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The first Release Candidate (“RC1”) for WordPress 7.1 is ready for download and testing!
This version of the WordPress software is still under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended to evaluate RC1 on a test server and site.
WordPress 7.1 RC1 can be tested using any of the following methods:
| Plugin | Install and activate the WordPress Beta Tester plugin on a WordPress install. (Select the “Bleeding edge” channel and “Beta/RC Only” stream.) |
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The scheduled final release date for WordPress 7.1 is August 19, 2026. The full release schedule can be found here. Your help testing Beta and RC versions is vital to making this release as stable and powerful as possible. Thank you to everyone who contributes by testing!
Please continue checking the Make WordPress Core blog for 7.1-related posts in the coming weeks for more information.
What’s in WordPress 7.1 RC1?
WordPress 7.1 RC1 contains more than 145 updates and fixes since the Beta 4 release, including 57 in the Editor and 88 in Core.
For an overview of what’s new in WordPress 7.1, read the Beta 1 announcement and the WordPress 7.1 Dev Notes. For a comprehensive summary, see the WordPress 7.1 Field Guide.
You can also explore the technical details of all issues addressed since Beta 4 using the links below:
- GitHub commits for 7.1 since July 29, 2026
- Closed Trac tickets for 7.1 since July 29, 2026
New Features since Beta 1
- Icons API: New APIs for registering icons and icon collections in Core, ready for plugins to extend.
- Speculative loading configuration: Speculative loading defaults can now be configured via environment variables and constants.
- Email notifications for @mentions: Email notifications have been introduced when mentioned in a Note.
- Shareable Revisions: Share links to specific revisions for faster collaboration.
Want to look deeper into the details and technical notes for this release? These tickets and pull requests are just some of the latest updates:
- #GB-79839: Apply globally: choose which modified block styles to apply
- #GB-80814: New responsiveEditingEnabled editor setting to hide responsive styles
- #GB-80107: Tabs: toolbar buttons to reorder tabs
- #GB-80046: DataViews: shift-click range selection
- #65636: Preload REST API requests fetched on editor load
- #65613: Notes are excluded from comment feed queries
- #65491: KSES allows the autofocus attribute on dialog elements
- #65517: Multisite upload limits are enforced when sideloading media from a URL
- #62757: Update the jQuery UI library to version 1.14.2
How you can contribute
WordPress is open source software made possible by a passionate community of people collaborating on and contributing to its development. The resources below outline various ways you can help the world’s most popular open source web platform, regardless of your technical expertise.
Get involved in testing
Testing for issues is crucial to the development of any software. It’s also a meaningful way for anyone to contribute.
Your help testing the WordPress 7.1 RC1 version is key to ensuring that the final release is the best it can be. While testing the upgrade process is essential, trying out new features is equally important. This detailed guide will walk you through testing features in WordPress 7.1.
Update your theme or plugin
For plugin and theme authors, your products play an integral role in extending the functionality and value of WordPress for all users.
Thanks for continuing to test your themes and plugins with the WordPress 7.1 beta releases. With RC1, you’ll want to conclude your testing and update the “Tested up to” version in your plugin’s readme file to 7.1.
If you find compatibility issues, please post detailed information to the support forum.
Test on your hosting platforms
Web hosts provide vital infrastructure for supporting WordPress and its users. Testing on hosting systems helps inform the development process while ensuring that WordPress and hosting platforms are fully compatible, free of errors, optimized for the best possible user experience, and that updates roll out to customer sites without issue.
Want to test WordPress on your hosting system? Get started with configuring distributed hosting tests here. Thank you to all web hosts who help test WordPress!
Curious about testing releases in general? Follow along with the testing initiatives in Make Core and join the #core-test channel on Making WordPress Slack.
An RC1 haiku
A candidate stands
the desert sun tests its strength
Arizona waits
Props to @krupajnanda, @annezazu,
@amykamala, @wildworks and @masteradhoc for collaboration and review
Transcript
[00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley.
Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the themes, the blocks, and in this case, reducing WordPress beginner anxiety in a multitude of ways.
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If you have a topic that you’d like us to feature on the podcast, I’m keen to hear from you and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to wptavern.com/contact/jukebox and use the form there.
So on the podcast today we have Priscilla Collado Ramirez. Priscilla travelled 14 hours from Costa Rica to attend WordCamp Europe, making her one of the furthest attendees at the event, and for good reason. She’s an educator, fashion designer and wellness coach, and has a unique perspective on a challenge many in the WordPress community face, how overwhelming WordPress can be for beginners.
Having once quit WordPress 17 years ago, due to information overload, and a lack of community support, Priscilla’s story comes full circle, as she now dedicates herself to helping entrepreneurs and creatives find their way in the WordPress ecosystem. Her work focuses on demystifying those first confusing moments, offering practical steps, and much needed reassurance for anyone who’s ever opened a fresh install and wondered, what on earth do I do next?
The conversation is focused on why newcomers often feel stuck, paralysed by too many choices, the classic it depends advice, and a fear of breaking something or everything. We get into the importance of understanding individual learning styles, whether linear or spiral, as Priscilla labels them, and meeting students where they are, sometimes with literal breathing exercises and wellness techniques to lower stress and unlock real learning.
Priscilla explains how confidence in WordPress is built through action, and why celebrating small wins, like successfully installing a single plugin, is essential. She also shares her approach to bringing holistic, calm, and patient mentorship into WordPress education, something that’s as relevant for agency leads as it is for first time bloggers.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by WordPress’ infinite possibilities, struggled to find your place in its community, or just want practical wisdom on making the path easier for beginners, this episode is for you.
If you’re interested in finding out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading to wptavern.com/podcast, where you’ll find all the other episodes as well.
And so without further delay, I bring you Priscilla Collado or Ramirez.
I am joined on the podcast by Priscilla Collado Ramirez. Although I know that’s not the correct way to say it, would you please say your name for me?
[00:03:44] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: It’s good, it’s good. I’m Priscilla Collado Ramirez, and I’m from Costa Rica.
[00:03:48] Nathan Wrigley: Well, I appreciate it. Thank you. You get the award without a doubt coming the furthest, I think, to WordCamp Europe this year. I don’t know how many miles it is, but you said, I think it was 13 hours.
[00:03:59] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, 14 hours on the plane. Today is travelling. But it’s all worth it, because this country in Europe, it’s beautiful. So I can do it all the years, all the months. Yeah, I can do it.
[00:04:13] Nathan Wrigley: I have to ask though, why come all the way across, so many hours on a plane and what have you. Do you have a community where you are? Is there a thriving kind of Costa Rican WordPress scene? I don’t know anything about it.
[00:04:28] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Okay. Yeah, in Costa Rica is a big community. It’s the biggest community in whole Latin America, in Costa Rica. I have a friend, she works for GreenGeeks web hosting, so she empowered me to do this. And the WordCamp Europe, because being a speaker is one of my dreams come true.
I already do it in my country, but I want to get more knowledge and know more people. And when she told me about this, I said, yeah, I can do it. Yeah, I want to do it.
[00:05:06] Nathan Wrigley: That is remarkable. A 13 hour plane journey. That’s pretty impressive. And I confess, I didn’t know that Costa Rica was sort of the place to be if you’re in South America. But now I do. Thank you. And I know that you’ve basically just come out of the presentation room, you’ve just finished the subject that you were talking about.
And the subject that you were talking about is really interesting to me at least, because this casts me back. I’ve been in the WordPress space since about, I don’t know, 2015, something like that. So I’ve got a few years under my belt.
But I do remember at the time when I began using WordPress, turning up to events like this and feeling a bit like a fish out of water, not really knowing what to do. Not really knowing what to do with the software, either. Not really knowing what I should install, whether I should install anything, whether I was using the best thing, or the worst thing or what have you. And that kind of was the nature of your subject.
But rather than me telling everybody what you were talking about, do you just want to summarise what it was that you stood up and presented about?
[00:06:02] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, of course. And I feel the same way that you.
Well, my talk is about why WordPress feels overwhelming for beginners. I was that beginner that I don’t want to install. And WordPress, it’s great, but sometimes gives you too many options, right? So for beginners, sometimes that options feels paralysing because we need to start with one at the time.
I saw all the topics for this event, and I think, yeah, maybe I can share a little bit of my story with WordPress. And I talk about, I quit WordPress 17 years ago.
[00:06:47] Nathan Wrigley: You quit it?
[00:06:48] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah. I’m a quitter.
[00:06:50] Nathan Wrigley: My story going back, oh, 12 years or whatever it was, that’s nothing. You got 17 years. That was when you quit. Okay, carry on. Sorry.
[00:06:58] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, no, 17 years ago, I was at university, and I was studying advertising and web design. I saw the options, too many options, too many things, I don’t know. And I feel overwhelmed. And I said, this is not for me. I’m so dumb. I’m slow. No, no.
And 17 years later, I’m here as an educator, and I help entrepreneurs and beginners to understand the WordPress environment.
[00:07:29] Nathan Wrigley: What brought you back then? After all that period of time away, what was the catalyst that brought you back? Why did you explore it again?
[00:07:36] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Because I have a fashion school, and I saw my students deal with web designers and sometimes they charging so much money. I see it in the beginners, in my students, I saw that we have a problem with understanding that sometimes the things are not too difficult. We can learn about new tools and new WordPress.
[00:08:06] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, so this was all about your students then. So this was an idea of, I guess the world is kind of an expensive place to be, and one expense that you can get rid of is the cost of your website. There’s tools out there. You can, if you wish to, build it yourself. And then you found WordPress again. How is it the second time? Did you ever go through, I’m going to quit it for a second time, or was it better the next time you came across it?
[00:08:29] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, and my brother is an engineer and I’m in like a category of non-technical people because I’m a fashion designer. I’m an educator, and I’m a wellness coach. And I think, yeah, maybe I can study a little bit, and if I use my education tools to understand how the brains for the creative people works and try to, out of the box, that sometimes the engineers have, and the creative people. It’s like a disorder, a disorder brain. I can help to these people to understand this environment in this community. And they can do it like I do.
[00:09:22] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. So we’ll get into the bits that you think are problematic with beginning with WordPress in a minute. But just going back to your students and what have you. How’s it been for them? When you are looking at what they’re able to do, has it been a road of success, or has there been quite a lot of failure for them? Basically sum up how your students have coped.
[00:09:43] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Okay. I don’t know, there’s two types of students, right? So we have the students that have a linear path learning. Some students learned like A, B, and C. Okay, you understand things easily. But some of them don’t understand the things like that.
So I try to create a platform, or we can call it like a type of education, and helps to understand, first how their brain works, and later understand the type of learning that I can teach.
[00:10:24] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, let me just make sure I understood that. So you try to figure out what their brain accepts most readily? And then once you figure that bit out, then you begin the WordPress education from there. Okay, that’s interesting.
And you say there’s kind of two types that you’ve kind of determined. And what are those two types?
[00:10:40] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Lineal.
[00:10:41] Nathan Wrigley: Oh, so I think probably linear, like straight lines.
[00:10:46] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, we have the straight lines and the spiral.
[00:10:49] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, yeah.
[00:10:51] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: So my mind is on the spiral. And that’s why I feel dumb in these technical environments. But I learned that if you learn some topic at the time and without the stress, you can do it and you can follow this community.
[00:11:10] Nathan Wrigley: So you just used an interesting word there. You said that you have felt, maybe you don’t feel it here, I don’t know if you do or not. But you said you’ve felt dumb in the past. You know, you’ve turned up to the events and you felt like a fish out of water, we might say that. Just. What the heck am I doing here? Where do I fit into this jigsaw puzzle?
And obviously you felt it long and hard enough that, firstly you left, and then come back, given it a second shot. So what are the things that you have felt dumb about? What are the things that have perplexed you in the past? What are the things that have drawn you to making this presentation?
[00:11:47] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: I felt in that time overwhelmed for the too many options. I feel that in that time in my country, WordPress wasn’t so popular and was a men’s environment. There’s no women. So I feel like, I don’t know, I’m not from, I don’t know what to be here. And now, four years ago, I’ve been talking with the women community on WordPress and I feel like, I don’t know, confident and they believe in my knowledge.
And I think that, yeah, I can do it again. I can approach to the community and I can learn, and I can be like a mentor too, and help beginners to understand that it’s not the technical environment. It’s how the community engage with your goals and can be used, and how can help with your goals.
[00:12:50] Nathan Wrigley: So I’m just going to dig into something you said a moment ago, which was about the community where you are. I don’t know if it’s still the same, but you implied that it was mostly men.
Have you found female WordPressers where you are? Or have you had to get on Zoom calls or something like that in order to find that community? Or has it grown so that it’s not just men where you are now?
[00:13:14] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah. I assist to the first women speakers in 2023. And I saw like, okay, this is a WordPress group for women. And that group was for speakers from WordPress, but women. So I was like, okay, WordPress is not only men’s, WordPress is not only technical people. And, well, I can approach to that community. 17 years ago wasn’t like that.
All men and square men. Because I know there is a lot of spiral men, but in that age, yeah, was like square men and my brother is a little bit like a square. And I was like, no, I’m funny and I want to talk, and I want to be a speaker and what. Now I feel that I can approach to my goals with WordPress because I changed my mind and my feeling about the community and WordPress.
[00:14:20] Nathan Wrigley: So just moving away from the community side and all of that kind of stuff, just dealing with the, actual software that you download from the internet and you put on a server somewhere, and then you begin to build a website. I presume that that’s part of this as well, that it’s difficult to begin because when you install a version of WordPress, you’re kind of left to your own. You know, there’s not really much in the way of assistance. You have to find the assistance somewhere. You have to a YouTube channel or some friendly person that will stand over your shoulder and help you out.
What are the sort of impediments, the problems that you think we have for people beginning with WordPress that you would like to be solved?
[00:14:58] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah. First of all that everybody thinks that WordPress is only a website. And I want to share this. WordPress is not only a website, right? It is a community. And you can approach and say, I wanted to learn about how to do a blog and how to do a website. But the community is more than that. I think that people don’t understand yet that what is WordPress?
[00:15:30] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. well I went for, I probably used WordPress for four years, maybe three and a half, four years, something like that, before I knew there was any kind of community. I mean I realised that there was something because the software got made. So I realised somewhere behind the curtain, there must be people doing this. And I’m getting it for free, so they probably are not getting paid mostly to do it.
But I didn’t attend because I didn’t know there was anything to attend. And then I showed up to an event in London, which was probably my closest larger event at that time. I was quite surprised. I was thinking, okay, so there were about 600 people there, I really wasn’t expecting that. I thought maybe there’ll be like 12 or 15 or something. Showed up, 600 people. And for me that was kind of the moment WordPress became a little bit more interesting, because I realised that, okay, it isn’t just pixels on pages, it’s not just the websites. There’s actually a whole community of people behind it.
And one of the things that I discovered fairly quickly was that those people shared, there was a lot of overlap between them and me. You know, just a lot of things in their lives seemed to sync with a lot of things in my life. We had broad agreement on a lot of things. We all wanted the project to be successful. And so discovering the community, like you said, was a really important thing.
But nevertheless, I still think I would’ve carried on using it even if I hadn’t of discovered that community, because by that point I’d got over the problem of what plugins to install and how to actually use the software.
Yeah. So let’s move on to that. In terms of the actual software, so we’ve got the community, we know that exists. What are some of the problems that you’ve seen, I guess with your students, or maybe personal experience? Some of the problems with the actual software. What are some of the things that you’ve encountered?
[00:17:21] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah. I encountered that there’s too many options, and the people do not know how to install. And that’s a beginner’s questions. Why should I install plugins, themes? And for technical people it is like, okay, it depends.
[00:17:39] Nathan Wrigley: Oh always it depends.
[00:17:41] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Always, it depends. And, for beginnings, that feels paralysing.
[00:17:45] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. That’s an interesting phrase, isn’t it? So when you mean paralysing? So we say it depends, meaning, oh, try everything. See what works. Where you are saying that in your experience, it depends means don’t do anything, we don’t know, not sure.
[00:18:00] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah. And the beginners don’t know what to do, right?
[00:18:03] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, yeah, that’s not helpful, is it, it depends, really when you say it like that?
Okay, so how do we overcome that? I don’t know what we do apart from keep saying, it depends. I guess we’ve got to try and encourage people to try this.
Okay, let me rewind a bit. So my parents, when I put the phone in their hand for the first time, the mobile phone, I had it all set up for them, you know everything was working, and I gave it to them and assumed that they would have the same approach as me. Which was, just play around with it and then you’ll figure it out.
Oh, no. No touching anything was, will I break it? Is this going to destroy it? If I press delete here, does that mean the whole thing’s going to like be, does this app going to disappear at this point?
So, I think that’s what you’re saying, is basically there’s this fear that if I install something and then I don’t need it, or I don’t like it, well then what do I do? Is it kind of that? This fear of it.
[00:18:59] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, because you feel overwhelmed, and you feel paralysing. And you feel like, okay, there’s a learning path, right? So we have the excitement. So, yeah, I’m going to do WordPress. Then confusing. What is this? And then it is like, no, I don’t know, maybe this is not for me because there’s so many options.
I try with my students to go one step at a time, and understand, first, what is a plugin? Right? Do you need a plugin or not? Do you need a theme or not? Do you need SEO plugin or, I don’t know?
So I am trying to, first of all, work with entrepreneurs because some entrepreneurs sometimes doesn’t get it. I don’t know, what is an email? How to send an email. They are so intelligent, and so capable to learn things, but sometimes, like as educators or mentors, we have in our minds that people learn easily. And sometimes it’s not. So you have to teach like a child. And not because the people was stupid, right? It is like because that people, the learning process is different.
[00:20:30] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I suppose you’ve got to just get to the point where you’re comfortable. So for some people who are, I don’t know, let’s go for the word technical. Technical people who’ve got a background in using computers, they do it all day, every day. And they experiment with new things. I suppose if you put them in front of WordPress, they’re off. They’re just going to do that kind of thing. But I totally get what you mean.
So for me, technology, I will experiment and I’ll play, because I know that nothing can basically actually break. If something goes wrong, I can just delete it. So I’m thinking about apps on my phone, on my computer, and WordPress, and plugins, and themes and all of this. I fully understand that nothing will kill it. Well, hopefully nothing will kill it, and I can just remove what I don’t understand.
But then again, you pick me up and put me into a different industry, I’ll be that person. I’ll be the person that needs the baby steps, I think you said that needs the child steps, because I’m not in familiar territory. So I can’t think an example off the top of my head, but pick me up, basically put me anywhere there’s no technology, and I will feel that same anxiety. What do I do? can you check that what I’ve done is safe? Okay. Can you double check? And will you triple check just to make sure that everything is safe. And I suppose that’s what you’re saying, is just little baby steps. get people into it. And once they’ve gone through the baby steps, hopefully they can act on their own.
[00:21:54] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: This is a phrase that I been thinking too much in this talk, because it is some word that you said, and you said about confidence. And I wrote that confidence does not come before action. Confidence is built through action.
[00:22:14] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, that’s true, isn’t it? And so everybody at some point has to go through that barrier. Some people seem to be full of confidence, regardless of what is, but there’s a lot of people who are not. And if you walk them through the baby steps I suppose, as you said, and tell them, do you need a plugin? What is a plugin? This is a plugin. How do you get a plugin to be put on your website? Can you delete a plugin? And then same thing with themes and custom code and all of those kind of things. And does that work? Do you notice that people go from like, ah, fear, to oh, this is all right.
[00:22:47] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: They think, this is not so hard that I was the, I will be. I don’t know, I have all types of students and all types of socioeconomic types. And I have students like 50 to 60 years old. And they think, no, I’m too old to think learning website, and learning design things. And I’ve been creative. The constructivist system is a strategy in education, the constructivist, and the principle idea is you learn by doing.
[00:23:27] Nathan Wrigley: Confidence through action, like you said, basically.
[00:23:29] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Exactly, exactly. And so you can be on the learning path, making little mistakes and getting more confidence to feel safe in the learning environment.
[00:23:42] Nathan Wrigley: Are you a patient person?
[00:23:45] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Sometimes.
[00:23:45] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. Because when I was earlier describing my parents and the phone, there’s kind of a bit of me, which when I’ve demonstrated the same thing nine times, and every time the output of those, okay, do it this way, do it this, okay, now do this, now this. And on the 10th go, it’s still the wrong thing in the exact same way. I just wondered if there was a bit of that? If there is just some impediments which, I don’t know, some people just never get over. If WordPress is just generally too hard for some people. Or do you always pursue it and succeed? Do you always get people through, and get them to that confident stage?
[00:24:23] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yes. Yeah, yeah. Every day. Yeah. Like every day. And I think that the mentor and the educator has to feel love with that work, and teaching with love, first of all.
And then, understand that people doesn’t learn in the same way. I can say older people because I’m older, and you saw an older people, and you think, this is older than me, but it isn’t.
[00:24:55] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. and some people are kind of, what, we would describe as kinesthetic learners. So they doing is the way. Some people are kind of auditory, and they hear the solution and they learn from hearing. And other people it’s visual. You know, they see the, watch a video and, oh, I’ve got that now. And I guess you’ve got to figure out which ones, how they fit in. If I show you once, you’re fine. If I show you once, well that’s not going to work. You’ve got to actually do it and copy me. And once you’ve figured out what kind of learners they are. You must have a lot of time for these people by the sounds of it.
[00:25:25] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, of course.
[00:25:27] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, and do you literally have an endless amount of time to educate them or do you have like a, I don’t know, you’ve got 10 hours or whatever it is and after 10 hours we’re going to get new people in? Or do you just stick with them throughout the whole journey?
[00:25:38] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, yeah. And most beginners and most entrepreneurs isn’t that way, right? And they’re so excited to understand the process. And when I explain how the brain works, they think, oh, yeah, it’s not the system, it’s me.
[00:25:59] Nathan Wrigley: But also I can do something about it.
[00:26:00] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah.
[00:26:01] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, okay. That’s interesting. Okay.
I’m going to give you superpowers for a minute. I’m going to say that you are in charge of WordPress entirely. It’s up to you what we do to improve this experience. What would you change? that could be the software. It could be education that you suddenly provide, you know, you would whip up many, many courses or whatever. I don’t know. I’m just curious to know what you think.
So again, superhero powers. You get to decide the future of WordPress. What little changes would you make here and there?
[00:26:32] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: I’m going a little bit too far off WordPress, and I’m going to bring wellness tools first.
[00:26:41] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. So it gets bigger.
[00:26:42] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, it’s bigger. I’m a wellness coach first of all, and first you have to try to understand the stress, and your mind. And then you can learn. I feel like my superpower will be an educator in wellness first, because we have to manage the stress of learning.
[00:27:04] Nathan Wrigley: So you have to approach the computer, but calmly. You have to get there and arrive in an equanimous state. Nice and calm.
[00:27:14] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, and understand that the delete button doesn’t exist. Because you are going to learn that, yeah, you can delete it, but you are going to breathe, and stay calm, and you won’t be delete anything because you, on the learning process of your mind understanding that everything is a process.
After that, I have an idea, I don’t know my superpower, I would like to do the mentor of the mentors first.
[00:27:49] Nathan Wrigley: Oh, teach the teachers.
[00:27:51] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, yeah. Because we have mentors in WordPress, but the mentors sometimes doesn’t study at the university education, right? Is an engineer trying to teach another engineer, or an engineer teach to entrepreneur or a beginner, so their minds works different.
[00:28:14] Nathan Wrigley: Yes. I’ve encountered this in the real world. You know the educator who gets really angry with you and tuts, sort of goes tut tut, because you’re not doing what the way they would do it. It just turns out that, if you just ask me in a different way, I’ll probably figure it out.
[00:28:29] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, exactly.
[00:28:30] Nathan Wrigley: Sorry I interrupted, carry on. So educating the educators.
[00:28:33] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: And in all the fields is the same way, because I’m a fashion designer too, but I have to learn how to be an educator, and how to try to explain some things to my students and try to get off to my mind box.
So I want to make some changes too, and add some of these tools on WordPress. I don’t know, maybe this is my superpower, like be a spiral mind.
[00:29:07] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, yeah. But I think teaching the teachers. So I think we would use the word pedagogy for that. Meaning, how to teach basically. The science, if you like, of imparting knowledge. And maybe there is nothing like that at the moment. And if there isn’t something like that, it would be interesting to explore how different people with different minds and different approaches. Maybe your first idea of everybody approach the computer in a calm way. Maybe that gets rid of some of that problem. At least we’re approaching and we’re not getting we begin.
But I think you’re onto something there, in that I know that I don’t learn in the same way as my children do. I don’t learn in the same way as my parents do. And so having that in the background, and educating the educators so that they’re aware that those kind of things exist.
Okay, you’ve still got the superpowers. Is there anything else that you would do before I take them away?
[00:29:56] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Okay, okay. I think that understand the brain is a supercomputer. It’s also a big topic because you can programming your mind. I would love to teach that people can programming itself. I don’t know what other superpower.
[00:30:17] Nathan Wrigley: Well that’s okay. You’ve had it for probably about five minutes now. That’s more than most people get.
So yeah. So in your experience, I know that you are obviously trying to overcome this problem, and it sounds like you get most people through it, and people manage to come out the other side and are, you know using WordPress successfully. But despite that, do you still think out there in the wider community, not where you are, do you still think that people are being turned off by the problem at the beginning of, I don’t know what to do. I think that I should be able to figure this out, but I can’t. I’m frustrated. It’s annoying me. Ah, move on, or forget the whole thing altogether.
[00:30:53] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Okay. I give you some tools. I wrote it. Limit the choices. Yeah, because one plugin at a time. Yeah, understand one topic at a time.
[00:31:05] Nathan Wrigley: When you say that, are you, meaning, let’s say for example, that we’re getting into the, oh, I don’t know, the realm of SEO, we’ve managed to get into that subject. We know that there’s like 500 SEO plugins. Just show them one, just pick one, concentrate on that one and figure out how that works. And then maybe reveal that there’s others or something like that.
[00:31:25] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah. But sometimes, maybe I have to understand your world first, and maybe you don’t need SEO tools? Because maybe you wanted to sell, I don’t know, plants. So do you really need a SEO plugin? Yeah, maybe not. So I have to understand your business first, or your purpose first, and then I can share you one plugin for that.
[00:31:56] Nathan Wrigley: Right, so, but at the end of the day, it’s still limit it rather than the plugin overwhelm. 78,000 plugins on the repo or whatever it is. One at a time is probably for a beginner more than enough. Learn how to install it. How to uninstall it. Learn the kind of things that you can do with it, whether that’s SEO or a form plugin or whatever. Okay, it looks like you’re ready for another one, yeah.
[00:32:15] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah. I have, normalise confusion.
[00:32:19] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, so be happy with being confused and muddled up.
[00:32:23] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, because it’s a new topic for you. So you have to understand that it is fine if you feel confusion, because your brain is adapting to that learning process.
[00:32:34] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, we’re not good at that, are we? We’re really good at being annoyed by confusion. Confusion’s the enemy in many ways, isn’t it? But it’s really not. I mean, who can expect to learn something new and immediately understand everything? No, but we don’t allow ourselves to do that, do we? We get annoyed with confusion.
That’s a good one. I like that. Carry on, sorry.
[00:32:54] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: And celebrate the small wins. I’m doing right now. I’m realise that I have to celebrate the small wins, because sometimes we overwhelm and have too many expectations. It is one step at a time, baby steps.
[00:33:11] Nathan Wrigley: So that one is basically when something goes right. So once you’ve got over your confusion and something’s gone right, sit back, examine it. Ah, well done. Pat on the back kind of thing. Yeah, okay. That’s nice.
[00:33:22] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah. And emotional reset tools.
[00:33:26] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. You’re going to have to explain that one.
[00:33:29] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Okay. I’m going to explain you here, because I want to explain you pretty well, and sometimes I get I stuck in the language.
Okay, when beginners get frustrated, we must do simple pauses, like breathing. The process of breathing is called pranayama. In pranayama is the art of the breathing. When we born, the first thing that I will do is breathe. And when you are crying, the people say, no, no, breathe, breathe, right? And when you are, I don’t know, when you swimming, and you.
[00:34:09] Nathan Wrigley: Drowning maybe.
[00:34:11] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Drowning yeah, you want to breathe. So the breathing is so important.
[00:34:16] Nathan Wrigley: So this is part of the pausing thing. Just pausing, breathing, okay.
[00:34:20] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah. They also reduce the cognitive overload. And help beginners continuing learning with more clarity, that regulates the brain and the stress.
[00:34:32] Nathan Wrigley: So I don’t think I do any of those things when I’m learning. I just sort of plough on and expect myself to do really well. And when I don’t, I get miserable and annoyed. And I don’t ever think about, okay, calm down, breathe, congratulate yourself. The thing is I mostly do learning by myself. You know, I’m in a room and I watch a video or I read something, and so there’s nobody there to tell me to breathe, calm down, relax, congratulate yourself. So I’m glad these people have got you in their lives to, make all of this happen.
Sorry, carry on.
[00:35:03] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: No, no. And one of the phrases that I want to the people understand is the learning doesn’t happen in stress. It happens when the mind feels safe enough to explore.
[00:35:19] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, well I can identify with that. That makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? When you’re uptight and worried about things, nothing sticks ever, does it? So back to calm, I suppose.
[00:35:30] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah yeah.
[00:35:31] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, that’s all good advice. Yeah I wish I could do it.
[00:35:36] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah. And sometimes, yeah, the people feel overwhelmed with the stress first. I have too many mentors that causing me stress and, I don’t know, they don’t give me confidence in anything of I been learning.
[00:35:55] Nathan Wrigley: It sounds to me like what you are proposing. We would probably call it holistic. So it’s treating the mind, the body. They’re the first bits. If you haven’t got those intact and working for you, it doesn’t matter how many times you read that book, you’re never going to learn anything.
[00:36:12] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: But sometimes the word for holistic for technical people is like you’re a hippie.
[00:36:17] Nathan Wrigley: Well, there is a bit of that, isn’t there? I think technical people often have an approach to this kind of stuff, which is fairly dismissive, sort of at arm’s length. Because it’s not science, if you know what I mean. It doesn’t sort of come under that umbrella. I wonder how much resistance actually, if I put you in, you know, had a chat with a thousand of the people out there at the moment.
[00:36:38] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Oh, the people go away.
[00:36:38] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, okay. Okay. But you know it works. And everybody knows this kind of stuff works. Because if you’re calm, I suppose the difficulty would be, you’ve got to allow yourself to accept that you need to be calm, and you need to be approaching it in this kind of way. And that’s difficult. I would find that quite difficult. You know, if I came to your educational institute, if you like, if you were teaching me WordPress, there would be a bit of me at the beginning, which would be thinking, okay, just tapping the watch, and thinking when does the WordPress begin?
And you are probably saying, we need to be calm now, you know? So I guess you’re going to have to fight that fight.
[00:37:13] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah. Yeah. And last year I was a speaker in my country, and I’m talking about how manage the stress, the people that works like eight hours on the computer. You can use too many tools to release the back, the breathing. And everybody needs release the stress. Sometimes in technical environments, the people don’t engage with the holistic path because they think that.
[00:37:46] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. I confess I’ve had years of doing that kind of stuff. Just expecting my body to be able to keep pace with whatever I’m doing, and expecting that if I sit in a chair for 12 hours, that everything’s going to be fine. I’m just going to stand up and walk away. And of course, it’s not.
Do you know, it’s really interesting, I don’t know that anybody’s doing this. Maybe you know a load of people that are carrying out this kind of a practice. But it feels like you’ve kind of, forgive me if I’ve got the wrong language here, but it feels like you’ve kind of bolted something close to meditation onto technology. Which is really curious, because I don’t know that anybody, maybe this is common where you are. I don’t know, but.
[00:38:27] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: No, it’s not. It’s not because I’m a sound therapist, and I’m a sound healer. The sound can heal you. I am trying to people understand that you can’t live like a computer. You are not a computer. You can program in your brain like a computer, but you are not a robot. And you need to stop.
[00:38:51] Nathan Wrigley: I think, we’re too attached to our devices, aren’t we? I think whenever the mobile phone came along, we finally gave up free time. And email is there 24/7. Social media’s there 24/7. Technology’s there 24/7. Yeah, breathe is basically what you’re saying.
[00:39:10] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah. And in my country, no, it is not common. It is not common and it is a little rare. And maybe in another country it is normal to finish your labour at work and meditate one minute.
[00:39:26] Nathan Wrigley: Oh no. Nobody does that where I live, no.
[00:39:30] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: I don’t know if there is any country, doesn’t do it, right?
[00:39:32] Nathan Wrigley: That would be nice. Yeah you’d probably feel really good after that.
[00:39:35] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Maybe in China? Maybe Japan?
[00:39:38] Nathan Wrigley: Maybe where they a different approach to living. Do you want to roll your thing out? The way that you are doing this, do you want to roll that out to other people? Do you want people to kind of approach you and, I don’t know, study what you are doing, and then go off and do that kind of thing elsewhere? Is that part of why you’ve come to an event like this? To sort of preach the gospel of this idea, this way of learning?
[00:40:01] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Yeah, yeah. I would love to. I would love the people understanding maybe, I don’t know, create me a plugin about wellness. I don’t know.
[00:40:12] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, so anybody listening to this, Priscilla wants communication with people who think they might be able to step in. I know of several people who have, let’s say things like meditation as part of their daily ritual and things. In which case, anybody who’s listening to this, where’s the best place to find you online? If people want to get in touch and talk about these wider problems, education, learning, calming down, meditation, those kind of things, where would we find you?
[00:40:37] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: On Gravatar. On WordPress page, and Instagram too.
[00:40:42] Nathan Wrigley: I think I’ve got the details of most of those, but if I don’t, I will get them from you, and I will put them on the WP Tavern website. So if you search for the episode, dear listener, with Priscilla in it, I don’t know the number of that episode just yet, but if you search for the episode with Priscilla in it, if you’ve got intuitions that you’d like to help out, go and find this episode and you can reach out. And you never know, maybe something will come of that.
So Priscilla, thank you for chatting to me today.
[00:41:07] Priscilla Collado Ramirez: Oh, thank you too. And remember to breathe.
On the podcast today we have Priscilla Collado Ramirez.
Priscilla traveled 14 hours from Costa Rica to attend WordCamp Europe, making her one of the furthest attendees at the event, and for good reason. She’s an educator, fashion designer, and wellness coach, and has a unique perspective on a challenge many in the WordPress community face: how overwhelming WordPress can be for beginners.
Having once quit WordPress 17 years ago due to information overload and lack of community support, Priscilla’s story comes full circle as she now dedicates herself to helping entrepreneurs and creatives find their way in the WordPress ecosystem. Her work focuses on demystifying those first confusing moments, offering practical steps and much-needed reassurance for anyone who’s ever opened a fresh install and wondered, “What on earth do I do next?”
The conversation is focused on why newcomers often feel stuck, paralysed by too many choices, the classic “it depends” advice, and a fear of breaking something (or everything). We get into the importance of understanding individual learning styles, whether linear or spiral (as Priscilla labels them), and meeting students where they are, sometimes with literal breathing exercises and wellness techniques to lower stress and unlock real learning.
Priscilla explains why confidence in WordPress is built through action, and why celebrating small wins, like successfully installing a single plugin, is essential. She also shares her approach to bringing holistic, calm, and patient mentorship into WordPress education, something that’s as relevant for agency leads as it is for first-time bloggers.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by WordPress’s infinite possibilities, struggled to find your place in its community, or just want practical wisdom on making the path easier for beginners, this episode is for you.
Useful links
Why WordPress feels overwhelming for beginners – Priscilla’s presentation at WordCamp Europe 2026
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This episode discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on human skills and connections, emphasizing concerns about overdependence on technology, authenticity in communication, and the importance of retaining essential human abilities.
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Matt: Gabriel Dawe
New artist I’m obsessed with: Gabriel Dawe. I love the colors and craft, very Mesh. If his site were on WordPress, we’d definitely commission some pieces. Hat tip: Jason Nichols.
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In episode 133 of the Gutenberg Changelog Podcast, Birgit Pauli-Haack hosts Faith Ruth Imokol, a Ugandan web developer and longtime Gutenberg advocate, to discuss the Gutenberg 23.6 release and the upcoming WordPress 7.1 update. The episode opens with insights into the WordPress community in Uganda, highlighting their active WordCamp scene and educational initiatives such as the Campus Connect program, which introduces WordPress to students across the country.
Faith Imokol shares her experience on a recent WordCamp Kampala panel about AI in web development, noting divided perspectives: while some Ugandans are excited about AI’s possibilities, others are concerned about job security and adaptation. She describes her personal transition into using AI as a collaborative development tool, driven by the need for faster production due to heightened competition.
Discussion moves to WordPress 7.1, covering new features such as customizable viewports via theme.json, expanded notes and commenting capabilities, enhanced SVG icon registration, and improvements to blocks like playlists and tabs. Both speakers are enthusiastic about the collaborative features and the evolving editorial workflow, particularly the granular notes system for streamlined feedback.
The episode emphasizes community feedback’s role in shaping new releases and encourages listeners to help test upcoming WordPress versions to ensure quality and translatability. The episode closes with practical tips and excitement for ongoing educational outreach and future Gutenberg advancements.
- Editor: Sandy Reed
- Logo: Mark Uraine
- Production: Birgit Pauli-Haack
Show Notes
Special Guest: Faith Ruth Imokol
WordPress Events in Uganda
Upcoming Events
- WordPress in Education Showcase 2026 August 7, 2026
- WordCamp Lira 2026 29+ 30 August 2026
- WordCamp is in Jinja 19th – 20th September 2026
- WordPress Campus Connect Central and Eastern Uganda Schools 2026
Past 2026 Events
- Uganda Website Projects Competition | 2026
- WordCamp Masaka
- Campus Connect in Masaka
- Campus Connect Kakumiro
WordPress 7.1
More Developer Notes for WordPress 7.1
- Client-Side Media Processing
- Text shadow support in global styles
- Media library infinite scroll enabled by default
- Editable blocks inside Custom HTML block
- Editor Components updates
- Registering and rendering SVG icons
- Min width block support
- Background gradient block support
The post editor is going full iframe: what block developers need to know before WordPress 7.1
Video w/ Ryan Welcher: iframed post editor canvas
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Transcript
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Welcome to our 133rd episode of the Gutenberg Changelog Podcast. In today’s episode, we will talk about Gutenberg 23.6 release and some WordPress 7.1. And that should be enough for today. I’m your host, Birgit Pauli Haag, curator at the Gutenberg Times and full-time core contributor to the WordPress Open Source Project sponsored by Automattic. And today I’m very excited that Faith Ruth Imokol joins me. She’s a web developer from Uganda, WordCamp organizer there and speaker, and a Gutenberg advocate since 2018, as long as the Gutenberg Times. And I’m glad she agreed to come on the show and talk through with this release and tell us more about the WordPress community in Uganda. Welcome to the show, Faith. How are you today?
Faith Imokol: Thank you very much, Birgit, for having me. I am okay. I’m very fine. Thank you, listeners, for having me as well. I’m excited.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Me too. Me too. It’s such wonderful to have you on the show. So, WordCamp community in Uganda is really busy this year, and it probably was last year as well because there’s a lot of experience there in doing WordCamps. So you, you were in WordCamp Kampala this year.
Faith Imokol: Yes.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: And you were on a panel session titled AI and the Future of Web Development: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. So what were your takeaways? How are the people in Uganda kind of looking at AI and the future of the web?
Faith Imokol: Oh, well, the opinions on the future of AI in Uganda and how people view it are quite divided. Many are very hopeful, but some are also a little worried about what is going to become of them, especially when it comes to their jobs with AI. There’s a lot of talk on AI taking over. There’s a lot of talk on, okay, what do we need to do? Do we still need to continue with the way that we’ve been working or should we transition into full AI mode working with AIs? So there’s a lot of speculation around AI. And during the panel session, very many people had very many questions around that. They wanted reassurances on, especially when it comes to their jobs. Do we still have our jobs as developers? Can we still maintain the work that we are doing right now? Can we still continue using the tools that we are working with right now, or should we leave them and just take on AI and start working with AI. So it was a panel that was there to encourage people, to also highlight and offer corrections on some of the misinformation that was going, that has been spreading and going around in the community, especially in the WordPress community. Yeah.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: So how, you don’t have to go into details, but how are you approaching AI for your work?
Faith Imokol: Personally, I could say that I’ve been forced in some way to use AI ’cause I’m using it more as a pair working along with it in my development. And I’ve been forced to use it. Initially, I was a little hesitant. I like to do my own discoveries. I like to go through my own work and do my own troubleshooting. But with the AI coming in, it forced some of the teams that I was working in to have to increase the rate at which they produce and release applications. Why? Because the competition has now stiffened. If you’re not using AI to work faster, someone else is going to produce what you’re doing and they’re going to release it, and then you’re going to be left behind. So I kind of, at some extent, have had to take a back seat on doing my own personal investigations and leaving those to my own personal time. But when it comes to work, it’s something that I’ve fully incorporated into my day-to-day working. Yeah, still, I still apply my own knowledge as well. I don’t leave everything to AI to do it.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: That’s certainly quite prudent, yeah, to see how AI can really go wrong and you don’t know which tangent they go on. Yeah. And I have found, well, I’m using AI maybe a year now for a lot of different things and I have found that there’s no taste. Yeah. It has no feelings, of course. Yeah. And it has no empathy for anything. Yeah. So, human judgment is even more needed for anything that is released that was done by AI. And I think it becomes more and more clear the longer we practice with it. First, it’s a fantastic tool. Yeah, it kind of gets you to certain things faster, but it also is very verbose in code, in reviews, in analysis, and you really need to kind of slow it down and figure out what’s really important. And that it can’t do. It doesn’t know what’s important, what’s not important. Everything is the same.
Faith Imokol: I kind of think it’s like a very smart child who thinks they know everything, but they’ve not lived through the experience of what an adult knows.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: So they still need guidance. That’s a good analogy. Yeah. It’s like a young person who just graduated high school and knows everything.
Faith Imokol: Yeah.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, I was that when I graduated from high school. I knew everything. But back to the Uganda community, the next WordCamp is in Jinja. Is that how you pronounce it? From the 19th to the 20th of September. It’s in the Civil Service College in Jinja. Just, just in case you dear listeners are in the region and you wanna go to a WordCamp in Uganda. But there’s also running from now to December several WordPress Campus Connect events with 25 schools, each one with at least 100 participants, 25 schools, colleges, or universities. And the program will bring practical, as it aims to, practical WordPress learning sessions to selected schools across Central and Eastern Uganda. And students will be introduced to the basics of WordPress, how websites are built, how to create and publish content and how they can use WordPress for school projects, personal portfolios, blogs, business ideas, and future technology careers. So these are the Campus Connect from the WordPress Education Program that started, I think, in the end of ’24 and has now run through ’25 and half of ’26. So, and Uganda is really taking to it and getting a lot of students involved with WordPress.
Faith Imokol: Yeah, we’re working hard to see that the future, the next generation that comes into the workforce is not too ill-equipped like the way we were. So these programs that we’re starting as the WordPress community are out to help the next, the coming, the young generations that are coming in, for them to know, to know the different skills that they can take on and to know that there are different tools that they can also learn that can help them. So it’s really a very amazing initiative that was started by Mr. Dumba and Moses.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. Yeah. And they are still completely involved and totally immersed in that field. Yeah. Stephen Dumba also organized a website project competition for elementary schools, high schools, and colleges. And they had, I think, 20 teams in total there. And then each team had to create a website for a community project that is local and was very important to the community and how to communicate those problems and solutions. And that was also in June. Then there was WordCamp Osaka, Campus Connect in Osaka, and then Campus Connect in Kakumiro, if I pronounce all that right.
Faith Imokol: Yes. Yeah, you’re trying.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: I’m trying. Yeah, I’m not succeeding. Okay.
Faith Imokol: Your pronunciations are very good.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So I’m really excited about what’s happening on the African continent in the various communities. Uganda is one. I think another very active one is Kenya. And there was one in Rwanda. I don’t know how active they are now. But yeah, I’m really excited about that.
Announcements
So we have a few announcements. 7.1 is coming Today is July 30th. So in about 3 weeks, we will have a final release of 7.1. August 19th is the release date. And it will be released on the last day of WordCamp US. The Source of Truth, that’s the book about things, yeah, that is published on the Gutenberg Times. This time it’s about 39 minutes to read and 7,000 words. It’s really an ebook or something like that. The table of contents, it’s very detailed. So you can jump into the sections that you want. Okay. That you need. And the developer notes are coming out for those who need more technical details. And there was one from the client-side media processing, the text shadow support for global styles.
The media library infinite scroll is coming back and is enabled by default, but there is a filter to disable it for those who need it disabled. And then there are now editable blocks inside custom HTML blocks. That’s a very interesting construction. So if you’re interested in that, we share, of course, the developer links in the show notes. There are some editor component updates that are interesting for those who are using those for development in admin as well as in block editor. And then a lot of people have been waiting for that part, registering and rendering SVG icons and icon collections. The developer note is out and it will come to 7.1. And then there’s also a mid-width block support and background gradient block support. So there are some things for the global styles that are only available through the theme.json. There is no UI yet for it because it just needs to simmer a bit and kind of brew a bit before developers are thinking about the UI. Is there anything that excites you from 7.1 from, from these developer notes yet?
Faith Imokol: Yeah, well, I really, really, really enjoy the new features that are coming in, especially the one thing that I’ve really been excited about is the collaboration tools. So I’m really looking forward to working more with those and seeing how they will help people collaborate on different WordPress projects.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Unfortunately, the real-time collaboration has been punted again. Or it was clear that it would not come to 7.1 because it has these underlying server technical approaches that depending on where the site is hosted, it needs to have a different approach. Or in enterprise, yeah, it’s a different approach and all that. And they haven’t narrowed down what the default value could be. But what I really like are the e-syncer. So it’s very rare that I’m sitting there and somebody else is sitting on their computer and we’re on the post or on the site at the same time. Mostly it’s because, yeah, I work remotely in Europe time zone with a lot of people in the United States that’s 6 hours behind. It’s more asynchronous. And I think the notes section is really getting some great love there that came in 6.9 and 7.0 and now has additional features. Yeah, I really like that.
Faith Imokol: Yeah. I see it growing. I see it growing into something much bigger. So I’m looking forward to whatever is coming ahead.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, yeah, I could actually see that. But the current publishing flow at the official developer blog is that the writers do a draft in Google Docs, and then 2 reviewers come in and help edit that or streamline it or shorten it or whatever, comment on it. And then the writer has to make all the changes after those feedbacks and then take the whole Google Doc and put it into a blog. So with the notes feature, we can cut out the Google section part because we can now comment on the, on writing on the blocks. Yeah, we can mention people and we can resolve issues from the notes. So it’s coming really close to streamlining that, our process. All right.
What’s Released -WordPress 7.1
What’s released? WordPress 7.1 Beta 4 came out. That’s the last release before the release candidate next week on August 5th. August 5th is also the deadline for the rest of the dev notes, the developer notes for that, and the Field Guide will come around that as well. And that’s also the time where string freeze happens. Release candidate is still 14 days away. The translators need to get into it. So string freeze means there are no new strings that come in that need to be translated. Because the WordPress ecosystem has a huge army of translators. And by the time the release comes out, it will be translated into about 70 languages, almost 100% from the new release. And that’s huge. But we need to give those translators a time on the polyglots teams to actually get it all in. And this is not a small release, although it wasn’t a long pipeline there. Yeah.
And if you want to test it, this is now the time to go to the Make/Test team and follow the Help Test WordPress 7.1. It’s also linked from the release post from the news section because it gives you an opportunity to not only dive into the new features, but it also gives you instructions and a video and you learn quite a bit about it. And if you find things that are not right, you surface that. And that is not only surfaced for yourself, but it’s also surfaced for millions of other people who are going to get this new version. And if you are fast enough and the problems are small enough, they might get the fixes in before the final release. So if you wanna help and contribute quite impactful, help test WordPress 7.1. It’s my call for action for this show. Did you get a chance to dive into some of the features yet?
Faith Imokol: Yes, I did. I did try testing them as well locally. And yeah, it’s really impressive. The work that is being put into this is very, very impressive.
Gutenberg 23.6
Birgit Pauli-Haack: All right. So this brings us to the Gutenberg plugin release 23.6. And 23.6 is also the last feature release for 7.1. So everything that made it into the 23.6, almost all of it will come to 7.1. Everything that’s enhancements in the next release will not make it because we are past the beta site. But all the bug fixes that you find in your testing and you report them as issues or on the support forums have a chance to get in. Yeah. So let’s start with that.
Features
The first item that I want to point out is that you can now set the viewport for tablet and mobile values in theme.json. What does that mean? So the Gutenberg plugin editor had hardcoded viewports for what’s considered desktop, what’s considered tablet, and what’s considered mobile. And everybody had to work around those if you had a different idea about those viewports.
Faith Imokol: Yeah.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: But now you can just set the setting in your theme.json for your theme and then everything will fall into place.
Faith Imokol: I think this gives us much more flexibility because initially with the default viewpoints that are set by WordPress, all sites end up having the same, could I say breakpoints?
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
Faith Imokol: I think personally I prefer to, I refer to them as breakpoints. for different screens that is in mobile responsiveness. And this is going to allow us to be able to customize this to our own liking so that our themes can be uniform with, uh, can have settings that have been preset by us than having the default ones that WordPress has added. And I think as I was going through the changelog, I came through the discussion because the viewports allow you to set the tablet and the mobile view. And there was a discussion of what could happen if someone set the tab view to have a smaller, should I say, breakpoint than the mobile screen. What could happen by that? And it was quite interesting that at that point we reverted back to the defaults.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
Faith Imokol: Yeah. So it’s a good thing to have in the background, as I don’t think everyone will abide by the rules, but As you’re working with this and anyone who gets to work with this, I think you have to keep that in mind that you, you’re setting different breakpoints for different devices and tablets are larger than mobile devices.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. Yeah. That’s the assumption that tablets are larger than mobile devices. So if someone puts a mobile breakpoint in that’s bigger than the tablet, that can probably just be a mistake or something like that. Yeah. So having a fallback to not ruin the whole site just because of a wrong value in the theme.json is probably a good measure, yes.
Faith Imokol: I’m thinking we now have these new Samsung phones that have come out, the flip phones. Does it become a tablet? I’m still trying to understand.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, it’s a good question. So I saw a discussion, an issue that you can— that on Gutenberg to think through the consequences if you have more than 3 breakpoints. Yeah. Can we have multiple sizes? I mean, at one point it really becomes a usability issue. How would an editor or a user, keep in mind that, yes, I saw plugins that have 6 breakpoints and it’s really hard to control those because you never know where you have all the changes made. Yeah, and come back to it when you, when you start out, it’s probably easier to kind of think through it. But once you have a site and you need to make some changes, it’s very hard to figure out where all those changes have to be made. So it doesn’t become better with more breakpoints. I think that was a point why the Gutenberg developers started out with really honing in on the intrinsic designs, that there’s actually a seamless adaption to the screen sizes. And that’s where the Samsung folding phone probably will come in.
Faith Imokol: Yeah.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: That you’re not fixed on a breakpoint to just say, okay, yeah, it takes the space it has. Yeah. And rather do content queries rather than media queries. Yeah.
Faith Imokol: I hope we see how, what else will be added to this, cuz I think more is going to come up and shall have more settings being added to this.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: For sure. Yeah.
Faith Imokol: So, uh, notes, this is, features that I’m really excited about. It shows you how powerful Gutenberg has gotten. Being able to add notes. So the upcoming features, one of the features that we have will be auto-completing mentions. This is you’ll be able to tag an individual, a user, onto the post, and when you tag them, the prompt will be able to— will allow you to select from— it will pop up a list of the available users and you’ll be able to select the ones that you want to tag. And when they are tagged on the front end, you’ll be able to see that they are highlighted, that the tag name is— their display name is highlighted. So this is a feature that I’m really, really impressed by and hope to see how far it grows more because I’m seeing all the different possibilities that it can be used in, things like notifications. And I think this is one of the features that is being incorporated for the collaboration right. Later, even as we’re collaborating, because you can tag someone within the notes, but now you’re also doing inline, you know, you’re able to tag people within, within the context of the content that you’re creating. Yeah. So this is something that I’m really impressed by and looking forward to see how far that can be taken.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And now what a lot of people were waiting for, that you can actually highlight partial text and have those notes in the sidebar about a certain portion of a text and not just a whole paragraph block. And now you can also have multiple notes per block as well. So if you have here, the paragraph is, I don’t know, 10 lines long and you have something you want to note about the first line or the first 6 words or so, and then in the middle is something, and you could have notes for each one of them that then show up in the section. So it makes it much easier to streamline the conversation and to be really granular in what the notes are about or the comments are about. Yeah. And it now has a resolved divider. And so when you check a note that is resolved, it pushes it further down and has a little divider in the sidebar. So yeah, it really comes well together, this note section. Yeah. It really starts growing up.
Faith Imokol: Yeah, I’m seeing lots and lots of ways that this is going to, because I’m thinking with the resolver, adding the resolved divider, I’m seeing this going into something like project management and we’re able to add even more other statuses possibly besides just the resolved divider. Very impressive.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: I can see some plugin opportunities there to kind of collect all those and have a separate kind of setup for a whole editorial workflow where the main editor just kind of looks through what are the posts and what are the comments. And you can see, okay, or you come in as an editor and see, oh, I need to go through all the comments where I’m tagged. Yeah. So these kinds of things, I think that would be an interesting feature set to add to it. Not sure that core is actually gonna aim for it. So that might be plugin territory because, territory, because it’s a very finite use case for that.
Faith Imokol: Yes.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: The next item is by default, the admin bar is now shown for post and site editor as well. Once you’re logged in, you see a black bar on your website on top of it with some links where you can jump in different places, and that is coming to 7.1 as well. And now that admin bar has been streamlined and kind of combines the site editor navigation as well with the admin bar. And it’s really, it’s a nice feeling. It kind of feels now a little bit more consistent, and you can access the things that you could access before. Yeah, you have your site icon. You also have the big W, and that was in there before, but the header of the site editor is now smaller or the block editor. And it’s all coming together quite nicely.
Faith Imokol: Yes. Coming in version 7.1, we are having, I could say there’s a kind of more a mix of both dynamic and static content blocks, block content, where we are going to be able to have what WordPress offers. I don’t know if this is the right way to present this, but currently WordPress offers you a way of providing or creating content that is you’re either working with blocks or you’re working with your default static HTML. And this new feature of adding inner content is going to allow us to be able to add dynamic content within static content. So you’ll be able to work with your HTML and still add editable content within your static content. that is your normal HTML, but within it you have an editable, let me say, paragraph block within there. So the other content remains static, but within it you have your inner content. And we’ve been provided a new feature called inner content that we can use to set this up.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Mm-hmm.
Faith Imokol: That is, if you’re working with if you’re creating your own code, you’ll be able to add this inner content feature and we’ll be able to allow you to create static content that has HTML blocks within it.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. No, very well described. Yeah, I can see how that is really helpful, especially for patterns that you have editable sections and you say static, I say hardcoded. Yeah, don’t touch things as an editor. You’re right. This comes to 7.1 as well. And there are developer notes out. So it will be in the show notes so you can see the technical implementations for that in 7.1.
Faith Imokol: Yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s quite a powerful tool, I think, because it’s— I see it becoming also— it’s some— one of those features that I feel can be added onto in different ways because you’re now not just building something that is strict, but you can modify it to appeal to different scenarios and different use cases. As current cases, either you have one block that is doing one particular thing, but now here you’re able to work with blocks and also normal HTML. So it gives, as a developer, I feel it gives me some power. I’m not just leaving everything to the blocks to be doing everything, but it gives me some power to be able to add different content styles. Yes.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Nice.
Faith Imokol: Yeah. Yeah.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: The next one is part of the Icons API. Now 23.6 Gutenberg plugin now has PHP methods To render inline SVG icons from the registry. So that can also be used in PHP-only blocks or in other templates and all that. So that also comes in 7.1, is a new API for registering icons in WordPress, SVG icons and icons collections that came in with 23.6.
Faith Imokol: I can take the next one.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Mm-hmm.
Enhancements
Faith Imokol: Coming in 7.1. So we had some issues with the backgrounds in some of the blocks, that is the accordion, the post content block, the quotes block, the verse block. And in this, there were issues with the way the images were being handled, that is in the CSS, in the blocks, in the block CSS, which ended up blocking the gradient. It ended up breaking the gradient. So kind of could say that there was a conflict. In how the background images and the gradients were being handled. So it was causing a bug with our gradients. So this has been fixed in how the background images and the gradients are handled. And so you’ll not be able to see conflicts when you apply a gradient onto any of your blocks, especially the blocks that we have stated, that is the block quotes accordion, the pull quotes, the verses and post content blocks.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And actually, this fix also gives you a totally new feature. Now you can overlay the gradient onto the background image, and that gives a whole new way of designing things. And if you look at some of the PRs that are coming through and with a screen share there, it’s actually quite nice that the image kind of feels a little bit more lively when there’s a gradient on top of them. So it’s really good.
Yeah, the latest post block received layout and block spacing support. The latest post block was historically just a re-rendering as a block from the widget section of WordPress prior to that, and hasn’t gotten a whole lot of love after that because the query block is kind of also a latest block kind of thing. But it now has layout and block spacing support so you can fit it in other places quite nicely. Speaking of the query block, it now has an option to exclude the current post from the query block, from the list of blocks, so to speak. So this gives a better feel for your single post template where you can say, okay, so this is the post with the post content, but then underneath you can add a list of blocks from either the same category or for the same taxonomy and exclude the current block. Up until now, it would always also render the current block if it had the same taxonomy. So I think that’s a feature that a lot of people actually were waiting for. It sounds so minuscule. Yeah, but it’s actually pretty powerful.
Faith Imokol: So we have a new feature that has been added to the cover block. And this will allow users to restrict the kind of videos that they want to be added to their cover blocks. Initially, currently what we have is that WordPress has a variety of different video providers that you can embed into your cover block, but this will allow you to restrict. So if you only want to display only YouTube videos, you can add a restriction that we only need YouTube videos being uploaded in our cover block. While you can switch this up to any that you want, as opposed to just allowing it to have any video embedded provider adding the videos. So this is one of those features. I think it gives us more control over what you want. Could I say, when it comes to different service providers, they provide a whole different interface and layout for how their videos play out, and this will allow something like uniformity.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
Faith Imokol: Because I think it can be a little strange when you have your website on— some videos are playing like YouTube content and then it switches into another format and it’s maybe Vimeo and it all looks so different. I see this creating a better display, a better feel, but it also gives you more control on what kind of content is acceptable.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Absolutely. So from the history, this comes after 7.0 allowed to actually use a video URL as a background for a cover. And after that was installed, there was quite some feedback from the community, especially the agency community and the enterprise level where they say, okay, I don’t want people just have video embeds from outside of, especially those that are in restricted industries, they’re regulated industries, they cannot just have willy-nilly URLs playing on their website. So they needed a way to restrict the video providers or even restrict that feature altogether. So this is a reaction of all the community feedback that came in to provide that.
Faith Imokol: Yeah.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Speaking of video, the new client-side processing now also has a way to convert the GIF, an uploaded animated GIF. We know them from the ’90s, right? But some of the Screen recording features also do animated GIFs. And when they have one problem. It’s nice for smaller things, yeah, for 1 second or something like that. But if you have a longer GIF, you cannot control it. You cannot stop it. You cannot do anything. So some people want to convert that to a video. And now that feature is coming to 7.1, but it’s also made opt-in. So people have to say, okay, I wanna do this. And then it shows up in the block transform dropdown from a block toolbar. And then you can automatically have the GIFs converted to a video. It really depends on the video and the frame size and a lot of other things to get this right. But it’s a really nice feature.
Faith Imokol: Yeah, it’s a very nice feature in that I think now we have still, one has the ability to choose what they want, if they want to maintain the image GIF or to have it as a video. Whereby if it was a video, it could be lightweight and loads much faster than when it’s a normal GIF. GIFs tend to be quite heavy.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yes.
Faith Imokol: On websites. Yeah. Just a funny scenario. I went on a website that had— was literally littered with GIFs everywhere. And I’m just imagining having to work with that.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
Faith Imokol: How resource intensive that can be and how the performance of the website. So I think this resolves a problem that was there previously that they had tried to resolve previously. That is by allowing the conversion of the GIF into a video. So now one can choose, they can either maintain using the GIF or they can choose to go with the video.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
Faith Imokol: We had 2 blocks that were initially still, should I say, in production. That is the playlist block and the tab block. And these are coming out in version 7.1. The playlist block will allow you to add a playlist. If you’ve worked with any podcasting and different— if you’re doing any music playlists on your website, this block will allow you to be able to add a list of music that you want and you’re able to play it as well in one after the other. So it’s a very powerful block coming out in version 7.1. And I’m also talking about the tab— the tabs block. This will allow you to be able to organize content into tabs on your website. So it will allow you to group, literally to group different content onto your website. It’s also a very, very powerful block that I think will make a whole sense on how different content can be added onto our site. So maybe you can add on to that.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, there were right from the beginning when Gutenberg came out, there were quite a few block collections that had tabs blocks in there. So finally it comes into core. I have a question for a developer. I don’t know how you feel about that, but doesn’t it seem that the details block, the accordion block, and the tabs block, they all kind of have the same metaphor kind of thing? Yeah, kind of. Yeah, you check something and something opens, and then you have a collection of check something and the tabs are there, or accordions kind of I mean, they behave a little bit differently, but aren’t they just a variation of the same idea?
Faith Imokol: I think it’s kind of a similar idea, especially when you see how accordions work. But they— I think it comes down to what kind of display is someone looking forward to. They may all be doing the same kind of similar thing, but someone wants their content to work differently. The tabs block, I think, gives us kind of more— I find it to be superior, should I say superior, to the accordion block in the sense that it allows you to actually group content that you’re displaying.
So an accordion can be used for things— I could say the most common example that I’ve seen where they’re mostly applied is something like FAQs, right, where you group questions and answers. But now looking at a tab, imagine you have something like a WooCommerce site and you have all this different content that is in line with that product. You have the details, then you have the, uh, should I say specifications, then you have the pricing. So all these things can be grouped into different tabs and it can allow someone to navigate through them while providing more concrete details within them. You can do the same with accordions. But I find that this provides a better way of navigating, you know, of navigating through content. Accordions, if the content is quite a lot, they may become, I think, kind of very bulky and they create a lot. You have a lot within one thing while tabs allow you to break down that thing. And I think also, I don’t know right now, I don’t know how far this this feature is, but I think tabs can also allow you to also add different other blocks, should allow you to add different blocks within it. So you can do a lot more within, within it.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: So, and I feel it’s a little bit of a— the metaphor that tabs do is kind of more like in an office setting where you have files, folders, and then files in them that are kind of— you pull them out of the register and then you have the writers on top that are your tabs and then you can— that metaphor is kind of in a website now. And I think people can navigate that better than figuring out how an accordion works.
Faith Imokol: Yes.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. I think you’re right there. Yeah. Well, that was actually kind of a tricky question because that question should go to the WC3 body that does the standards for HTML because that’s what these 3 blocks do, details, accordion, and tabs. They put the HTML that’s available into a block setting and then offer that as a tool to design pages and lay out the pages. So the question is actually for the WC3 standards body. Why did you come up with these different standards there and HTML tags for that?
So I think, yeah, we have a few, 2 more updates on the visual revisions page. There is now a label for autosaves. Because the revisions historically only saved what you did, what was there when you hit the save button. And now it also adds the autosaves as separate line items to the revisions timeline. It might get a little crowded now, but you can collapse them quite a bit. And so when you leave a post that was autosaved and then come back to it again, you get a notification on top of the screen that says there is a newer version in autosave. And when you clicked on the link there, you were going back to the old revisions screen, and that has been solved too. So now this screen also goes to the new block-based visual revision screen.
Faith Imokol: I think this is one of the things— revisions is one of the things that I’m actually impressed by and excited about. I don’t know how many times I just could come back to my site trying to look through my content and going through the revisions, I’ll just give up and be like, you know, no need to go back. But I think this helps us to be able to track and actually know where in time we ended, what changed, and also being able to go through what the different revisions are.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
Faith Imokol: And it’s quite also funny that the person who reported this was a first-time contributor.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
Faith Imokol: The person who caught this. Yes.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
Faith Imokol: So with the new settings that we have for the viewpoints, this is a buildup on what we had, we had talked about previously. That is being able to remember what we have, we now have a new feature that allows us to add our own custom viewpoints. in our theme that is in the theme.json.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: With the new states being for either the viewport states or the pseudo states, which is kind of hover and action on that and active, what didn’t work was that when you changed the color, you didn’t get a notification that your color choices didn’t adhere to the contrast for accessible websites. So, and normally when you change the color for the background and for the text, you get a little warning that this is not contrast-rich. You better check your color settings. This feature wasn’t working for the viewports for the mobile or tablet or for the pseudo-states. So when you change the styling for those states, you didn’t get the warning. So, and that has been rectified with 23.6 Gutenberg. And it is actually a nice, I would say bug fix, but it’s an enhancement because it was something that wasn’t there before. And I think the next one, we already talked about the inner blocks and the custom HTML block. I think we’re gonna skip through that.
Faith Imokol:
This is just, I think, adding up to what we had previously.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Right.
Faith Imokol: Because now you can add this as when you’re developing, writing your own blocks, you can add the inner blocks feature in your blocks as well.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. Yeah. And feedback was for the block visibility. Now you actually have a setting in the theme.json to opt out so your editors wouldn’t be able to change the block visibility on any of your blocks. There’s a new theme.json property there. I think some people wanted to kind of look at that and have that available.
Faith Imokol: The next issue we have, enabling text alignment to be set by viewpoint state. So this will allow you in your, when you’re setting up your text and you’re aligning it, you can have different alignments based on different viewpoints. You can choose to, let me say, left align on the desktop and then right align on your mobile or on your tablet. So this new feature will allow you to be able to set up different alignments for different viewpoints.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Yes, I really like that because sometimes you have a text that’s in— oh, I’m— that might be nice centered on a mobile, but it’s on this, on the big screen, you just can’t read it. Yeah. So you want it left aligned or something like that. The next one is an enhancement to the grid block. Sometimes we use the same terminology for different things. I just need to make sure that I’m looking at the same thing here, that it’s actually— it’s about the grid block. So there’s now an option to stretch the columns with an autofit for better layout flexibility. So it’s adapting to the screen.
If you wanted to, or you can say I have a fixed column width or fixed relationship to the other columns, but now there’s also that option to stretch the column with autofit.
Faith Imokol: So with the new icons feature, we now can group, should I say, we can group the different icons into different collections. WordPress is offering us a way of doing this and they’ve given us new tools, developers especially, to be able to create different groups for icons. So you can group your icons, maybe these are WordPress icons, these are Font Awesome icons, these are whatsoever different, uh, places where you’re picking your icons from. So you can group your icons. This is a very nice feature, I think, to be able to allow you to streamline so you can pick from one collection over the other. But this is one of the features that is coming in together with the updates that are being done to the icons.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Exactly. Yeah. In the same vein now, developers are really happy about that, that they can now use digits and underscores in icon slugs. That was part of— it’s part of the registry API. And in 23.6, those things were added to the API for coming into 7.1.
Faith Imokol: Yes.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: So I think when I go through the rest of the changelog, I think we are through with that, what we talked about. But 23.6 again had about 400 PRs in there. And I’m really happy that the show is not more than an hour or so because we could kind of go on and on about a lot of things in there.
For listeners, when we do the rundown, it has 38 pages and we’re kind of skipping over over 30 of those. So there’s a lot of work getting into WordPress 7.1, especially because the 3.6 release of Gutenberg was the last one. So everybody wanted to kind of get stuff in. That’s why it’s so exploded. But it’s mostly bug fixes from things that were in before. So we are not talking about those here. But make sure that you read the release notes that are on the Make blog and then, yeah, there’s a lot of information coming at you for 7.1. So carve out the time to study some of those that are really important for you.
Tools
One of them I wanted to highlight is on the Gutenberg Times. There is a blog post about how to approach the iframe editor for the post editor. So the iframe that every block editor is now going to be loaded in an iframe. That has the advantages that other designs and artifacts from the admin page do not creep into the editor. And that has been done in the site editor, template editor, and the pattern editor since 2021. Only the post editor, who was— that was the first one that was a block editor, was still loaded in an admin page. And now with 7.1, the post editor will also go into an iframe. But with the history of older blocks and older block collections, there might be some quirks there.
The rule of thumb is if you load your block in the site editor in a template or something like that and it works, then it will also work in the post editor with no problem with the post editor iframe. If you see quirks, you probably— and the article is for developers and it goes through, okay, what were other people doing with the post editor that might not work with the iframe. And it goes through all the different scenarios and how to fix them or how to alleviate them. But there’s a lot of anxiety, but I have yet to see blocks that break in the iframe. But I only have a certain viewpoint there. I only use certain things. I’m gonna put the livestream YouTube video as well as the link to the article on the Gutenberg Times into the show notes so you can all follow up on it.
All right, so you made it, Faith! Yay, congratulations!
Faith Imokol: Thank you.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: All right, dear listeners, as always, the show notes will be published on gutenbergtimes.com/podcast. This is the 133rd episode; 133 is the episode number. And if you have questions, suggestions, or news, just send them to us in the changelog@gutenbergtimes.com. That’s changelog@gutenbergtimes.com. And thank you, Faith, for joining me for the first time. You did an awesome job. Thank you so much. And I hope you come back. I didn’t scare you away.
Faith Imokol: Thank you too. Thank you too. Thank you for having me.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: Oh, absolutely.
Faith Imokol: Absolutely.
Birgit Pauli-Haack: We have fun. Yeah. Thank you for listening, dear listeners, and goodbye and to the next time. Bye-bye.