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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WordPress is updating soon to version 5.6 which aims to be compatible with PHP 8. However, WordPress cautioned that it should be considered “beta-compatible” and explained why upgrading to PHP 8 ...

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 ...

PHP is the underlying scripting language that WordPress runs on. The most current version is PHP 7.3.7. PHP is continually updated to make it more efficient and to patch security issues. Except ...

A severe WordPress vulnerability which has been left a year without being patched has the potential to disrupt countless websites running the CMS, researchers claim. At the BSides technical ...