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August 19

Gutenberg 23.8 Lets You Link Straight to One Exact Post Revision

Gutenberg 23.8 lets editors link straight to one exact revision, emails you when someone mentions you in a note, and makes List View 40x faster.

Block Editor
2 min
August 19

WordPress's AI Plugin Can Now Translate Posts and Suggest Slugs

WordPress's AI plugin 1.3.0 adds in-editor content translation and slug suggestions. A key naming change also affects custom Abilities setups.

WordPress + AI
3 min
August 18

Critical Flaw in Forminator Forms Lets Attackers Take Over Your Site Without Logging In

A critical flaw in Forminator Forms lets attackers upload malicious files and take over your site without logging in. Update to 1.56.2 now.

Security
3 min
August 15

Critical Flaw in User Profile Builder Lets Attackers Log In as Your Admin

A critical flaw in User Profile Builder can let attackers log in as your site admin. Update to version 3.16.5 now if Automatic Log In is enabled.

Security
3 min
August 14

Issue 14: When a PNG Isn't a PNG

WordPress 7.0.4 patches an Imagick RCE flaw, its third security release in weeks. Two plugin backdoors hit official update channels this week too.

Weekend Within roundup
6 min
August 14

Study of 3,400 WordPress Plugin Reviews Finds Reliability, Not Missing Features, Drives 1-Star Ratings

A study of 3,400 WordPress.org plugin reviews found reliability failures drive 42% of 1-star ratings. Missing features caused just 2.5%.

Plugins
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