WordPress 7.1 is set to be released on August 19th, 2026. This release advances how people work together in WordPress and opens up new functionality for all to benefit from. New Notes features, including suggestion mode and emoji reactions, make asynchronous feedback richer and more interactive. Meanwhile, real-time collaboration remains an exciting focus area with a few strategic decisions remaining to shape exactly how it’ll show up in the WordPress experience. New options for responsive styling and pseudo-state styling, two longstanding areas of feedback, expand what you can do directly in the Site Editor without needing to use CSS. A new Guidelines feature adds a persistent, structured way to encode editorial rules into WordPress, helping you keep your voice and preferences when collaborating with AI. Several new options make it easier to find your way around: see when a block inherits its styling from a global setting, set key details about your site in a new Identity section in the Site Editor, find what you need faster with recently used commands and suggestions shown in the command palette, and enjoy the familiarity of the admin bar inside any of the editors. The experience of uploading and using media gets numerous updates, including a new free-form image cropper to get your images just right and client-side media improvements that support more image formats and add resiliency throughout. For those building on top of WordPress, numerous APIs are slated for more features and fixes. Expanded Unicode support is in the works so email addresses, usernames, and slugs can better reflect WordPress’ global audience. Finally, to round out the release are a slew of smaller yet important delights like a new “On This Day” dashboard widget, new blocks, and various writing flow improvements.
