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With WordPress 7.2 launching in December, a new default theme is on the way. Marking a departure from tradition, it drops the usual calendar-year naming scheme in favor of a more meaningful name.

Dubbed Ipsum, this new addition i...

Imagine your agency manages the WordPress help center for an appointment-booking software company. Customers keep asking support how to reschedule recurring appointments. The instructions already exist, but a search for “move my Friday bookings” doesn’t lead to the guide.

The client wants to try AI search. Instead of relying on customers to type the exact words in an a...

On October 21, 2026, attackers were already targeting websites with requests designed to exploit two critical PHP vulnerabilities known as PHP2Shell. The official security patches weren’t available yet, but our engineering and security teams were already working to protect Kinsta...

You’re ready to test a WooCommerce extension update. AI helps you work through the release notes, and you have a draft test plan open. Then a colleague asks whether the update affects any custom checkout rules. You know a few client stores have them. Which ones, though?

You ask in Slack. The developer who knows those sites is in meetings until lunch, so you pick up ano...

By the end of the afternoon, you have a working WordPress plugin. With some help from AI, it sends form submissions to your client’s CRM and emails a confirmation. You show the client. They like it. Can it go live Friday?

You still need to know what happens when someone submits the same form twice, or the CRM stops answering. And who can change the plugin’s settings? S...