Read onlineIssue #343 | October 4, 2025 Howdy, And just like that, the last quarter of 2025 has begun. It's been an interesting year again, and now we are on the home stretch, heading into a Holiday season. It's become my favorite time of the year when Autumn make nature paint trees and bushes in so many colors. After a life near evergreen Everglades of Florida, the middle European changing colors of the fall seems magical.

Birgit Pauli-Haack and Anne Katzeff discussed Gutenberg 21.6 and 21.7,  Block Theme Development, Block Themes and more Add a summary/excerpt here Show Notes / Transcript Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Birgit Pauli-Haack Show Notes Special guest: Anne Katzeff Gutenberg Times Live Q & A: Design Systems and Theme.json Hallway Hangout: Theme Building with Playground, Create-block-theme plugin, and GitHub Gutenberg plugin releases What’s new in Gutenberg 21.6? (10 September) Changelog 21.7 Transcript The transcript is in the works.

Read onlineIssue #341 | September 20, 2025 Hi there, A month before Beta, is the time I get excited about a major release. Many new features—I see it all coming together via GitHub and Trac. The Source of Truth is in the works, but it will take a few more weeks to be published, as only when Release candidate 2 comes out I can be sure about what actually made it into the release.

Automattic's Developer Advocates didn't hold back at WordCamp US. Jonathan Bossenger, Brian Coords, Birgit Pauli-Haack, and Ryan Welcher sat down for a no-BS roundtable about WordPress's future, AI's actual role in the CMS world, and the big question: Is WordPress still cool enough for the next generation of developers? This wasn't your typical conference panel with rehearsed talking points.