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Background Gradient Block Support Ships in WordPress 7.1

July 27, 2026• Category: Blog

WordPress 7.1 adds background.gradient block support that finally layers over images. Five core blocks adopt it. Here is what to do....

WordPress 7.1 Adds Text Shadow to Global Styles

July 26, 2026• Category: Blog

WordPress 7.1 adds text shadow to Global Styles via theme.json — set shadows globally, per block, and per element state without custom CSS....

WooCommerce Core Foundations: Beau Lebens’ 3-Month Reset

July 25, 2026• Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • Plugins

Beau Lebens is pointing Woo's product and engineering teams at WooCommerce Core Foundations for three months. Here is what agencies should watch....

Editable Blocks Inside the Custom HTML Block in 7.1

July 24, 2026• Category: Blog

WordPress 7.1 lets the Custom HTML block hold editable blocks inside static markup — one clean surface for AI-generated pages editors can still edit....

WordPress 7.1 Client-Side Media Processing With wasm-vips

July 23, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 moves client-side media processing to the browser via wasm-vips. What Chromium gets, what Safari does not, which hooks stop firing....

Selective Plugin Loading Cuts WooCommerce.com Memory 50%

July 22, 2026• Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • WordPress Guides

WooCommerce.com cuts memory 50%+ per route with selective plugin loading. Here is the mu-plugin pattern, the caveats, and when to copy it....

WordPress 7.1 Icons API: The v15 Breaking Change You Missed

July 21, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

The @wordpress/icons v15 flip to fill=currentColor and the new register_icon() surface in the WordPress 7.1 Icons API rewrite plugin CSS. Here is what breaks....

WordPress 7.1 Iframed Post Editor: What Breaks in Blocks

July 20, 2026• Category: Blog

WordPress 7.1 enforces the iframed post editor on every block theme. Here are the five failure modes in custom blocks and how to fix them....

WordPress 7.0.2 Emergency Release Patches wp2shell RCE

July 19, 2026• Category: Blog

WordPress 7.0.2 shipped an emergency patch on July 17 for the wp2shell pre-authentication RCE chain. Here is the audit I would run this week....

WordPress 7.1 Makes the 40px Component Default Permanent

July 18, 2026• Category: Blog

WordPress 7.1 hard-deprecates the __next40pxDefaultSize prop across ten core components. Here is the audit I would run this week....

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