WordPress News

Automattic Reduces Contributions to the WordPress Project. AccessiBe Gets Stung for Misleading Accessibility Promises. The U.S. TikTok Ban is About More than Just TikTok. Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review: What Does it Mean for Your Agency in 2025? And More!

The Call for Change is Getting Louder. Government Websites Face Accessibility Hurdles as New Standards Loom. Github Copilot is Now Free for All Users. And More!

WordPress Goes 503: Out for the Holidays. Open Letter from WordPress Contributors and Community Leaders Pleads for Reform. A11y News: Court Rules Online-Only Businesses are Not Places of Public Accommodation. And More!

WP Engine Wins Preliminary Injunction. US Supreme Court Is TikTok’s Last Hope in Legal Battle. Should You Disclose AI Usage to Your Clients? And More!

WP Engine and Automattic Submit Injunction Proposals. Mary Hubbard, New WordPress Executive Director, Promises "Fresh Start." ChatGPT's Search Isn't All We Hoped it Would Be (Yet). And More!

Federal Judge Signals Support for WP Engine in WordPress Dispute. Automattic Expands Content Tools with Harper Acquisition. Holiday downtime? Here's a Few Must-Watch Streaming Suggestion. And More!

PressConf Scheduled for April 2025. Massive Cleanup Event Removes Hundreds of Dangerous WordPress Plugins. Smashing App Brings AI Power to Content Discovery. And More!

How Agencies Can Deal with Uncertainty Created by "The Recent Unpleasantness" For the last 2 months, I've begun my monthly WordPress News Roundup on Solid Academy with a summary of "the recent unpleasantness" in WordPress, particularly from the perspective of…

ChatGPT Unveils Game-Changing, Real-Time Search Features. WordPress.com Introduces AI-Powered Development Assistant. The WordPress Community Sets it Apart and Drives its Success. And More!

Key Developments in the Ongoing Struggle Between WordPress & WP Engine. WordPress Community Divided Over WordPress Code of Conduct Changes. A Fun Idea for a Weekend Project. And More!

All WPEngine's Free Themes and Plugins Now Update from Their Servers. US FTC Simplifies Subscription Cancellations with "Click-to-Cancel" Rules. Fake Plugins Delivering Malware Through Phony Browser Updates. And More!

Responding to "The Recent Unpleasantness" in WordPress as an Agency Owner. Growing from Solo to Agency: The Challenging Path and Whether to Take It. ChatGPT Rolls Out Canvas Interface - Have You Tried it for Coding? 🤯 And more!

Can I Log In? Let Me Consult my Attorney. U.S. Agency Owners... Have You Completed Your BOI Report? Internet Archive Suffers Major Security Breach. And More!

US DOJ Sues Visa Over Alleged Monopoly. Cloudflare Unveils Tool to Monetize AI Data Scraping. Inside ChatGPT's New Voice Upgrade. And More!

Patchstack Launches Vulnerability Disclosure Program Platform. Google's AI Overviews Have Significantly Improved. California Mandates AI Content Watermarking. And More!