#252- Women-centric WP Events For Women’s Day, Reviving Outdated Plugin

Issue #252 | December 30, 2025 | Reading time: 13 mins

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This week on The WP Week Newsletter, we cover bringing back women-centric WordPress events for International Women’s Day, the Cool Plugins team acquiring an outdated plugin, and reviving it, community discussion on WordPress Media library, new projects, and more.

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📰 WORDPRESS & AROUND

All the updates around WordPress and its closely related technologies

Bringing back women-centric WordPress events for International Women’s Day

The WordPress Community is bringing back women-centric WordPress events for International Women’s Day after a successful first year. Local communities are invited to organize inclusive, women-focused events, with a detailed handbook available to guide planning, applications, and best practices.

WordPress Vulnerability Report — December 24, 2025: Since last week, 150 new vulnerabilities have emerged in the WordPress ecosystem, including 140 plugins and 10 themes.
Manus joins Meta: Meta has acquired Manus, a Chinese AI startup, to accelerate AI innovation for businesses by integrating its powerful autonomous AI agent into Meta’s products.
Google is rolling out a new feature allowing users to change their Gmail address: In a long-requested change, account holders can now replace their existing @gmail.com address with a new one while retaining all data and services, according to an update to Google’s account help page. However, the updated guidance on email address changes appears only in the Hindi version of Google’s support page, suggesting the rollout may begin in India or Hindi-speaking markets.
Google reveals the top searches of 2025: Google’s Year in Search reveals trending actors, movies, athletes, games, recipes, and travel destinations that captured attention throughout 2025.
CEO of Cursor warns businesses: Michael Truell warns that over‑reliance on AI vibe coding, letting tools generate software without humans truly reviewing code, creates weak foundations that can eventually cause complex systems to crumble.

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👥 COMMUNITY NEWS

Updates and News from the WordPress Community

Satinder Singh on reviving an outdated plugin

Satinder Singh, co-founder of Cool Plugins, shared that they have acquired the SB Elementor Contact Form DB plugin that once had 50,000+ users but declined after Elementor Pro added similar features. His team identified unmet needs around form data handling, rebuilt the plugin with new features, rebranded and relaunched it as FormsDB, helping Elementor users save form submissions to Google Sheets or WordPress post types.

WP Plugin Info Card 6.2.0 released: This release adds a new Profile Badges block and shortcode, allowing site owners to display WordPress.org contribution badges dynamically or as custom static selections. The release also improves the Screenshots block, modernizes block internals, enhances layouts and styling options, and includes multiple performance optimizations and bug fixes.
Plugin Check Plugin v1.8.0 released: The latest update adds AI-powered checks (including a plugin naming tool and AI config detection), improved security and trademark validations, better result filtering and export options, plus several fixes for compatibility and accuracy.
Agent Skills for WordPress: A portable bundles of instructions, checklists, and scripts that help AI assistants (Claude, Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) understand WordPress development patterns, avoid common mistakes, and follow best practices.
Felix Arntz has open-sourced some of his WordPress plugin maintenance utilities: The utilities help automate common tasks such as bumping the Tested Up To WordPress version, generating changelogs from commit history, updating since next annotations, and so on.
New WordPress blueprint available on Pootle Playground: The ‘write or die’ plugin blueprint is now available.
Justin Ferriman on why the WordPress LMS market has been stagnant for the past 6 years: He says that they stagnated because they mimic outdated e-learning trends, and the real opportunity lies in innovating the online learning experience rather than just adding features.
Jamie Marsland conducted a poll to see whether users are using Command Palette: The YouTube poll showed that 81% of users do not use the Command Palette feature, and only 19% make use of it.
Jeff Chandler sparks discussion on the WordPress Media Library: On X, he started a discussion asking WordPress users which single feature they would add to improve the media library. Several users commented such as James Welbes commenting, “the ability to scrape images from other websites and import them directly into your media library” and Anita stating, “ A trash bin instead of Delete Permanently and a way to categorize the images.”
Nat Miletic on do you still need a website in 2026: He explains that in 2026 a website is no longer just about being online. Social media drives awareness, but a website is what you own, where credibility is checked, search traffic comes from, and the full story and journey are under your control.

🚀 NEW PROJECTS

“If you’ve worked in WordPress, Gutenberg or similar large open source repositories before, you’ll now that it’s very easy to get lost. Thus, I started thinking about the best way to extract meaningful information from it.”
–Riad Benguella about developing the GitAudit.

Github to WordPress Sync: Developed by Sinan, this allows users to streamline theme and plugin updates directly from GitHub.
All new GitAudit: Created by Riad Benguella, this tool allows auditing GitHub repository issues to identify important bugs, stale issues, duplicates, and triage needs.
BrenWP Cache: This caching plugin improves performance by serving static HTML files to anonymous visitors. It focuses on safe, full-page caching for public pages, with clear rules to avoid personalized or dynamic content, simple cache-purge tools, and strong security practices.
Animation Pack: The plugin adds powerful animations for Elementor and Gutenberg content. It allows you to create smooth, customizable animations without adding extra blocks or widgets.

🔖 INTERESTING READS & PODCASTS

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

Muntasir Sakib, a seasoned WordPress professional, on this episode of WP Tavern Jukebox, shared insights on turning plugin development into real success in a competitive marketplace. He discusses why marketing should start from day one, the importance of community and user feedback, and strategies for sustainable growth.
On this episode of The WP Minute+, Matt chats with Miriam Schwab, Head of WordPress at Elementor, about State of the Word, AI’s impact on WordPress, vibe coding, accessibility, and the future of Elementor’s products, highlighting the need for innovation and adaptability.
In this episode of The Melapress Show, Robert Abela sits down with Lillie Mazitova from Rocket Conseil, a web studio specialising in e-commerce, automation, and compliance. Together, they unpack what “compliance” really means, why it matters, and how business owners, developers, and agencies can navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape without getting overwhelmed.
Adam Silver on this week’s Kitchen Sink WP Podcast covers early talk around WordPress 7.0’s tentative 2026 timeline, reflects on key wins and challenges from 2025, shares predictions from the community for the year ahead, and wraps up with a featured Tool of the Week.
In this reflection, Remkus de Vries shares the hard-earned lessons from building Make WordPress Fast, his most ambitious solo course to date. From planning and production realities to deadlines, pressure, and personal expectations, this piece offers an honest behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to turn an idea into a high-quality course.
Sumit Karmakar from Fluent Forms explores what to realistically expect from WordPress 7.0 in 2026, covering its early planning, delayed timeline, and focus on collaboration, stability, and long-term foundations rather than big disruptive changes.
As enterprises prepare for 2026, Bryce Culp from WebDevStudios outlines three key WordPress architectural trends, Hybrid Headless setups, accessibility-first development, and data-driven performance that will shape strategy, optimize digital experiences, and future-proof technical foundations.
In this post, Joost de Valk warns that WordPress is at risk of a vibe coding trap, where AI-generated UI elements create a patchwork of unmaintainable, disposable code.
Jeff Paul reflects on State of the Word 2025 and the evolving role of AI in WordPress, highlighting how the technology is moving from novelty to practical, workflow-driven tools.
WPBakery’s 2025 year in review highlights their shift toward long-term growth, with major product updates, AI enhancements, community initiatives, and new support offerings that make building with WordPress faster, smarter, and more reliable.
Cloudways 2025 Year in Review highlights a year of growth, innovation, and smarter hosting. Key launches like the Lightning Stack and Cloudways Copilot enhanced performance, reliability, and AI-powered assistance.

🛠 GUIDE ZONE – HOWTO’S and MORE

Handpicked fresh guides from WordPress circle

From local to live – Deploy your WordPress site with Studio Sync: From Elliot Richmond
How to create magic effects in WordPress with core blocks: From Kinsta
Keeping block theme templates in sync with the editor: From Deluxe Blog Tips
WooCommerce Forms: How to create & add a form to product pages: From Jetpack

📆 SAVE THE DATES

Do not miss a WordPress event ever again

WordCamp Nepal 2026 on January 23-24: The early bird tickets are now available, and the call for sponsors is now open.
WordCamp Kolhapur 2026 on 31 Jan – 1 Feb 2026: The tickets are now available.
WordCamp Asia 2026 on April 9-11: The call for Wapuu designs and sponsors is now open. The tickets are still available, and visa information details have been published.
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 call for speakers, sponsors, and media partners is now open. The tickets are also now available.

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