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WordPress 7.1 Upgrades jQuery UI to 1.14.2: What Changes

July 31, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 bumps jQuery UI to 1.14.2, keeps back-compat on, drops IE/Edge Legacy and retires four helpers. Here is the audit....

WordPress 7.1 Abilities API Filters: Four Hooks to Know

July 30, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 lands four Abilities API filters that let plugins short-circuit, reshape input, override permissions, and rewrite results....

WooCommerce 11.0 Delayed to August 4 After RC1 Fatal Error

July 29, 2026• Category: Blog

WooCommerce 11.0 delayed one week to August 4 after RC1 testing caught a fatal error in a new performance feature. What agencies should do this week....

Media Library Infinite Scrolling Is On by Default in 7.1

July 28, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 flips Media Library infinite scrolling back on by default. What changed, why it was off since 5.8, and the per-user opt-out....

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....

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