Patchstack has published its 2025 mid-year vulnerability report, revealing a sharp rise in both the volume and severity of security issues across the WordPress ecosystem. In the first six months of the year, 6,700 new vulnerabilities were reported, with 41.5% exploitable in real-world conditions — a jump the company says is concerning. It’s a big increase from the […]
WordPress Holds Ground in Higher Ed But the Sector Is Demanding More, According to New Report
A new report surveying 115 higher education professionals has found that while WordPress remains a foundational CMS across universities, confidence in its future is mixed — and expectations are rising fast. The State of WordPress in Higher Education 2025 report, released this week, is the result of a year-long collaboration between WPCampus and enterprise agency Human Made. It […]
Agentic AI Coming to WordPress: Hostinger and Elementor Rolling Out Chat-Based Site Management
Managing a website may soon feel less like wrangling the backend of WordPress and more like having a conversation with a coworker. This month, Hostinger is launching Kodee, a chat-based AI assistant built into the WordPress admin. Available on Business and Cloud plans, Kodee lets users handle tasks like editing content, updating WooCommerce inventory, managing plugins, or checking […]
Woo Withdraws Block Theme Submission, Reconsiders Successor to Storefront
Just a month after detailing plans for its first official WooCommerce block theme, Woo has withdrawn its submission to WordPress.org and is pivoting to a new strategy focused on block patterns, templates, and shared theme infrastructure. The theme, internally codenamed “Purple,” was first announced in December 2024 during a live community call with Ellen Bauer, Woo’s product lead […]
Inside Enqueue: A New Developer-Focused WordPress Event Coming to APAC
A new event is set to launch in Sydney this November, aimed at providing the kind of professional development space WordPress engineers in the Asia-Pacific region rarely get access to. Enqueue, happening on November 28, 2025, is a one-day, single-track event designed for developers, architects, and technical leads working with WordPress in complex environments. It’s a collaboration between […]
Finix Launches WooCommerce Plugin, Enters Crowded Payments Field
Finix, a relatively new payments company with big ambitions and Stripe in its sights, has launched a new plugin for WooCommerce that promises fast setup, flexible payment options, and transparent pricing. The plugin is available now in the WordPress.org plugin directory, but with only 10+ active installs, it’s still very early days. The plugin allows WooCommerce merchants in […]
WordPress 6.9 Roadmap: Block Comments, Site Editor Updates, and an Admin Redesign
The roadmap for WordPress 6.9 is out, and with it, a clearer picture of what’s being actively pursued for the release, which drops on December 2. Published yesterday on the Make WordPress Core blog by Automattic-sponsored contributor Anne McCarthy, the roadmap outlines a set of updates focused on evolving the Site Editor, refining content creation, improving the developer […]
Performance Chat Summary: 29 July 2025
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @westonruter highlighted the PR (#8815) for fetchpriority as one of the WordPress 6.9 roadmap items that still requires an approving review preferably from someone familiar with the script loader component, for example especially the work on adding async/defer, as it builds on that effort. […]
The WP Community Collective Lays Foundations for Project Development and Board Expansion
The WP Community Collective is settling into its nonprofit structure and laying the foundation for what comes next: member-led projects, more transparent processes, and a bigger board. Minutes from the collective’s July 2 board meeting were published last week, showing that directors Katie Adams Farrell, Courtney Robertson, and Sé Reed unanimously approved two key resolutions — one establishing […]
Google’s Danny Sullivan to Keynote WordCamp US 2025 as Speaker Lineup Begins to Take Shape
With just a month to go before WordCamp US 2025 kicks off in Portland, Oregon, organizers have unveiled the first round of speakers and announced that Google’s Danny Sullivan will deliver this year’s keynote. Sullivan has been explaining how search works for nearly three decades, first as a journalist, now from inside Google. He joined the company in […]
