Make RTC opt-in / off-by-default by chriszarate · Pull Request #11289 · WordPress/wordpress-develop

chriszarate · 2026-03-18T17:09:33Z

Per the comment in Core Slack, we are moving the real-time collaboration feature to opt-in / off-by-default for 7.0 RC 1. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback during the testing period.

Note that we are intentionally changing the option name so that it will be off-by-default for everyone, including those that installed a beta release where the feature was on-by-default.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64845

aaronjorbin · 2026-03-18T17:11:48Z

Per the conversation in Core Slack

Can you link to this conversation?

github-actions · 2026-03-18T17:13:53Z

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chriszarate · 2026-03-18T17:21:47Z

Can you link to this conversation?

Apologies, description has been updated.

github-actions · 2026-03-18T17:24:00Z

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peterwilsoncc

I've added a couple of notes inline. I'm doing some manual testing now.

src/wp-includes/default-filters.php

peterwilsoncc · 2026-03-18T22:30:43Z

src/wp-includes/collaboration.php

+ *
+ * @return bool True if real-time collaboration is enabled, false otherwise.
+ */
+function wp_is_collaboration_enabled() {


Let's keep the addition of this function for the table PR and just use get_option() for now.

How we handle availability might need some fine tuning.

src/wp-admin/options-writing.php

aaronjorbin

I don't love all the churn from renaming the option especially with RC1 less than 24 hours away.

I also want to express that shipping a new feature that is disabled by default feels like it violates the clean, lean, and mean philosophy and isn't something that I think WordPress should ever do.

src/wp-admin/options-writing.php

Co-Authored-By: jorbin <jorbin@git.wordpress.org>

peterwilsoncc · 2026-03-19T00:21:25Z

I don't love all the churn from renaming the option especially with RC1 less than 24 hours away.

I think the diff looks a little higher churn than it is for two reasons:

The alignment CS rule blows up the schema changes with whitespace changes
The endpoint is removed from the rest api generated file.

Without those changes the PR is about +30,-20

peterwilsoncc

I'm happy with this, @chriszarate are you happy with the changes I pushed?

aaronjorbin · 2026-03-19T02:39:04Z

src/wp-includes/collaboration.php

 	global $pagenow;

-	if ( ! get_option( 'wp_enable_real_time_collaboration' ) ) {
+	if ( ! (bool) get_option( 'wp_collaboration_enabled' ) ) {


is the (bool) necessary since this is doing a truthy/falsy check anyway?

aaronjorbin · 2026-03-19T02:45:32Z

tests/phpunit/tests/rest-api/rest-sync-server.php

 		self::$post_id       = $factory->post->create( array( 'post_author' => self::$editor_id ) );
+
+		// Enable option in setUpBeforeClass to ensure REST routes are registered.
+		update_option( 'wp_collaboration_enabled', 1 );


This feels redundant with it also being done in set_up

It is needed for the reason noted in the comment.

chriszarate · 2026-03-19T03:08:19Z

I'm happy with this, @chriszarate are you happy with the changes I pushed?

Yes, they look fine. Thank you. I agree with @aaronjorbin that the (bool) coercion is unnecessary, but also not harmful.

ellatrix · 2026-03-19T07:19:23Z

Thank you. I'm going to commit this.

See: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C07NVJ51X6K/p1773850504196589. We are intentionally changing the option name so that it will be off-by-default for everyone, including those that installed a beta release where the feature was on-by-default. Developed in: #11289. Fixes #64845. Props czarate, peterwilsoncc, jorbin. git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@62058 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82

github-actions · 2026-03-19T07:36:15Z

A commit was made that fixes the Trac ticket referenced in the description of this pull request.

SVN changeset: 62058
GitHub commit: 85cc3de

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See: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C07NVJ51X6K/p1773850504196589. We are intentionally changing the option name so that it will be off-by-default for everyone, including those that installed a beta release where the feature was on-by-default. Developed in: WordPress/wordpress-develop#11289. Fixes #64845. Props czarate, peterwilsoncc, jorbin. Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@62058 git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@61340 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd

chriszarate added 2 commits March 18, 2026 11:08

Make RTC opt-in / off-by-default

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RTC: Change RTC option name WordPress/gutenberg#76643

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peterwilsoncc and others added 4 commits March 19, 2026 10:58

Wrap RTC checkbox in label element.

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Co-Authored-By: jorbin <jorbin@git.wordpress.org>

Remove wp_is_collaboration_enabled() for later.

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Remove default filter not needed for false by default option.

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Merge branch 'trunk' into feat/rtc-off-by-default

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PHP backports for WP 7.0 WordPress/gutenberg#74043

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RTC: Remove post list lock icon and replace user-specific lock text with RTC enabled #11234

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