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Divi 5 makes it easy to create polished sections with rich color, depth, and visual atmosphere. In this free pack, you’ll get 7 Creative Gradients for Divi 5 that are perfect for hero sections, landing pages, SaaS websites, data platforms,… Continue Reading →
Note: This post has been published on Make/Core in light of the WordPress 7.0.4 security release. You can read more about the security release. WordPress 7.1 RC2 was released on August 6, 2026, as part of the WordPress 7.0.3 security release…. Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.0.4 is now available WordPress 7.0.4 is now available which features a security fix. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can update to WordPress 7.0.4 by downloading it from… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 is scheduled for release on August 19th and promises to be an exciting update for developers, professionals, agencies, and bloggers across the ecosystem. This second major release of the year introduces a wide range of updates covering nearly… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, August 13, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements 7.1 RC3 is scheduled to be released on Wed Aug 12th (today) 7.1 RC1 was released Wed August 5th. WordPress 7.1 Field Guide is published…. Continue Reading →
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @b1ink0 asked whether there was anything the team would like to focus on for the WordPress 7.2 release, referencing the performance-focused Core Trac tickets. @westonruter said… Continue Reading →
Type almost any question into Google today and there’s a good chance you’ll get your answer before you ever see a blue link. An AI-generated summary sits at the top of the page, pulling from a handful of sources, and… Continue Reading →
Most WordPress teams can fix things. Fixing things and running things reliably are not the same skill, and the gap between them gets more expensive with every site you add. At a certain scale, the informal systems that keep operations… Continue Reading →
It’s official; the beta phases have ended, and Divi 5 has arrived! This isn’t the end; it’s a new beginning for Divi, and we are moving forward faster than ever with weekly updates. If you use Divi 5, you’ll see… Continue Reading →
The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the first meeting and is set to take place on 11 August. Meeting Details: Date and Time: Tuesday, August 11 2026, 15:00 UTC… Continue Reading →
The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, at 15:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The various… Continue Reading →
Clean pages and informative pages often pull in opposite directions. Add every detail a visitor might need, and the layout starts to feel crowded. Remove too much, and visitors may not have enough context to understand what they are looking… Continue Reading →
A client hands you a logo, maybe a short brand guide, and a few approved hex codes. You open Divi 5, start building in the Visual Builder, and quickly realize the issue is not the layout. It is color variation…. Continue Reading →
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team was notified on August 7th, 2026 of a supply chain compromise affecting BdThemes, a WordPress plugin vendor whose plugins are available in the official WordPress plugins directory. Currently, all the affected plugins are temporarily closed… Continue Reading →
Variable fonts, Text Fill, and Text Stroke are three different typography controls in Divi 5. The font controls the shape of the letters. The fill controls what appears inside them. The stroke controls the edge. You can use each one… Continue Reading →
Last week, there were 224 vulnerabilities disclosed in 177 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 119 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those… Continue Reading →
I am excited to announce the Post Filter and Tooltip modules for Divi 5! Divi 5 has a very powerful loop-building system, and today that system becomes even more versatile. Now, users can search, filter, and reorder loops on the front… Continue Reading →
Most blog layouts fall apart at the images. One post has a tall portrait, the next has a wide landscape, and the third uses something almost square. The grid starts to look uneven, and the layout feels more like a… Continue Reading →
Every WordPress site I have worked on in the last decade shares the same accessibility gap, and it is rarely the one people expect. The people involved care about accessibility. The problem is where their tool lives: a separate platform,… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.0.3 is now available WordPress 7.0.3 is now available which features several security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can update to WordPress 7.0.3 by downloading it from… Continue Reading →
At WordCamp Europe Torino ’24, Joe Dolson asked Rian Rietveld to review the documentation about accessibility on the WordPress.org website. What she found was that the information was hard to find, scattered all around the place, with duplicated and incomplete… Continue Reading →
In 2025, bots accounted for 53% of all web traffic, the first time automated traffic had outpaced humans in a calendar year. By June 2026, Cloudflare Radar put that figure at 57.5%, a crossover that Cloudflare’s own CEO said arrived… Continue Reading →
The Plugins Team is aware of an issue currently affecting plugin releases and is actively investigating it. At this time, newly released plugin ZIP files are not being generated as expected. We are also aware that some users are experiencing… Continue Reading →
The first Release Candidate (“RC1”) for WordPress 7.1 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is still under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites…. Continue Reading →
Kinsta analyzed more than 10 billion HTTP requests across its hosting infrastructure and found that bots hit add-to-cart URLs on WordPress sites 7.67 million times in a single 24-hour period. One crawler alone generated 550 million requests over 30 days… Continue Reading →
A couple of months ago I was trying, really hard, to play with this new and exciting AI Agent tool called OpenClaw, but I just couldn’t manage it. My problem was that installing it on my Mac was a nightmare…. Continue Reading →
When a WordPress site breaks on a Friday afternoon, the clock starts on two separate problems: fixing the site and agreeing on who caused it. The second problem almost always takes longer. A developer points at the campaign that just… Continue Reading →
The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion. Date: July 28, 2025 Time: 15:00 UTC Location: #themes channel Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda Agenda Prepared by: @bijayyadav Meeting facilitator – @bijayyadav Full transcript – #themes channel Attendees: Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. @bijayyadav… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 Beta 4 is ready for download and testing! This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, use a test… Continue Reading →
Two people asked us the same question during our bot traffic reality check live event, and we never got to either one live: does an llms.txt file actually stop AI from hammering your site? We’ve sat with that question because… Continue Reading →
