Most WordPress site owners believe they are protected. They install a trusted security plugin like Solid Security, keep it updated, and assume that is enough. But recent research from WeWatchYourWebsite.com paints a different picture. In September 2025, the company analyzed… Continue Reading →
Digital presence is more than just a marketing channel. It’s often the primary driver of revenue, customer experience, and competitive differentiation. This critical asset demands enterprise-grade performance, rigorous security, and seamless scalability. When scaling business-critical WordPress sites, choosing to self-host… Continue Reading →
A common misconception about web hosting is that it is an expense for agencies and website owners. However, the truth is quite different. Choosing premium hosting is a real investment, rather than a passive item for an agency or online… Continue Reading →
“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.9 brings extensive accessibility improvements across WordPress Core and Gutenberg, continuing the goals to meet web content accessibility standards throughout WordPress and make it easier to author accessible content. These updates include changes to administration, customization, login and registration,… Continue Reading →
When creating and editing menus in the Menus interface, searching for posts and pages has historically used a full text search as a query. This can make some pages difficult to find, if they use a title that primarily uses… Continue Reading →
With WordPress 6.9, numerous legacy features that were used to support Internet Explorer have been removed. All versions of Internet Explorer have been unsupported in WordPress since version 5.8, released in July 2021. These changes continue the process of removing… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.9 introduces the WP_Block_Processor class — a new tool inspired by the HTML API and designed for efficiently scanning, understanding, and modifying block structure in HTML documents. Continue on to learn about this new class, its use-cases, and how… Continue Reading →
On October 11th, 2025, we received a submission for an Account Takeover via Email Log Disclosure vulnerability in Post SMTP, a WordPress plugin with more than 400,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to view… Continue Reading →
When a string passed to the esc_url() and esc_url_raw() functions does not include a protocol (https://, http://, etc.), WordPress will prepend http:// to the URL string before further processing and returning it. This is a reasonable fallback behavior, but there… Continue Reading →
Blind and low-vision users use screen readers to browse the web. These tools read your site out loud. Screen readers can only work with what your code tells them about the component. The site might work fine for sighted visitors… Continue Reading →
In this report, 149 vulnerabilities have been publicly disclosed. Security patches for 67 of these plugins and themes are now available. Please run these updates as soon as possible. If you’re a Solid Security Pro user, the version management tool… Continue Reading →
We’re excited to share that Kinsta is heading to Australia this November! From November 25 to 28, our team will participate in four one-day events in Melbourne and Sydney, joining leading marketers, publishers, developers, and WordPress professionals from across the country. Kinsta will… Continue Reading →
Emails sent from WordPress will be more reliable in WordPress 6.9 thanks to a few updates and bug-fixes to the wp_mail() function. The sender address is extensibly configured. The sender address, also known as the Envelope-From, the MAIL FROM, the… Continue Reading →
On Thursday, November 13, 2025, 15:00 UTC, a team meeting started in #accessibility facilitated by Nasim Miah. You can read the full transcript or see the meeting agenda. Biweekly Team Meeting Time Update The bi-weekly chat meeting time has changed to alternate Thursdays at 15:00 UTC, and… Continue Reading →
The second Release Candidate (“RC2”) for WordPress 6.9 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead,… Continue Reading →
A number of changes in WordPress 6.9 are coming which modernize WordPress’ text encoding and UTF-8 handling. These improvements establish more reliable and consistent text processing across WordPress’ widely-supported environments, benefiting plugins and themes that handle international content, emoji, diacritics,… Continue Reading →
Modern WordPress development has evolved beyond manual setups and inconsistent deployment workflows. Radicle combines Roots‘ and other WordPress dev tools, such as Bedrock, Sage, and Acorn, into a single starter stack. This integration means you can have Laravel’s development experience directly… Continue Reading →
This post is the latest in a series of updates focused on the performance improvements of major releases (see 6.8, 6.7, 6.6, 6.5, 6.4, 6.3, and 6.2). WordPress 6.9 is the second and final major release of 2025. It includes… Continue Reading →
Query caches have historically used the last changed timestamp as a salt. While this has proven effective for most sites, it leads to an excessive number of caches which can be problematic on high-traffic and heavily updated sites. WordPress 6.9… Continue Reading →
In WordPress 6.9, a handful of small, developer-focused changes were made that deserve to be called out. Let’s take a look! PHP 8.5 New Function Polyfills The upcoming 8.5 release of PHP includes 2 new functions that can be used… Continue Reading →
It’s the time of year when we roll out delicious savings! We’re offering new customers big savings on the essential plugins trusted by top developers and agencies worldwide. Whether you’re trying to move a complex website, offload a massive media… Continue Reading →
Divi 5 makes it simple to add social proof that actually looks good. In this free pack, you’ll get 10 Styled Testimonial Sections — each crafted for clean typography, balanced spacing, and strong contrast out of the box. Drop one… Continue Reading →
With the introduction of Divi 5‘s Flexbox Layout System and the Loop Builder, you can create modern, flexible designs with ease. Flexbox delivers intuitive, responsive layout control with effortless alignment and spacing. The Loop Builder integrates dynamic content from posts,… Continue Reading →
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Nested Modules in Divi 5 allow every module to serve as a container, enabling you to place rows and other modules inside one another with infinite depth. You can place buttons inside a Blurb, a CTA inside a Blog module,… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.9 introduces Notes, a new feature that allows you to leave contextual feedback at the block level. With notes your team can stay aligned, track changes, and turn feedback into action all in one place. Notes can be resolved,… Continue Reading →
Great carousels do more than slide left and right, they guide attention and create rhythm. With Divi 5’s new Group Carousel module, you can shape transitions visually inside the builder without writing a line of code. Subscribe To Our Youtube… Continue Reading →
Kinsta is thrilled to announce that we’re sponsoring WordCamp Pisa 2025, which will take place on November 21-22 at the University of Pisa. As strong supporters of the Italian WordPress community, we’re proud to head to Pisa to connect with… Continue Reading →
It’s time for the biggest WordPress event in the Netherlands. We’re proud to announce that Kinsta is back and sponsoring WordCamp Netherlands 2025, taking place November 27-28 at Madurodam in The Hague. We’re looking forward to connecting with the Dutch WordPress community… Continue Reading →
