A Routine Update Changed Who Can Touch Your Subscriptions

Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • Plugins

An update changed permissions on stores selling subscriptions. The real issue is not one release, it is who governs your updates....

WordPress PHP compatibility revisited at WCUS 2026

Category: Blog

A quiet WordCamp US 2026 talk revisited WordPress PHP compatibility, the 18% PHP 7.4 tail, Gutenberg tooling gaps and what to actually do....

WordPress Starts Replacing Dashicons With SVG Icons

Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

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....

WooCommerce 11.1 Skips Block Registration on Cron and REST

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 Secrets API Proposed for the 7.2 Release

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....

WordPress AI 1.3.0 Ships Translation, Slugs, Custom Abilities

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....

WooCommerce 11.1 Adds Native EU Order Withdrawal Flow

Category: Blog

WooCommerce 11.1 ships a native EU order withdrawal flow on 1 September, two months after Directive 2023/2673 made the button mandatory....

WordPress 7.1 Adds Standard Filtering to Abilities API

Category: Advanced Solutions • Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress 7.1 gives the Abilities API a standard wp_get_abilities filtering pipeline. Why it matters for AI-agent surfaces and what to do this week....

WooCommerce 11.0.1 Patches Security and Preps for 7.1

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 major....

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

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....

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