This is an attempt to limit the reach that traditional WordPress plugins have, and maybe it is a response to EmDash. It is a framework for WordPress apps that run alongside of sites instead of as plugins.

Andy Bell is an expert and luminary in the CSS space. He has his own agency and in this interview with Nathan Wrigley they discuss how business was down in 2025 and how Andy got it back on track. They had been getting work offers from AI-related businesses, which they turned down. He blogged about how his agency didn’t use AI and wouldn’t do AI related projects. Surprise, he started getting work from companies that had been burned by agencies using AI.

This is a very scary analysis of a sophisticated supply chain attack in the WowShipping Pro plugin. We still don’t have the full story, possibly other WPXPO plugins could have been compromised, but if you are using WowShipping Pro then you need to take action.

This is a nice article by Andy Bell on how to build a button component. A solid approach with lots of CSS tips.

PressConf is the “un-WordCamp” slanted towards business owners. Reading between the lines, it seems that a number of WordPress business are experiencing a downturn. Perhaps this sums it up: “My overall takeaway from the sessions: the people who were most optimistic about the future were the ones who had already started moving toward an AI-first business model, and were pushing beyond WordPress. That’s my personal observation and a pattern I noticed in every conversation I had.”

Are you interested in block themes? Then you might be interested in this discussion where Nathan Wrigley and Brian Gardner talk about block themes and AI.

WordPress now has a core dev environment toolkit. It is a desktop app available on Mac, Windows, or Linux and comes with everything needed to work on core. Details and some video demos on the make blog.

Themify has added CSS variables support for their builder and to the Customizer to allow for global style options.

Matt Mullenweg reflects and is unhappy with how things are being run in the project.