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WooCommerce 11.0.1 Patches Security and Preps for 7.1

August 11, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

WooCommerce 11.0.1 lands a security patch, WordPress 7.1 compatibility fixes, and Store API cleanup — the boring dot release you want the week before a...

Why WooCommerce Is Building Its Admin on DataViews

August 10, 2026• Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • WordPress Guides

WooCommerce killed its block product editor and is now committing publicly to DataViews for the admin. Here is what that bet actually looks like....

Gutenberg 23.7 Ships Its Last Fixes Before 7.1 RC1

August 9, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

Gutenberg 23.7 landed on August 5 alongside WordPress 7.1 RC1 with the Gallery Detach rename, RTC fixes, and the last round of editor polish....

Defensive Data Design: WordPress’s Safety Rules for AI Agents

August 4, 2026• Category: Blog • Enterprise Solutions • WordPress Guides

Matt Mullenweg's defensive data design principles show what safe AI-agent defaults should look like inside WordPress before 7.1 GA....

WordPress 7.1 Design System Theming: Admin Tokens Land

August 1, 2026• Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 ships Design System Theming: --wpds-* design tokens, a ThemeProvider React component, and a foundational admin theming layer....

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....

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....

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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