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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: November 05, 2026

This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, November 05, 2026 at 08:30 PM GMT+5:30 Announcements WP A11y Docs update October 2026 WordPress 7.2 Beta 4 released Nov 3rd, 2026 Beta 5 scheduled for Nov 10th 7.1.4 Security… Continue Reading →

Dev Chat Agenda – November 4, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 15:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting focuses on upcoming releases and Core development, with time for discussions and open floor. If you… Continue Reading →

X-post: Flagship WordCamps on WP.org/news

X-post from +make.wordpress.org/community: Flagship WordCamps on WP.org/news

10 Ways To Work Faster With Divi AI Agents

Repeated edits can slow down a Divi build: matching button styles, correcting placeholder copy, checking phone spacing, and opening module after module to make the same change. Divi AI Agents let you describe those changes in the Divi 5 Visual… Continue Reading →

WordPress 7.2 Beta 4

WordPress 7.2 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 →

Wordfence Price Increase Coming December 3, 2026

On Thursday, December 3, 2026, pricing for Wordfence Premium, Care, and Response will increase. We’re announcing this change a month in advance so you have time to purchase new licenses or renew eligible subscriptions at current pricing. Existing licenses can… Continue Reading →

The “Rage Click” Manifesto: Is Your Design Making People Angry?

Your website isn’t just broken; it’s emotionally gaslighting your users. Discover why the “Rage Click” is the most honest feedback you’ll ever get and how building “Sympathetic UI” is the only way to save your brand’s soul in 2026.

X-post: Updates to the WordPress Marketing Repository

X-post from +make.wordpress.org/marketing: Updates to the WordPress Marketing Repository

How to implement AI search in WordPress and stay in control

Imagine your agency manages the WordPress help center for an appointment-booking software company. Customers keep asking support how to reschedule recurring appointments. The instructions already exist, but a search for “move my Friday bookings” doesn’t lead to the guide. The… Continue Reading →

Discover Maxima Plugins: A Catalogue of WooCommerce Extensions Built for the Block Checkout

Tired of WooCommerce plugins that break when you switch to the block checkout? Maxima Plugins is a catalogue of 30 premium extensions built for today’s WooCommerce, with a private live demo for every plugin so you can try it before… Continue Reading →

What’s new in Gutenberg 24.3? (28 October)

“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 →

5 Free Loop Filter Sidebar Designs For Divi 5

A useful filter sidebar gives visitors clear choices without taking over the page. This free pack includes five styled Post Filter sidebars for Divi 5, each paired with a matching content loop. Import a section and adapt its controls to… Continue Reading →

HTTP2Shell: What the Critical Brotli Vulnerability Means for WordPress Sites

On October 22, 2026, Google published CVE-2026-111497, a critical vulnerability in Brotli, one day after the Brotli project released fixed versions. The vulnerability has circulated under several unofficial names, including HTTP2Shell, Node2Shell, and Brotli2Shell. Despite the first name, the flaw… Continue Reading →

Synup Review: An AI Agent for Local Marketing Across Your Agency’s Clients

After a client site launches, the listings, reviews, and social posts around it still need weekly attention. My Synup review looks at Sydekick, an AI agent that takes requests in plain language and holds drafts for approval. The post “Synup… Continue Reading →

Presence API meeting summary: October 26, 2026

The Presence API meeting took place on Monday, October 26, 2026 at 15:00 UTC in #feature-presence-api. It also hosts the real-time collaboration (RTC) work. This week’s focus was the last two merge criteria, user testing and a security audit. Start… Continue Reading →

What Is LLMS.txt And Does Your Website Need One?

You ran your site through PageSpeed Insights, and something unfamiliar appeared in the report: a line about a file named llms.txt. Your site doesn’t have one. Is that a problem? You go looking and land on Google’s own Search documentation,… Continue Reading →

WP Feature Notifications weekly update: 2026-10-30

One major change landed this week: the notification repository is now scoped per user, laying the groundwork for the REST API. In addition, we merged a README note and four Dependabot bumps. A batch of community PRs (fixes, tooling, and… Continue Reading →

How To Build A Product Grid With Divi 5’s CSS Grid Editor

Give one product room to stand out, then let the rest of the collection fill the grid around it. Using Divi 5‘s CSS Grid Editor, you’ll build an outdoor gear layout whose first card spans two columns. Large photos and… Continue Reading →

Creating A Design System From A Screenshot with Divi AI Agents

A screenshot gives you a visual direction, but turning it into a reusable website takes more than matching colors and spacing. You need shared values for typography and sizing, plus reusable styles that keep later pages consistent. With Divi AI… Continue Reading →

WP A11y Docs update October 2026

This update informs you about: Remaining documentation for wpaccessibility.org. Accessibility Team Handbook on GitHub. Preparations for publication of the docs on developer.wordpress.org Remaining documentation for wpaccessibility.org In October Rian wrote the remaining content listed in the Tracking issue Content pages:… Continue Reading →

WordPress 7.1.4 Patches Unauthenticated Upgrade-Window RCE; Exploitation Attempts Detected After Release

TL;DR: WordPress 7.1.4 was released on October 28, 2026. According to WordPress, it includes fixes for 22 security vulnerabilities. The most serious is an unauthenticated race condition in the Core update process that can lead to remote code execution. Threat… Continue Reading →

How to Build a Headless News Aggregator With WordPress and WP RSS Aggregator Pro

Most WordPress news aggregators are a long scroll of headlines that send readers elsewhere, and Google treats them as thin. Here’s how cryptoheadlines.com was rebuilt with WP RSS Aggregator Pro handling the feeds and a Cloudflare Worker clustering stories, ranking… Continue Reading →

Wordfence Bug Bounty Program Monthly Report – July 2026

In July 2026, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 1077 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 →

Inside Kinsta’s emergency PHP2Shell patch rollout

On October 21, 2026, attackers were already targeting websites with requests designed to exploit two critical PHP vulnerabilities known as PHP2Shell. The official security patches weren’t available yet, but our engineering and security teams were already working to protect Kinsta-hosted… Continue Reading →

X-post: The Core Security Initiative: two months in

X-comment from +make.wordpress.org/security: Comment on The Core Security Initiative: two months in

Creating Custom SVGs with Divi AI Agents

Divi AI Agents can create custom SVG graphics from plain-language instructions. Describe an icon, divider, or badge, specify its style and colors, and ask the agent to add it to your layout as an editable SVG Module. In this tutorial,… Continue Reading →

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 19, 2026 to October 25, 2026)

Last week, there were 268 vulnerabilities disclosed in 182 WordPress Plugins and 15 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 124 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those… Continue Reading →

“Is Web Development Still Worth Learning in 2026?” Reddit Had Opinions

AI did not kill web development—it just killed the easy version where knowing a few lines of code was enough. A Reddit thread asking whether web dev is still worth learning revealed the new reality: the winners will be the… Continue Reading →

X-post: Exploring a design for Feature Notifications

X-post from +make.wordpress.org/core: Exploring a design for Feature Notifications

Exploring a design for Feature Notifications

WordPress doesn’t have a good way to tell people what’s happening on their site. Plugins fall back on admin notices that push the page down, so the things that matter, like a failed payment, a security update or a teammate’s… Continue Reading →

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