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From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.0.4 was released yesterday, fixing a remote code execution vulnerability that allows a logged-in author to execute arbitrary code on the server by uploading…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic has hit back at WP Engine’s allegations that CEO Matt Mullenweg destroyed messages related to their legal dispute, claiming WP Engine is conflating a…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has moved to shut down a WordPress Accessibility Team initiative to enforce updated theme accessibility standards, declaring the team has “overstepped…

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From therepository.email Source: Read More A newly unsealed court filing in WP Engine’s ongoing legal battle with Automattic has revealed CEO Matt Mullenweg’s phone wasn’t forensically copied until nine months…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.0.3 has shipped with fixes for 12 security vulnerabilities, the most serious a pre-authentication cross-site scripting flaw on the login screen that could lead…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.1 is one step closer to its August 19 release at WordCamp US 2026 with RC1 available this week. The WordPress 7.1 Field Guide…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress’ education programs posted their strongest month of growth in July, with WordPress Credits adding 10 new institutions in a single month and Campus Connect…

From therepository.email Source: Read More An attacker compromised a decommissioned WPManageNinja server last week and used it to serve tampered builds of two commercial plugins to customers for approximately five…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Anne McCarthy, Automattic’s Architecture and Open Source Director, has joined the PHP Foundation’s Governing Board as Automattic’s platinum sponsor representative. The PHP Foundation announced the…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The team behind DocsBot has launched a free AI assistant for WordCamp US 2026, and they’re even building it a little robot body so folks…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A new analysis from Patchstack has found that WordPress.org’s Protect the Shire initiative holds security patches for the same duration as routine updates, arguing that…

From therepository.email Source: Read More With WordCamp US 2026 in Phoenix just over two weeks away, organizers have named the four educators who’ll lead the event’s new four-day beginner track,…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress.org’s Protect the Shire initiative has notched its first real-world interception, stopping a supply chain backdoor planted in a plugin with approximately 20,000 active installations…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress Credits has published its first comprehensive analysis of student feedback, drawing on responses from 242 students collected between December 2025 and June 2026. The…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress Credits has put out a call for developers and WordPress teachers to help design a developer-focused contribution track, after a US college expressed interest…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.1 Beta 4 has shipped with a new setting that gives sites a way to turn off responsive style editing, a last-minute addition prompted…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WP Engine has launched its second vertical platform of the year, this time for ecommerce. The hosting company has partnered with Commerce, the parent company…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WP Engine has asked a federal court to sanction Automattic and CEO Matt Mullenweg, alleging they destroyed evidence and repeatedly misrepresented their efforts to preserve…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A proposed class action brought by two WP Engine customers against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg has survived a second motion to dismiss, with a federal…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WP Community Collective has rebranded as The WP Open Community Collective after CEO Sé Reed discovered that the WordPress Foundation has a pending US…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.1 Beta 3 has shipped with more than 71 fixes and one feature punt, dropping Unicode email address support from the release after WordPress…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Playground team has published a call for testers to try out a redesigned interface that replaces the tool’s sidebar navigation with a bottom…

From therepository.email Source: Read More It has been almost four years since WordPress.org removed the active install growth charts from the plugin directory, cutting off the only tool developers had…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Searchlight Cyber has published the full technical details of the critical pre-authentication RCE vulnerability that prompted last Friday’s emergency WordPress 7.0.2 security release, revealing that…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordCamp US 2026 has unveiled the event’s long-awaited schedule and four rounds of speakers over the past four days, as organizers step up promotion ahead…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress project has shipped an emergency security release fixing a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability affecting core that allows an anonymous attacker to…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Security Team has published a detailed update covering 18 months of work to secure the automated systems that build, test, and release WordPress…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Responsive styling is finally coming to WordPress core. WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 shipped on Wednesday with the long-requested feature alongside client-side media processing, a persistent…

From therepository.email Source: Read More For the second year running, WordCamp US organizing is playing catch-up, and the WordPress community is letting organizers know about it. With the flagship event…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A Delaware court has temporarily blocked CloudLinux from bringing its AutopilotWP WordPress maintenance product to market after Seahawk Global filed a lawsuit alleging the tool…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A proposal to introduce a new post type and Guidelines feature to WordPress 7.1 has been nixed, with co-founder Matt Mullenweg saying he doesn’t want…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.0.1 is now available, fixing 31 bugs across Core and the block editor. It comes seven weeks after WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” shipped with AI…

From therepository.email Source: Read More There’s been a lot of online chatter recently about declining plugin sales and even some shops going out of business. Founders are venting about down…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress Community Support, the WordPress Foundation subsidiary that provides financial and legal infrastructure for WordCamps and meetups, ran a $372,000 operating deficit in 2025 —…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic has released Code for the People, a 20-minute documentary short that makes the case for open source software and the open web, and argues…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A plan hide the Classic block from the inserter in WordPress 7.1 has been reversed. Automattic Engineering Director and core committer Marin Atanasov, who proposed…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic software developer Andrew Duthie has published a merge proposal that would introduce design system theming to WordPress 7.1 and lay the groundwork for a…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A proposal to introduce three new read-only abilities to WordPress 7.1 has drawn “strong pushback” from one of the Abilities API’s maintainers, who says they…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WP Engine has filed formal oppositions to the WordPress Foundation’s “Managed WordPress” and “Hosted WordPress” trademark applications in both the United States and Canada, accusing…