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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. I’m your host, John Overall. Welcome to Episode 25 of Plugin Pulse: WP Plugins A to Z Unplugged — this week’s edition is titled “Randomness in WordPress This Week.” We’re looking at how WordPress’s long public history makes it unusually ready for AI agents, how people are using those […]

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The last two weeks have been a heavy stretch of releases. PHP dropped a critical security update that fixes two unauthenticated remote code execution flaws in the engine itself, and then WordPress followed with 7.1.4, a short-cycle security release that patches twenty-two different issues, including a race condition in the core upgrade process that can lead to remote code execution while an update is running.

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Episode 23 of Plugin Pulse: Sexy Spam and the State of the WordPress. This week we dig into the real numbers behind plugin sales, skim the usual WordPress drama cycle, look at what’s actually landing in 7.2, and talk about the one dedicated WooCommerce conference that keeps coming back.

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We are talking about the staging copy that still emails real customers and can charge a real card, the court filings that show WordPress.org charting ACF Pro installs it does not host, the analytics dashboard that only counts a visit if it became a lead, the malware that rewrites itself after you delete the files, the site that found two webshells and five admins nobody created, and Cloudflare filing to become a certificate authority before it has issued a single certificate.

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The Quiet Work That Keeps WordPress Alive. We are not doing the victory lap tonight. We are talking about the shops that are still shipping updates while they wait for 2027, the SEO plugin that handed a vendor a live admin password and called it a support agent, the core team drowning in AI-written bug reports, the Elementor hole attackers hit the same day it went public, the malware that comes back after you delete it, and the week Automattic put its founder on leave without taking the keys to

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WP Plugins A to Z Unplugged, host John Overall takes the unfiltered temperature of WordPress in the days after 7.1 shipped at WordCamp US — a week when Matt and the official WordPress account used WP Rocket’s fatal-error miss to sell Jetpack

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Welcome to Interview 82 on WP Plugins A to Z, where we dive deep into the world of WordPress innovation and developer stories. In this episode of WP Plugins A to Z we sit down with Marcus Burnette, longtime WordPress community member, plugin developer, and founder of WellPlayedWP. Marcus has spent years in the ecosystem […]

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We start with a WooCommerce company that just made its core plugins free and is now selling expertise instead of features. Then we look at a license model that can turn a purchased tool into a rented one overnight.

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It's interview 81 In this episode of WP Plugins A to Z, Marcin Dudek breaks down the backend realities that frontend caching layers frequently mask on production WordPress sites. The 15-year developer and former CreativeMinds CTO details his local-only Slow Query Analyzer, hook profiler, MakeWPFast benchmark data covering over 62,000 plugins, and the modular design choices behind WP Multitool that deliver measurable gains without added overhead.

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