by Francis Rozange | Oct 1, 2026 | WooCommerce
In the latest Baymard Institute survey, published in 2026 and covering 1,083 American online shoppers, four in ten shoppers said they had abandoned a purchase because extra costs were too high, and nearly one in five because they were asked to create an account. Both...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 1, 2026 | WordPress
On May 22, 2026, two days after WordPress 7.0 shipped, a user reported a troubling problem on GitHub: the wp core download command reported “Success”, but the resulting install was incomplete. A second command, wp core verify-checksums, revealed that files...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 1, 2026 | Emailing, WordPress
By default, WordPress hands its emails to PHP’s mail() function, and its own documentation warns that a successful send does not mean the message arrived. Since 2024, that detail has become a blocker: Gmail, Yahoo and then Outlook reject or filter bulk mail that...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 1, 2026 | WordPress
In the autumn of 2020, dozens of WooCommerce stores received failed orders in the name of “bbbbb bbbbb”, all with the same British address. This was not ordinary spam: on vulnerable stores, each fake order opened a customer account, which the bot then used...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 1, 2026 | Performance, SEO
In August 2026, fewer than one WordPress site in two passed Core Web Vitals on mobile, according to Chrome UX Report data compiled by HTTP Archive. The web as a whole did slightly better. Above all, on mobile, only about one WordPress site in four answered fast enough...