WooCommerce Payments Plugin Patches Critical Vulnerability That Would Allow Site Takeover

WooCommerce Payments, a plugin that allows WooCommerce store owners to accept credit and debit card payments and manage transactions inside the WordPress dashboard, has patched an Authentication Bypass and Privilege Escalation vulnerability with a 9.8 (Critical) CVSS score. The plugin is active on more than 500,000 websites. Beau Lebens, WooCommerce’s Head of Engineering, published an advisory about the vulnerability today, …

10 Incredible AI Design Tools for WordPress

With AI rapidly advancing its design capabilities, and new AI design tools emerging every week, now is the time for web developers to get educated on, and take advantage of, the once-futuristic opportunities that are arising in the industry. To help get you started, we’ve collated 10 of the best AI design tools for WordPress. We recently talked about how …

CloudFest Hackathon 2023 Kickstarts Innovative WordPress Projects: VS Code Extension for In-Browser Development, WapuuGotchi Gamification Plugin, and More

More than 6,000 people are attending CloudFest in Europa-Park, Germany, this week. A strong contingent of WordPress developers and contributors are among them. During the Hackathon portion of the event, web professionals gather for a friendly competition, tackling problems for existing not-for-profit, OSS projects, creating solutions with a concentrated effort at a quicker pace than remote collaboration usually allows. WordPress …

The Ultimate Web Developer Toolkit

What constitutes the ultimate toolkit for web developers? To find out, we surveyed our members about what tools they use for their WordPress development business – and the results are in! To be clear, we’ve written previously about Must Have tools, but this list is based on what the members of our WPMU DEV community recommend. So, the results are …

Equalize Digital Raises Pre-Seed Funding for Expanding Accessibility Checker Plugin Development

Equalize Digital, a WordPress accessibility products and consulting company, has received an undisclosed amount of pre-seed funding from Emilia Capital, the investment company owned by Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt. The investment will be used to accelerate the growth of Equalize Digital’s Accessibility Checker plugin, a tool for auditing websites for WCAG, ADA, and Section 508 accessibility …