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Work is largely completed for making the accessibility-ready tag conditional in the theme directory, as proposed in meta trac ticket #8427. There’s a little bit more work to be done to set up the changes, which is going to briefly… Continue Reading →
X-post from +make.wordpress.org/meta: Heads up: HelpScout to FreeScout Migration
X-post from +make.wordpress.org/meta: Heads up: HelpScout to FreeScout Migration
Turn any photo into gloriously retro ASCII art — made entirely from letters, symbols, and tiny bits of chaos. This free tool turns your dog, face, logo, or worst holiday photo into something that belongs on a 1980s terminal. You… Continue Reading →
If you ask an AI agent to provision a WordPress website, the result depends on the tools it has. With browser automation, what matters is whether the User Interface (UI) elements match the script. However, using an API means the… Continue Reading →
With: New and updated documentation. Migration of the Accessibility Team Handbook. Our plans for October. The roadmap of the project. New and updated documentation In standards and best practice: Tables in the content in Content and images. Tables in front-end… Continue Reading →
There’s a lot of buzz about CLI coding agents today. This new class of AI-driven tools lives in your local terminal and acts as autonomous shell operators. They use your existing command-line environment (including Git, SSH, and WP-CLI) to navigate… Continue Reading →
For decades, web designers obsessed over perfecting menus, tabs, and dropdowns. Now a single empty prompt box is quietly replacing them all. As AI turns websites into conversations, we’re gaining incredible speed—but we may be losing something unexpected: the joy… Continue Reading →
WordPress runs 43% of all websites on the internet. Sixty percent of every site that bothers to use a CMS. Roughly 58% of the top 10,000 sites by traffic, per W3Techs. Webflow polls in the low single digits. That’s not… Continue Reading →
AI isn’t killing web development—it’s killing the boring parts. The real winners won’t be the people who can memorize another framework. They’ll be the builders who can spot opportunities, solve business problems, and launch products that once required entire teams…. Continue Reading →
These is the bi-weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on alternate Thursday in #accessibility. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule. Announcements WPAD 2026 Event is coming up! Register to attend WPAD 2026 if you have not! Checkout the schedule and see… Continue Reading →
53.8% of consumers skip websites during early research in favor of AI tools, but many remain skeptical of AI-generated content and turn to a brand’s website to check what it said. LOS ANGELES– Sep 22, 2026 –Most consumers now skip… Continue Reading →
Before TikTok turned every moment into content, people uploaded shaky, pointless little iPhone videos to YouTube and forgot about them. This strange website found five million of them—dogs, holidays, car rides, bad concerts—and lets you fall into a random stranger’s… Continue Reading →
Canva just made a much more serious play for professional designers: Affinity now brings design, photo editing, and layout into one free app, while Canva connects it to motion, AI, and team-friendly publishing tools.
We’re thrilled to share that Kinsta is heading back to Singapore this October! From October 12 to 15, our team will be in town for the Hypergrowth Summit and a series of exclusive networking dinners. Whether you’re looking for hosting… Continue Reading →
Nobody wants another app cluttering their phone—so why does every website keep begging us to install one? The web already perfected the experience: click, load, done. Maybe it’s time we stopped trying to ruin it.
AI agents don’t just answer questions anymore. They can carry out tasks. On a WordPress site, this could involve setting up a staging environment, updating a plugin, running checks, pushing an approved change live, clearing the cache, and keeping a… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, September 24, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements WPAD 2026 Event is coming up! Register to attend WPAD 2026 if you have not! Checkout the schedule and see what is coming up!… Continue Reading →
X-comment from +make.wordpress.org/core: Comment on Call for testing: DataForm editor inspector
A wonderfully weird typeface from 1973 has come back to life — and somehow it looks more at home in 2026 than ever. Meet Clippy, the retro font that bends, rocks and wobbles its way into the digital age.
This security release features a fix for a critical severity security vulnerability. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 7.1.2 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click… Continue Reading →
When you discover that a large share of your website traffic comes from bots, blocking them can feel like the obvious next step. In some cases, the numbers do call for an immediate response. PatronView recently documented 3.6 million requests… Continue Reading →
The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the second meeting and is set to take place on 22 September. Meeting Details: Date and Time: Tuesday, September 22 2026, 15:00 UTC… Continue Reading →
What consumers actually do after an AI recommendation, according to new Kinsta survey data AI is changing how consumers discover products and brands, but this new landscape hasn’t replaced the need for a trusted website. Kinsta’s survey of 1,008 US… Continue Reading →
We spent 15 years filling our phones with apps. AI could make almost all of them invisible… and the death of apps may already be closer than anyone realizes.
I’m happy to announce that I am now serving as president of the Open Website Alliance (OWA), representing the WordPress Foundation. The Alliance brings together the community organizations behind Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress to advocate for open source and… Continue Reading →
AI can now build a UI in seconds, but that doesn’t mean it built the UI you actually designed. A new Applitools integration turns Figma designs into visual baselines, automatically catching the subtle differences AI coding agents leave behind before… Continue Reading →
Figma is often used build out and maintain mockups for the WordPress project. It’s free to sign up for, and you can create and edit drafts for free. For that reason, Automattic sponsors access to it for a subset of… Continue Reading →
Here’s a Monday-morning message nobody wants: “We haven’t had a single inquiry all month. Is the website broken?” So, you check the obvious things. The site is up. The contact form loads. You send a test and get the reassuring… Continue Reading →
This security and maintenance release features 17 bug fixes on Core, 19 bug fixes for the Block Editor, and 11 security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download… Continue Reading →
