# 239- FAIR 1.0 Released, MCP Coming In WooCommerce

Issue #239 | September 30, 2025 | Reading time: 17 mins

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This week on The WP Week Newsletter, we cover the new FAIR 1.0 release, the MCP coming in the upcoming WooCommerce version, new projects, and more.

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🗣️TALK OF THE TOWN

FAIR 1.0 released: Brings Key updates and performance improvements

The Federated and Independent Repositories (FAIR) group has officially released FAIR 1.0, marking a major milestone in decentralized WordPress package management. This release brings improvements across multiple projects, enabling site administrators to install plugins and themes from WordPress.org, independent sources, and even from a mirror of the official repository

📰 WORDPRESS & AROUND

All the updates around WordPress and its closely related technologies

What’s new in Gutenberg 21.7

The latest release expanded the command palette, added a new block called “Terms Query Block”, and includes various other enhancements and bug fixes.

WordPress VIP is now GovRAMP & TX-RAMP certified: By meeting the strict requirements of GovRAMP and TX-RAMP, WordPress VIP ensures agencies across Texas and nationwide can modernize digital services securely and efficiently.
Ruby Drama: Matt Mullenweg summarizes recent controversy in the Ruby community involving company influence over Bundler and RubyGems, and notes that Automattic’s attempt to sponsor RailsConf for its open web apps was denied despite past tasteful sponsorships of other open-source events.
BuddyPress 14.4.0, 12.6.0 & 11.5.2 maintenance and security releases: The new versions address a security issue in the REST API that could expose user emails and also improved the email unsubscribe handling. Users are urged to update immediately.
SISTRIX reports sharp drop in ChatGPT web searches: SISTRIX reports ChatGPT is using the web less often for anonymous users, dropping from above 15% to below 2.5% in two weeks.

💵 INVESTMENTS, ACQUISITIONS & PARTNERSHIPS

Newfold Digital to Sell Markmonitor to Com Laude: Newfold Digital has agreed to sell Markmonitor to Com Laude, a corporate registrar owned by PX3 Partners, as part of a strategy to focus on its core brands, Bluehost and Network Solutions.
Pagely Partners up with WP Event Manager: The partnership will provide WordPress users with a secure, high-performing, and feature-rich event management solution. The collaboration combines Pagely’s reliable hosting with WP Event Manager’s robust event tools, offering seamless integration, faster website performance, scalability, and strong support to simplify event operations for organizers.

👥 COMMUNITY NEWS

Updates and News from the WordPress Community

MCP coming in WooCommerce

The next WooCommerce release will include an MCP that’s easily extensible by developers and opens up new AI-powered possibilities for eCommerce.

Introducing real user Core Web Vitals tracking in FlyingPress: FlyingPress 5.2 introduces real-user Core Web Vitals tracking, letting you monitor LCP, INP, CLS, and TTFB with page and country-level insights, mobile/desktop filters, and time ranges, all securely collected and displayed in your dashboard.
Joost de Valk questions WooCommerce’s pace as OpenAI partners with Shopify: He reacted to the Shopify–OpenAI partnership by questioning when WooCommerce will catch up.
Shopify launched a new WordPress plugin: The Shopify plugin for WordPress lets users turn any WordPress site into an online store without coding. The plugin allows users to manage products, inventory, and sales through Shopify while creating pages and blog posts in WordPress.
Playground Blueprints in WordPress Studio: Nick Diego provided a preview of this upcoming feature in WordPress Studio to create local sites.
Ongoing layoffs at Fueled: Justin Livesay, CEO of Fueled, announced a 4–5% workforce reduction due to changing project demands, budgets, and early AI efficiencies, thanking departing colleagues for their contributions while reaffirming the company’s ongoing commitment to delivering impactful projects.
rtCamp is hiring: There are 100 open roles, including 20 Technical Support Engineers, 10 Senior WordPress Engineers, and 70 Associate WordPress Engineers (Campus).
Patchstack made it to the top VC-Recommended Baltic Startups list: Patchstack ranks fifth in the Estonian Startups section.
OttoKit announces price hike for lifetime plans: The lifetime pricing is changing as follows, Pro plan increases from $399 to $499, Business from $699 to $799, while Business Plus remains unchanged at $1,499.
Brian Gardner highlights the size of the Twenty Twenty-Five Theme: He pointed out that the theme has a file size of 8MB, and several community members also joined the conversation to share their opinions.
Brad Vincent updated his plugin after 7 years: The Admin Bookmarks plugin has been updated for WordPress 6.0, removing jQuery and adding post-type bookmarks, Quick Edit fields, a bookmarks view, and admin bar integration.
Envato on sunsetting extensions: As of August 21, 2025, all Envato Extensions for Adobe, Canva, Figma, Mobile, and WordPress have been discontinued and are no longer available. The team is now focused on building new Gen AI tools.
New revamped “For Developers” landing page on WooCommerce: Brian Coords on X highlighted WooCommerce’s revamped ‘For Developers’ page, designed to better showcase all the resources.
Michael Willman filed a new motion: Michael Willman filed a motion asking the court to hold Matt Mullenweg and Automattic in contempt for violating a 2024 injunction by banning him from WordPress.org’s Slack, seeking sanctions, restored access, and other remedies.

🚀 NEW PROJECTS

Throwable block: A physics-based WordPress block created by Yahya Qara that lets you throw and bounce content around with realistic physics simulation.
Ollie Menu Designer: The plugin created by Mike McAlister allows users to create content-rich dropdown, mobile, and mega menus using the WordPress block editor and full site editing.
Link Different: The plugin created by Nick Hamze allows users to add delightful hover effects to paragraph links. He has also created a WordPress Readme Generator.
WooCommerce Product Tables: The plugin allows users to showcase their products in lightning-fast, customizable tables that make browsing, filtering, and buying easy, even with large catalogs.
AI Chatbot for WordPress: Jotform has released the AI Chatbot for WordPress that automates support, answers FAQs, drives WooCommerce sales, generates leads, and boosts engagement with easy setup and no coding.
Introducing Amender: A universal WordPress content editor that lets users instantly edit any content, including plugin and theme output, using visual editing, AI assistance, or direct code changes. It works on the final page output, supports HTML, CSS, JS, Tailwind, and NPM libraries, logs all changes, and allows risk-free editing in draft mode.
Sigmally Pro launched: A powerful website accessibility plugin helping you to make a website accessible to all.
Workademy theme: A modern WordPress LMS theme designed for corporate training, team learning platforms, and individual instructors.
Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta: Cloudflare has launched the private beta of its Email Service, which unifies Email Sending and Email Routing to provide developers with a simple, reliable, and fully integrated email solution.
Cloudflare Vibe SDK: This is an open-source AI vibe coding platform built on Cloudflare’s developer platform.

🔖 INTERESTING READS & PODCASTS

More posts and podcasts from the WordPress Community you don’t want to miss

In conversation with Ian Misner: Ian Misner discusses his journey in WordPress and WooCommerce, from SkyVerge to GoDaddy to leading Kestrel, focusing on improving WooCommerce extensions, customer support, and helping online stores convert and retain customers. From Seriously, Bud?
Perspectives with Matt Mullenweg: Jonathan and Luke speak with Matt and they talk about jazz, blogging, photography, and the infuriating, heartbreaking, grey-hair-making drama that’s engulfed the WordPress community over the last year. From Crossword.
Exploring WordPress, textcasting, and open web standards: Matthias Pfefferle sits down with pioneer technologist Dave Winer. The inventor of blogging, podcasting, RSS, and text casting. Together, they unpack the evolution of the open web, discussing why true interoperability and openness matter more than ever in an age of restrictive social media platforms. From OpenChannel.fm.
Are there WordPress Echo Chambers: Remkus de Vries conversed with Imran Siddiq from Web Squadron about his journey from the NHS to full-time web design and YouTube content creation. They also talked about the nuances of maintaining a balanced approach to WordPress content, the significance of AI in web development, and the challenges and opportunities of community events. From WithinWP.
Dave Winer on decentralisation, WordPress and open publishing: Dave, a Silicon Valley pioneer and creator of RSS, reflects on the open web’s origins and the rise of walled gardens. He highlights projects like Wordland and his Textcasting manifesto, focusing on content ownership, freedom, and keeping WordPress central to the web’s future. From WP Tavern Jukebox.
Why AI won’t kill premium plugins: Matt Cromwell argues that AI won’t replace premium WordPress plugins because plugins offer more than code, they provide trust, support, security, updates, compliance, and long-term reliability. While AI can generate snippets quickly, it can’t match the full ecosystem and stability that premium plugins deliver. From WP Product Talk.
Exploring work in progress for WordPress 6.9 v2: Anne McCarthy’s update previews new features like block visibility, expanded command palette, block commenting, experimental new blocks, simplified site editing, improved template management, and ongoing developer updates, all aimed at testing and refining before beta 1.
WordPress mega menus with Ollie block builder: Matt Medeiros explored creating mega menus and mobile menus using the free Ollie Menu Designer plugin by Mike McAllister.
Telex turns everyone into a WordPress block developer: Nick Diego introduces Telex, an AI tool from Automattic that generates WordPress blocks from natural-language prompts, making block creation faster and more accessible. From WordPress.com.
Will AI replace web developers (and how should you adapt)?: Jonathan Bossenger argues that AI will transform web development, boosting productivity but still requiring human oversight, expertise, and careful use. From WordPress.com.
Why we choose WordPress: Enterprise teams: Maria Ansari explains how WordPress has evolved into a powerful enterprise platform, offering scalability, security, and cost efficiency. Its open-source nature lets organizations avoid vendor lock-in, customize workflows, and integrate with existing systems, while enterprise-ready plugins, hosting, and agencies extend its capabilities. From The WP Minute.
How Patchstack approaches WordPress security: Matt Medeiros speaks with Oliver Sild from Patchstack about the evolution of WordPress security, the challenges of managing plugin vulnerabilities, and the implications of the Cyber Resilience Act. From The WP Minute.
JuanMa Garrido’s first MCP server: WordPress plugin directory for LLMs: He created JWT Auth Pro for WP REST API, a secure JWT authentication plugin, and developed a local MCP server to let AI tools like Claude Code analyze and compare WordPress plugins in real time.
Matt Cromwell on the support capacity formula that tells him when to hire or when to fix the product: He shared his Support Capacity Formula, a simple way to decide whether to hire more support staff or improve the product itself. By comparing ticket load against team capacity, the formula highlights when a team is overloaded versus when product issues are creating unnecessary tickets.
Should WordPress have a product and a marketing team?: Joost de Valk argues that WordPress needs dedicated product and marketing teams, as developers alone can’t handle positioning, branding, and strategy, and empowered teams are essential to keep WordPress relevant. From Progress Planner.
Elliott Richmond explains WordPress Blocks & explores Telex AI to vibe-code custom blocks: In this video, he breaks down what WordPress blocks are, why they matter, and then takes a spin with Telex, Automattic’s new AI tool that generates custom blocks from prompts.
Rodolfo Melogli took Telex for a spin: In this video, we see how TELEX generated the requested block, what worked well, and what still needs improvement.
Why it’s time to upgrade to PHP 8.3: Steffen Bewersdorff explains that WordPress now fully supports PHP 8.3, which brings performance improvements, new features, and better security. Upgrading ensures faster sites, continued compatibility with plugins and themes, and protection as older PHP versions reach end-of-life. From Bleech.
More layoffs at Fueled—internal turmoil or a contracting ecosystem?: Sam Sidler wrote about Fueled’s recent layoffs and the company’s changing approach. From Delta.
Donna Fontenot shared her go-to WordPress plugins: Donna Fontenot shares her go-to WordPress plugins, split into essentials she uses on nearly every site and situational tools for specific needs.
What you need to know about modern CSS (2025 Edition): Chris Coyier highlights the newest and most useful CSS features gaining support. From Frontend Masters.

🛠 GUIDE ZONE – HOWTO’S and MORE

Handpicked fresh guides from WordPress circle

Border radius size presets in WordPress 6.9: From WordPress Developer Blog
How to create an MCP server in WordPress with the Abilities API and MCP Adapter: From WS Form
How to create a PSR-4 structure WordPress plugin: From DLX Plugins
Using variable fonts in WordPress themes: From Kinsta

📆 SAVE THE DATES

Do not miss a WordPress event ever again

WP Suomi 2025 on October 10: The tickets are now available.
WP Agency Forum on Oct 15, 2025: The tickets are now available.
WordCamp Canada on October 16-17 2025: The call for sponsors is now open. The first round of the speaker list has been published, and the tickets are also now available.
WordCamp Nepal 2026 on January 23-24: The early bird tickets are now available, and the call for speakers is now open.
WordCamp Asia 2026 on April 9-11: The venue has been announced. The call for speakers is now open.
SomeConf 2026 on April 22-23: The tickets are now available.
Checkout Summit 2026 on April 23-24, 2026: The call for sponsors is now open. The early bird tickets are now available.
WordCamp Europe 2026 on June 4-6: The event is in the early planning stages, and the venue will be the ICE Kraków Congress Centre Kraków, Poland.

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