The WordPress open-source content management system (CMS) will show warnings in its backend admin panel if the site runs on top of an outdated PHP version. The current plan is to have the warnings ...

Automattic, the developer of WordPress, has announced that it will resume contributing to the WordPress project. When Automattic released WordPress 6.8 in April 2025, they stated that 'this will be ...

Automattic will only contribute 45 hours each week to ‘match’ the amount of time spent by third-party hosting platform WP Engine. Automattic will only contribute 45 hours each week to ‘match’ the ...

It’s a new year, but drama in the WordPress community keeps going. Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, said that it would reduce its contribution to WordPress core, the open source ...

This week marks two interesting anniversaries for me. I've been writing here at ZDNet for six years, and I've been supporting adopted open source projects for one year. While my experience here at ...

The recent travails of WordPress have caused consternation among the web community that relies on the platform, which powers more than four in ten websites online today. Now, a coalition of prominent ...

Researchers found three critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the 'PHP Everywhere' plugin for WordPress, used by over 30,000 websites worldwide. PHP Everywhere is a plugin that ...

The plug-in’s default settings spawned flaws that could allow for full site takeover but have since been fixed in an update that users should immediately install, Wordfence researchers said. Tens of ...

The Linux Foundation recently announced the FAIR Package Manager project, an open-source, distributed WordPress plugin and theme repository that decentralizes control of the repository. A distributed ...

Builderius brings AI-assisted GraphQL development to WordPress, enabling developers to learn and build more efficiently.