The WordPress 7.0 core team published its revised schedule with the development branch closed to 7.1 commits until 7.0 ships and all backports requiring sign-off from two core committers. For hosting providers, the PHP 7.4 minimum requirement is the immediate action item: any environment still running PHP 7.2 or 7.3 as a default will create friction for customers at upgrade time, and the May window is closing.
Ayaz Ahmed Khan of DigitalOcean explains how Cloudways Copilot reduces infrastructure troubleshooting from 30-40 minutes to 5-6 minutes, what the preview period taught the team, and where automated diagnosis still falls short.
HostPapa acquired Tailor Made Servers, a Dallas dedicated server provider operating since 2003, adding its customer base to the ColoCrossing brand as part of an acquisition run that has included more than 17 deals since 2020.
Flippa celebrated the six-figure sale of the Essential Plugin portfolio; eight months later the buyer activated a backdoor across 20,000+ WordPress sites using Googlebot cloaking and a C2 routed through an Ethereum smart contract.
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