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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 Beta 1: What Shipped and What to Test

July 16, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 is out. Notes, responsive styling, media, and the toolbar all moved. Here is what to test this week before WooCommerce 11.0....

WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release: 31 Bug Fixes Before 7.1

July 13, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.0.1 maintenance release ships 31 bug fixes across Core and the Block Editor. Update before 7.1 Beta 1 pins trunk on July 15....

WordPress Core Abilities Expansion Proposed for 7.1

July 5, 2026• Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • WordPress Guides

The WordPress core abilities merge proposal for 7.1 adds three read-only primitives that give AI clients a canonical protocol....

WordPress 7.1 Release Party Schedule: What Ships When

July 4, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

The WordPress 7.1 release party schedule is on the record: six Slack checkpoints from Beta 1 to General Release on August 19, 2026....

WooCommerce 10.9.2 Deprecates Push Notifications Flag

July 3, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

WooCommerce 10.9.2 deprecates the push notifications feature flag, migrates the stored option, and guards the settings SDK against update-time fatals....

WooCommerce Auto-Apply Coupons Replace 13,000 Lines

July 2, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

WooCommerce auto-apply coupons replaced a tiered-pricing plugin with 209 lines of PHP on woocommerce.com and shipped BFCM 2025 without a single outage....

Dynamic Template Parts in Block Themes Without Duplication

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

How to use the render_block_data filter to swap dynamic template parts in block themes without duplicating templates. Practical pattern for WordPress and...

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