diff --git a/www-apps/wordpress/Manifest b/www-apps/wordpress/Manifest
index a1ef4edbf19e..ecafb8d14911 100644
--- a/www-apps/wordpress/Manifest
+++ b/www-apps/wordpress/Manifest
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ DIST wordpress-6.5.5.tar.gz 24696391 BLAKE2B e3edceb605c22b15de39459ec3e83e41632
 DIST wordpress-6.6.2.tar.gz 24640061 BLAKE2B f10a94b0a731bb4a5b22f0e6e634f061bcd6abbb06badb3232cce56cee13c681fe8c00beab1893928c8d224a8f495ee5f2d5caa6ac90b45af39313580b3c3bca SHA512 652d20f2d66a62d1dfa0c0e6edb7b80e32e9a50a6bdbfb995510091ed1e3cfe6c42db2b13cb78b69ff09c7e85a14b5b8881738477fa0ade8998967179df851e7
 DIST wordpress-6.7.2.tar.gz 26780969 BLAKE2B 2eaa761b524927f5a10c7d01bf93b505c935faf9c363394d103a1ee94f60e2e517858fb5ebef6f3eeb4d06837a6ac4358881d26dc0e9e4ed085e0dd886453e9c SHA512 a07db3c7e8989dc20496953c68f9772154d5b5bad0cec7c03466bbb6c84eb1f758859e5bbe3e1b27f770d86624006034d75c8c4ee1e1ea622887846bf56da1ca
 DIST wordpress-6.8.3.tar.gz 26928488 BLAKE2B 1b4214b27a1c904b0f660041504887b11280f0a9784293cd4c6e242b309a6d1e9c81b1c3d74563299eeba39c846a879eed327b5ff48b2c4b27e307c1959da0e9 SHA512 0e8890d1bc9d6baa344cf5c6c5cb6ec5cdca810311a3508ec4cf9b0d5afe75f949c81a153c27847fa99f6c5d214336281ca9220bb54535996ee2eaa059306864
+DIST wordpress-6.9.tar.gz 27058021 BLAKE2B 0de234c960b60177f4cbbbe3cb2e833e2a326a489157e6d63a21a89b30bf8dbd0235b709a96d8df42c5e3651edf0badb51462ebc044d735fc10aac0c9b828842 SHA512 486b31bb8e3836f7e4bf1024098976a98bd52a0280bdb1a9a0c1648865a03cd7a1373a8c232bc82e57c3819dcf757bb26ff172f4ec88e681ff260978e197d0fd
diff --git a/www-apps/wordpress/wordpress-6.9.ebuild b/www-apps/wordpress/wordpress-6.9.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..70eb52fbdd4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-apps/wordpress/wordpress-6.9.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit webapp
+
+DESCRIPTION="Wordpress PHP and MySQL based content management system (CMS)"
+HOMEPAGE="https://wordpress.org/"
+SRC_URI="https://wordpress.org/${P/_rc/-RC}.tar.gz"
+S=${WORKDIR}/${PN}
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+"
+if [[ ${PV} != *_rc* ]]; then
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
+fi
+
+RDEPEND="virtual/httpd-php
+	|| ( dev-lang/php[mysql] dev-lang/php[mysqli] )"
+
+need_httpd_cgi
+
+IUSE="+akismet examples +themes vhosts"
+
+src_install() {
+	webapp_src_preinst
+
+	dodoc readme.html
+	rm readme.html license.txt || die
+
+	if use !akismet ; then
+		rm -R wp-content/plugins/akismet/ || die
+	fi
+	if use !examples ; then
+		rm wp-content/plugins/hello.php || die
+	fi
+	if use !themes ; then
+		rm -R wp-content/themes/*/ || die
+	fi
+
+	[[ -f wp-config.php ]] || cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
+
+	insinto "${MY_HTDOCSDIR}"
+	doins -r .
+
+	webapp_serverowned "${MY_HTDOCSDIR}"/index.php
+	webapp_serverowned "${MY_HTDOCSDIR}"/wp-admin/menu.php
+	webapp_serverowned "${MY_HTDOCSDIR}"
+	# allows plugins update if allowed within WP
+	webapp_serverowned "${MY_HTDOCSDIR}"/wp-admin/includes/file.php
+
+	webapp_configfile  "${MY_HTDOCSDIR}"/wp-config.php
+
+	webapp_postinst_txt en "${FILESDIR}"/postinstall-en.txt
+	webapp_postupgrade_txt en "${FILESDIR}"/postupgrade-en.txt
+
+	webapp_src_install
+}