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AI agents don’t just answer questions anymore. They can carry out tasks. On a WordPress site, this could involve setting up a staging environment, updating a plugin, running checks, pushing an approved change live, clearing the cache, and keeping a… Continue Reading →
After a few rounds of doing releases at live events, first at State of the Word 2025 and most recently with WordPress 7.1 at WordCamp US, it’s time to iterate and move towards a live-streamed zoom option. Doing in-person live… Continue Reading →
The core team is working hard on better release automation, including CLI scripts, AI skills, and updated documentation. Why is this work important? A minor WordPress release—including every security patch—can touch 20+ branches, and much of the work is manual… Continue Reading →
A growing website is easier to maintain when repeated styles share a common source. CSS classes support that approach by letting multiple elements use the same style rules. Change a shared rule, and the elements using it can update together…. Continue Reading →
TL;DR Gutenberg’s JavaScript unit and integration tests now use Vitest, bringing better support for modern JavaScript modules and real-browser component testing. Tests explicitly import Vitest APIs. Filenames select Node, jsdom, or Browser Mode according to what each test needs. @wordpress/scripts… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, September 24, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements WPAD 2026 Event is coming up! Register to attend WPAD 2026 if you have not! Checkout the schedule and see what is coming up!… Continue Reading →
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On September 22, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released WordPress 7.1.2, as well as security backports for every branch back to WordPress 4.7 to address a critical unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability. The issue is tracked as CVE-2026-87902 and has a… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
WordPress sites have always been designed with people in mind. When someone visits a page, they look around the site, complete a form, click a button, or sign up for an account. The browser is at the heart of this… 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. Announcements WPAD 2026 Event is coming up! Register to attend WPAD 2026 Checkout the schedule and see what is coming… Continue Reading →
X-post from +make.wordpress.org/core: Introducing Ipsum, the new default theme
If you want your site to appear in AI search, allowing crawlers can seem like the obvious choice. But if automated traffic consumes too many server resources, blocking it seems just as reasonable. The problem is treating those two options… Continue Reading →
Automation is taking over more of the WordPress operations that once required someone at a keyboard. Deployments, updates, security responses, and infrastructure changes can all now run without a person watching each step. However, the part that’s not yet solved… Continue Reading →
Everyone knows you can cache the hell out of a WordPress site. Stick a CDN in front of it, cache the pages, make enough of the site static and you can serve a frankly silly amount of traffic without WordPress… Continue Reading →
The Accessibility Lab plugin was announced on August 21st, and now that WordPress 7.1 is wrapped up, it’s time to start scoping out the first features to target for release. For an initial discussion, we’ll meet on Thursday, September 17,… Continue Reading →
We’re launching an automated security review for every plugin release. Before a release is distributed through the WordPress.org update API, it is analyzed for security issues and releases that are considered to pose a potential security risk (either intentional or… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, September 10, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements WPAD 2026 Event is coming up! Register to attend WPAD 2026 Checkout the schedule and see what is coming up! WordPress 7.1 Release Retrospective… Continue Reading →
Switching your WordPress site to a new host or domain doesn’t have to mean losing traffic or stressing out. Think of it like relocating to a new home, you want everything to arrive intact, from your furniture to your favorite… Continue Reading →
