The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, September 23, 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 →
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @westonruter shared the tickets in the next major and minor milestones for reference. He noted that #57548 is still high on his radar. @mukesh27 asked @westonruter… Continue Reading →
Divi AI agents use purpose-built tools to work with your layouts, design settings, and WordPress content. A single request can involve several of them: reading the page structure, locating the right modules, changing their settings, and checking the result. You… Continue Reading →
A wonderfully weird typeface from 1973 has come back to life — and somehow it looks more at home in 2026 than ever. Meet Clippy, the retro font that bends, rocks and wobbles its way into the digital age.
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team identified an interesting malware sample in mid June during a site clean. The malware was installed as a must-use plugin with several self-healing mechanisms in place in order to survive removal. It also makes use… Continue Reading →
This security release features a fix for a critical severity security vulnerability. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 7.1.2 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click… Continue Reading →
When you discover that a large share of your website traffic comes from bots, blocking them can feel like the obvious next step. In some cases, the numbers do call for an immediate response. PatronView recently documented 3.6 million requests… Continue Reading →
Keeping a WooCommerce catalog current usually means clicking through dozens of screens for what should be a five-minute job. This tutorial shows you how both Claude and Novamira Pro handle building a store, alongside many day-to-day tasks (and even some… Continue Reading →
The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the second meeting and is set to take place on 22 September. Meeting Details: Date and Time: Tuesday, September 22 2026, 15:00 UTC… Continue Reading →
What consumers actually do after an AI recommendation, according to new Kinsta survey data AI is changing how consumers discover products and brands, but this new landscape hasn’t replaced the need for a trusted website. Kinsta’s survey of 1,008 US… Continue Reading →
A company history, project roadmap, or service process is easier to follow when each milestone has a clear place on the page. This free pack gives you 9 Timeline Module designs for Divi 5, ready to import and customize with… Continue Reading →
We spent 15 years filling our phones with apps. AI could make almost all of them invisible… and the death of apps may already be closer than anyone realizes.
I’m happy to announce that I am now serving as president of the Open Website Alliance (OWA), representing the WordPress Foundation. The Alliance brings together the community organizations behind Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress to advocate for open source and… Continue Reading →
Editorial design gives a website the visual depth of a magazine. Oversized headlines, carefully framed photographs, and varied layouts help readers distinguish the lead story from the supporting content. With Divi 5, you can build that structure visually and keep… Continue Reading →
The Instagram Feed Module in Divi 5 is easy to add to a page. Connecting it to a client’s Instagram account is the more involved part because the module requires an Access Token generated through a Facebook App in Meta’s… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.2 is set to be released in early December 2026. Notes leads the way with the ability to add suggestions and emoji reactions, offering more direct and interactive collaboration. Dedicated security efforts revolve around a “sudo mode” that gates… Continue Reading →
Divi AI just got a major intelligence upgrade. 🧠 We upgraded the underlying AI models that power Divi’s text, image, and code generation tools, greatly improving the quality of the content they produce. Generate photo-realistic images, create and edit website… Continue Reading →
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On September 1, 2026, the libheif project released version 1.23.3, closing a critical heap buffer overflow that the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, using Wordfence Argus, discovered and reported four days earlier. The libheif maintainer, Dirk Farin, gave it a score… Continue Reading →
AI can now build a UI in seconds, but that doesn’t mean it built the UI you actually designed. A new Applitools integration turns Figma designs into visual baselines, automatically catching the subtle differences AI coding agents leave behind before… Continue Reading →
Earlier this year, real-time collaboration (RTC) was removed from WordPress 7.0. Since then, I, @alecgeatches, @dmsnell, and others have been working through the valid concerns that led to that decision. We think these concerns call for a change in direction:… Continue Reading →
Figma is often used build out and maintain mockups for the WordPress project. It’s free to sign up for, and you can create and edit drafts for free. For that reason, Automattic sponsors access to it for a subset of… Continue Reading →
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On August 23rd, 2026, Wordfence Argus, our AI research agent specializing in complex vulnerability chains, discovered a PHP Object Injection vulnerability in Tutor LMS, a WordPress e-learning plugin active on more than 100,000 websites. This vulnerability allows any authenticated attacker… Continue Reading →
This security and maintenance release features 17 bug fixes on Core, 19 bug fixes for the Block Editor, and 11 security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download… Continue Reading →
Last week, there were 260 vulnerabilities disclosed in 207 WordPress Plugins that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 147 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report… Continue Reading →
AI images are taking over stock libraries, but the human-made web isn’t dead yet. We found 25 places where designers can still find incredible free, real photography, art, and imagery for commercial use.
Divi AI agents let you build and edit websites through conversation. Available inside Divi 5, they work alongside your page in the Visual Builder and can make changes to the layout while you watch. Paste in a screenshot of a… Continue Reading →
Chrome can now measure exactly how obnoxious a website’s ads are, from how much of your screen they swallow to how much data and CPU time they burn. Those ad-stuffed websites can finally be measured, and the results are public.
The “Post” (or “Page”) tab of the editor’s Settings sidebar is being rebuilt on top of DataForm, the same form that Quick Edit uses in the Site Editor. It’s available as a Gutenberg experiment and it’s ready for testing, mostly… Continue Reading →
