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We’re super excited to bring you a new release of WP Offload Media. Version 3.4.0 delivers full support for WordPress 7.1, performance improvements and bug fixes, along with foundational changes that unlock future features and further performance improvements. WordPress 7.1… Continue Reading →
Welcome to DEV, your monthly WordPress deep dive. Before you clock off and lie in a rectangle of sunlight, let’s see what’s been happening in WordPress. Stick around to the end to see the hamster who’ll absolutely annihilate your fitness… Continue Reading →
When someone wants to know whether a brand is trustworthy, searching the brand name up isn’t the first option anymore. They ask an LLM to compare it against alternatives, check Reddit, look at some review aggregators, or even see whether… Continue Reading →
Ever noticed that signing in takes one tap, but logging feels like solving a puzzle?That’s not bad design. It’s a business strategy. The modern internet has quietly turned “leave” into the hardest button to find—and most people never realized it… 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 Help shape the Accessibility Lab plugin WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” was released on August 19th as scheduled!… Continue Reading →
What if your WordPress site could help visitors find the content they need, and help you figure out what to write about next? The secret to a successful WordPress blog is creating content that’s highly useful and relevant to your… Continue Reading →
With: new and updated documentation, an explanation of the accessibility-ready program, a complete sitemap for users, our plans for September. New and updated documentation Standards and best practice section: New topic: Disappearing toast notifications in Design patterns to avoid. Proud… Continue Reading →
You’re updating a service page, swapping out a few paragraphs, and you hit Save. Ten minutes later, someone spots that the original copy had an approved legal disclaimer. Suddenly, you need that earlier version back. This is exactly the kind… Continue Reading →
We’re proud to announce that WordPress has signed Open Weights and American AI Leadership, an open letter asking US policymakers to not place early restrictions on open weight AI models. These are artificial intelligence models that anyone can download, inspect,… Continue Reading →
Most credibility advice focuses primarily on your content. This values real experiences, credentialed authors, original research, and relying on humans across anything AI-assisted. All of that is correct and should already be on your checklist. What it misses is that… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, August 27, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements Help shape the Accessibility Lab plugin WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” was released on August 19th as scheduled! A call for volunteers was published for WP 7.2…. Continue Reading →
Let’s set the scene. Your new WooCommerce chatbot passes every test. It answers product questions, helps shoppers compare options, and responds quickly enough that nobody gives performance a second thought. The problem doesn’t surface until the store has a busy… Continue Reading →
The infinite scroll was never a UX feature—it was a slot machine disguised as code. Now, as Meta faces a historic trial over algorithmic addiction, web designers must finally confront the ugly truth: we sacrificed basic usability and human willpower… 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 25 August. Meeting Details: Date and Time: Tuesday, August 25 2026, 15:00 UTC… Continue Reading →
It can take a few hours to launch a WordPress landing page and several years for it to completely disappear. It’s easy to miss that imbalance. Whenever there are product launches, promotions, events, or paid campaigns, there is pressure to… Continue Reading →
Where Can I Watch? started as a way to answer one question: Where can I actually stream the title I want to watch? But over the last few releases it slowly turned into something else, too. Once you can save… Continue Reading →
The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion. Date: August 11, 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 →
Introducing the Accessibility Lab plugin! The plugin aims to offer a combination of Core related experiments and practical tools that solve shared problems for all to benefit from. The goal is not to move accessibility fixes out of Core and… Continue Reading →
An agency manages 35 client sites with a small development team. The sites are online, the infrastructure is holding, and nothing looks especially urgent from the outside. Inside the agency, though, the cracks are easier to see. For example: A… Continue Reading →
WordCamp US (WCUS) 2026 just wrapped up after 4 days at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Over 1,100 people from around the world registered to attend, and thousands more watched online through livestreams. Contributor Day and Showcase Day opened… Continue Reading →
When someone types in your main domain, your WordPress homepage is the first thing they see. Depending on how you set it up, WordPress can greet visitors with your latest blog posts or showcase a specific Page you’ve chosen as… Continue Reading →
Each WordPress release celebrates an artist who has made an indelible mark on the world of music. WordPress 7.1, code-named “Mary Lou,” honors pioneering jazz pianist, arranger, and composer Mary Lou Williams. A child prodigy who began playing publicly at… Continue Reading →
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that establishes secure connections between AI-driven tools and non-public data sources. In other words, MCP creates a secure bridge between AI assistants and your data sources, enabling AI models to perform… Continue Reading →
Has anyone told you that AI changes everything? Is it true that fewer visitors to your website reduces the importance of your site’s infrastructure and turns your hosting from a strategic asset into a commodity? Well, the reality is very… Continue Reading →
Just like Dreamweaver convinced a generation they could ignore HTML and CSS, Figma’s perfect canvas may be hiding the messy realities of how the web actually works. The future belongs to designers who understand systems, behavior, performance, and code—not just… Continue Reading →
If you ask Claude Code to review a changeset, you’ll get something useful. You’ll also, eventually, get something like this: Consider your error handling here. This could be more performant. It’s not wrong but it’s saying much. Feedback like that… Continue Reading →
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Open ten Product Hunt launches in a row this week. Same gradient hero. Same rounded card grid. Same badge with the little pulsing dot. Same font. You could swap the logos on half of them and nobody browsing quickly would… Continue Reading →
The official WordPress Browser Extension is now available for Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers in the Chrome Web Store and for Safari on macOS in the Mac App Store. This new open source extension lets logged-in site users easily hide… Continue Reading →
Kinsta’s agency plans put every site you manage within MyKinsta. This gives you control, but to keep a large portfolio in order, you have to build the system. Kinsta includes the tools to do it. You can organize multiple WordPress… Continue Reading →
