A weekly podcast covering updates from the WordPress ecosystem that are relevant and helpful for WordPress agencies, developers, and enthusiasts
A weekly podcast covering updates from the WordPress ecosystem that are relevant and helpful for WordPress agencies, developers, and enthusiasts
This week on The WP Week Podcast, we cover the critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, the emergency PHP security patches, and a new potential code execution issue. We also discuss the recent layoffs at Automattic, WordPress moving forward with plans to integrate MCP into Core, the release of WordPress 7.2 Beta 1, and WooCommerce’s transition to the WordPress MCP Adapter.
In other news, we look at Jetpack’s new public feature request board, Duplicator’s critical security vulnerability, Wordfence’s latest report covering 497 vulnerabilities across 327 plugins and 23 themes, and Turkey blocking access to WordPress.com’s image CDN.
Plus, we explore the future of WordPress plugin and theme businesses in the AI era, CSS-Tricks returning to independent ownership, Hostinger’s performance improvements, and new projects including Tweakfast, InstaWP Studio, HostlessWP, and That’s Done.
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