Last week, there were 223 vulnerabilities disclosed in 175 WordPress Plugins and 6 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 88 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those… Continue Reading →
The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion. Date: July 28, 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 →
In recent years, the CI load across core WordPress GitHub repos increased as the project evolved. This is normal for an active project. But, the load can be especially high when running the full PHPUnit matrix at once on many… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 includes an update to the latest stable version of jQuery UI, 1.14.2 from version 1.13.3. This update drops support for all versions of Internet Explorer & Edge Legacy which is inline with the WordPress Browser Support Policy. This… Continue Reading →
When you’re running a blog, the theme underneath it should do two things at once: get out of your way while you’re writing, and give you room to make the site look like yours instead of looking like a template…. Continue Reading →
On July 17th, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released updates to WordPress core addressing a critical vulnerability chain that can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to create an administrator account and then execute code through normal administrator capabilities, such as… Continue Reading →
Gradient and image-filled headings are everywhere now, from SaaS landing pages to bold editorial hero sections. They look polished, but they used to be awkward to build. You either copied custom CSS, saved the text as a flattened image, or… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 Beta 4 is ready for download and testing! This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, use a test… Continue Reading →
Two people asked us the same question during our bot traffic reality check live event, and we never got to either one live: does an llms.txt file actually stop AI from hammering your site? We’ve sat with that question because… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 introduces four filters that allow plugins to customise the execution lifecycle of abilities registered with the Abilities API. The Abilities API previously provided the wp_before_execute_ability and wp_after_execute_ability actions. These actions are useful for observing execution, but they cannot… Continue Reading →
BricksFly bundles starter sites, 500+ sections, Elements, Extensions, and a no-code GSAP animation engine into one Bricks toolkit. It launches with 200 lifetime licences and double the site activations, for 72 hours only. The post “BricksFly Launches With 200 Lifetime… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, July 30, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements WordPress 7.0.2 Release is now available. WordPress 7.1 Beta 3 is out is ready for download and testing! WordPress 7.1 Beta1 4 Release is… Continue Reading →
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There’s a conversation we have regularly with growing businesses. It usually starts with a client request that WordPress can’t quite handle cleanly. Maybe it’s a complex procurement workflow that needs to talk to an ERP. Maybe it’s a high-volume API… Continue Reading →
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @westonruter highlighted #65634, a minor improvement to the development environment to make it easier to do performance tests so it is more reflective of an actual… Continue Reading →
On July 28th, 2026, our autonomous AI vulnerability intelligence agent, Wordfence PRISM, identified a critical Authentication Bypass backdoor in Advanced Responsive Video Embedder, a WordPress plugin with approximately 20,000 active installations, less than two hours after the malicious code was… Continue Reading →
Divi 5 makes it easy to create structured layouts with strong visual rhythm and bold image placement. In this free pack, you’ll get 7 Knockout Grids for Divi 5 that are perfect for landing pages, hero sections, portfolio layouts, real… Continue Reading →
The Abilities API, introduced in WordPress 6.9, establishes a shared language, allowing all WordPress components—both core and plugins—to expose their functionality in a unified, understandable way for humans and machines alike. This makes your WordPress site ready for integration with… Continue Reading →
Why are the world’s most powerful websites still stuck in the early 2000s? While boutique brands chase “sleek” designs that only end up frustrating users, giants like Amazon and Google have realized that “ugly” is actually a superpower for trust… Continue Reading →
The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month. As the second Tuesday meeting this month was cancelled, this will be the first meeting of the month and will take place on 28 July. Meeting… Continue Reading →
The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Tuesday, July 28, 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 →
Upload a dozen images from different sources, and your grid can start to lose its shape fast. One blog post has a wide featured image. Another uses a square crop. A product image comes from a supplier. A portfolio image… Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago, I shared Remove Empty Shortcodes 1.1.0, which improved the plugin to do the one thing it exists for again: strip out the inactive shortcodes a deactivated plugin or page builder leaves behind. It worked. It… Continue Reading →
Good design tools do more than add new settings. They change how you think about the decisions you make. Gradients are a perfect example. In older workflows, a gradient often lived wherever you built it: one section background, one button,… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 introduces a new background.gradient block support. It gives blocks a gradient control in the Background panel of the block inspector. Unlike the existing gradient support, it can be combined with a background image so the two render together…. Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 introduces a minWidth dimension block support, letting blocks opt in to setting a minimum width. This follows the same pattern as the existing minHeight support. GitHub issue: #76525 | PR: #76949 Background Blocks already support several dimension properties:… Continue Reading →
Have you ever used a variable font before? A traditional font family gives you a fixed set of styles: maybe Light, Regular, Medium, and Bold. If you want something between Regular and Bold, you usually need another font file, and… Continue Reading →
The Divi 5 Visual Builder is highly customizable. You can open and close panels, dock them to either side of the screen, float them over the canvas, resize them, group them into tabs, choose which top-bar icons appear, and switch… Continue Reading →
Icon collectionsCreating a collectionRemoving a collectionIconsAdding iconsRemoving an iconIcon block enhancementRendering an icon in PHPStyling iconsStyling React icons from @wordpress/iconsStyling the SVG returned by wp_get_icon()REST API WordPress 7.0 added a built-in set of SVG icons that the block editor and… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 continues to use React 18.3 React 19 upgrade won’t be a part of WordPress 7.1. After briefly enabling it in Gutenberg we discovered unexpected incompatibilities in how old and new version of React interact with each other, and… Continue Reading →
