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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 21, 2026 to September 27, 2026)

Last week, there were 319 vulnerabilities disclosed in 222 WordPress Plugins that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 156 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report… Continue Reading →

Building And Designing A Loop With Divi AI Agents

Divi AI Agents let you build and edit websites through conversation. Inside Divi 5, the interface sits beside the page in the Visual Builder and can create sections, rows, and modules while you watch. Attach a screenshot and describe the… Continue Reading →

Turn Any Photo Into Retro ASCII Art in Seconds

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 →

Why WordPress needs APIs before it needs more AI

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 →

Discover Jumplinks Flow: Visual Feedback Your AI Agent Can Act On

Jumplinks Flow started as an editorial review plugin, grew into a client feedback tool, and now lets AI agents read and act on the comments reviewers pin to the live page. Here’s how the review loop works and who it’s… Continue Reading →

Divi 5.14 Release Notes

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 →

What’s new in Gutenberg 24.1? (30 September)

“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 →

WP A11y docs update September 2026

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 →

Dev Chat Agenda – September 30, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, September 30, 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 →

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 →

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