WordPress 7.1.1 Release Schedule: Ship Date September 17

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The WordPress 7.1.1 release schedule is out: bug scrubs start September 3, RC1 September 10, general release September 17, 2026....

WooCommerce 11.1 Skips Block Registration on Cron and REST

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WooCommerce 11.1 skips block registration on cron, AJAX, and REST requests — 13–18 ms faster Store API reads. Here is what extension developers must know....

WordPress Hosting Team Makes AI Disclosure Official

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The WordPress Hosting Team AI policy makes disclosure mandatory for every contribution touched by AI. A one-line label, and it starts now....

Google Site Reputation Policy Splits at the EEA Border

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Google's site reputation policy now enforces differently inside the EEA from 30 August 2026. Here is the mechanism and what to do this week....

The WordPress Core Security Initiative Meets the AI Wave

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WordPress launched a Core Security Initiative to scale triage against an AI-driven report surge, cut the backlog to zero, and turn AI on vulnerabilities....

WooCommerce 11.2 Rewires Product Save and Reorder Hooks

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WooCommerce 11.2 changes product save and reorder hooks for large-catalogue performance. Here is what to audit in your plugins now....

WordPress Is Retiring wp-admin Script Concatenation

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WordPress is retiring wp-admin script concatenation. A new prefetch strategy keeps the admin fast even without load-scripts.php....

WordPress Secrets API Proposed for the 7.2 Release

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Eric Mann proposed a WordPress Secrets API for 7.2 with mandatory encryption. Here is what it changes for agencies and plugin authors....

Google Preferred Sources Button: A Two-Line Embed

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Google shipped an embeddable Preferred Sources button on August 20. Two lines of HTML let publishers push readers into Top Stories and AI Overviews....

WordPress AI 1.3.0 Ships Translation, Slugs, Custom Abilities

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WordPress AI 1.3.0 lands content translation, slug generation, and five opt-in Custom Abilities. What is real, what is still an experiment....

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