WordPress 6.2 Delayed to March 29 Due to Bug With Date Formats

WordPress 6.2 was scheduled for release today, but contributors discovered a bug with date formats during the 24-hour freeze that they believe could have a significant impact on functionality like bookings, date permalinks, and e-commerce stores. The decision was made this morning to delay with a consensus to apply a revert and release a silent 6.2 RC5 with the fix. …

Block Visibility 3.0.0 Makes Pro Version Free, Adds Browser and Device Control, Visibility Presets, and More

WordPress contributor and developer Nick Diego has released version 3.0.0 of his Block Visibility plugin, which allows users to conditionally display blocks based on specific user roles, logged in/out, specific users, screen sizes, query strings, ACF fields, and more. The biggest change in this update is that Diego has decided to merge the Pro version with the free plugin so …

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 …