Bad actors purchased popular plugins hosted on WordPress.org and added malware that was downloaded to users sites.

Here is a look at the design system aspects of the Mosaic builder.

The 4.1.0 version is available to lifetime license holders and includes all of the features except for the remote scan option. I’m happy to see the team support lifetime license holders. You can download it from your account dashboard.

This version also adds the ability to clean post types, as well as several new database insight and optimization options.

The latest version of Bricks was released. It includes bug fixes and minor improvements.

This is an discussion with the folks from the WP Product Talk podcast with the EmDash team. They get some good clarification about the product and how it is like and different from WordPress.

The Admin Bar released the results of their 2026 survey of agency owners and freelancers. There are a number of interesting findings. For example, 58.3% are using page builders, 27.8% are using block collections, and 9.7% are using default Gutenberg FSE.

Joost makes the points that leadership is jumping around following trends while letting the technical debt pile up. WordPress doesn’t have an architect. EmDash isn’t the be all, end all, or the next thing, but that it is a signal.

I imagine most of us are using Lets Encrypt SSL certificates and so this might not apply, but to those managing SSL certs for clients this might be something to plan for.

In this article Roger Montti shares his assessment of the new CMS from Cloudflare.