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From therepository.email Source: Read More Pods, a free content development framework for WordPress with more than 100,000 active installations, has shipped emergency patches across six major versions after Wordfence disclosed…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WP Rocket has published a post-mortem of the WordPress 7.1 fatal error that took down sites last week, estimating that roughly 10% of its user…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A new proposal on the Make WordPress Core blog outlines a Secrets API planned for WordPress 7.2, which aims to give the project its first…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Wordfence has disclosed a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the popular Avada theme, discovered by a new AI agent the company says it…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Anchor Hosting founder Austin Ginder has called out hosting companies for failing to test major WordPress releases on real customer sites, arguing that the WP…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Playground team has shipped support for legacy WordPress versions going all the way back to WordPress 0.7, the project’s first official public release,…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.1 release lead Anne McCarthy has published a detailed decision log documenting the calls they made across the release cycle, from shipping the roadmap…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic-sponsored contributor Anne McCarthy has published a prototype for a new Accessibility Lab plugin, the first step toward the WordPress Accessibility Team having its own…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Matt Mullenweg and the official WordPress X account have drawn community pushback after using last week’s WP Rocket fatal error incident to take public shots…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A compatibility bug between WP Rocket and WordPress 7.1 has taken down sites running the popular caching plugin’s Cloudflare module. The bug was reported on…

From therepository.email Source: Read More PressConf, the conference for WordPress businesses founded by Raquel Manriquez, is heading to Europe for the first time. A four-day edition is scheduled for October…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Elementor Pro has patched a critical vulnerability in its Forms module that allows unauthenticated attackers to upload executable PHP files to WordPress sites for remote…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordCamp US 2026 wrapped up in Phoenix on Wednesday after four days of contribution work, sessions, demos and hallway conversations, and ended with WordPress co-founder…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” was released yesterday during WordCamp US 2026 in Phoenix. Named for pioneering jazz pianist, arranger, and composer Mary Lou Williams, the…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Nearly three in four people surveyed about their experience in the WordPress community say they feel worse about the project than they did two years…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Heads up: This is a sponsored post, which means it’s paid content from one of our sponsors, not a news piece. Sponsored content helps keep…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic has launched WordPress.com Education, a free product that gives teachers and students professional WordPress.com hosting, a custom domain, and plugin support at no cost…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress Credits contributors have proposed a graduate retention program that would turn the education initiative from a one-time experience into the first step in a…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.1 hasn’t even been released yet, and the project is already moving on to its next major release. Fueled-sponsored contributor Jeffrey Paul published a…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordCamp US 2026 has finalized its keynote lineup ahead of the four-day conference in Phoenix, with speakers from PayPal, Disney, and Waymo joining WordPress co-founder…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The official WordPress Browser Extension has landed in the Chrome Web Store and Mac App Store, bringing the project from community testing to a public…

From therepository.email Source: Read More What makes a great plugin? “I believe there’s a short list of people you should listen to when building your product, and it doesn’t start…

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…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Heads up: This is a sponsored post, which means it’s paid content from one of our sponsors, not a news piece. Sponsored content helps keep…

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…