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WordPress 7.1 "Mary Lou," the second major release of the year, has been released, named after pioneering jazz pianist, arranger, and composer Mary Lou Williams. The release includes contributions from more than 800 people worldwide, including over 170 fi

The WP Open Community Collective (WPOCC) has published its State of the Community 2026 survey, presenting the results of an independent, anonymous survey of people involved with, building on, contributing to, or interested in the WordPress open source pro

The official WordPress browser extension is now available on the Chrome Web Store and Mac App Store. The extension lets users signed in to WordPress remove the admin bar from view while retaining access to key shortcuts through the browser toolbar. It als

Sybre Waaijer has alleged that Awesome Motive introduced a backdoor in WPForms Lite version 2.0.0, which runs on more than 5 million sites. According to Waaijer, the backdoor takes over the browser during the setup wizard and opens the plugin on WPForms'

WordPress 7.0.4 is now available, fixing a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow a user with an Author-level account or higher to execute code through a malicious file upload on sites using Imagick and Ghostscript. The vulnerability was res

Automattic has asked the court to reject WP Engine's motion for sanctions, arguing that WP Engine has not shown that any case-relevant messages were lost or that Automattic failed to preserve them. In its August 11, 31-page opposition, Automattic points t

Everything in WordPress 7.1: responsive block styles, new Playlist and Tabs blocks, faster media uploads, and more - with links to every PR and dev note.

WordPress 7.1 introduces a small but important accessibility improvement that changes the HTML structure of admin post list tables. This was announced by Joe Dolson of Make WordPress Accessible team, the team dedicated to improving accessibility in the Wo

WordPress 7.0.3 has been released, addressing 12 security vulnerabilities across the platform, including a flaw that could allow PHP code execution, multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, privilege escalation, server-side request forgery (SS

WPManageNinja has disclosed a security incident in which an old server that remained connected to its plugin update infrastructure distributed tampered versions of Fluent Forms Pro and Ninja Tables Pro for about five hours on July 31, 2026. The company sa