Hi there,
A release party is coming up on Tuesday, October 21, at 15:00 UTC for WordPress 6.9 Beta 1. It’s the first time for this release squad. Good luck!
Will you start testing WordPress 6.9 next week? You can use the Beta Tester plugin by Andy Fragen and install it on your test site. I am using WordPress Studio on my computer for systematic testing and prep work for the Source of Truth post to come out in a few weeks.
The WordPress Test team already published a few pre-beta calls for testing, you can work through, and they are preparing a comprehensive post for all of WordPress 6.9 testing for next week.
- Help test changes to template management
- Call for Testing: Ability to Hide Blocks
- Call for Testing: Accordion Block
WordPress 6.9 is a big focus of my work now. As always, I’ll keep you updated.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Yours, 
Birgit
PS: On Monday, October 20th, I will be on the 353rd episode of This week in WordPress show together with Michelle Frechette, Tim Nash, and the brilliant host Nathan Wrigley. You can join us live! 
PPS: This week, I celebrated the five-year anniversary of Gutenberg Nightly. 
Developing Gutenberg and WordPress
Yesterday, Matt Mullenweg talked briefly at WordCamp Canada, gave a demo, and then answered questions from the the audience. The wizards behind the scenes already posted the recording of the session to YouTube. WordCamp Canada 2025—Ma.tt Mullenweg “Town Hall/AMA”. If you rather read about the talk on Mullenweg’s blog, WordCamp Canada Talk. He also added the Q & A transcript as well.
The latest episode is Gutenberg Changelog #122 – Gutenberg 21.8 and WordPress 6.9 with Beth Soderberg of Bethink Studio
If you are listening via Spotify, please leave a comment. If you listen via other podcast apps, please leave a review. It’ll help with the distribution.
Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owner
In his video AI Builds WordPress Blocks , Jamie Marsland introduced Automattic Telex and showed off about ten blocks he and other people built with it, like animated text, a countdown counter, and mermaid diagram and more. Check it out; it’s not only amazing, it borders on voodoo or magic.
Tammie Lister continues her October Challenge on the Blocktober.fun site. The latest blocks are Flip Card, Emoji Voting, Highlighter, Story Generator, Watermark and Make the logo bigger. You not only can try them all out on Telex and remix them with your own ideas. Lister also shares here elaborate prompts you can study and learn how to skill up your AI work.
Troy Chaplin released Block Accessibility Check v2.2! It introduces Heading structure validation, alt-text pattern detection and provides an upgraded URL checks with real TLD validation + dev environment support”Along with the new release comes a new dedicated website featuring improved docs, feature overviews, and developer API guide”. Chaplin wrote. The site is focused to assist content creators and developers alike.
Anne Katzeff shared how she created overlapping Columns with the Media & Text Block and little Additional CSS. The step-by-step instructions show you how you can build some dynamic layouts with the core block features.
Katzeff also posted a video of her process on YouTube. Overlapping Columns With the Media & Text Block.
Michael Manuel, WordPress VIP, posted a four-part series of short video: Behind the Build: How Christianity Today Modernized its Publishing Experience and how the team of WebDevStudios helped transform editorial workflows, infrastructure, and content operations for one of America’s most trusted media brands.
- Part 1: Editorial empowerment & workflow efficiency
- Part 2: Performance & platform modernization
- Part 3: Homepage & design system overhaul
- Part 4: Content migration & CMS modernization
Brad Salomons, 8r4d Consulting, Ltd, created the Panoramic Slider Block to scratch an itch. With this block you can post your Pano photos from your phone camera as it provides horizontal sliding controls.
Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks
On the WordPress Developer Blog, Nick Diego published a Snippet on How to add custom blocks to navigation menus. It shows how to use the blocks.registerBlockType filter to extend the navigation block’s allowedBlocks array.
Elliott Richmond demonstrated how to create a block theme using Claude Code on YouTube. He built a theme from scratch with Claude Code, providing clear structure and Markdown tips for the AI tool. You’ll discover how to set up a CLAUDE.md file for AI-assisted theme development and how Claude works with the WordPress Block Theme structure.
Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor
Muhammad Muhsin senior engineer at Fueled gave a talk on Building a Web App with the Gutenberg Framework at WordSesh earlier this year. What is Gutenberg as a Framework? It’s a way to use the block editor in a JavaScript application outside of WordPress. Muhsin “built CareerVision.io using Gutenberg outside WordPress—a standalone React framework for block-based apps”. You can watch the presentation on YouTube now.
Ryan Welcher was the Pro WordPress Developer Watches AI Build a Custom Block… and is Blown Away! He put Automattic’s Telex to the test, to build a live audio visualizer block inspired by the classic iTunes music visualizer. The AI writes the React code, handles audio input, and even makes the block respond to live microphone sound, all in about 15 minutes. It’s an impressive look at how Telex could reshape the way developers build custom blocks for WordPress.
JuanMa Garrido, developer advocate at Automattic, livestreamed his ongoing discovery of the Abilities API. He explored how to register custom abilities, expose them to AI models, and understand how this fits into WordPress’ broader AI architecture alongside the MCP Adapter and PHP AI API. The recording is now available on YouTube.
Questions? Suggestions? Ideas?
Don’t hesitate to send them via email or
send me a message on WordPress Slack or Twitter @bph.
For questions to be answered on the Gutenberg Changelog,
send them to changelog@gutenbergtimes.com
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