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Planning is underway for WordPress 7.0! This post outlines the proposed schedule along with a call for volunteers to support the release process. Following the typical cadence and accounting for holidays later in the year, the proposed final release date for 7.0 is Thursday, April 9, 2026. This proposed timeline...Read the full show notes

Did you know Wordfence runs a Bug Bounty Program for all WordPress plugin and themes at no cost to vendors? Researchers can earn up to $31,200 per vulnerability, for all in-scope vulnerabilities submitted to our Bug Bounty Program! Find a vulnerability,Read the full show notes

Websites aren’t built just to publish content, and metadata isn’t fine-tuned for fun; it’s all of these activities that work together so your pages can be discovered more easily. For years, Google Search has been the primary gateway to that visibility, thanks largely to its web crawlers. Since the late...Read the full show notes

The Divi 5 Public Beta is available today. If you prefer the experience to Divi 4, it’s ready for use. If you use Divi 5, you’ll notice an update notification for Public Beta 6. We release new Divi 5 versions every two weeks, and each one improves upon...Read the full show notes

On November 27th, 2025, we received a submission for a Site Reset and Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Demo Importer Plus, a WordPress plugin with more than 10,000 active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged to trigger a full site reset and assign the administrator role to the...Read the full show notes

Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @benjamin_zekavica Agenda post. Announcements 6.9 Release RetrospectiveDiscussions PHP Extensions...Read the full show notes

Card layouts show up all over a site, but you often rebuild them from scratch or copy and paste the same stack of modules. Module Groups in Divi 5 allow you to bundle an image, heading, text, button, or any other module into one card and reuse it...Read the full show notes

A few weeks ago, we invited community members who were interested in serving as team representatives to submit nominations. Individuals were welcome to nominate themselves or recommend someone they felt would be a great fit for the role. The post received many nomination comments, with several highlighting individuals who will...Read the full show notes

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, January 7, 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 curated agenda sections below refer to additional...Read the full show notes

Managing WordPress sites for clients requires hosting that delivers without constant intervention. However, there’s a valid fear of downtime, broken DNS records, or lost data that may create hesitation, preventing you from making a necessary infrastructure change. Kinsta’s migration team handles agency workloads every day, from individual high-traffic sites to...Read the full show notes

A core concept in WordPress is the theme, and it is not possible to run a website without one. That’s why it is often the first decision that a WordPress user needs to make. Getting this decision wrong often means wasting time learning a system that you’ll probably never be...Read the full show notes

Divi 5 makes it easy to build custom 404 pages that feel intentional, helpful, and on brand. In this free pack, you will get 8 different 404 Section designs in both styled and unstyled JSON files, so you can either use a ready-made design or start from a clean...Read the full show notes