WooCommerce 10.4.3 fixes a Store API leak and HPOS sync loops
WooCommerce 10.4.3 patches guest order data exposure in the Store API, throttles HPOS sync-on-read during heavy jobs, and restores the cart undo link that 10.4.2 broke.
Category: Core Updates
Is WordPress free? What a WordPress site actually costs
WordPress itself is free to download, but hosting, premium licenses and maintenance are not. Where the money actually goes once a site has to earn its keep.
Three major releases again: the 2026 WordPress release schedule
WordPress may go back to three major releases in 2026, roughly one every four months. What that faster cadence means for staging, testing and custom code.
WooCommerce 10.4.2 fixes a fatal error in old orders
A deleted product used to take down order history with a fatal error. WooCommerce 10.4.2 adds the null check, along with PHP 8.4 transient validation and support for the renamed WordPress 6.9 Abilities API hooks.
WordPress Playground replaced my staging sites in 2025
I dismissed WordPress Playground as a browser toy. It now installs almost every popular plugin, runs Composer and Laravel, and spins up a shareable environment per ticket, which has replaced most of my staging work.
WordPress real-time collaboration and what breaks first
Real-time collaboration is targeted at WordPress 7.0 in 2026. Beta feedback says native blocks work fine and legacy post meta does not, so custom fields need registering for the REST API before then.
What is actually in the WordPress 7.0 roadmap
A client with fifteen editors kept losing work to overwrites, which is exactly what Phase 3 collaboration is meant to solve. Here is what else the 7.0 planning covers: React 19, block validation levels, block bindings and the AI Client API.
WordPress 6.9 regressions, hotfix plugins and 7.0 plans
The 6.9 update turned a client’s custom blocks into ghosts and I nearly wrote a core override for it. The December dev chat notes had the answer already: hotfix plugins now, official maintenance release in January 2026.
Why the WordPress 6.9 retrospective is worth reading
A client with 50,000 WooCommerce SKUs panicked about the 6.9 update. My answer was to read the release retrospective first, since that is where the problems the release squad ran into are actually written down.
Moving 3,684 blogs off Typepad before the shutdown
One blogger had 30 days to save 5,000 posts and nearly 10,000 images from Typepad. The built-in importer could not finish the job, so we rebuilt it around WP-CLI and an image sideloading script. 3,684 blogs came across in the end.