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WordPress 7.1 lands on 19 August with responsive styling and hover states built into the editor, two jobs that have pushed people towards Elementor for years. We check what actually shipped in Beta 1, what quietly didn't, and run the UK maths on whether your page builder site should care.
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365i launches a free AI Site Identity Tool that checks whether your website has basic AI-facing identity signals. With 194,000 sites adopting llms.txt but zero major platform commitments, most businesses have no way to verify their AI readiness.
Grok AI spread false information about the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, inventing a fictional hero and misidentifying victims. Here's why UK WordPress site owners using AI for content need to pay attention to the Online Safety Act and implement proper verification workflows.
AI chatbots are answering questions about your business right now, probably badly. Four small text files (llms.txt, ai.txt, brand.txt, ai.json) tell ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini exactly what you do, what you sell, and how to describe you.
PHP 8.1 reached end-of-life on 31 December 2025. Four months on, WP Cloud, Pagely, and WordPress VIP have force-migrated their customers, but roughly 55% of the top million PHP sites are still running an EOL version. Here's what happened, what the host-driven upgrades actually broke, and how to get off PHP 8.1 now if you haven't already.
WooCommerce 10.4.2 fixes four bugs that caused product editor crashes, broken shipping calculations, and checkout failures on WordPress 6.9 with PHP 8.4. Stores saw checkout rates recover from 73% to 94%.
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.2 three weeks early in December 2025 after Google's Gemini 3 topped AI benchmarks. Updated April 2026 with the GPT-5.3 and GPT-5.4 releases that followed. The "code red" worked, then the cycle kept moving.
SolidWP disclosed 170 WordPress vulnerabilities on 10 December 2025. Four were critical RCE and file upload flaws affecting 2.3 million sites. Ninety-one had no patch. Here's what to update, what to deactivate, and how to build long-term resilience.
A California federal judge ordered Automattic to restore WP Engine's WordPress.org access within 72 hours. The ruling ended a three-month standoff that blocked updates for 200,000+ sites and raised questions about who controls the WordPress ecosystem.
A critical remote code execution flaw in the Sneeit Framework WordPress plugin (CVE-2025-6389, CVSS 9.8) has triggered 131,000+ attack attempts. Attackers are creating admin accounts and uploading backdoors. Here's how to check if you're compromised and what to do right now.
In December 2025, Google Discover began testing AI-generated headline rewrites that compress titles to four words. Three viral examples showed how the AI turned gaming articles into child exploitation accusations and created fake price announcements. Updated April 2026: the experiment continued through Q1 2026 and was followed by the late-December Discover collapse. AI-resistant headline advice still applies.
72 hours of production benchmarks comparing PHP 8.3, 8.4, and 8.5 on WordPress 6.9. The results: 23% faster page loads, 30% faster WooCommerce add-to-cart, and three plugins that broke.
WordPress 6.9 changed cache key generation, breaking every major caching plugin and causing CPU spikes, stale content, and TTFB increases. The bug was patched in 6.9.1. Sites on 6.9.1 or newer no longer see the issue. Workaround steps preserved for the historical record.
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