Websites are blocking AI agents, so some OpenAI engineers propose allowing AI agents to share information about the user. Joost is on it and outlines what is wrong with their proposal.

Pursae is a WordPress clone written in Go. It includes a number of evergreen “plugins” built in, such as for SEO or SMTP.

A video about why AI is not killing WordPress.

Phox provides a bundle of plugins for Breakdance, Oxygen, Bricks and Elementor. They just added a static export plugin to their suite.

Awesome Motive acquires Drip, the popular email marketing and automation platform.

This is an interesting and indepth analysis of the recent vulnerability that led to the WordPress 7.1.4 security release.

There is now another ecommerce option for hosting a store with WordPress. This is a free plugin in the WP plugin directory which is pretty full featured for its first version. It includes migration functionality from Woo.

This article from the Repository reports of the change in pricing and bundles that will impact LearnDash, Give, The Events Calendar, and Kadence customers. With the exception of Kadence, these plugins will only be sold in bundles and existing customer subscriptions will be moved to bundle subscriptions on the next renewal. Kadence will still be sold separately and existing customers are not being moved into bundles. The article has the details.

Lots of features and new pricing tiers.