Updating WooCommerce PayPal Payments to v4.0.0 sent a lot of store owners a pile of “payment gateway enabled” emails. Nobody was hacked: the update split hidden Alternative Payment Methods into separate gateways. Here is what changed and what to check in your settings.
Direct links to the official WordCamp Asia 2026 streams, with UTC start times for the Foundation, Growth, and Enterprise tracks across all three days in Mumbai, plus the Contributor Day release panel.
Automattic shipped two updates to WordPress Studio: a standalone CLI you install from npm, and phpMyAdmin access from the Overview tab. Here is how to turn both on and where each one fits next to the desktop app.
WordPress 7.0 ships real-time collaboration over HTTP polling, which is fine until traffic picks up. Here is how I swap in a WebSocket transport with Yjs and the sync.providers filter, and what the auth side has to look like.
Notes from the Dev Chat on WordPress 7.0: the AI Client and Connectors API, why the release cycle got extended, the left navigation rethink, and the argument over YouTube support in the Cover block.
Any plugin can claim a top-level spot in the WordPress admin menu, so after 40 installs the sidebar is a junk drawer. A Core proposal wants hierarchy and pinning. Here is what I use in the meantime.
WordPress 7.0 brings AI into core through the AI Client and the Abilities API. Here is what wp_ai_client_prompt() actually does, how to test it now, and what the Core AI team will work on during Contributor Day at WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai.
Jetpack 15.6 lets you set the message and image per network instead of pushing one caption everywhere. Notes on the rebuilt preview modal, the sharing activity log, and the publicize filter that keeps certain post types off social.
The AI Client and Connectors API change how plugins talk to an LLM in WordPress 7.0. Notes from the Dev Chat agenda, plus the PHP refactor from a hardcoded wp_remote_post call to a registered ability.
Contributor Day in Mumbai on April 9 overlaps with the WordPress 7.0 release, so the usual morning of setup troubleshooting is not an option. Here is what I get working before the flight, and where an experienced dev is most useful on the day.