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WordPress 7.1.1 Release Schedule: Ship Date September 17

September 2, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

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

September 1, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

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 Is Retiring wp-admin Script Concatenation

August 27, 2026• Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • WordPress Guides

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

August 26, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

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

August 25, 2026• Category: Blog • SEO Guides • WordPress Guides

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

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....

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....

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....

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