WordPress.org issued a statement to plugin developers to respect user decisions on automatic updates. The reminder comes after the publishers of the All in One SEO Plugin turned on automatic updates ...

The WordPress developer team is working on adding an auto-update mechanism to themes and plugins, a common source of website hacks, primarily because site owners usually install themes and plugins, ...

A vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin called the WooCommerce Checkout Manager extension is potentially putting more than 60,000 websites at risk, researchers say. The WooCommerce Checkout ...

Yoast WordPress SEO plugin released an update but it soon became apparent that something went horribly wrong for some users. It appears that the problem caused fatal errors. Negatively affected ...

The 2026 release is intended to support long-term website performance by reducing technical errors, improving indexability, and ensuring compatibility with future algorithm changes. Prime SEO states ...

WordPress maintenance headaches are now a thing of the past thanks to new automatic updates Kinsta, a managed hosting provider for WordPress powered by Google Cloud Platform, is announcing a new ...

WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” resulting from WP Engine’s legal moves. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” ...

A critical remote code execution flaw in the WPvivid Backup & Migration WordPress plugin puts over 900,000 sites at risk unless patched.