217;s kind of like when you build your agency, you write your mission statement and your values and that really does do something in, I think, the human psyche when you do that. And I think that can be applied here with the AI vision document too.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:22:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I love your fourth point, which you&#8217;ve entitled, AI as a new core service offering. Because this feels like a really nice sweet spot. Because with the best will in the world, you and I, and probably a lot of the people that are listening to this podcast are very much into technology. We deliberately put ourselves in front of new tech, new features, new widgets, new gadgets, whatever. So we&#8217;re beguiled by it. But the truth is, we know there&#8217;s a lot of people out there that aren&#8217;t, probably don&#8217;t really want to get all that close to it. And so I think what you are suggesting here is, why not offer your AI expertise that you gain as an actual service to clients? Have I got that right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:23:24] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Correct. So essentially, like you said, if you&#8217;re already building up these new technology skills, being able to apply this directly in a, I would say in the proper way, right? Like we&#8217;re seeing, again, AI thrown in everywhere. You have to know your clients and your customers. They may not want to hear the word AI. What they may want to hear it instead is, hey, I can fix your business workflow and I can save you thousands of dollars, and we can automate this. They don&#8217;t want to hear the word AI, and that&#8217;s okay. But it&#8217;s essentially AI at the end of the day, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it may not be that the product offerings actually use the word AI. If anything personally, I&#8217;m kind of avoiding that, at least at our agency. Of course I&#8217;ll tell them it&#8217;s using AI, but it&#8217;s not what I lead with. I think it&#8217;s more about going in on, okay, what solutions can we provide clients and using this as a new offering, especially as a way to handle and mitigate what&#8217;s happening with brochure sites, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brochure sites I think are going to continue to drop and you need to provide value to clients. And I think getting closer to their actual processes, there&#8217;s a couple different ways you could do this. Like I know some agencies that are using AI to build custom web apps, like lightweight internal ones. Which I think can be helpful, but I have concerns around the risks and security of that because I do know some agencies that are, again, are just yolo building it. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re doing the due diligence. But I do think there&#8217;s a way that you can build, let&#8217;s say an app that used to cost 50,000 for 10,000 now, right? Or 8,000 and do it mostly like the right way, do human review of the code. So it&#8217;s still something that they couldn&#8217;t have done at all before. They couldn&#8217;t have had this custom internal app.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I think that is the argument for people that say, hey, I&#8217;m going to replace all my SaaS products. It&#8217;s not, in my opinion, you replace all your SaaS products. If you can build a SaaS internally that is built specifically for your business, and you feel like you can maintain and build it properly at the right cost, sure. You&#8217;re willing to do that. But if there&#8217;s a SaaS product out there that does exactly what you need, I&#8217;m going to pay the $30, and then go yell at that company. I&#8217;m not going to build it internally. So having these conversations with clients, if you&#8217;re going to build custom apps, I know I went on a little side tangent, but I think that&#8217;s really important say.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then the other one I&#8217;ll mention as far as AI core offerings is using more automation with tools like n8n or any of those Make type tools. n8n, I would say is a little more advanced, but the benefit is clients are hearing about AI, they realise it can do a lot, and starting to ask them, well, how can I help save you money or make you money in your processes? So productising or creating SOPs that are more automated. Even using those tools for your own customers, I think can be huge. Because then you&#8217;re really getting to value directly with them.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like, brochure sites, I think the problem is, it&#8217;s almost subjective sometimes the value, which I&#8217;ve always struggled with, depending on the client. But things like their processes and them seeing you automate this stuff, they see the value immediately. So it&#8217;s an easy sale that you can make. And you can provide that value, and potentially even get recurring income off of that. Because maybe you&#8217;re hosting the automation for them or you&#8217;re tweaking the automation. So those are some ways you can mitigate, I think what&#8217;s going on with AI.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:26:50] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> The next one, I&#8217;m just going to skirt over quite quickly because I think everybody can kind of grasp this. One of the things which AI is obviously superior, let&#8217;s go with that word, to the typical human, is its capacity to wrap its arms around a massive amount of data, and kind of make sense of its straight away.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the areas where I think you are saying this could be deployed pretty effectively is in things like marketing, where having an understanding of, I don&#8217;t know, geography, spending power in different geographical locations, what kind of products are going to service the market that you are launching into, and therefore how to build websites, pages that kind of react to that and will work well.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s the kind of thing that was always off limits to me. I wasn&#8217;t interested in the marketing side. Looking at that data, trying to digest that data, it was just never of interest to me. And now, I think everybody can understand that you point an AI in the right direction and it can draw conclusions, which are just so much more credible than somebody like me could summon up in six months of hard work, really.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:27:53] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Well,I mean I think you could sum it up, but I think you bring up a really good point, which is that with AI, it can pull in all this data and it can give you, I would say, summaries and next points that you just wouldn&#8217;t have done before. I actually think that&#8217;s the sweet spot with AI is, are we using this to replace a really good existing setup, or are we doing something that we literally couldn&#8217;t even do before because the client couldn&#8217;t afford it?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I think that&#8217;s what&#8217;s really neat is I can be like, okay, client, we looked through your Freshdesk, we looked through all the data you gave us. Here&#8217;s what we saw your personas. And before, there&#8217;s just no way, as an agency, I would be offering that at the budget that they could afford, or maybe the interest as an agency to do that. So I think that is, a really neat thing is, especially for small businesses, we can offer them services that they just wouldn&#8217;t even be able to have in the past at the budget that they have.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:28:46] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so really you are kind of broadening the product offering that you can have. I mean nobody here is going to advocate that you just use an AI and regurgitate whatever it says without some background knowledge that what you are saying makes sense. There clearly needs to be a bit of that. But the amassing of the data with some common sense, heuristics around what it is that the data is showing you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, that&#8217;s interesting. So maybe there&#8217;s some sort of low hanging fruit that previously you would&#8217;ve said no to and, look, we just don&#8217;t do that. You can now not only retroactively sort of say, yes, we now do that, but maybe even proactively say, look, we&#8217;ve got these other things that we can discuss as well. Okay, that&#8217;s interesting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right, here&#8217;s the next bit, and this is, I think if you are not an AI expert, and I definitely would consider myself in that bucket, I think this next one is some really great low hanging fruit to get you started. So this is, your number six, is AI inside agency operations. So this is using AI to make work easier, I guess would be an easy way to say it. So just run us through these points.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:29:51] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Definitely. So this is probably, if you&#8217;re familiar with AI, the most common uses. But essentially it&#8217;s going to be, you know, things like your meeting summaries, right? I think everyone has seen the bots that join in and, you know, there&#8217;s like 10 bots and there&#8217;s like two people and we&#8217;re like, are we in dystopia? Or it&#8217;s you and like 10 bots, and the other person doesn&#8217;t show up and you&#8217;re like, am I supposed to just talk to this bot? I think Mark Zuckerberg actually says he&#8217;s starting to have a bot fill in for him at meetings. Anyways, very dystopian.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when it comes to meeting summaries and that sort of thing, I think where it can be really helpful if you&#8217;re not using it, again is, in the past, if I was having these discovery calls where I may not actually land this client, I don&#8217;t want to spend 20 hours trying to figure out the perfect proposal for them. It&#8217;s just not worth my time, basically, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what this lets you do is it lets you, as an agency, do things you couldn&#8217;t do before, or you didn&#8217;t have the budget and resources to do. One would be on discovery. I can now take all the meeting notes, I can have it go to the client&#8217;s website and I can also have it look at my previous proposals. And I can have it put together a solution for this client, in terms of like what proposal makes sense for them.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To your point, I&#8217;m still going to review it. I&#8217;m still going to edit it. I&#8217;m still going to make sure that this makes sense, but I think that&#8217;s a perfect sweet spot again for AI. I know I keep saying it. Something I just wouldn&#8217;t have done before. I would&#8217;ve like, either I just spent 20 hours on it or sent a very generic proposal just to get something out the door. Now I can make it really a lot more nuanced because it can go through all that data.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if you&#8217;re not using it for summaries or proposals or SOWs, I think a draft version of that, it&#8217;s really good at those sort of things with combining all the data.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:31:36] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I am so surprised by how quickly that remarkable technology became utterly mundane. That is say that three years ago, the first time somebody dropped in a Zoom meeting with an AI bot, I thought, okay, that&#8217;s really unusual, what&#8217;s going on here? And then within three minutes you get the email after the call is finished and you see this perfect summarisation of exactly what you talked about, including correctly labelled next tasks for each of the individuals on the call.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That to me was, I was living in Star Trek. And now that just seems so pedestrian. And that&#8217;s remarkable. That&#8217;s the speed at which we&#8217;ve become adapted, and it&#8217;s become part of our modus operandi.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if you haven&#8217;t used those, it&#8217;s really worth a try because you will experience the amazement that I had three years ago. And then you too can become completely numb to how amazing it is really quickly.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It literally will take an hour of audio and spit out a basically perfect summary in 150 words or whatever it may be, and it will capture it perfectly. I suppose the rebuttal to that is, well, what do you do with that? If nobody does anything with that then, well, you haven&#8217;t really lost anything. You&#8217;re in exactly the same place as you were before, but at least you&#8217;ve got a written record of it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But like I say, that&#8217;s the low hanging fruit. They&#8217;re definitely things. SOWs, SOPs, meeting summaries, that kind of thing. Great idea.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, next one. Number seven. AI for support workflows. What&#8217;s going on here?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:33:04] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Yeah, so this one&#8217;s a little bit more about the actual operations. But I&#8217;ve talked to some agencies that are starting to really build into their support process AI tools. For example, using things like n8n, the automation platform, where it can digest your help tickets. And we&#8217;re not necessarily going to have it solve the problems, right? But what it can do, again, is it&#8217;s going to have access to a lot of data about that website. It may have access to your project management software, all the other tickets that came in.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And unlike a human where it would take hours to do this, so we just aren&#8217;t going to do it, it can do a really good job of essentially making sure that we can have all the information we need for the support person to do what they need to do, the support team, right? So it can even give good initial resolutions for the team to do, so that they can work through tickets faster.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s a good example of, we&#8217;re not replacing the human, we&#8217;re not trying to automate it so it emails back the customer. But what we are doing is we&#8217;re taking in all the context of, hey, it&#8217;s this client, they&#8217;ve had these other tickets, it has access possibly to the WordPress site, so it can even see the error logs. It may have access to the server APIs, so that it can actually see what&#8217;s going on with that server. And then it can basically come up with a resolution that is likely the issue.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And you are seeing a lot of, even hosting companies going that route, where they&#8217;re starting to have agents inside their hosting so that you can pinpoint issues in WordPress a lot faster than you could in the past. And again, I still want a human to review that, but I do think by doing that, you can get a speedier response to your customers, and you can cover more tickets without alienating your customers or making it seem like it was, you know, written by a robot with em dashes everywhere, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:34:54] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, you know what? I think this is a real area to tread carefully, certainly from my point of view, because I have definitely got AI bot fatigue. In that, there is some button that gets pushed when I find that I&#8217;m in a chat bot, and that is the only route that I&#8217;ve got through this whole system. I really dearly love to get in front of a human quite quickly. And I think a lot of people are learning that technique of, you know, the first thing you type is, speak to a human, or something equivalent to that. I think it&#8217;s really easy to misstep here, and misjudge people&#8217;s capacity to take AI only, or AI mostly or whatever.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This I think will be an interesting area to watch. And maybe this will be at the vanguard of when people express their frustration, you know, how much of this can you take? And monitoring that and keeping sight on when people&#8217;s, I don&#8217;t know, anger boils over because they&#8217;re not getting the service that they paid for or the service that they&#8217;ve come to expect or what have you. So, yeah. Anyway, that&#8217;s my 2 cents on that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:35:50] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Hundred percent agree. It&#8217;s the most sensitive portion in my opinion. I mean that&#8217;s your touch point with your customer when they&#8217;re most frustrated.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:35:56] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Right, that&#8217;s the pain moment. And introducing additional pain at the moment of pain is fraught with problems. And we&#8217;ve seen this play out in all sorts of other ways. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s the case where you are in your part of the world with telephone systems where you end up in this just infinite loop of, press three for, and then press four for. And then eventually you get back to, oh, well, I&#8217;m back to pressing three am I? Okay. And the anger boils over.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It feels like such a win. We&#8217;re saving time. We&#8217;ve got the AI to answer because it&#8217;s read all of our documentation. I&#8217;m going to guarantee that somebody will not be able to get what you think they ought to be getting with it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And dare I say it, what about all those dear people out there who really are unable to access the technology in the way that you anticipate, or the way that you can. Maybe they&#8217;re elderly, maybe they don&#8217;t have the capacity to do it. Maybe they&#8217;ve got accessibility needs or something like that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, number eight. AI assisted debugging and WordPress management. I like this. This is a good one.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:36:53] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Yeah, so we covered this a little. It goes along actually with the above point which is, one thing that I see other agencies, and we&#8217;re also doing this internally is, you know, you can obviously connect AI agents now to WordPress sites directly, obviously with guardrails in place. But it can connect to the REST API you have the Abilities API with Automattic. There&#8217;s third party solutions like Novamira out there that can actually work with the PHP code side of things. Your hosting companies often are actually building their own tools as well.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So doing all of that, debugging has been, I will say, has been dramatically improved, at least at our agency. Because it can do all of that and it can really find a nuanced solution where, you know, we could spend 10 hours trying to work on some weird PHP issue because, again, it can look at the whole picture. And I think that is where AI is very good, is when it&#8217;s a one-off thing, right? Where it&#8217;s just like, this is a one-off troubleshooting task. I don&#8217;t want to spend 10 hours learning exactly what this was. It&#8217;s likely going to get you there, and then you can obviously finish it up if it&#8217;s not able to get you fully there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But you can use these tools today to really reduce the amount of debugging and management you&#8217;re doing. And you can extend it. We&#8217;re not going to spend a lot of time on this, but doing edits on websites, a lot of page builders now are starting to build in syntax for agents so that it understands Gutenberg blocks. It understands how to edit and edit nested blocks. I&#8217;ve had struggles with Claude, where it would try to write nested blocks and it would just mush the whole page.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as these page builders are becoming better, and as WordPress becomes better, essentially WordPress becomes the infrastructure, right? And Claude is actually doing the work. You&#8217;ve heard that. And what I get out of that with the infrastructure is WordPress is the platform, it provides all the capabilities, but then the AI tool, mixed with the human, is essentially going to be managing the WordPress site. And it&#8217;s much easier to tell AI to do that than to go into the backend and make edits.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I am a little hesitant on just making free flowing edits, not checking the work on the actual website, or letting AI check the work. Some people are doing that. I&#8217;m not doing that. We&#8217;re saying, give us the link after every page you edit, and I&#8217;m going to go click it and I&#8217;m going to look at it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some agencies, they&#8217;re saying, okay, Claude&#8217;s going to go to the Chrome link and do that. Whatever you&#8217;re comfortable with, but in our opinion, there still needs to be human review. And I still don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s going to change, even if it gets better because until AI is as good as a human being, in the sense that we can trust it and it won&#8217;t lie. I give this analogy, right? You hire a developer, they lie to you twice, you&#8217;re probably going to fire them, right? But with AI, we just keep giving them a second chance. And, why?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:39:41] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Free pass every time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:39:42] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Why are doing that? And I think the way to mitigate that is you still have to have human review based on the risk factor. That&#8217;s really what it&#8217;s about.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:39:50] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I share your sentiment there. I think it&#8217;s very important to have a human in the loop. And usually at the end of whatever is going on, there needs to be a human just to do the sort of final summary and checking and what have you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the point that you mentioned there is, WordPress really has done an awful lot of work in the background to make itself AI ready. So a lot of the capabilities inside of WordPress, a lot of the things that you would normally have had to engage with the admin, with a mouse, or with a keyboard or what have you, a lot of that has been taken over.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we are very much entering an era where WordPress becomes almost like the scaffolding for the website in a way. And you can talk to the website through these AI agents, but in many situations, I think in the next five, six years, there&#8217;ll be a lot of people who will be never visiting the WordPress admin and clicking around and trying to find the menus for things because they will simply ask an AI.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can I change the clock to the 24 hour clock? Sure, done. And that will extend into everything. You know, I want that block to be, I don&#8217;t know, I want the text in that block to be bold, and have this particular font and yada yada, on it goes. And WordPress is doing a really incredible job at an incredible speed of laying that foundational work.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you haven&#8217;t looked at what the Core AI team are doing, there&#8217;s definitely some interesting stuff.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:41:06] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> It&#8217;s really neat.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:41:06] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, it&#8217;s, and I think that an interesting and commendable approach as well, because rather than trying to, I don&#8217;t know, hold everything into WordPress, it&#8217;s very much the opposite. It&#8217;s, we&#8217;re just allowing everything to communicate inwards to WordPress. And WordPress will just be the foundation upon which the whole thing resides.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, so we&#8217;ve got through 8 of what turns out to be 16 points in Matt&#8217;s comprehensive show notes. And just looking at the clock, Matt, we&#8217;re at it&#8217;s kind of 40 odd minutes, which is about the sweet spot. So I&#8217;m going to recommend that we split this up into a second episode. So this in effect, will be the first of a two part mini series, if you are okay with that. How do you feel? Is that all right with you?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:41:45] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Definitely. You know, I didn&#8217;t know we were going to dive this far into it, but I&#8217;m so glad we are. And I hope, you know, the audience is interested in staying around for part two.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:41:52] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. In which case, if you are happy with that, what we&#8217;ll do is we&#8217;ll knock it on the head, as we say in the UK, here. We will return next week with the second part. And I will advise people at that point to listen to the first part so they can keep up to date.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So we will see you in a week&#8217;s time. I guess all it remains for me to do, Matt, is to say thank you very much for joining me today. Part two next week. See you soon.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:42:14] <strong>Matt Schwartz:</strong> Thank you so much. Look forward to it.</p>\n</div></details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the podcast today we have Matt Schwartz.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matt runs Inspry, an Atlanta WordPress and WooCommerce agency. He started it back in 2011, and has been working with WordPress even longer than that. In addition to his agency work, he also has a product called CheckView focused on WordPress testing. He’s got years of experience in the WordPress agency world, and recently he’s turned much of his attention towards the growing impact of AI.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you’ve been hearing a lot about AI but are feeling fatigued by all the fragmented conversations, this episode might well offer a different perspective. Rather than focusing on how AI creates websites or content, Matt shares a different angle: how AI can be used inside a WordPress agency to enhance processes, improve workflows, and deliver more value to clients, with much of it happening behind the scenes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We start by talking about how Matt stumbled into web design, and how that led to him running his own agency. We dig into agency life, and why so many freelancers and agency owners are constantly iterating on their processes. From there, we talk about the ‘big shift’ that’s happening, not in just building sites, but in how agencies can use AI to streamline their SOPs, client communication, and internal operations.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matt explains the need for intention when adding AI to an agency. He introduces the idea of an ‘AI Vision Document’ that helps set guardrails and guidelines for where and how AI should factor into your business. He also shares real examples of ways AI can save time and stress in things like meetings, proposals, debugging, support, and even helping you expand your service offerings. We also touch on the risks, ethical considerations, and the importance of keeping a human in the loop during critical agency moments.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you’re running a WordPress agency, or are curious about how agencies are adapting to the rapid pace of change brought by AI, this episode is for you. This is part one of a two-part series, so listen to this and tune in next week for part 2.</p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\">Matt&#8217;s show notes for Part 1\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. Start With the Big Shift</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>AI is not just a content tool for agencies.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The more interesting shift is AI becoming part of the agency’s internal operating layer.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Agencies are using AI to improve how work moves through the business, not just to write blog posts or social content.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The real opportunity is combining AI with process, automation, QA, testing, and human judgment.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good framing line:</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest shift is not that agencies can generate more content. It is that smaller teams can now build systems, automate workflows, and create internal tools that used to be out of reach.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Why This Matters for Agencies Right Now</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Agencies are often differentiated less by the raw ability to build a website and more by their process.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most clients do not fully understand the technical difference between two agencies.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>What they experience is the agency’s communication, organization, speed, clarity, follow-through, documentation, QA, and ability to reduce stress.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>AI can help strengthen those process layers dramatically.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>That means AI is not just a production shortcut. It can become a differentiator in how an agency operates and how clients experience the agency.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good framing lines:</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most agencies are not differentiated only by the code they write or the designs they create. They are differentiated by their process, and AI can make that process sharper, faster, and more consistent.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clients often do not see the technical complexity behind the scenes. They see whether the agency is organized, responsive, clear, and proactive. AI can help agencies improve all of those touchpoints.</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The bottom part of the market is getting squeezed.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Simple brochure sites are becoming harder to sell at the same margins.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>AI website builders, templates, and cheaper offshore options are pushing agencies to provide more operational value.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>More technical agencies may need to move upmarket into:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Automation</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Custom workflows</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Internal tools</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Integrations</li>\n\n\n\n<li>QA and testing</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reporting</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Client portals</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Business process improvement</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good framing line:</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agencies may need to become less like website vendors and more like technical operations partners.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. Before Getting Tactical: Create an AI Vision Document</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Before agencies randomly add AI tools everywhere, it helps to create an internal AI vision document.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>This gives the agency a purposeful way to evaluate where AI actually makes sense.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>A lot of agencies are starting here instead of jumping straight into tools.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The goal is to map the agency’s existing processes first, then identify where AI can safely and meaningfully improve them.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The document should outline:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Every major agency process:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sales</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discovery</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proposals</li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOWs</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Project management</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Design</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Development</li>\n\n\n\n<li>QA</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Launch</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reporting</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Client communication</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Internal documentation</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where the team loses the most time.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which tasks are repetitive.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which tasks require human judgment.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which tasks are low-risk enough to automate.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which tasks should only be AI-assisted, not AI-owned.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which tools and data AI would need access to.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>What guardrails are required.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>What should never be automated.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>How success will be measured.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good framing lines:</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best agencies are not just asking, “What AI tool should we use?” They are asking, “Where in our business does AI actually belong?”</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Start with a map of your agency, not a list of tools. Then use AI where it actually removes friction.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An AI vision document helps prevent random AI adoption. It turns AI from a collection of experiments into an intentional operating strategy.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4. 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They welcome attendees and support sessions throughout the week, helping create the inclusive environment that defines a flagship WordCamp. Volunteering is also one of the best ways to meet people from across the global community and see firsthand how an event of this scale comes together. 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It&#8217;s the friendships and the stories.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Matt Mullenweg, WordPress Cofounder</em></p>\n</blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordCamp US continues a long tradition of in-person gatherings where contributors meet face-to-face to openly discuss the project&#8217;s direction. Whether you participate as a sponsor, take the stage, join the volunteer team, or help organize the event, your involvement shapes what the event becomes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To stay informed as ticket sales open and the schedule takes shape, <a href=\"https://us.wordcamp.org/2026/subscribe-for-updates/\">subscribe to WordCamp US 2026 updates</a>.</p>\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:7:\"pubDate\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Mon, 04 May 2026 18:10:10 +0000\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:14:\"Brett McSherry\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:26;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:21:\"\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"child\";a:2:{s:0:\"\";a:5:{s:5:\"title\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:96:\"Gutenberg Times: Block Format Bridge: A Practical Solution for AI-Generated Content in WordPress\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"guid\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:35:\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/?p=45482\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"link\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:106:\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/block-format-bridge-a-practical-solution-for-ai-generated-content-in-wordpress/\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:10641:\"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://chubes.net/\">Chris Huber,</a> developer at Automattic, released <a href=\"https://github.com/chubes4/block-format-bridge\">Block Format Bridge</a>, an open-source plugin that addresses one of the more persistent friction points in AI-assisted WordPress workflows: getting AI-generated content into the block editor reliably.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plugin takes a pragmatic approach. Block markup is notoriously difficult for AI to produce correctly — not because AI models lack capability, but because of how the format works. As Dennis Snell explained back in 2017 in his still-essential post <a href=\"https://fluffyandflakey.blog/2017/09/04/gutenberg-posts-arent-html/\">Gutenberg posts aren&#8217;t HTML</a>, a Gutenberg post is a serialized tree structure that happens to be stored as HTML with JSON-carrying comment delimiters. It was never designed to be written by hand — or by an AI inferring its way through a <code>save()</code> function it can&#8217;t actually execute. The result, for anyone building publishing automations, REST API integrations, or agent workflows that call <code>wp_insert_post()</code>, is a familiar failure mode: content that saves fine, then opens in the editor with invalid blocks or silently falls back to the classic editor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even a block as common as a styled quote illustrates the problem:</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The generated HTML should be treated as throwaway code.</p>\n<cite>Dennis Snell</cite></blockquote>\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\">&lt;!-- wp:quote {\"className\":\"is-style-large\"} -->\n&lt;blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large\">\n    &lt;p>The generated HTML should be treated as throwaway code.&lt;/p>\n    &lt;cite>Dennis Snell&lt;/cite>\n&lt;/blockquote>\n&lt;!-- /wp:quote --></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: #575279;\">&lt;!-- wp:quote </span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">{</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #56949F;\">className</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">:</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;is-style-large&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #797593;\">}</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\"> --&gt;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">&lt;blockquote class=</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;wp-block-quote is-style-large&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\">&gt;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">    &lt;p&gt;The generated HTML should be treated as throwaway code.&lt;/p&gt;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">    &lt;cite&gt;Dennis Snell&lt;/cite&gt;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">&lt;/blockquote&gt;</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">&lt;!-- /wp:quote --&gt;</span></span></code></pre></div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <code>className</code> attribute in the comment has to match the class on the HTML element. The <code>cite</code> tag must follow the exact structure the block&#8217;s <code>save()</code> function produces. Get either wrong and the block is invalid — and with more complex blocks like <code>wp:cover</code> or <code>wp:columns</code>, the surface area for errors grows considerably.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HTML to Blocks converter and vice versa</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Block Format Bridge sidesteps the problem by letting AI output what it does well — Markdown or plain HTML — and handling the conversion to block markup server-side, using established PHP libraries. It builds on <a href=\"https://github.com/chubes4/html-to-blocks-converter\"><code>chubes4/html-to-blocks-converter</code></a> for the write side, WordPress core&#8217;s <code>do_blocks()</code> for rendering, and <code>league/commonmark</code> and <code>league/html-to-markdown</code> for Markdown support.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The core API is compact and readable:</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\">/ Markdown → blocks\n$blocks = bfb_convert( \"# Hello\\n\\nSome content here.\", \'markdown\', \'blocks\' );\n\n/ HTML → blocks\n$blocks = bfb_convert( \'&lt;h1>Hello&lt;/h1>&lt;p>Some content here.&lt;/p>\', \'html\', \'blocks\' );\n\n/ Blocks → Markdown (for reading back to AI)\n$md = bfb_render_post( $post_id, \'markdown\' );</textarea></pre><svg fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><path class=\"with-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2m-6 9l2 2 4-4\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path><path class=\"without-check\" d=\"M9 5H7a2 2 0 00-2 2v12a2 2 0 002 2h10a2 2 0 002-2V7a2 2 0 00-2-2h-2M9 5a2 2 0 002 2h2a2 2 0 002-2M9 5a2 2 0 012-2h2a2 2 0 012 2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"></path></svg></span><pre class=\"shiki rose-pine-dawn\" style=\"background-color: #faf4ed;\" tabindex=\"0\"><code><span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">/ Markdown → blocks</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">$blocks = bfb_convert( </span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">&quot;# Hello</span><span style=\"color: #286983;\">\\n\\n</span><span style=\"color: #EA9D34;\">Some content here.&quot;</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\">, \'markdown\', \'blocks\' );</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">/ HTML → blocks</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">$blocks = bfb_convert( \'&lt;h</span><span style=\"color: #D7827E;\">1</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\">&gt;Hello&lt;/h</span><span style=\"color: #D7827E;\">1</span><span style=\"color: #575279;\">&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some content here.&lt;/p&gt;\', \'html\', \'blocks\' );</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">/ Blocks → Markdown (for reading back to AI)</span></span>\n<span class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #575279;\">$md = bfb_render_post( $post_id, \'markdown\' );</span></span></code></pre></div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also adds a <code>?content_format=</code> query parameter to the REST API, so AI agents can fetch existing post content as Markdown — not raw block markup — which makes edit workflows considerably more reliable.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The architecture is extensible. New formats can be added by registering a new adapter without touching the core bridge, and the <code>bfb_default_format</code> filter lets you declare that a custom post type writes in Markdown by default, so any code path calling <code>wp_insert_post()</code> gets the same conversion behavior automatically.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Does This Need a Skill?</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After sharing an early draft of this post with Chris Huber, he offered a perspective worth sitting with: this plugin is designed to <em>eliminate</em> a skill rather than add one.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Block Format Bridge is bundled as a dependency and the system prompt simply instructs the agent to insert post content as Markdown, the AI doesn&#8217;t need to know the plugin exists at all. A single line — <em>&#8220;post content should be inserted as Markdown&#8221;</em> — is enough. The conversion happens automatically, invisibly, in PHP. The complexity disappears into infrastructure rather than into instructions.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s a different philosophy from agent-skills, which is about making AI <em>aware</em> of patterns and tools. The more elegant approach here is the opposite: good tooling that makes the AI less aware, not more. An end user of a plugin built on top of Block Format Bridge would never know it exists — they&#8217;d just see valid blocks in the editor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A skill may still have a role for developers who don&#8217;t control the system prompt and need to guide agent behavior through other means. 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After so long without seeing each other, it’s awesome to get together in person — sharing ideas, storytelling, and just making real connections. In this digital age, those genuine face-to-face moments remind us how much it really matters to show up in person.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoy the people around you, friends and family. Speaking of which my next two weeks are all about that. We are on the road to a family reunion and the following weeks we get a visit from our long -time Canadian friends. I also will take another break on the weekend edition, though. Number 366 is scheduled to come out on May 23, 2026, the 77th Anniversary of the German Constitution. </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a wonderful weekend.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yours, <img alt=\"💕\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f495.png\" style=\"height: 1em;\" /><br /><em>Birgit</em></p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"0-word-press-release-information\">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Amy Kamala</strong>, co-release coordinator for WordPress 7.0, published an <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/2026/04/29/urgent-testing-request-to-web-hosts-for-collaborative-editing-by-may-4th/\"><strong>Urgent: Testing request to Web hosts for collaborative editing by May 4th</strong></a>. The results will inform core architectural decisions before release. The test suite needs only <code>bash</code>, <code>cURL</code>, <code>WP-CLI</code>, and <code>patch</code> — and the Core team wants data from your <em>actual</em> customer environments, not clean installs. 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You&#8217;ll see real-time multi-user editing in action, native AI Connectors for plugging in providers like OpenAI or Anthropic, a refreshed admin with Data Views, and a new Notes and Comments system for editorial teams. Block-level additions include heading variations, fit text, responsive editing mode, a native Icons block, and Visual Revisions. </p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"0-p\">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>WooCommerce</strong> team is actively exploring a <strong><a href=\"https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/64414\">DataViews-powered Product Catalog Management experience</a> </strong>that could improve how merchants handle large product sets. Led by <strong>Luigi Teschio</strong>, you can already test a working prototype via WordPress Playground. The shared blueprint installs WooCommerce nightly, Gutenberg, and sample products in one click. 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