WordPress 7.0: The Good, the AI, and the Still Missing

WordPress 7.0 was supposed to launch yesterday at WordCamp Asia. It didn't. On March 31st, the core team announced a delay to sort out the data storage behind real-time collaboration. A new schedule should land by April 22nd. If you've been following the coverage, you'd think this release is primarily about AI. Every WordPress agency with a blog has published their version of "WordPress 7.0: The AI Era Begins." Having spent time with the betas and the developer notes, the AI stuff is comfortably the least interesting thing in this release, and the engineering effort going into it raises some questions about where the project's priorities are heading. The delay The real-time collaboration feature lets multiple users edit the same post simultaneously. The delay happened because the sync data storage was causing cache invalidation problems, and the team decided to fix it properly rather than ship it broken for the conference stage. Good. After three security releases in 24 hours back in M