Your Commerce Infrastructure Will Ask for a Decision in January 2027

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WooCommerce proposes raising its infrastructure requirement in January 2027. A planned maintenance item for some organisations, an emergency for others....

WordPress PHP compatibility revisited at WCUS 2026

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

Runnable Code Examples Land in WordPress Code Reference

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WordPress 7.1 quietly wired Playground into the Code Reference. Runnable code examples now execute in the browser, no local PHP required....

WooCommerce Enum Classes Replace the Magic Strings

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WooCommerce introduces enum classes for order statuses, product types and settings, a typed vocabulary that quietly retires the magic strings....

WordPress Piplets: The Revived 2007 Single-File Thesis

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Matt Mullenweg revived WordPress Piplets at WCUS 2026: one self-modifying PHP file, no database, ~50 ms load. Why the simplicity thesis matters....

WordPress 7.1 Site Editor Screen Filters: A First Look

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WordPress 7.1 ships four PHP Site Editor screen filters for Pages, Templates, Template Parts and Patterns. Server-side curation, finally....

Connector Field Registry Proposed for WordPress 7.1

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Gutenberg PR #79373 proposes a PHP connector field registry that closes the api_key-only gap left by the 7.0 Connectors screen....

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