A proposal has been submitted to merge two new features into WordPress 7.1 core: Knowledge and Guidelines.
Knowledge is a new post type (wp_knowledge) that stores site-specific information as standard WordPress content. Guidelines is the first feature built on top of it. Together they give you a single, built-in place to capture the content standards for your site: voice, tone, image preferences, rules for specific blocks, whatever your editorial process depends on.
What problem this solves
Most sites have content standards, but they live in Google Docs, a Notion page, or someone’s head. Every time a new editor joins, someone has to walk them through the rules. Plugins that need context about your site (including AI writing tools) have no shared place to find it, so each one ships its own storage solution.
Guidelines creates a canonical home for this inside WordPress, available during writing and editing.
Where it stands
The feature is already working in the Gutenberg plugin. It landed in Gutenberg 22.7 in March after a community feedback period shaped the final design. The proposal is now for it to ship in WordPress 7.1 core.
If you use AI writing assistants or want a consistent standard across multiple editors, the full proposal is worth reading.
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