Tatva: Our New Web Components Library
This month, we’re thrilled to introduce Tatva. It’s our brand-new Web Components Library, built from our ongoing work with the WordPress Block Editor. While exploring the RichText Format API, we uncovered exciting opportunities to leverage Web Components for WordPress Performance, combining the flexibility of themes with the power of custom elements. That’s how Tatva came to life!
Tatva (meaning element or essence in Sanskrit) truly lives up to its name. It captures the core essence of modular design and modern web development. With Tatva, we’ve curated a collection of lightweight, theme-friendly, reusable Web Components that integrate seamlessly with WordPress environments. The project began as an exploration into WordPress editor internals. It evolved into a delightful side project. Now, it’s ready for broader use. We’ve kept the library open, extendable, and performance-focused, ensuring it plays nicely across frameworks and workflows.
GitHub Action: Playground Preview
This month, our engineering team is extra excited. Sharing a behind-the-scenes exploration that’s been quietly transforming our workflow.
If you’ve ever tinkered with WordPress Playground, you’ll know why we’re fans. Since its early days, we’ve admired its potential and championed its integration into development workflows. Over time, we’ve been using it extensively from local development to testing, across everything we build. Playground has transformed how we work. Feedback loops are faster, and collaboration has improved.
But we wanted make Playground an effortless part of our GitHub pull request review process. So, we rolled up our sleeves and started experimenting. The result is a GitHub Action that automatically spins up a live Playground preview for every pull request. This means reviewers can instantly test changes in a real WordPress environment no setup, no waiting, no friction. We first tested it across a few individual repositories as a proof of concept, and the results were fantastic. It worked smoothly for both public and private repos, giving us confidence to scale it up. Now, we are transforming that proof of concept into a GitHub Action. It will be reusable and configurable. Anyone can plug it into their own workflows.
Visual BluePrint Builder: Updates
Our work with WordPress Playground has been opening up new ways to simplify workflows and make collaboration faster across projects. One of the most exciting outcomes of this journey has been the evolution of our Visual Blueprint Builder. This month, it’s hitting a major milestone! 🎉
As our team began using Playground more often, we realized how powerful Blueprints are for experimentation, sharing, and onboarding. But we wanted to take that simplicity even further. Our vision was to make it possible for anyone to build and share Blueprints visually. They would not need to dive into configuration files. We aimed to remove the need for command-line tools.
That idea sparked the creation of the Visual Blueprint Builder a builder powered by the WordPress Block Editor itself. We’ve already been exploring the depths of the Block Editor ecosystem. It felt like a natural next step to let blocks act as building units for Blueprints. Imagine constructing a full Playground environment the same way you build a page in WordPress. It is intuitive, visual, and entirely flexible.
We have completed several rounds of prototyping, refining, and internal testing. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll soon be tagging the first stable version of the Visual Blueprint Builder. This milestone marks the culmination of months of exploration, feedback, and iteration from our internal teams.
But we’re not stopping there. 🚀 We have already planned new features and updates. They are inspired by our day-to-day usage. We can’t wait to see how this builder empowers everyone.
WordPress Abilities API: Powering Smarter Workflows
The much-anticipated WordPress Abilities API is right around the corner. Our team has been diving in early to explore everything it can do. For those who haven’t heard, the Abilities API is designed to bring more granular control and context-aware capabilities to WordPress. It helps developers define and manage what users, roles, and components can do in a more flexible and powerful way.
We work with a wide range of clients. They range from e-commerce platforms to large publication sites. We often deal with highly customized business logic. Each of these projects has its own workflows, editorial processes, and role hierarchies. The Abilities API fits perfectly into this landscape. It lets us create context-driven enhancements that streamline how teams collaborate. It also improves how they interact within WordPress.
We’ve started integrating it into some of our internal and client projects. We are using it to expose advanced controls, simplify workflows, and improve team productivity. It’s still early days, but the potential is huge. The Abilities API will redefine how developers think about user experiences and extensibility in WordPress.
So yes, we’re excited, we’re experimenting, and we’re already seeing results. Stay tuned for some upcoming WordPress Abilities goodies. We continue exploring how this powerful new API can make WordPress smarter.
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