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A Routine Update Changed Who Can Touch Your Subscriptions

September 12, 2026• 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

September 7, 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

September 6, 2026• 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

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 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....

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....

WooCommerce 11.1 Adds Native EU Order Withdrawal Flow

August 22, 2026• 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

August 12, 2026• 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

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...

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....

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