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WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has ousted long-time accessibility contributor Andrea Fercia and ordered six years of admin notice work reverted. The move has sparked widespread criticism across the WordPress community. #WordPress #a11y #OpenSource

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Two critical PHP vulnerabilities with a 9.​2 severity score allow unauthenticated attackers to run code on your server. Updating WordPress won't fix it, your host needs to patch PHP and restart it. #WordPress #Wordfence #Security

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Two critical PHP vulnerabilities allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Patches are out for PHP 8.​5.​12, 8.​4.​27, 8.​3.​36, and 8.​2.​35. Check your PHP version and update now. #WordPress #PHP #Security

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Is a WordPress business with $60K ARR and 24 clients worth $200K? Recurring revenue is just one factor. Owner dependency, documented processes, and client retention all affect what a buyer will actually pay. #WordPress #AI #Opinions

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40-50 articles a day across Google Docs, Slack, and email is where standard WordPress starts to buckle. Newsroom is built for exactly that scale. #WordPress #Plugins

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AI can write WordPress code fast, but can it decide whether that code belongs in production? Four developers explain where human judgment still leads the process. #WordPress #AI #Security

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WordPress 7.​2 Beta 1 is available for testing. It adds a Secrets API, text shadow controls, and responsive design tools. Final release is December 8, 2026. #WordPress #WordPress72 #Gutenberg

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WooCommerce has moved Purple theme development into its main monorepo, retiring the standalone woo-themes repo. Existing Purple installations are unaffected. Contributors should now work in the themes/purple/ directory. @WooCommerce #WordPress #WooCommerce #OpenSource

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The Tainacan digital archive project dropped its in-house WordPress theme in favour of Blocksy to serve multiple Brazilian cultural institutions from one shared theme base, each with a completely different visual identity. #WordPress #a11y #OpenSource

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Team Updraft confirmed a breach on October 18 that exposed UpdraftCentral connection keys, allowing a backdoor plugin to be silently installed on WordPress sites via the remote management channel. Check your logs and rotate your keys now. #WordPress #Security #Opinions

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A freelancer used Claude to build and ship a WordPress CRM plugin, then hit the plugin review process, which caught a CSV sanitization issue the AI missed. A clear-eyed case study on where AI-assisted plugin development still needs a human in the loop. #WordPress #AI

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WordPress AI plugin 1.​4.​0 is out. New Markdown feeds let AI tools and language models consume your content more cleanly, comment moderation gains a value score, and vector infrastructure expands for future semantic search features. #WordPress #AI #a11y

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WooCommerce 11.​6 (February 2027) will require PHP 8.​1 or newer. Version 11.​5 is the last release supporting PHP 7.​4 and 8.​0. An admin notice in 11.​3 will flag affected stores with upgrade guidance. #WordPress #WooCommerce #PHP

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Third extension request, third time asking, first outright denial. Expert depositions hold at November 17, summary judgment arguments three days later. #WordPress #Automattic

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WooCommerce 11.​2.​1 is out, patching two regressions from 11.​2.​0 that could block checkout entirely or reject valid postcodes for Argentina and three other countries. Update now if you customise address fields. #WordPress #WooCommerce #Plugins

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Divi 5 Components let you maintain one shared card design and push changes to every connected instance on the page, while each instance keeps its own text and images. @elegantthemes #WordPress #Divi #Guides

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Weglot 2.​0 trains a custom AI translation model on your own site content and Weglot's internal testing found multilingual sites appear up to 3x more often in AI-powered search results. #WordPress #AI #SEO

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The MCP Adapter plugin is now on the WordPress Plugin Directory. It gives WordPress sites a standard server for connecting to AI agents via the Model Context Protocol, with version 0.​7.​0 supporting the latest spec. #WordPress #MCP #AI

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Connecting ChatGPT to WordPress via MCP depends on your plan, your site's HTTPS setup, and access settings you choose at approval time. Here is what each tier actually supports and how the connection flow works. #WordPress #OpenAI #AI

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WooCommerce lost three years of growth in the past 12 months while Shopify hit an all-time high. A new analysis argues the two platforms no longer compete for the same customers at all. #WordPress #WooCommerce #OpenSource