“We wanna use The Hub as our Client Management System, but we don’t want to have to set up billing first. Can’t we just add clients directly to The Hub?” Good news, now you can! We listened to your feedback and realized that yeah, you shouldn’t have to go through all the hullabaloo of setting up a Stripe billing connection …
Will The Vibes Be Good? Only Time Will Telex
Stick around ‘til the end to see a bunch of guys having no fun at all. Seriously. Not even a bit. In today’s edition: Telex turns your rambling ideas into Gutenberg blocks. Sometimes magically, sometimes… not. Open Call for Web Heroes: WP Accessibility Day needs you to save the internet, one alt-text at a time. Who’s WP-Award-worthy, in your opinion? …
No Rest for the Wiki
Stick around ‘til the end to see baby trash bandits that are adorably bad at climbing. In today’s edition: Patchstack study: Hosting “security” might look tough, but 87.8% of the time it folds faster than a $5 lawn chair. WP Wiki launches: Finally, a single place to catalog all of your nerdy knowledge. RIP dial-up: the sound of the 90s …
It Was The Summer of 6.9
Stick around ‘til the end to see the most adorable abyss. In today’s edition: WP 6.9 is coming, and it includes a new Command Palette that’ll make you feel like a 90’s movie hacker. What’s waiting for you at WCUS Portland: from panels to presentations to Pearl District pubs. Meet the PHP AI Client SDK, the newest way to keep …
Block Malicious IPs With AntiBot Global Firewall
Our new feature keeps your site safer, by blocking dangerous traffic before it can harm your site. Introducing: AntiBot Global Firewall It’s a sophisticated automated security service that blocks harmful bots and suspicious IPs, protecting your site from threats. It’s proactive protection that gives you peace of mind. This means you’ll be protected from any moustache-twirling bad actors and creepy …
PNG Me In Coach, I’m Ready!
Stick around ‘til the end to see a dog who plays guitar better than I can… In today’s edition: Move over WebP. PNG got her first glow-up in 22 years and now she animates. Ethical hosting gets a badge: The Secure Hosting Alliance wants to make hosting boring again (in a good way). WordPress just got a card game. It’s …
Like A Version, Released For The Very First Time
Stick around ‘til the end to find out why the dishwasher won’t close all the way. In today’s edition: Tumblr’s big WP migration dreams are turning out as disappointing as the ball pit at Dashcon. WordPress 6.8.2 RC1 is live: let the bug-stomping commence. We casually flex on eeeeeeverything we’ve shipped in 2025. NBD. Hot Off The Presses: What’s New? …
Your Half-Yearly Geeky Dopamine Boost
We’ve been busy little devs, hunched over our computers typing furiously until our eyes burn and our wrists ache, to bring you new features and functionalities on all our products. But then we asked ourselves, “If a plugin update falls in the forest and there’s no one around to hear it, does it really make a sound?” AND, we also …
JSON & The Toolbar-gonauts
Stick around ‘til the end for a pug in a rug… In today’s edition: Why the world’s biggest physics lab made the leap to WordPress. You can now customize your “Next” button. Use this power wisely. Accessibility docs are finally getting the overhaul they deserve, and you can help! Hot Off The Presses: What’s New? “JSON? I don’t know him …
TBH, AI’d Rather Not…
Stick around ‘til the end for a guy whose sense of humor speaks louder than words. In today’s edition: FAIR play? The WordPress decentralized mirrorverse is here. PayU plugin left the door wide open… oops. SponsorMeWP: Because you can’t pay your electricity bill in WordPress street cred. Hot Off The Presses: What’s New? In the last DEV issue, we warned …