Tag: wordpress

Extendify's Launch AI builds a finished WordPress site before the customer's first login. AutoLaunch delivers it via the hosting provider's own signup flow. Version 3.0 reduces creation to a single prompt.

Matt Mullenweg called WordPress development "boring or mediocre crap," then overruled core committers to add Akismet to the WordPress 7.0 Connectors screen, weeks before the May 20 release.

Automattic launched Studio Code in public beta, a CLI agent built on Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 that builds, configures, and publishes WordPress sites from natural language commands, running on top of MCP write capabilities launched in March 2026.

WordCamp Europe 2026 runs June 4-6 in Kraków. Over 3,000 attendees, Matt Mullenweg closing keynote, and the first major community gathering after WordPress 7.0 ships.

WordPress 7.0 is now scheduled. The core team published a revised plan on April 22 after a delay caused by unresolved issues in the real-time collaboration feature.

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.

WordPress 7.0 missed its April 9 release date and a new schedule will be announced by April 22. Hosting companies have a narrow window to prepare before the release date is confirmed.

Cloudflare released EmDash on April 1, a real open-source CMS built on Workers, D1, and Astro that sandboxes plugins in isolated v8 Workers, directly targeting the plugin security model that underlies most WordPress vulnerabilities.

WordPress.com opened write access to its MCP server on March 20, letting AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT create posts, manage comments, and organize content on any paid site. The update adds 19 operations across six content types - and signals a shift in how site management works that hosting providers cannot afford to ignore.

WordPress.org launched my.WordPress.net - a fully functional WordPress instance running entirely in the browser via WebAssembly. No server, no signup, no cost. It includes a built-in AI assistant and positions WordPress as a zero-friction personal workspace.