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WordPress 7.0 launched on 20 May 2026 without real-time collaboration, which Matt Mullenweg pulled on 8 May. Here's what shipped, what got cut, and our hands-on findings from running RC5 on two of our own sites for the 24 hours before launch.
The complete reference guide to every common WordPress error message. White screen of death, 500 errors, database connection, memory exhausted, redirect loops. Diagnose, fix, and stop it happening again.
WordPress 7.0 didn't ship on 9 April. The core team extended the cycle to redesign the database layer for real-time collaboration, then pulled real-time collaboration entirely on 8 May. The release shipped on 20 May with block-level Notes in its place. This is the record of the database rework that happened anyway.
I installed WordPress 7 Beta 2 on a staging server and went looking for the AI. What I found was both less exciting and more important than I expected. Here's what the Connectors page actually does, with code examples.
