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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....

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 Iframed Post Editor: What Breaks in Blocks

July 20, 2026• Category: Blog

WordPress 7.1 enforces the iframed post editor on every block theme. Here are the five failure modes in custom blocks and how to fix them....

WordPress 7.1 Makes the 40px Component Default Permanent

July 18, 2026• Category: Blog

WordPress 7.1 hard-deprecates the __next40pxDefaultSize prop across ten core components. Here is the audit I would run this week....

WooCommerce Settings UI Opens for Extension Testing

July 9, 2026• Category: Blog • Integrations • Plugins

WooCommerce is opening the new Settings UI for extension testing on 10.9+, letting your existing PHP settings render inside a React shell....

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...

WordPress Unicode Email Addresses Land in 7.1 Trunk

June 15, 2026• Category: Blog • WordPress Guides

WordPress merged initial Unicode email address support in trunk: new WP_Email_Address class, updated is_email(), opt-out filters before 7.1....

WooCommerce Product Editor Retirement Lands in 11.0

June 14, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

The WooCommerce product editor retirement starts in 10.9 and completes in 11.0 on July 28. Audit your code now, no data migration needed....

wp-now Is Deprecated: Migrate to WordPress Playground CLI

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

wp-now is officially deprecated. Here is what changes for plugin, theme, and WooCommerce developers and how to migrate to the Playground CLI today....

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