Chrome’s Two-Week Release Cycle Starts With Chrome 153

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Chrome 153 kicks off Chrome's two-week release cycle today. Here is what shifts for WordPress and WooCommerce teams....

WordPress Starts Replacing Dashicons With SVG Icons

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WordPress replaces admin bar and sidebar Dashicons with SVG icons via wp_get_icon. What it fixes, and what plugin authors should do about it now....

Runnable Code Examples Land in WordPress Code Reference

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WordPress 7.1 quietly wired Playground into the Code Reference. Runnable code examples now execute in the browser, no local PHP required....

WooCommerce Enum Classes Replace the Magic Strings

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WooCommerce introduces enum classes for order statuses, product types and settings, a typed vocabulary that quietly retires the magic strings....

Gutenberg 23.9: Parent Inserter Fixes the Gallery UX

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Gutenberg 23.9 adds a parent-selector inserter, a custom-style filter in Global Styles, and axial gap for Group. Here is what actually changes for editors....

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 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....

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