by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | WordPress
On March 10, 2026, the owner of a WordPress site received a message from their host: the site had updated itself to version 6.9.2, a security release published about an hour and a half earlier. A few minutes later, they posted on the WordPress support forum: every...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | WordPress
On Tuesday, April 9, 2024, between 8:00 and 11:00 UTC, WooCommerce.com left the Woo.com domain and returned to its original address. One hundred and sixty-one days earlier, the company behind WooCommerce had abandoned its historic domain, then found that its users...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | WordPress
In the spring of 2024, Landyachtz, a skateboard maker from Vancouver, left Shopify Plus for WooCommerce. A few months later, CarBahn, a US specialist in BMW tuning parts, made exactly the opposite move, from WooCommerce to Shopify. Both companies say they came out...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | WordPress
In early October 2025, an option in AI Engine, an AI plugin then installed on more than 100,000 WordPress sites, placed its MCP server’s access key in the very address of its routes. Those routes showed up in the site’s public REST API index. On sites that...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | WordPress
WordPress 7.0 was supposed to ship on April 9, 2026. It shipped on May 20, six weeks late. And the feature its beta announcement put first, real-time collaboration on the same post, was not in it. It is not in version 7.1 either, and it is not on the 7.2 roadmap. That...