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Editing a website often means making the same change more than once. Adjust the spacing on several cards. Restyle a handful of buttons. Move a collection of modules into another column. Multi-Select and Bulk Editing bring those tasks together in… Continue Reading →
WordPress maintenance is the suite of operational tasks that prevent downtime and configuration drift on production systems. That definition holds whether you run one brochure site or 400 revenue-bearing properties. What changes with scale is who carries the risk when… Continue Reading →
A bento grid brings images, headlines, supporting details, and calls to action into one arrangement of differently sized cards. Shared edges and consistent gaps hold the layout together, while the larger cards give important content more room. With Divi 5‘s… Continue Reading →
This is the first in a series of weekly status update posts from the WP Feature Notifications work. Security PRS There are 30+ open Dependabot PRs that will resolve various dependency security alerts across the repository. It would be really… Continue Reading →
While the only actively supported version of WordPress is the most recent one, security updates are backported to older branches as a courtesy. All versions >=4.7 are in a security-only support state, receiving select security patches as a courtesy to… Continue Reading →
Last week, there were 655 vulnerabilities disclosed in 406 WordPress Plugins and 100 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 236 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those… Continue Reading →
Components in Divi 5 let you reuse a design, update it from one saved source, and choose which content each use can change. We’ll build three service cards for Brand Identity, Web Design, and Creative Direction. They share their spacing,… Continue Reading →
On September 17th, 2026, we received a submission for a Second-Order SQL Injection vulnerability in Backuply, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to store… Continue Reading →
Publishing GenAI content is straightforward until the workflow diverges from its path. For example, a client can flag stale content a few weeks after publishing and want it fixed immediately. This requires the right checks and hosting infrastructure. Without them,… 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 →
Reusable styles are only part of a design system. The way settings connect, combine, and update matters just as much once a site grows. In Divi 5, presets form a connected system: small groups of settings can feed into larger… Continue Reading →
70.4% of shoppers have abandoned a purchase over a slow or glitchy website AI does a lot of the shopping legwork now. People ask a chatbot for the best running shoes or a decent espresso grinder, get a shortlist, and… Continue Reading →
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. The biweekly Accessibility Team meeting was kept brief, with updates shared asynchronously, as WordPress Accessibility Day 2026… Continue Reading →
In Moving to a server-aware approach for collaboration, @chriszarate explains why the server needs to be at the heart of real-time collaboration, and introduces the engines we’ve been investigating to power the future of RTC. In this post, we’ll explore… Continue Reading →
The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, October 14, 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 →
Your WordPress site is slow. You know it, your visitors know it, and Google definitely knows it. The instinct is to blame the theme, or that plugin you installed last month. Check the platform underneath first. Most people treat hosting… Continue Reading →
A strong hero section does more than introduce a page. It establishes the visual language, hierarchy, and direction for everything that follows. In this free pack, you’ll get 7 UI Hero Sections for Divi 5, built around bold interface-inspired compositions,… Continue Reading →
A customer sees one checkout page. Behind it, your WordPress site may contact several services to process payment, check inventory, calculate shipping, and update your CRM. Plugins make those connections easy to set up. They don’t always make it obvious… Continue Reading →
The Presence API meeting took place on Monday, October 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC in #feature-presence-api. It also hosts the real-time collaboration (RTC) work. This week’s focus was the feature plugin merge criteria, and which gaps are left before a… Continue Reading →
On September 8, 2026, Artifex released Ghostscript 10.08.0, closing a critical heap buffer overflow that the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, using Wordfence Argus, discovered and reported sixteen days earlier. It is tracked as CVE-2026-39919 and carries a CVSS score of… Continue Reading →
Since WordPress 7.1 the Toolbar is also displayed in the Post Editor and the Site Editor (#65091, dev note). That change made an old problem more visible: the first two items of the Toolbar, the W and the site name,… Continue Reading →
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 →
Bot traffic is becoming a bigger part of the web, and a bigger consideration for anyone managing a website. That was reinforced by Kinsta’s analysis of more than 10 billion requests in a year when AI-driven bot traffic was reported… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, October 08, 2026 at 08:30 PM GMT+5:30 WP Accessibility Day 2026 takes place online on October 7–8, 2026 (today), featuring 24 hours of free talks on digital accessibility and WordPress…. Continue Reading →
Holiday traffic is the best kind of problem, until it isn’t. When your campaign lands, your product gets featured, or that email goes out, the visitors you’ve worked so hard to attract can overwhelm an unprepared site. Slow pages, checkout… Continue Reading →
This security and maintenance release features 7 security fixes and 4 bug fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 7.1.3 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard,… Continue Reading →
Deleting your entire production database and backups is not something a human will do often, but it is possible for an AI agent running under strict instructions. A credential mismatch within the codebase is not something an agent will check…. Continue Reading →
X-comment from +make.wordpress.org/accessibility: Comment on Accessibility-ready directory changes coming!
Work is largely completed for making the accessibility-ready tag conditional in the theme directory, as proposed in meta trac ticket #8427. There’s a little bit more work to be done to set up the changes, which is going to briefly… Continue Reading →
X-post from +make.wordpress.org/meta: Heads up: HelpScout to FreeScout Migration
