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WordPress AI 1.3.0 Ships Translation, Slugs, Custom Abilities

August 24, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

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

Gutenberg 23.8 Adds Shareable Revision URLs and Code Diffs

August 23, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

Gutenberg 23.8 gives visual revisions shareable URLs and a code diff view, and turns Select all on a 1000-block post from 16.8s into 0.4s....

WooCommerce 11.1 Adds Native EU Order Withdrawal Flow

August 22, 2026• Category: Blog

WooCommerce 11.1 ships a native EU order withdrawal flow on 1 September, two months after Directive 2023/2673 made the button mandatory....

WordPress Piplets: The Revived 2007 Single-File Thesis

August 21, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

Matt Mullenweg revived WordPress Piplets at WCUS 2026: one self-modifying PHP file, no database, ~50 ms load. Why the simplicity thesis matters....

WordPress 7.1 ‘Mary Lou’ Ships From WordCamp US Phoenix

August 20, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 'Mary Lou' shipped from WordCamp US Phoenix with responsive styles, Notes, new blocks, and 1,500+ fixes. Here's what actually landed....

Google’s August 2026 Spam Update: What To Actually Do

August 19, 2026• Category: Blog • SEO Guides

The August 2026 spam update is enforcement, not new policy. Here is what it targets, why WordPress and WooCommerce sites trip on it, and where I would spend...

WordPress 7.1 Release Day: What Happens Wednesday

August 18, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 ships Wednesday Aug 19 at 23:10 UTC, live from WordCamp US Phoenix. Here is the actual timeline, the code freeze, and what to do....

WordPress 7.0.4 Patches an Author+ Imagick RCE

August 17, 2026• Category: Blog • Enterprise Solutions • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.0.4 patches CVE-2026-65640, an authenticated Author+ RCE via Imagick + Ghostscript, and backports the fix to every branch since 4.7....

WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.0 Ships as a Desktop App

August 16, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

The WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.0 is a desktop app that collapses the Core contribution setup from four hours to forty minutes....

WordPress Ships Its First Official Browser Extension

August 15, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

The official WordPress browser extension is here for Chrome and Safari. First party, MIT licensed, no telemetry. Here is what changes and what I would do about...

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