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Quarterly WordPress Threat Intelligence Report – Q2 2026

As the leader in WordPress security, Wordfence provides unparalleled security coverage that fully encompasses protection, active monitoring, detection, and response all built around our threat intelligence, demonstrating a strong commitment to security. Our mission is to ensure comprehensive defense-in-depth for… Continue Reading →

Divi 5 Product Highlight: Divi Overlays Popups

Contact forms, videos, and product details can be useful without needing a permanent place on the page. A pop-up lets visitors open that content when they need it while keeping the main layout focused. Divi Overlays by Divi Life gives… Continue Reading →

Automating WordPress operations with CLI agents on Kinsta

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 →

How the Prompt Box is Swallowing Website Interfaces Whole

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 →

One Account for Uptime, SSL Expiry, and News Feeds: follow.it Goes Lifetime on AppSumo

Uptime in one tool, SSL warnings in another, plugin updates only when you log in. follow.it wants all of it in one place, and its AppSumo lifetime deal starts at $49. The post “One Account for Uptime, SSL Expiry, and… Continue Reading →

WordPress Still Wins for Enterprises. Here’s the Site Migration That Proves It.

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 →

6 Text With Background Designs For Divi 5 (Free Download!)

A background behind a few words can change the emphasis of an entire section. In this free pack, you’ll get 6 Text With Background Designs for Divi 5, combining bold typography, contrasting color, and supporting imagery to give your message… Continue Reading →

Traditional Web Development is Dead…(and Honestly? Good Riddance.)

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 →

How to Use Divi AI Agents Commands

When you use Divi AI agents to review several pages, the same tasks often come up: checking image alt text, reviewing responsive layouts, or updating calls to action. Saving a useful prompt means you can reuse those instructions on the… Continue Reading →

How to Use Divi AI Agents Rules

Keeping a website consistent means carrying the same brand voice, design choices, and layout conventions into each new task. Repeating those instructions in every AI prompt adds work, especially when you are building several pages for the same client. Divi… Continue Reading →

Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: September 24, 2026

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 →

Websites aren’t dead: Consumers still rely on them over AI, new Kinsta report finds

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 →

This Website Found More Than 5 Million Forgotten iPhone Videos… and It’s Weirdly Emotional

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 →

WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.2: One app for your first Core or Gutenberg contribution

TL;DR: WordPress Contributor Toolkit v1.2.0 has been released providing full Core and Gutenberg contribution workflows for first-time contributors. The WordPress Contributor Toolkit was created to remove the points of friction first-time contributors face before they write a line of code,… Continue Reading →

Wordfence Bug Bounty Program Monthly Report – June 2026

In June 2026, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 1066 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 the Wordfence… Continue Reading →

Filtering Loops With Custom Fields In Divi 5

The Loop Filter Modules in Divi 5 let visitors search and refine content directly on your website. Beyond categories and tags, you can connect filters to custom fields for details such as price, bedroom count, and location. In this tutorial,… Continue Reading →

Canva Just Turned Affinity Into Adobe’s Biggest Free Problem

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.

Meet Kinsta in Singapore this October

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 →

WordPress Trac MCP server

Ask your AI assistant about any WordPress.org Trac. Announcing the the WordPress Trac Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, or any other MCP client to read tickets, changesets, and timeline history straight from Trac. Public and… Continue Reading →

Dev Chat summary: September 23, 2026

Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @audrasjb See the agenda post. Announcements 7.2 Introducing Ipsum, the new default theme Call for testing: DataForm editor inspector Moving to a server-aware approach for collaboration Roadmap to 7.2 Reminder: Announcing the 7.2 Release… Continue Reading →

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 14, 2026 to September 20, 2026)

Last week, there were 358 vulnerabilities disclosed in 243 WordPress Plugins and 4 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 184 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those… Continue Reading →

How To Create A Responsive Editing Workspace For Small Screen Breakpoints In Divi 5

Switch the canvas to Phone view and the page becomes a narrow column, while the builder panels keep their existing size and position. Depending on your setup, the settings panel can take up as much space as the layout you’re… Continue Reading →

Nobody Wants Your Damn App

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.

What happens when AI agents become your new website operators?

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 →

Iterating from live events to livestreamed releases

After a few rounds of doing releases at live events, first at State of the Word 2025 and most recently with WordPress 7.1 at WordCamp US, it’s time to iterate and move towards a live-streamed zoom option. Doing in-person live… Continue Reading →

New public repo: core release tools

The core team is working hard on better release automation, including CLI scripts, AI skills, and updated documentation. Why is this work important? A minor WordPress release—including every security patch—can touch 20+ branches, and much of the work is manual… Continue Reading →

The Beauty Of Divi 5’s Unique Take On Class-Based Design

A growing website is easier to maintain when repeated styles share a common source. CSS classes support that approach by letting multiple elements use the same style rules. Change a shared rule, and the elements using it can update together…. Continue Reading →

Gutenberg’s JavaScript unit and integration tests now use Vitest

TL;DR Gutenberg’s JavaScript unit and integration tests now use Vitest, bringing better support for modern JavaScript modules and real-browser component testing. Tests explicitly import Vitest APIs. Filenames select Node, jsdom, or Browser Mode according to what each test needs. @wordpress/scripts… Continue Reading →

Google’s Translate Widget Is Going Away, Here’s How to Replace It in Minutes

Plenty of sites still have Google’s old translation dropdown sitting in the footer. Google has now put an end date on it, and GTranslate has a replacement ready that can drop into exactly the same spot. The post “Google’s Translate… Continue Reading →

Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: September 24, 2026

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 →

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