WordPress Exploits Now Land in Minutes: What Protect the Shire Does About It
On September 2, 2026, WP Tavern published episode 232 of its Jukebox podcast, a conversation with Aaron D Campbell, who spent years running WordPress’s own…
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WordPress Signs the Open Weights AI Letter: Why a Month-Late Signature Matters
Three months after WordPress folded its first piece of AI infrastructure, the AI Client we already walked you through, into its own core, the project…
WP Trend Watcher: An Open-Source WordPress AI Tool Built to Need a Human, Not Replace One
We’ve already covered what it looks like when WordPress puts AI to work at the institutional level: the Abilities API, the AI Client, the MCP…
Elementor Pro Patched a 9.0-Severity Unauthenticated File Upload Flaw: Here’s What to Check
On August 19, 2026, Elementor shipped Elementor Pro 4.2.2, a patch for a file upload vulnerability serious enough to earn a CVSS score of 9.0…
How to Actually Connect an AI Agent to WordPress via MCP: A Step-by-Step Setup Guide
WordPress 6.9 “Gene” put the Abilities API into core on December 2, 2025, and WordPress 7.0 followed it in May 2026 with the AI Client,…
WordPress Piplets: Matt Mullenweg Revives a 2007 Idea to Make the Case for Simplicity
On Wednesday, August 19, 2026, midway through the closing fireside chat of WordCamp US 2026 in Phoenix, release leads paused the conversation to press the…
WordPress 7.1: New Features to Discover!
WordPress 7.1, code-named “Mary Lou” after the jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams, became available on August 19, 2026. The official release announcement counts…
Complianz: Automating Cookie Consent on WordPress (and the LiteSpeed Cache Fix You Shouldn’t Skip)
Complianz BV, a software company based in Groningen, in the Netherlands, publishes a WordPress plugin that has passed a million active installs, with a 4.7-star…
WordPress’s Login Page Had a Pre-Auth Path to Full Server Takeover: What XSS2Shell Actually Chains
WordPress 7.0.3 arrived on August 6, 2026, as an emergency security release, and one of the flaws it closes had been sitting in WordPress core…
wp2shell: WordPress Patches a Critical Core Flaw Already Under Active Attack
On July 17, 2026, WordPress released versions 6.9.5 and 7.0.2 to fix two vulnerabilities in WordPress core, now tracked together under the nickname wp2shell. Four…
Should You Upgrade to WordPress 7.0? A Cautious Checklist
WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” has been available since May 20, 2026, named after the jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong and built by more than 875 contributors, with…
AI Comes to the WordPress Core: What the AI Client Changes (and What It Does NOT)
WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” shipped on May 20, 2026, named after the jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong and built by more than 875 contributors. It carries the…
The 3 Building Blocks That Make WordPress Agentic: Abilities API + AI Client + MCP Adapter
WordPress 6.9 “Gene” arrived on December 2, 2025, and WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” followed on May 20, 2026. Between those two releases, the project quietly added…
WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong”: new features to discover!
WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” has been available since May 20, 2026. Named in honour of the legendary jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong, this release marks the start…
WordPress 6.2: new features to discover!
WordPress 6.2 "Dolphy" has been available since April 5, 2023, and brings a host of new features and improvements. We've tested all the new features for you. Let's explore them together!
Google fonts in default themes now localized
From Twenty Twelve to Twenty Seventeen, all WordPress default themes have been updated. From now on, fonts will be grouped directly in the themes folder. No need to load them from Google servers.
328% increase in security bugs detected in WordPress plugins in 2022
Security maintenance and management tool Patchstack has published its "State of WordPress Security" white paper for 2022. It highlights the risk of using unmaintained themes and plugins.
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