A year ago we wrote that we’d put AI to work across the whole company, turning everyone on the team into a capable AI operator so our defenders could stay ahead of the threat actors attacking the sites we protect…. Continue Reading →
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @mukesh27 shared a performance regression found in WordPress 7.1 and reported as #65929 and asked anyone with time to take a look and said any review… Continue Reading →
Divi 5 makes it easy to create structured layouts where imagery, text, stats, and supporting content work together as one composition. In this free pack, you’ll get 7 Square Grids for Divi 5 that are perfect for hero sections, agency… Continue Reading →
On August 11th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Account Takeover vulnerability in TranslatePress, a WordPress plugin with more than 400,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain an administrator’s password reset link,… Continue Reading →
Let’s set the scene. Your new WooCommerce chatbot passes every test. It answers product questions, helps shoppers compare options, and responds quickly enough that nobody gives performance a second thought. The problem doesn’t surface until the store has a busy… Continue Reading →
The infinite scroll was never a UX feature—it was a slot machine disguised as code. Now, as Meta faces a historic trial over algorithmic addiction, web designers must finally confront the ugly truth: we sacrificed basic usability and human willpower… Continue Reading →
Your WooCommerce Analytics dashboard knows what sold last month, but it has no idea whether you made any money on it. Kiito connects your store, your ad accounts and your cost data to report profit rather than revenue, and it… 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 25 August. Meeting Details: Date and Time: Tuesday, August 25 2026, 15:00 UTC… Continue Reading →
The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, at 15:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. Yes, the dev chat is switching back to Wednesdays starting this week! The live meeting will focus on the… Continue Reading →
It can take a few hours to launch a WordPress landing page and several years for it to completely disappear. It’s easy to miss that imbalance. Whenever there are product launches, promotions, events, or paid campaigns, there is pressure to… Continue Reading →
Carousels give you a compact way to present repeating content without turning a page into a long stack of cards. They can work especially well for testimonials, team members, portfolio projects, images, products, logos, and other content visitors may want… Continue Reading →
Where Can I Watch? started as a way to answer one question: Where can I actually stream the title I want to watch? But over the last few releases it slowly turned into something else, too. Once you can save… Continue Reading →
A strong typography system is more than choosing a heading font and a body font. It defines how type scales, how different text roles relate to each other, and which decisions stay consistent as the website grows. Variable fonts make… Continue Reading →
The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion. Date: August 11, 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 →
The Divi 5 Visual Builder is highly customizable. Panels can be opened, closed, docked, floated, resized, and combined into tabs. You can also choose which top bar icons appear, change the interface mode and color scheme, set a default view,… Continue Reading →
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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 →
When someone types in your main domain, your WordPress homepage is the first thing they see. Depending on how you set it up, WordPress can greet visitors with your latest blog posts or showcase a specific Page you’ve chosen as… 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 →
