The WordPress core will incorporate native functionality to include embedded images in emails without relying on external links or BASE64 content.
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Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community.
In this episode, you’ll find the information from September 1 to 7, 2025.
The Core team has introduced improved support for embedded images directly within system-generated emails. It is now possible to include inline images in the email body, ensuring they display correctly in clients that block external images or don’t automatically load attachments. The approach aims for greater visual fidelity without sacrificing compatibility or delivery reliability.
This functionality is implemented with a system that uses content IDs to reference embedded images, instead of relying on external links or base64 encoding, which often fail or are blocked by email clients. The result is more robust emails, visually more consistent, and less likely to break due to recipient client restrictions.
On the Developer Blog, there is an explanation of how to take plugin development a step further by integrating PHP namespaces, Composer autoloading, and unified coding standards for PHP, JavaScript, and CSS. The goal is to maintain code quality and scale efficiently, both for individual developers and large teams.
Concrete steps are detailed: configuring PSR-4 autoloading in a composer.json, splitting functionality into classes within clear namespaces, using linting and auto-formatting to maintain consistent standards across all used languages, and organizing the plugin structure to be modular, maintainable, and free from naming conflicts.
The Hosting team has launched its annual survey to analyze aspects of how hosting companies that provide WordPress services operate, with questions covering the company, technology stack, security practices, experience with WordPress, and support, among others.
The survey is now available and will close on October 15.
The Plugins team has published a recap noting that there are 60,187 plugins in the WordPress.org directory, and that in the first 9 months more than 7,600 plugins have been submitted for review, which is 87% more than during the entire previous year.
A very interesting data point is that, thanks to the new review and control tools, 65% of developers follow the review process, representing a 17% increase compared to last year, thereby improving the workflow.
And finally, this podcast is distributed under a Creative Commons license as a derivative version of the podcast in Spanish; you can find all the links for more information, and the podcast in other languages, at WPpodcast .org.
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