You have a domain name, a rough idea of what your site should look like, and a hosting company’s pricing page open in front of you. One column says Web Hosting, $3.99/mo. The column beside it says WordPress Hosting, $5.99/mo, and it has a small WordPress logo on it. Nothing on the page explains why…

Radical Speed Month was a one-month build sprint at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. Small teams paired up, built fast and shipped ideas that you can now try inside WordPress. This guide covers the 10 brand-new WordPress features that stood out from the sprint, plus two bonus projects. You will learn what each feature does,…

Big news, everyone! xSpeed Cache, the AI WordPress caching plugin has crossed 10,000+ active installations on WordPress.org. That means more than 10,000 websites can load faster, can improve their Core Web Vitals scores and give their visitors a smoother experience because of xSpeed Cache. To every site owner, developer and agency who gave it a…

Something new just landed in the WPDeveloper family and we could not be more excited to finally share it with you. Meet xSpeed Cache, our brand-new all-in-one WordPress performance plugin. If you already trust Essential Addons, Essential Blocks, BetterDocs or NotificationX on your sites, this is the plugin we built to make every one of…

WordPress security looks very different in 2026 than it did even 2 years ago. The platform itself got meaningfully stronger with the move to bcrypt password hashing. At the same time, the number of vulnerabilities disclosed across the wider ecosystem hit a record high (11,334 in 2025, according to Patchstack), attackers began exploiting some new…

Exciting news! WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” just landed on August 19, 2026, right alongside WordCamp US 2026, and it is shaping up to be one of those releases that quietly changes how you work every single day rather than one built around a single headline feature. The name honors Mary Lou Williams, the pianist and…

Two years ago, getting found online meant one thing for most WordPress site owners. You wrote a post, you optimized it for Google and you waited for the ranking. Today your customers open ChatGPT to compare products, ask Claude to summarize a long guide and let Perplexity find them the three links worth clicking. Google…

Your Website Bounce Rate can rise fast when performance slips. In fact, bounce probability jumps by 32% when page load time increases from 1 to 3 seconds and it can surge by 123% when load time approaches 10 seconds. That is a huge warning sign for WordPress site owners, where heavy themes, too many plugins,…

Three people interviewed your top candidate last week. One left a quick thought in a Slack DM, another typed out an email that never got forwarded and the third forgot to write anything down at all. By Thursday, when the hiring manager finally asks, “So, are we moving forward?” Nobody has a straight answer. Before…

Getting your new content published and shared to the target audience should be an exciting moment for any creator. Instead, many publishers find themselves completely frustrated by the need to juggle multiple browser tabs just to get a single post live. If you truly want to streamline WordPress publishing, you must build a system that…