Relatórios de streaming costumam dar aos gêneros musicais uma aparência de planilha. Não raro, também escondem a rua que existe por trás do número. Daí a importância de olhar para o dado mais recente do Spotify sem esquecer de onde vem o som que ele tenta medir: no ano passado, o funk brasileiro foi o gênero que mais cresceu globalmente entre os estilos que geraram mais de US$ 50 milhões em royalties na plataforma, com alta de 36% no ano.
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We have experienced (endured? enjoyed?) the hottest May day on record. It was a weird, but a memorable one at the Bodleian, with visitors and readers moving swiftly across the quads in search of the precious shade. Our lush lawn around the Radcliffe Camera, so beautifully cut into a now famous pattern, started to fade and turn yellow. And it was becoming unbearably hot in our old buildings, so whoever could, moved over to the Weston Library, which is offering its cool space of Blackwell Hall and even cooler free exhibition areas, not to be missed on a grey, let alone a scorching day. Bring on hot Wednesday!
Between 1949 and 1950, Beijing underwent one of the most important transitions in its modern history: it became the capital of the newly founded People’s Republic of China and began transforming from an old imperial and Republican-era city into the political center of a new socialist state.
In early 1949, Beijing was still commonly known as Beiping. During the final phase of the Chinese Civil War, Communist forces surrounded the city, which was held by the Nationalists. Rather than being destroyed in a major battle, the city was peacefully transferred to Communist control in January 1949 after negotiations with Nationalist general Fu Zuoyi. This was significant because it preserved much of the city’s historic architecture, including the Forbidden City, temples, walls, and traditional neighborhoods.
Later that year, the city’s name was changed back from Beiping to Beijing, meaning “Northern Capital.” On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China from Tiananmen Gate. From that moment, Beijing became the symbolic and administrative heart of the new government.
During 1949–1950, the new Communist leadership began reorganizing the city’s political, social, and economic life. Government ministries, party offices, military institutions, and cultural organizations were established or expanded in Beijing. The city also saw campaigns aimed at restoring order, controlling inflation, registering residents, and bringing businesses, schools, and public institutions under the authority of the new state.
The period also marked the beginning of major ideological and social changes. Public rallies, propaganda campaigns, and political education became common. The new government emphasized discipline, reconstruction, and socialist values. Although the most dramatic urban redevelopment came later in the 1950s, the foundations were laid during these first years.
Overall, Beijing between 1949 and 1950 was a city in transition: it moved from civil war uncertainty into its role as the capital of a new revolutionary state. Its historical identity as an imperial capital remained visible, but its political meaning changed profoundly as it became the center of Communist China.
Até agora são 82 mortos no pior acidente em uma mina de carvão chinesa dos últimos 16 anos. A explosão de gás aconteceu na sexta-feira (22) na cidade de Changzi, na província de Shanxi (a principal para a mineração de carvão) e a mina contava com 247 trabalhadores no momento, que ficaram presos nos escombros. Ainda há pessoas desaparecidas e cerca de 120 estão hospitalizadas. As operações de resgate seguem, inclusive com apoio de robôs para a detecção de gases e câmeras. O caso será investigado para que se descubra a causa da explosão, inclusive para identificar qual a responsabilidade da empresa já que análises iniciais indicam violações de padrões de segurança. Xi Jinping solicitou uma operação ampla para o resgate e apoio às vítimas e seus familiares, especialmente em casos de idosos.
O molho secreto do sucesso da China na disputa pela liderança em Inteligência Artificial talvez vá além dos investimentos pesados e da regulação rápida. Um relatório recente da Stanford University revelou que o otimismo da população chinesa em relação à nova tecnologia é excepcional e contrasta diretamente com os sentimentos dos estadunidenses: mais de 85% das pessoas consultadas na China acreditam que a IA é mais benéfica que maléfica, contra 45% dos respondentes nos EUA. Muito foi especulado sobre o assunto, e diversos comentaristas atribuem o humor dos chineses à confiança que têm em seus legisladores; por outro lado, há quem acredite que a grande diferença está na perspectiva histórica: ao contrário do que vêm acontecendo na história recente da China, os trabalhadores dos Estados Unidos vêm vivendo relativa calmaria e estabilidade em suas relações trabalhistas e modo de produção, o que os deixaria menos abertos às grandes mudanças que a IA promete trazer.
É os guri. Logo depois da partida de Trump, Xi Jinping mal trocou o terno e já recebeu o líder russo Vladimir Putin no dia 19. A visita já estava marcada há algum tempo, então, dizem, foi apenas coincidência o timing – ainda que não deixe de ser . Pequim e Moscou assinaram uma série de acordos, incluindo economia digital, isenção de vistos, educação, satélites, e desenvolvimento de biofármacos, no contexto da celebração de 30 anos da parceria estratégica sino-russa. Contudo, o acordo mais esperado, envolvendo a distribuição de gás pelo gasoduto Power of Siberia 2, não foi finalizado. No Tracking People’s Daily um compilado do discurso oficial sobre a visita de Putin, inclusive a declaração conjunta sobre um novo mundo multipolar. Sobrou também preocupação com o crescente investimento em defesa europeu e uma crítica ao bloqueio do comércio transnacional (uma referência possivelmente ao Estreito de Ormuz). Se você é fã de jogo dos sete erros, vale este texto do The Guardian comparando a recepção aos dois líderes. Na conclusão das análises, o grande vencedor talvez seja Xi Jinping.
As cortinas já se fecharam no Festival de Cannes deste ano, e além dos premiados, o destaque também foi para o soft power chinês. Na abertura do festival na costa francesa, a renomada atriz Gong Li anunciou a abertura em inglês e mandarim, junto com Jane Fonda. Com um pavilhão dedicado ao cinema chinês, o país também teve na seleção oficial dois curtas-metragem feitos por IA e a estreia de A Girl Unknown, da diretora Zou Jing sobre a política do filho único e seu impacto nas meninas chinesas. Além disso, o longa-metragem Adeus, Minha Concubina (que venceu a Palma de Ouro em 1993) teve uma exibição na sessão de clássicos e o sucesso de bilheteria Dear You ganhou uma estreia francesa. A China Night, um evento oficial do Festival de Cannes que reuniu cerca de mil convidados entre atores, diretores, produtores e exibidores, foi realizado no espaço conhecido como Cannes Marché du Film, onde os filmes são negociados e vendidos entre produtores e distribuidores. A China Night também incluiu demonstrações de tecnologia para o cinema, como realidade aumentada, robótica e muita inteligência artificial. Vale assistir esta palestra realizada no mês passado com o pesquisador Paulo Menechelli sobre o cinema chinês e o soft power.
Literatura chinesa no holofote global. As últimas semanas foram animadas para os apreciadores de literatura chinesa. No começo deste mês, a autora nascida na China Yiyun Li – cujas obras publicadas no Brasil foram discutidas no nosso Clube em 2023 e 2024 – ganhou o Prêmio Pulitzer na categoria Memória ou Autobiografia com o livro Things in Nature Merely Grow, lançado no ano passado e ainda não publicado no Brasil. Yiyun escreve suas obras diretamente em inglês, ao contrário da taiwanesa Yang Shuang-zi; a tradução do romance mais recente de Yang, Taiwan Travelogue (sem previsão de chegar por aqui), realizada por Lin King, recebeu na última semana o International Booker Prize; esta foi a primeira obra traduzida do mandarim a receber o prestígio. Por fim, em meados de abril, a ilustradora chinesa Cai Gao foi reconhecida com o Hans Christian Andersen, o maior prêmio para autores e ilustradores de livros infantis. Vale conferir o dossiê que a premiação preparou para sua candidatura.
Por fim, bora falar de literatura chinesa que chega ao Brasil: Mo Yan, publicado no país pela Cosac e pela Companhia das Letras, esteve por aqui em maio para participar da celebração de 50 anos da Unesp. O Prêmio Nobel fez um discurso na abertura do evento e participou da mesa “A literatura sem fronteiras – Brasil e China – paralelos e confluências”. Vale conferir também a mesa “A nova literatura chinesa”, com participação dos escritores Suonan Kairang e Yang Zhihan. Se você assistir às gravações e ficar interessado em conhecer a obra de Mo Yan, fique atento: no final do ano, vamos discutir em nosso Clube, pela segunda vez, As Rãs.
Para a surpresa de muitos, o tradicional jogo chinês de Mahjong ganhou uma popularidade nova entre jovens, especialmente nos EUA (que tem até a sua versão alternativa do jogo). O Mahjong surgiu no final do século XIX e é extremamente popular na China, Hong Kong, Japão, Coreia do Sul, Taiwan e diáspora – especialmente entre idosos. Este texto discute essa nova ascensão, que tem sido muito apoiada pelos algoritmos, mas também como o jogo surge como uma resposta para a construção de comunidade e ao mesmo tempo como há, em alguns casos, uma apropriação cultural sobre essa nova onda de jogadores.
Podcast: neste episódio d’O Assunto, a entrevistada é a especialista Larissa Wachholz sobre a estratégia chinesa para a autossuficiência alimentar.
Pintura: a Sixth Tone entrevistou Hong Jian, pintor que há 20 anos tem uma série de obras registrando a arquitetura histórica de Shangha
Curta o som da dupla indie de Chengdu Deep Water com o novo EP Have a Good Time.
Play it cool and play this episode. In episode 175 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk about what it means to be cool. From swag gap relationships to Mark Zuckerberg and the manosphere’s failed attempts at being cool, your hosts examine coolness’s ties to youth and subversion and its opposition to displays of wealth. They trace how coolness emerged from Black American culture in the 1930s, before being associated with Beat Poets and punk musicians. They consider precursors to cool, like the Italian term sprezzatura, and question the ontology and the morality of coolness. Is coolness an attitude or a state? Is it inherently narcissistic? Can you ever successfully “try” to be cool? In the Substack bonus segment, Ellie and David discuss coolness through an ethical perspective.
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The twins Ana and Lichi grew up far from their parents. They spent their childhood moving from city to city, always in the care of a relative. Being together was the only constant in their lives: they had only each other. But at age 13, a trip to northern Paraguay would change their lives forever.
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Como uma fiscal do trabalho entediada se tornou uma das principais responsáveis pela proibição do amianto no Brasil? Como uma lei do estado de Goiás permite que uma empresa continue minerando este produto cancerígeno anos depois do banimento nacional?
Nesse artigo irei analisar o EPOMAKER Magcore65 Lite, que se trata de um teclado mecânico "65%", ou seja, sem teclado numérico, mas mantendo as setas direcionais, no padrão ANSI, sem "Ç", com construção em plástico e iluminação RGB, onde seus maiores diferenciais estão nos seus switches indutivos além da possibilidade de trabalhar sem fio. Será esse um bom teclado? É o que vamos descobrir.
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In this week’s episode, we do *gasp!* a camera review! That’s right, even audio nerds sometimes need a camera. In this case, we’re looking at the YoloCam S7 from YoloLiv with the . It’s an interesting blend of USB webcam and micro-4/3rds camera (yes, that means interchangeable lenses!) and we’ve had a great experience using it as an overhead cam on our weekly livestream. Let’s take a closer look and check out what special features make this such a compelling streaming camera!
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Index
00:00 Why would audio folks need cameras?!
00:07 Our current live cam setup
00:48 About the YoloCam S7
02:51 How we’ve integrated the S7 into our setup
03:30 Vertical to horizontal orientation
03:59 YoloLive Compose app
04:13 Video Settings
04:46 Imaging Settings
06:11 Focus Settings
07:55 Zoom Settings
08:16 AI Parameter
08:25 Exposure Settings
08:45 White Balance Settings
09:33 Audio Settings
10:17 Misc Settings
10:36 My take
11:12 Please buy my courses!
I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic, and this is my weekly blog post. The large Sunday comic above is mine, as are all of the below-cartoon comments to follow.
Since January 2018, the Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics have been written and drawn by my comics partner, Wayno. For more fun, check out Wayno’s weekly blog post.
Hey, there Jazz Pickle. Welcome to my weekly word vomit.
Today’s cartoon above is a classic bait-and-switch formula. Your first glance tells you a hunter has killed a deer and strapped it to his car—something hunters do, though probably not in front of their sight line. Upon reading the dialogue, you find out he’s actually a friendly Samaritan who has acted as the designated driver for a ruminant who’s had a few too many.
That seems unlikely until you realize it’s happening in a world where an eight-point buck is a regular customer at Marty’s Roadhouse, and the local yokal knows the buck’s wife’s name.
That’s comedy for you.
In last week’s blog post, I mentioned some TV shows and movies Olive Oyl and I have enjoyed, and some readers appreciated it, so here’s another, along with a cherished personal story.
I first saw Zach Galifianakis at a theater in NYC around ‘03 or ’04, when he was an up-and-coming stand-up comic opening for a well-known comedian. I loved his set and thought he stole the show. I’ve been a big fan ever since. His faux-interview segments from a few years back, Between Two Ferns, are hilarious.
His latest thing is a wonderful series of short episodes on Netflix called This is a Gardening Show. It comedically mixes facts about growing food with interviews with kids and experts. It’s wonderful!
My cherished story about Zach: Around 2007, I attended the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. Galifianakis was one of the many performers in the two-day festival, and I went to see one of his shows.
It took place in a small theater with a proscenium stage, cafe tables on the floor, and a small balcony with theater seats. During his show, he left the stage and wandered through the floor tables, improvising with random audience members.
After a couple of stops, he happened by my table, stuck the mic in my face, and asked, “What’s your name?” I said, “Dan.”
He said, “And what do you do?”
“I’m a cartoonist,” I replied.
“Oh really? What do you do? Have I seen your work?”
I said, “I do a newspaper comic called Bizarro.”
To my self-shitting surprise, the audience erupted in cheers and applause. That alone would’ve been enough, but it got better.
Zach said, “Oh my god. I love your work! I’ve read Bizarro for years.”
Holy crap, are you kidding me?! I melted like a schoolgirl meeting Paul McCartney in the ‘60s. I went backstage after the show and gushed over him, and he probably thought I was a dork. That’s the last time we spoke, and he doubtless has no memory of it ever happening.
That kind of public recognition almost never happens to a cartoonist, certainly not mid-level ink jockeys like me. It’s still my favorite moment of my whole career. I don’t know what my second-favorite moment would be, but it’s probably too boring to even write about.
Anyway, his This is a Gardening Show is charming and funny, and you’ll love it. If you don’t, don’t tell me.
You’ll also likely love Wayno’s Bizarro cartoons from this week. I’m sure Zach would, too, if he weren’t too busy gardening.
My friends in the make-believe cartoon mob loved this one.
On the off chance that you don’t already know, there are spas where you can do this with your feet.
The thing I like most about pretzels is their logic.
Some readers had trouble with this one. They say you’re not supposed to explain jokes, but I’ve made a point of not doing what they say. This is a pizza lying upside down on the ground, with the picture flipped so that the entire world is on the pizza. It’s a similar trick to the one I used in this comic.
Here in Mexico, they call those an “IRM” and “Señor T”.
This guy may have gone to the same school of childish political retribution as a certain orange man-baby.
That concludes this thing I do here each week. I hope you enjoyed it, and if you did, please consider helping us keep it free of ads and a paywall. Now that newspapers no longer pay us a living wage, we rely on donations from readers like you. (And some who are not like you at all.)
Whatever you’re like, we cherish your readership and appreciate your generosity.
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Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Regent Street Cinema in London: David talks to the writer and broadcaster Helen Lewis about George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck (2005). A film about the golden age of journalism and the grim years of McCarthyism, it tells the story of Ed Murrow’s attempt to take down scaremongering and conspiracy theories. Where is McCarthyism at work today? What’s happened to cancel culture? How was early TV like podcasting? And is George Clooney a hero for our times?
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Next Time in Great Political Fictions: Brave New World
This is a small table made using the "kamachi-gumi" technique.
The height is 30 cm, exactly the same height as a typical "chabudai" (low Japanese table).
The kamachi-gumi design uses the same structure as the tatami chair (zaisu) that we released in the previous making-of video, and they match very well when placed next to each other.
Incidentally, Ishitani made this table first, so he did a little trial and error during the construction.
All large woodworking machines are used machines.
Many of them were manufactured more than 40 years ago, and it has become difficult to obtain those in good condition.
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It’s good to be home again. It was an unusually long break, but I appreciate the series of official bank holidays that morph into long weekends away from the computer.
And of course, the catch-up is overwhelming. The creativity inside the WordPress community around content creation, development and design is highly energizing.
And it’s WordPress 7.0 release week! It’s finally here!
So don’t let me keep you any longer. Enjoy!
If you want to stop long enough to send me a note, I’d be delighted to hear from you.
Yours, Birgit
WordCamp Europe is coming up fast. It’ll take place Jun 4 to 6, 2026. The schedule just was posted. If you still are on the fence about getting your ticket. Here are another 49 reasons to head to Krakow. The schedule lists 34 Talks, 3 Panels, 10 Workshops and 2 Keynotes.
For armchair WordCampers, like myself, there will be a livestream. After the WordCamp recordings will be uploaded to YouTube and WordPressTV.
Closing Keynote with Matt Mullenweg on Saturday June 6, 2026.
if you rather stay in North America, WordCamp US just opened up the online ticket booth. It’ll take place from August 16 to August 19, 2026, in Phoenix, AZ. The calls for sponsors and speakers are also available now. The deadline for speaker submissions is next week Friday May 29, 2026.
Developing Gutenberg and WordPress
WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong”
After the decision to remove Real-time Collaboration from the release because it needs more time in the oven, so to speak, the release squad was really busy to produced RC 3 – 5 before the final release on Wednesday May 20, 2026.
Abha Thakor and I talked through a few features for the OpenChannels.fm episode to come out on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.
Justin Nealey product manager at GoDaddy breaks down why WordPress 7.0’s three new APIs matter far more than the headline features for plugin developers. The Connectors API means site owners manage their own AI provider keys centrally; WP AI Client gives you a single provider-agnostic call to invoke any model; and the Abilities API turns your plugin into something the site’s AI agent can reach for autonomously. Together, Nealey argues, your plugin stops being a destination users visit and becomes a verb the agent performs.
Ronak Vanpariya, web developer on Gujarat, India digs into why Real-Time Collaboration was pulled from WordPress 7.0 with a five-point technical post-mortem. You’ll learn how RTC had to work across every corner of the Site Editor, how simultaneous edits triggered race conditions corrupting block data, and how the feature’s reliance on persistent server connections would have overwhelmed shared hosting environments. Memory bloat on older devices and recurring block-tree breakage uncovered by fuzz testing sealed the decision. The feature lives on in the Gutenberg plugin.
Mike McAlister, creator of Ollie, released a video walkthrough of WordPress 7.0covering the features he sees as most impactful for site builders. He walks through the new AI infrastructure — WP AI Client and the Connectors API — content-only pattern editing, customizable mobile menu overlays, block visibility controls for responsive design, per-block custom CSS, visual revisions, the new Icon and Breadcrumbs blocks, an upgraded Font Library screen, and a command palette shortcut.
In other WordPress Core news:
Immediately after the release of WordPress 7.0, Jeff Paul published the WordPress 7.1 Call for Volunteers. Work has already started since the firsty 7.0 Beta in February. The first beta for WordPress 7.1 is roughly eight weeks out and scheduled for July 15, 2026, and the final release for August 19, 2026 aimed at the last day of WordCamp US.
In addition to the punted Real-time collaboration feature, I discovered a few tracking issue for WordPress 7.1 already:
#76525: Block Supports and Design Tools in WordPress 7.1 Opened by Aaron Robertshaw, this tracks new and enhanced block supports for 7.1, carrying over items descoped from 7.0. A living issue is updated as supports are added or dropped from the release scope.
#75707: Block Visibility: Configurable Breakpoints and theme.json Integration The follow-up to 7.0’s block visibility work. The goal is to let themes define custom breakpoints via theme.json and make visibility extensible for future responsive features — laying a solid foundation before more viewport-aware tools arrive.
#76045: DataViews, DataForm, et al. in WordPress 7.1 Tracks continued iteration on DataViews, DataViewsPicker, DataForm, and the Field API. Key work includes migrating @wordpress/dataviews to the new Design System primitives and extending DataForm to PHP-only blocks.
#77199: Block Bindings in WordPress 7.1 Narrowed in scope to match contributor availability. The headline goal is integrating the Block Bindings UI into Block Fields and removing the previous Block Bindings UI, plus adding Block Bindings support for the Cover block.
First-time release lead Paulo Trentin brought us the latest version for the Gutenberg plugin, 23.2. In his release post What’s new in Gutenberg 23.2? (21 May he highlighted: You can now style blocks differently for tablets and phones right from Global Styles, so your designs adapt to each screen. Pop-up dialogs slide up from the bottom on mobile, making them easier to tap one-handed, and animations across the editor now share a consistent feel. You’ll also see smoother Content Types management, friendlier Shortcode handling, clearer Revisions diff markers for better accessibility, and steadier real-time collaboration when teammates edit together.
Justin Tadlock rounds up what’s new for WordPress developers in May 2026, with WordPress 7.0 landing on May 20. You’ll find early details on the Content Types experiment for managing custom post types and taxonomies in Core, a new @wordpress/grid package for building grid-based editor UIs, revisions support extended to templates and patterns, and a wave of block fixes covering the Tabs block, Image alignment, Search block styling, and Global Styles rendering.
If you are interested in learning more about this, the Content Types tracking issue outlines the experiment to bring custom taxonomy and post type management into the WordPress editor. The initial focus is on simple use cases — complex ones stay in plugin territory — with open tasks including a dedicated creation page, richer fields, a quick-edit versus full-edit distinction, and deeper DataViews integration. It’s a living issue and community input is welcome.
John Blackbournclarified WordPress’s PHP support stance in a post that’s worth flagging for developers and hosts. The “beta” label for PHP 8.x support has been retired and removed retroactively from all WordPress versions. It was discouraging hosts and developers from upgrading. In short:
The minimum recommended version remains PHP 8.3;
the minimum supported version is PHP 7.4.
Versions 6.9 and 7.0 now officially fully support PHP 8.5,
Request Logging gives administrators visibility into every AI request fired across Core, plugins, and themes;
Connector Approvals lets admins control which plugins can access configured AI providers.
Beyond governance, you’ll find comment moderation upgrades with sentiment and toxicity sorting right in the dashboard, AI alt text generation baked into the media editor workflow, and editorial workflow terminology tidied up. Looking ahead to 1.1.0, the team is exploring type-ahead suggestions, focus-aware crop suggestions, an AI Playground, and C2PA content provenance tracking for both text and images.
Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners
Jay Walsh, Director of Communications at Woo, announced that WooCommerce stores can now sell directly on YouTube via the Google for WooCommerce extension. You connect your store, tag products from your catalog in videos and Shorts, and they surface as shoppable cards while viewers watch — and also appear in your Channel Shopping tab. The same Merchant Center product feed that powers Google Shopping and Performance Max campaigns keeps everything in sync automatically, with AI-generated ad creative variations across formats included in version 3.6.
OpenRouter for routing across hundreds of models with cost optimization,
LM Studio for fully local inference suited to GDPR-sensitive workflows, and a
Universal OpenAI connector for any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including Ollama, Groq, and Mistral.
All three are built on the same PHP AI Client SDK heading into WordPress Core 7.0, so your setup today carries forward without code changes after the upgrade.
Artur Piszek explains how he uses WordPress as a sync backend for Obsidian with PushMD. This plugin was created with Adam Zielinski, the maker of Playground. It allows you to treat your WordPress site as a git remote using the REST API. You can git clone your blog as plain .md files. Write in Obsidian and push updates to sync. This setup turns your site into a repository without needing an external service. It is also compatible with the upcoming Guidelines/Artifacts system in WordPress Core, which lets you store private notes and configurations there too.
Seth Rubenstein at Pew Research Center shared a preview of PRC Block Bits, now open-sourced on GitHub. Block Bits solves a specific gap between block bindings and RichText: where bindings replace an entire block’s content with dynamic data, a “bit” lets you embed small dynamic pieces — an inline icon, a copyright year, live text — right in the middle of a paragraph or heading. You register bits via a PHP and JS API, choose between a pure-PHP callback or Interactivity API strategy, and an editor toolbar dropdown handles insertion. Built-in bits for icons and copyright ship out of the box.
Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks
Damir Tahiri of Rareview has open-sourced the WordPress starter theme that underpins every one of the agency’s builds. It’s Gutenberg-ready, ships with global style variables, includes a one-command Figma sync, and runs an interactive setup that renames and configures everything automatically. You can grab it on GitHub and use it as the foundation for your own projects.
“Keeping up with Gutenberg – Index 2025” A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test, and Meta team from Jan. 2024 on. Updated by yours truly.
On the WordPress Developer blog, Róbert Mészáros shows you how to get started writing WordPress E2E tests with Playwright, using a book review site built on Block Bindings as the test subject. You’ll set up wp-env and Playwright, write your first test against the admin dashboard, then progress to inserting block variations, verifying patterns with aria snapshots, and testing front-end output by creating posts via the REST API.
Also on the WordPress Developer Blog, Felix Arntz, Senior Software Engineer at Vercel, walks you through building a provider-agnostic image generation plugin using WordPress 7.0’s built-in AI Client. You’ll see how a single wp_ai_client_prompt() call handles provider routing, how support checks gate your UI gracefully when no image-capable provider is configured, and how the REST API and Media Library integration come together. The full source code is on GitHub at wptrainingteam/ai-client-imagegen.
Sérgio Santos, Lead Engineer at 10up/Fueled, diagnoses three specific bugs you hit when using RichText outside a block — in InspectorControls or a Modal. The format toolbar fills route to the wrong slot, the inline toolbar is opt-in via inlineToolbar, and isSelected never turns true outside a block context. Each problem gets a targeted fix, and the pattern has since been packaged as a reusable component in 10up Block Components.
Eric Karkovack walks you through using my.WordPress.net as a safe AI sandbox — no production site at risk. You install WordPress in your browser in two steps, add the AI Assistant app from the apps menu, connect it to Anthropic, OpenAI, or a local Ollama model, and start prompting. It’s a low-stakes way to explore what AI can do inside WordPress before committing it to a live environment, though API costs from OpenAI or Anthropic still apply.
Fresh from last week’s WordCamp Portugal:
Imran Sayed presented The Fastest Way to Build Gutenberg Blocks: Modern Tools, Scripts, and AI at WordCamp Portugal 2026. The talk cuts through the complexity of custom block development by focusing on practical, immediately usable workflows built around modern WordPress tools and scripts.
Milana Cap presented WordPress Gems for Devs: Accessibility with Interactivity API and makes the case that it’s one of the most exciting APIs to land in WordPress in recent releases, with positive implications not just for developer experience but for performance and user experience too.
Jorge Costa presented AI is in WordPress Core. Here’s How to Use It. The talk digs into the AI building blocks already shipped in WordPress Core — the WP AI Client, the Abilities API, and the MCP adapter, and shows you exactly how to bring AI-powered features into your own plugins, themes, and sites.
JuanMa Garrido presented WordPress Development and Management with Claude Code. The talk treats Claude Code as a command center for WordPress work, generating block themes from HTML designs, querying a production site in natural language, installing plugins, and reading error logs, all from the terminal. Three concepts are at the core: Skills, MCP, and the Abilities API.
Now also available via WordPress Playground. There is no need for a test site locally or on a server. Have you been using it? Email me with your experience.
Questions? Suggestions? Ideas? Don’t hesitate to send them via email or send me a message on WordPress Slack or Twitter @bph.
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