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What’s New in WordPress 7.0: Impact on Your ACF Workflows

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WordPress 7.0 introduces native AI infrastructure, a modernized admin experience, advanced block registration, and enhanced APIs that significantly impact ACF PRO workflows. These updates enable AI-assisted field workflows, stronger admin interfaces, dynamic block development, and deeper core data integration, while maintaining full compatibility with ACF PRO and paving the way for more scalable, AI-powered content architectures.

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/wordpress-7-0-acf-pro/

Building Custom WP-CLI Commands for Massive Data Migrations

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The article explains how to build custom WP-CLI commands to perform massive data migrations in WordPress, avoiding browser timeouts and memory exhaustion by processing data in batches using PHP generators. It emphasizes managing the object cache carefully, employing SQL transactions for data safety, and using progress bars and dry-run options to maintain transparency and control during large updates.

https://deliciousbrains.com/building-custom-wp-cli-commands-for-massive-data-migrations/

WordPress Debuts my.WordPress.net Browser AI Sandbox

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WordPress has launched my.WordPress.net, a browser-based sandbox that runs a full WordPress instance client-side using WebAssembly, allowing users to create and manage isolated sites without hosting or server setup. This environment includes an integrated AI Assistant and app catalog, enabling content generation experiments with models like ChatGPT, and is designed to facilitate rapid prototyping and plugin testing with data stored locally in the browser.

https://letsdatascience.com/news/wordpress-debuts-mywordpressnet-browser-ai-sandbox-c73edab1

This Free WordPress Tool Could Save Businesses Billions Every Year by Slashing the AI Tokens Needed to Read the Web — Saving Enough Electricity to Power the Entire USA for 24 Hours

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The Chancery Lane Project has released an open-source WordPress plugin called Markdown for Agents that serves simplified Markdown versions of webpages to AI agents, stripping out unnecessary scripts and layout code. This approach significantly reduces data transfer—by about 80% per page—and token usage for AI processing, potentially saving billions of gigabytes and cutting energy consumption equivalent to powering the entire USA for 24 hours annually if widely adopted across WordPress sites.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-free-wordpress-tool-could-save-businesses-billions-every-year-by-slashing-the-ai-tokens-needed-to-read-the-web-saving-enough-electricity-to-power-the-entire-usa-for-24-hours

Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them.

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A newly acquired portfolio of over 30 popular WordPress plugins was found to contain a sophisticated backdoor planted by the buyer eight months before activation, enabling unauthorized access, SEO spam injection, and evasion of traditional domain takedowns by resolving command-and-control domains via Ethereum smart contracts. After discovery, WordPress.org immediately removed all affected plugins, and patched versions with the malicious module removed have been released to mitigate the widespread threat from hundreds of thousands of compromised sites. This incident highlights significant trust and security vulnerabilities in the WordPress plugin marketplace, particularly the lack of oversight around plugin ownership changes.

https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/

Moving From WordPress to Jekyll (and Static Site Generators in General)

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DemandSphere completed a migration from WordPress to the static site generator Jekyll to improve site speed, flexibility, and development efficiency, leveraging AI tools like Claude Code to assist with the process. The migration involved transferring 288 blog posts, implementing advanced SEO architecture including JSON-LD schema and environment-aware configurations, building custom development tools for site auditing, and enabling client-side search without external dependencies, resulting in a faster, more manageable site better suited for rapid content updates.

https://www.demandsphere.com/blog/rebuilding-demandsphere-with-jekyll-and-claude-code/

The CMS Is Dead. Long Live the CMS.

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The article discusses the ongoing debate about the future of content management systems (CMS), especially WordPress, in the age of AI-driven web development. While some advocate abandoning traditional CMS platforms in favor of AI-generated, modern JavaScript frameworks, the author argues that CMSs remain essential, highlighting the challenges of dependency management, vendor lock-in, and preserving long-term site architecture; instead of discarding CMSs, AI should be integrated to enhance them, maintaining their value and adaptability.

https://next.jazzsequence.com/posts/the-cms-is-dead-long-live-the-cms

EmDash Feedback

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Matt Mullenweg provides critical feedback on EmDash, a new CMS from Cloudflare presented as a “spiritual successor” to WordPress. He argues EmDash lacks the true spirit of WordPress’s open, democratized publishing and notes its plugin security claims fall short, while recognizing EmDash’s solid engineering and strong Cloudflare integration. Mullenweg emphasizes WordPress’s unique community and open-source ethos, suggesting that true innovation should build on first principles rather than mimic existing approaches.

https://ma.tt/2026/04/emdash-feedback/

Rest Pro Tools

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REST Pro Tools is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to give users comprehensive control over the WordPress REST API. Developed by Jeff Starr, it allows one-click disabling of API routes, granular access management based on user roles, customization of REST error messages and headers, addition of custom fields, and IP/user whitelisting, with both a free and an enhanced Pro version offering extensive features for secure and flexible API management.

https://plugin-planet.com/rest-pro-tools/

Scaling the REST API: Defensive Architecture for Custom Endpoints

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The article explains how to create high-performance custom WordPress REST API endpoints by designing lean responses using the _fields parameter, avoiding heavy queries like WP_Query when unnecessary, and implementing efficient caching with object caches such as Redis or Memcached. It also emphasizes securing endpoints with proper permission and input validation, plus protecting server resources via network-level defenses like Web Application Firewalls, DDoS protection, and rate limiting at the edge to prevent denial-of-service through excessive API requests.

https://deliciousbrains.com/scaling-the-rest-api/

Database Indexing: The Missing Manual for WordPress

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The article explains that while WordPress’s default database indexes are adequate for most sites, large sites with millions of rows in tables like wp_postmeta and wp_options suffer from slow queries due to full table scans. It emphasizes understanding MySQL indexing basics, managing the wp_options table size to stay within a 1MB cache buffer, and using partial indexes on large text fields to improve query performance, while recommending tools like Query Monitor and the MySQL Slow Query Log to identify bottlenecks.

https://deliciousbrains.com/database-indexing-for-wordpress/

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer

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The Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer is a WordPress plugin that addresses link rot by automatically scanning post content for outbound links, checking for archived versions on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and creating snapshots if none exist. It redirects broken links to archived versions and archives your own posts upon updates, helping maintain content reliability and user experience with minimal overhead. The plugin works in the background using the Internet Archive’s APIs and supports managing large numbers of links, though it may have some compatibility and performance considerations.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/internet-archive-wayback-machine-link-fixer/

BlogBook — WordPress, Micro.blog, or Ghost – Markdown Book

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BlogBook is an app that allows users to export their WordPress, Micro.blog, or Ghost blogs into a single Markdown file, with options to filter by categories, authors, tags, and dates. The exported file can then be opened in Marked 3 to generate PDFs, EPUBs, and other formats, facilitating easy backup and content sharing. Developed by Brett Terpstra, BlogBook is available on the Mac App Store.

https://blogbook.my/

A Big List of Things I Disable in WordPress

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Terence Eden shares a comprehensive list of WordPress features and default behaviors he disables to reduce bloat and improve site performance, accompanied by a detailed PHP script to remove unwanted styles, scripts, and automatic formatting. Despite WordPress’s philosophy of “decisions, not options,” Eden provides developer-friendly solutions to override enforced defaults like emoji scripts, Gutenberg styles, automatic formatting, and various metadata injections, aiming to create a cleaner, faster WordPress experience.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/a-big-list-of-things-i-disable-in-wordpress/

Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 6.9 RC1, FAIR’s Security MVP, and Finding Hidden Gems

The article highlights key developments in the WordPress ecosystem including the release candidate for WordPress 6.9, which introduces the new Abilities API that standardizes plugin functionality for better AI integration. It also covers innovations like the Hidden Gems plugin for discovering quality lesser-known plugins, and a collaborative security MVP by FAIR and Patchstack to enhance WordPress security through vulnerability labeling. Additionally, it previews advanced custom block features in ACF and offers significant discounts on popular developer tools for WordPress.

https://deliciousbrains.com/delicious-brain-bytes-wordpress-6-9-rc1-fairs-security-mvp-and-finding-hidden-gems/

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