WordPress 7.1 is available. I updated 12 sites without issue.

If you haven’t updated your Elementor Pro site to version 4.2.2 or greater then best to do so now. The vulnerability allows for a remote code execution, but requires Elementor Pro (not free) and a form widget with a file upload field. Details in the report.

The latest version of FluentCommunity allows your members to install your community as a Progressive Web App on their phone. The release notes provide the details. This looks to be a major feature that will make it easier for members to stay up to date with community posts.

The Pods team has released a security update and back ported it also to prior releases. They recommend updating ASAP.

The WordPress team just released an official browser extension for Chromium based browsers and Safari on Mac OS. I tried it out and it is very useful.

Roger Montti dug in with some research to try and understand how Claude’s watermark might work by looking at academic papers and related materials. My take-away is that it is not hidden images, text, or such, but rather the patterns and use of letters, words, and phrases somehow being a reflection of AI token usage. Hmm, “token usage” maybe being related to how AI selects words to use? In any event, it seems that it can largely survive editing and summation.

The free, open source, version of Core Framework is available on GitHub in in the WordPress plugin directory. Bricks, Oxygen, and Figma addons are included in it.

Another batch of improvements and fixes.

There are several code snippet management plugins available. FluentSnippets, developed by Md Shahjahan, is the best free one and does a number of things better than premium offerings. It passed the 50K install milestone, and it is not surprising to me that people trust it. This article provides some history about the plugin, the philosophy behind it, and information about the recent update.