This month’s update from our core contributors. Here’s how Jessica and Tammie are helping shape the future of WordPress.
In September, Tammie focused her contributions on both the Core AI and Editor teams, continuing to represent Greyd’s commitment to advancing WordPress design, usability, and emerging technologies. And she and Jessica doubled down on a usability challenge related to fonts presets.
AI
Artificial intelligence is steadily finding its place in WordPress core. What began as exploration has evolved into a structured effort led by the new WordPress AI team. Their work focuses on building a framework that allows AI features to be developed, tested, and integrated responsibly across WordPress—starting with the block editor. From text generation and code assistance to content analysis, these developments are shaping how creators and developers will work within WordPress in the near future.
Within the AI initiative, Tammie provided design feedback on several experimental features currently under development. Her work included reviewing and iterating on issues related to:
- Title Generation / Rewriting (WordPress/ai Issue #10)
- Excerpt Generation (WordPress/ai Issue #11)
- Content Summarization (WordPress/ai Issue #12)
She supported design iterations on these same experiments, helping refine the visual flow and usability of AIassisted content creation within the block editor.
Tammie also contributed to the Abilities API, which aims to define how AI capabilities are structured and accessed in WordPress. Her work included creating milestones, helping shape the roadmap toward WordPress 6.9 (Roadmap to WP 6.9: defining and deciding, Issue #83), and triaging open issues to ensure a structured path forward.
Editor
On the Editor side, Tammie continued work on improving usability and design consistency across the block editor, especially ahead of WordPress 6.9. Her efforts included providing feedback to unblock development, managing design triage, and addressing issues labeled needs design and needs design feedback. She also worked through a backlog of design tickets and helped surface cross-team collaboration needs—ensuring that design discussions align with the editor’s long-term goals.
UX and Usability
Jessica and Tammie collaborated on an important usability challenge related to font size presets in the block editor, where Jessica did a massive part of work, and Tammie provided feedback and support to get it unblocked.
After several clients reported similar issues when trying to select the exact preset they had created, Jessica took the time to investigate the problem more deeply. Instead of addressing it only on a project level, she looked into how this issue could be solved for WordPress as a whole.
Her contribution highlighted a broader UX concern—the need to make font size management more intuitive and accessible within the editor—showing how real-world feedback can directly inform improvements in core functionality.
Why this matters
The work of contributors like Tammie and Jessica demonstrates how thoughtful design, accessibility, and UX refinements directly shape the experience of millions of WordPress users. Their combined efforts not only improve daily workflows for content creators but also strengthen the foundation for emerging AI capabilities in WordPress core.
At Greyd, we see these contributions as part of a larger vision: helping WordPress evolve sustainably by combining flexibility, accessibility, and usability at every level.
Stay tuned for next month’s update!
