WordPress Core is expanding testing efforts for Real Time Collaboration ahead of WordPress 7.1 to gather feedback and data from active collaborative editors.
Because testing is needed from a wide range of environments, web hosts are being asked to reach out to your customer base to invite them to participate, however you see fit. Professional teams are the ideal user base for this testing, such as small businesses, newsrooms, non-profits, marketers and designers.
Including testers that host on your infra will help ensure the feature is fully optimized for your hosting platform, while showing a healthy collaborative relationship with their software provider can positively influence customer perception of your org. This also will create an active feedback loop with developers that can speedrun fixes and improvements to the benefit of your users and platform.
Instructions, updates, feedback and general communication will be in the #collaborative-editing-outreach channel in Slack, and folks only need to join the channel to get started.
Collaborative editing updates will be shared through a plugin, allowing participants to enable and start using it with ease, and share feedback as they go in the Slack channel alongside feature developers. Participants should:
- Want to use collaborative editing on a regular basis
- Enjoy being an early adopter
- Feel comfortable using the latest version of the Gutenberg plugin
- Have the ability to participate through the 7.1 cycle (at least until 8/18/26)
As an organization – your team is invited to participate!
As a host – comment below with your company name if you plan to help with outreach, and make sure to hop into #collaborative-editing-outreach to share that you and your customers are participating. This is also where you can give feedback, and see the most current changes and updates.
Feedback from testers will help inform development throughout the 7.1 cycle, influence the direction of the feature, and help ensure compatibility across hosting platforms. Test badges and credits will be given to those who participate at the end of the cycle.
The program starts now, with the hope to gather meaningful feedback and data, and make iterations, prior to the 7.1 Beta 1 release on July 15th.
Thank you in advance for your help! You all are heroes!
Props to @annezazu and @kirasong for reviewing this post.