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Many hosting companies market themselves on security. Patchstack decided to put those claims to the test — and found most hosts failed. In a new case study, the security company found that 87.8% of plugin exploits sailed past network and server defenses before being stopped at the application layer. The company spun up identical WordPress sites with 11 […]

WordPress 6.9 now has a release team and its first public progress report — and with just over two months until the first beta, the December release is quickly taking shape. 10up-sponsored core contributor Jeffrey Paul announced the release squad yesterday, and it’s a compact, Automattic-heavy team, with the company sponsoring five of the nine leads. WordPress co-founder […]

When you think about WordPress milestones, it’s usually version releases, download counts, or some celebratory birthday. But here’s one that quietly shapes the WordPress experience for millions: Ganga Kafle, co-rep of the WordPress Themes Team, has now personally reviewed more than 7,000 themes in the WordPress.org theme directory. Kafle hit the milestone in late July, just eight months […]

Menus have long been one of WordPress’s pain points. Ollie co-founder Mike McAlister thinks he’s cracked it with Menu Designer, a new plugin that leans into the block editor, works with any block theme, and feels like WordPress. McAlister built the plugin in just two weeks — on and off, between supporting Ollie customers and raising a two-year-old […]

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A new proposal from Gutenberg lead architect Matías Ventura to add more blocks to WordPress core has prompted a wide-ranging discussion among contributors about what belongs in the default editor — and what should remain in plugins. In GitHub tracking issue, Ventura has listed 13 long-proposed but stalled blocks, including Icons, Tabs, Accordions, Sliders, Breadcrumbs, Table of Contents… […]

The tug-of-war over discovery in WP Engine, Inc. v. Automattic Inc. et al. has flipped sides. Last week, WP Engine was pressing Automattic to expand its document searches. This week, Automattic is asking the U.S. District Court to compel WP Engine to produce more. In an August 14 joint letter brief to Judge Donna Ryu, Automattic seeks documents […]

The closure of Groundhogg’s CRM plugin in the WordPress.org plugin directory last week put a spotlight on the WordPress Plugins Team’s behind-the-scenes work policing trademarks, reviewing code, and keeping the repository’s 60,000 active plugins secure. On August 9, the Groundhogg team posted on X that the free version of their plugin had been closed for trademark infringement — […]

Michael Willman’s attempt to join WP Engine’s high-profile lawsuit against Automattic and CEO Matt Mullenweg has been denied — and not on the merits, but because of a procedural roadblock. In an August 13 order, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín denied Willman’s motion to intervene, along with his related motions for contempt and an order to show cause, […]