A Collection of Useful WordPress Must-Use (MU) Plugins

A collection of single-file WordPress must-use plugins that clean up header output, disable unused features and tighten security defaults.

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WordPress 7.0.4 Release – WordPress News

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What’s new for developers? (August 2026)

WordPress 7.1 ships August 19, and the Field Guide is out. Responsive block styles, pseudo states, the SVG Icon API, and an always-iframed post editor coming soon.

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Programmatic SEO in WordPress: Local Landing Pages From One Dataset (With MPG)

Learn how to generate local SEO landing pages in WordPress from one CSV with MPG: templates, placeholders, free-tier limits, and the thin-content risks to avoid.

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Multi-Store Sync for WooCommerce: Why We Built It and Who It's For

We built Multi-Store Sync for WooCommerce because no comprehensive solution existed. Here is the problem we kept hearing, what we built, and exactly who it is designed for.

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Security incident on 31 July 2026: What Happened and What You Should Do

Fluent Forms Pro 6.2.7 and Ninja Tables Pro 5.2.11 were tampered with. Update to versions 6.2.8 and 5.2.13 and check your site.

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Post list tables row headers changed

The column used as the primary list table th with scope=”row” was moved from the first column, containing the selection checkbox, to the second column, containing the post title and row…

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An agent-first approach to Create Block Theme

How I'm considering replacing Create Block Theme with WP-CLI and an agent skill.

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How to Display Multiple RSS Feeds on One Page in WordPress

The tool for the job is the free version of Feedzy RSS Feeds, and no, you don’t need to write any code or pay for anything. Below is the full process to display multiple RSS feeds on one page in WordPress, from picking your sources to making the output look like it belongs on your site.

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Gutenberg is huge for a reason. That does not mean every editor has to be.

Classic Editor still holds millions of installs. The block editor is a multi-megabyte platform. Minn Admin stores the same Gutenberg markup from a single vanilla JS file. An architecture audit of why both can be true, and why full feature parity is the wrong goal.

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Introducing Reconciliation Reports for WooPayments

WooPayments is introducing Reconciliation Reports that explain how the balance moves from the start to the end of the specified period.

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WordPress 7.1 Field Guide

There are more than 310 Core Trac tickets included in WordPress 7.1, over 100 of which are enhancements and feature requests, and more than 180 bug fixes. This release includes 40+ tickets focused …

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A unified public exposure flag for Abilities in WordPress 7.1

WordPress 7.1 introduces a new public metadata flag for abilities. The flag provides a single, high-level way to indicate that an ability is intended to be available to external clients such as the…

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Miscellaneous Editor Changes in WordPress 7.1

In this post, you will find dev notes for smaller changes to the editor in WordPress 7.1. Table of contents BlocksNavigation block stops propagating font-size to child itemsTargeting Block Variatio…

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Responsive block styles and configurable viewports in WordPress 7.1

WordPress 7.1 introduces responsive style states for blocks. Styles can now be defined for Tablet and Mobile viewports both through Global Styles for each block type and on individual block instanc…

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Export WooCommerce Orders to Google Sheets

Learn how to export WooCommerce orders to Google Sheets manually or automatically with FlexOrder. Compare all methods and set up two-way sync in a few minutes.

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What's the value of DataViews and who is it for?

A few weeks ago we shared a proof of concept: WooCommerce’s All Products screen, rebuilt on DataViews and DataForms, the primitives that now ship in WordPress core. That post was about the what. Richer filtering, inline variations, better quick and bulk editing. This one is about the why: what these primitives are really for, who they help, and what it would take to build on them.

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Filtering registered abilities with wp_get_abilities() in WordPress 7.1

WordPress 7.1 extends wp_get_abilities() with a standard way to filter registered abilities. The function now accepts an optional $args array that can filter abilities by category, namespace, or me…

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Introducing ThinkRank: The AI SEO Plugin for WordPress

Meet ThinkRank, the AI SEO plugin for WordPress from WPDeveloper. Schema, sitemaps, llms.txt and a built-in MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT.

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WordPress 7.0.3 release – WordPress News

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One year of working on documentation about accessibility for WordPress

Last year we centralized, reviewed and updated documentation, creating The WP Accessibility Knowledge Base. The goal is for WordPress community to have consistant, easy to find, reliable, and up-to…

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Introducing Uncanny Page Builder: The First True AI Page Builder for WordPress

Meet Uncanny Page Builder, the AI page builder for WordPress. Describe your page and Uncanny Agent builds it—clean HTML and CSS, no lock-in.

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WordPress Credits’ First Student Survey Highlights Early Challenges And Retention Gap

WordPress Credits, announced at WordCamp Europe 2025, has published its first comprehensive analysis of student feedback since the program began. The analysis, published by Isotta Peira, Head of WordPress Credits at Automattic, is based on responses from 242 students collected between December 2025 and June 2026.

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We Put Community Data in 20 Custom Tables Instead of wp_posts. Here Is Why.

Why we chose 20 custom tables over a CPT. Sortable columns, cursor pagination instead of OFFSET, denormalised counters, and what custom tables actually cost.

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Rethinking do_action(): Events as objects, hooks as class names

How to use typed event objects to improve the payload you send to plugin and theme extenders.

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A simplified Site Editor in WordPress

I recently re-watched Dave Smith‘s proposal and demo on making the WordPress editing experience simple, and it resonated with me.

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The Iframed Post Editor Is Unconditional in 7.1. Your Block Test Was Probably Invalid

The iframed post editor becomes unconditional in WordPress 7.1. In 7.0 one legacy block switched it off, so many blocks were never tested in it.

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How to Auto-Populate Related Fields to Reduce Manual Data Entry

Learn how to auto-populate related Meta Box fields with AJAX and WordPress hooks to reduce manual data entry and keep your data consistent. 

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Iframed Editor Changes in WordPress 7.1

For several releases, WordPress has been moving its editors into an iframe, starting with the template editor back in 5.8. In WordPress 7.1, the post editor takes the final step: it is now always iframed.

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How to Generate WooCommerce Product Descriptions with AI

Writing one product description is easy enough. Writing 50 is a lost afternoon. Writing 500 is the reason “finish the catalog” has been on your to-do list since last quarter.In this guide, I’ll show you how to use Uncanny Automator as your AI product description generator for WooCommerce.

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