Navigating the 2026 WordPress Major Release Schedule Proposal
I once worked with a client who managed a high-traffic multisite network. They were convinced that because WordPress only had two major releases in 2025,…
Category: Core Updates
Why You Should Not Ignore the WooCommerce 10.4.2 Update
I had a client once with a massive catalog who thought “cleanup” meant nuking discontinued products directly from the database. Not just trashing them—permanently deleting…
Stop Wasting Time on Staging Sites: WordPress Playground in 2025
I once spent three hours setting up a staging environment just to show a client why a specific plugin was breaking their checkout. By the…
How WordPress Real-Time Collaboration Will Change Your Workflow
I once worked with a massive newsroom client where the editorial team was constantly at each other’s throats. They had fifteen editors trying to polish…
Why the WordPress 7.0 Roadmap Matters for Your Business
Last month, a long-time client called me in a minor panic. They run a news site with about fifteen editors, and their biggest headache was…
Handling WordPress Core Update Regressions and Planning for 7.0
I had a client call me last week, frantic because their custom editor blocks started behaving like ghosts right after the WordPress 6.9 update. This…
What the WordPress 6.9 Release Cycle Means for Your Site’s Future
A long-term client called me last week, sounding like he’d just seen a ghost. He’d seen the news about the WordPress 6.9 release cycle wrapping…
How We Rescued 3,684 Blogs During the Typepad Shutdown
A few months back, a long-time blogger reached out in a panic. He’d been writing on Typepad since 2004—nearly two decades of thoughts, family photos,…
Why the WordPress Plugins Team Name Change Matters for Your Site
I had a client reach out last week, absolutely fuming. He’d tried to submit a custom integration plugin to the directory, and it got bounced…
Why WordPress Development is About to Break Your CSS
I had a client call last week. Total nightmare. They’d spent months manually overriding heading sizes using a pile of !important tags because the Gutenberg…