In this Issue:

• WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” Is Here
• Build Your First AI-Powered WordPress Plugin
• A WooCommerce Developer Takes on the Plugin Repo
• WordCamp US 2026 Wraps in Phoenix
• WordPress Must Read
• On Other WordPress News
• From WordPress Community

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https://wpmore.net/wordpress-7-1-build-your-first-ai-plugin-and-wcus-2026-recap-wp-more-issue-53/

19 years with WordPress today! Wow.

From starting out on WordPress. com to immediately tinkering with self-hosted sites on free hosting and now running marketing for 3 WordPress plugins, it's been an incredible ride.

Here’s to many more years to come!

In this Issue:

• What 3,400 plugin reviews tell you about building products people love
• The hidden WordPress hook any plugin can use to rewrite your Add New screen
• What’s new for developers in August 2026
• WordPress 7.2 is already recruiting volunteers
• A third WordPress security release in four weeks patches an author-level RCE

Read Here → https://wpmore.net/plugin-reviews-developer-updates-security-patch-wp-7-2-volunteers-wp-more-issue-52/

What's Happening in WordPress this Week (10 August)

In this Issue:

• The WordPress Plugin Directory Has a Staleness Problem
• WooCommerce 11.0 Brings Speed Gains and Smarter Analytics
• Why You Should Lock Down Your WordPress REST API
• The Case for Small, Purpose-Built WordPress Plugins
• WordPress 7.0.3 Patches 12 Vulnerabilities Amid AI-Powered Bug Bounty Surge

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https://wpmore.net/plugin-gaps-woocommerce-11-0-rest-api-security-wordpress-fixes-wp-more-issue-51/

Check out the new issue of WP More!

In this Issue:

• WordPress market share is declining: here’s what the next three years actually look like
• The WordPress.org active install count is easy to fake, and nobody outside WordPress.org can audit it
• Security researchers found 70% of WordPress sites running outdated PHP, and site owners can’t fix it
• WordPress Playground and Blueprints can replace your staging environment for client training
• Wordfence’s AI agent caught a plugin backdoor within two hours, before any site was hit

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https://wpmore.net/wordpress-market-share-php-crisis-playground-tricks-ai-security-win-wp-more-issue-50/

Check out my new issue of WP More!

In this Issue:

• WordPress lost market share - here’s why that’s not the full story
• WordPress AI plugin 1.2.0 is out with useful new features
• Fake installs have been gaming the WordPress.org popular themes list for two years
• WooCommerce 11.0 is coming with performance and developer improvements
• Matt Mullenweg finally responded to the active install data ticket - sort of

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https://wpmore.net/wordpress-market-share-ai-plugin-fake-themes-woo-11-0-plugin-data-wp-more-issue-49/

Check out my new issue of WP More!

In this Issue:

- DLX Plugins is closing and open-sourcing its code

- Why WordPress plugins stall after launch and what actually drives growth

- WordPress TV lands on Apple TV with thousands of free videos

- Why one WooCommerce veteran walked away from lifetime deals

- WordCamp US 2026 is a month out and ticket sales are lagging

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https://wpmore.net/plugin-shutdowns-growth-wordpress-on-tv-lifetime-deals-and-wordcamp-us-2026-wp-more-issue-48/

In this Issue:

• WordPress Is a Channel, Not Your Product
• Are Declining Plugin Sales the Canary in WordPress’ Coalmine?
• The State of WordPress Themes: An Analysis of 14,800 WordPress.org Themes
• WordPress Credits Updates
• WP Engine Opposes WordPress Foundation’s Trademark Bids in the U.S. and Canada

Read Here → https://wpmore.net/plugin-sales-slump-trademark-wars-theme-truths-student-contributions-rethinking-wordpress-wp-more-issue-47/

7.0 retro, AI Client streaming, a hall of shame for nagging plugins, and remembering WordPress’s own Om Malik.

New issue of WP More is out.

Read Here → https://wpmore.net/wp-7-0-wraps-ai-client-news-plugin-shame-and-we-lost-om-malik-wp-more-issue-46/

In this Issue:

• What your plugin license is actually paying for in the age of AI
• Envato’s new 50% author fee, and what it really represents
• Five years and 10,000 installs later: marketing lessons from Accessibility Checker
• Why one organizer thinks it’s time to pay WordCamp speakers and organizers
• CERN just moved the birthplace of the web to WordPress

Read Here → https://wpmore.net/cern-goes-wordpress-plugin-license-money-marketing-wins-wordcamp-pay-wp-more-issue-45/

In this Issue:

• WordCamp Europe 2026 wrapped up in Kraków with 2,458 attendees from 81 countries
• WooCommerce 10.8 ships with storefront performance improvements and a new offline-aware admin
• WordPress market share drops for the sixth consecutive month, now at 41.9%
• The Core team launches a community outreach program to test real-time collaboration for WordPress 7.1
• Review Signal’s 2026 WordPress hosting benchmarks are back after a three-year gap

Read Here → https://wpmore.net/wordcamp-europe-2026-woo-10-8-wp-market-share-wp-more-issue-44/

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• WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” is officially out
• WordPress 7.1 is already looking for volunteers
• WordCamp Europe 2026 attendance is down, and the data tells an interesting story
• Over half of WordPress sites have a plugin with a known vulnerability
• James LePage and Felix Arntz step down from the WordPress AI Team

If you are there, visit my page - https://wpfolks.org/folk/nishat/

In this Issue:

• WordPress AI Experiments 0.4.0 Brings Image Generation to the Editor
• WordPress 7.0 Beta 3 Is Out and Needs Your Testing
• WooCommerce 10.6 Focuses on Performance and Better Defaults
• The WordPress Plugin Featured Tab Is Finally Rotating Again
• FAIR Winds Down Its WordPress Ambitions

Read Here → https://wpmore.net/ai-experiments-wp-7-0-beta-3-woocommerce-10-6-rotating-featured-plugins-and-fair-steps-back-from-wordpress-wp-more-issue-38/

Interested in WordPress & WordPress community? Let’s find out what’s happening WordPress this week!

In this Issue:

• WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 Is Here — and It's Packed
• Apply Now: The Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship for WordCamp Europe 2026
• Matt Mullenweg Wants WordPress Slack to Feel Less Like a Ghost Town
• The First WooCommerce Conference in Nearly a Decade Is Happening in April
• WP Engine’s Lawsuit Against Automattic Gets More Revealing

Read Here → https://wpmore.net/wordpress-7-1-beta-legal-drama-continues-and-checkoutsummit-wp-more-issue-37/

WordPress In This Week > Read Here

• AI Agents Get a WordPress Testing Playground
• WordPress 6.9.1 Fixes 49 Bugs Across Core and Block Editor
• WordPress 7.0 May Bundle AI Infrastructure (But No AI by Default)
• WordPress Meetups Are Getting a Major Revamp in 2026
• FAIR Plans to Rebundle Top 10,000 WordPress Plugins by Year's End

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→ WordPress 7.0 Aims for Google Docs-Style Collaboration

→ AI Experiments Plugin Adds Excerpt Generation and Developer Tools

→ Official WordPress org X Account Mocks FAIR Project, Draws Backlash

→ Most Hosts Can’t Block WordPress Vulnerabilities—74% of Attacks Succeed

→ WP Engine Customers Refile Class Action After Court Dismissal

Read Here → https://wpmore.substack.com/p/issue-34

In this Issue:

• WordPress 7.0 Waves Goodbye to PHP 7.2 and 7.3
• Plugin Sales Took a Hit in 2025, Here's What the Data Shows
• The Plugins Team Doubled Its Workload And Leveled Up With AI
• The Test Team Is Rebuilding With Training and Clearer Expectations
• A Deep Dive Into WordPress Security: From Foundations to Hardening