A 6-year-old accessibility fix was reverted in 19 hours, plus WordPress plugin sales down 48%, an open letter to Matt Mullenweg, an MCP server guide, and 47.6% of Europe on WordPress.
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I know @KatieKeithBarn2 has been talking about what is going on in the WP Plugin space. I asked myself, "When was the last time I purchased a license?" and that explained it all. Answer: I don't remember.
The PHP project has released fixes for 2 critical vulnerabilities affecting servers that host PHP applications. Site owners and technical teams should confirm their hosting provider’s update plan and update PHP immediately. Versions before PHP 8.2 no longer receive security updates. These issues are not specific to WordPress, and no WordPress update is required. wp.me/pZhYe-5Gb
Gutenberg 24.2 has shipped with notes that sit in a margin beside the content, a single search for adding pages, posts, categories, and tags to navigation menus, and sorting and duotone support for the Gallery block.
→ make.wordpress.org/core/2026…
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Yjs creator Kevin Jahns has told contributors working on real-time collaboration that they're overcomplicating it, warning that pushing every keystroke through PHP could leave Gutenberg with a resource-hungry feature that still isn't truly real-time.
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Clicking the WordPress logo in the admin toolbar could take users to the dashboard instead of the About page under a new proposal for WordPress 7.2
→ make.wordpress.org/core/2026…
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WordPress's HTML sanitizer wp_kses() is being rebuilt on the HTML API for WordPress 7.2 or 7.3, and developers whose plugins or themes sanitize HTML are being urged to test against trunk now
→ developer.wordpress.org/news…
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Bluehost-sponsored core committer Jonathan Desrosiers has used AI to create roughly 500 pull requests to repair broken automated testing on Gutenberg's older release branches, and he's calling for help reviewing them
→ make.wordpress.org/core/2026…
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WordPress Day for AI has published its full program for October 24 in Faro, Portugal, with 16 speakers across separate business and developer tracks
→ events.wordpress.org/faro/20…
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CMS Conf's full program is out and features more than 50 sessions, including an EmDash workshop and talk from Cloudflare's Matt Kane.
→ cmsconf.com/agenda/
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Students made up nearly half of the more than 300 attendees at WordCamp Jinja in Uganda last month, ranging from primary schoolers to university students.
→ central.wordcamp.org/news/20…
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