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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 →
Last week, there were 259 vulnerabilities disclosed in 199 WordPress Plugins and 5 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 142 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those… Continue Reading →
Clear, well-organized navigation helps visitors understand a website and move through it with confidence. That becomes especially important on content-heavy sites, where documentation, categories, account pages, products, or other nested content need a structure that remains easy to scan. Divi… Continue Reading →
On August 10th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Pods, a WordPress plugin with more than 100,000 active installations. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to administrator and perform various administrator… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1.0 was released August 19, 2026. While the work of a major release team includes people filling many different positions, maintenance release teams generally are considerably smaller, often 1–3 people. Minor release managers are responsible for: Triaging bugs in… Continue Reading →
In Part 9 of our Mastering Flexbox series, we showed how Column Class works with Layout Wrapping, Gap, Justify Content, Align Items, and Display Order to create responsive multi-column layouts without reaching for CSS Grid for every pattern. Over the… Continue Reading →
On July 24th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Elementor Pro, a WordPress plugin with an estimated 6,000,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files, including… 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 →
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 →
Print magazines built reader trust through typography long before the web existed. The way a headline breaks, how wide a column runs, where a paragraph breathes, and how a section begins all tell readers how to move through the page… 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 →
“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with… Continue Reading →
Divi 5 makes it easy to create bold testimonial and quote sections that feel more visual, branded, and memorable. In this free pack, you’ll get 5 Large Quote designs for Divi 5 that are perfect for testimonials, reviews, client quotes,… Continue Reading →
Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @audrasjb See the agenda post. Announcements 7.1 7.1 RC3 was released on August 12th. The Accessibility Improvements dev note was published. 7.1 RC4 was released on August 17th. WordPress 7.1 Field Guide As of Aug 10th, 7.1 is branched…. 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 →
The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Tuesday, August 18, 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 →
Preparation for the WordPress 7.1 release is underway. This post shares the release process, including the timeline and how you can help. Release Timeline Overview 7.1 RC4 was released on August 17, 2026 at 15:00 UTC, immediately followed by the… Continue Reading →
On July 14th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files, including… Continue Reading →
Picking a font used to be a short decision. You chose the font, picked a weight, adjusted the size, and moved on. Variable fonts change that workflow. One font can include a range of adjustable axes, and each axis changes… Continue Reading →
The fourth Release Candidate (“RC4”) for WordPress 7.1 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead,… 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 →
Most Divi 5 users start with presets by saving one complete style at a time. That works for simple reuse, but it can quickly turn into a long list of similar presets: one card preset for a light version, another… 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 →
On July 14th, 2026, we received a submission for an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in User Profile Builder, a WordPress plugin with more than 40,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as the user… Continue Reading →
In Part 8 of our Mastering Flexbox series, we focused on controlling spacing with Gap instead of relying on margin for repeated spacing patterns. We saw how Horizontal Gap and Vertical Gap help create cleaner, more consistent spacing across rows,… Continue Reading →
First introduced in April as the WordPress Core Dev Environment Toolkit, the WordPress Contributor Toolkit is an experimental desktop app that guides first-time contributors through setting up a full wordpress-develop environment. Git, Node.js, and npm are still involved under the… Continue Reading →
Last week, there were 247 vulnerabilities disclosed in 195 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 135 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those… Continue Reading →
Ask around right now whether AI is going to kill WordPress, and you’ll get wildly different answers depending on who you ask. Somewhere out there is a LinkedIn post you’ve probably already seen, arguing WordPress is basically dead — that… Continue Reading →
