WPBeginner Spotlight 28: WPVibe Hits 40,000 Sites, a New WPForms Dashboard, and Two WordPress Security Updates

September was the month WordPress plugins really started talking to AI assistants in a serious way. You can now manage backups, forms, online stores, and fundraising campaigns just by asking Claude or ChatGPT, and there’s a good chance you already have some of these plugins… Read More » The post WPBeginner Spotlight 28: WPVibe Hits 40,000…

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bbPress: bbPress 2.6.19 is out!

bbPress 2.6.19 is a security and maintenance release. Everyone running bbPress should update. This release applies inherited forum passwords to REST API responses and BuddyPress activity, and strengthens access checks for restricted forum content across feeds, group forums, and other indirect views. It also tightens moderation and forum-role permissions, protects importer credentials and account handling,…

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HeroPress: From Blogging to Belonging: My WordPress Journey – Blogging से Belonging तक: मेरी WordPress Journey

वर्डप्रेस ने मुझे मेरे ज़िंदगी में कुछ अलग करने का मौक़ा दिया। Introduction My name is Satyam Vishwakarma, though most people know me as Satya. I come from a small village called Mahmadpur, near Fatehpur, the city of Doaba, in Uttar Pradesh, nestled between the sacred Ganga and Yamuna rivers. This is the place I’ve…

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Gutenberg Times: Gutenberg 24.0, the road to 7.2, a new default theme named Ipsum, and more—Weekend Edition 377

Howdy, Before anything else: if you maintain WordPress sites, go update them. WordPress 7.1.2 shipped on September 22 to patch a single critical vulnerability in page template resolution, one that lets an unauthenticated attacker load a chosen PHP file from outside your active theme’s directories. Now let’s move on to better things. Anne McCarthy is…

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Dennis Snell: Enter the mess: Shortcodes

Tonight I started working on some Shortcode processing in WordPress. This is an historically nasty problem because the Shortcode syntax and parsing is wildly dynamic. Shortcode syntax is only technically recognized for shortcodes registered at the time of parsing. This means that there is not a general Shortcode grammar. Whether a shortcode has “content,” meaning…

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