As a website grows, small styling differences, such as a border radius on a button or spacing in a heading, begin to appear across pages. Fixing them means repeating the same changes over and over. We introduced Presets a while… Continue Reading →
Every website owner wants an accessible website, but it often takes work and some research. While the average user can navigate a website without supporting technologies, many people, including potential customers and fans, rely on an unseen layer of your… Continue Reading →
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WordPress 6.9 brings an abundance of quiet improvements to the HTML API. Updates in this release mostly represent applications of the HTML API to existing code in Core; these updates increase WordPress’ reliability, improve its security hardening, and reduce maintenance… Continue Reading →
Last month in October 2025, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 486 vulnerability submissions from our growing community of security researchers working to improve the overall security posture of the WordPress ecosystem. These submissions are reviewed, triaged, and processed by… Continue Reading →
Building layouts in Divi continues to become more advanced and intuitive. You can now place modules inside other modules with Nested Modules. You can also put rows inside rows; these are called Nested Rows. Both give you more design freedom,… Continue Reading →
PHP 8.5 was released on November 20th. Contributors to WordPress have been busy in recent months preparing for this version and we’re happy to report that all issues reported against PHP 8.5 have been addressed in WordPress 6.9 RC2. Compared… Continue Reading →
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 →
On November 19th, a group of community members from the #content-creators channel to talk about content creation across different mediums (Twitch, YouTube, Podcast, News/Newsletter). We covered a wide range of topics from short form content to how to stay close… 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 →
Do you want to grow an audience filled with loyal, raving fans who can’t wait for the next post you publish? The most successful creators aren’t just chasing numbers and…
Do you have a process for turning your social media followers into customers? Unless you sell on platforms like TikTok and Whatnot that have ecommerce features built seamlessly into content…
Are you considering expanding your brand into social media to ensure you weather whatever storm Google brings to its search engine? It can be difficult for bloggers to transition from…
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 →
