AI generated musical tunes for WordPress with WLOG FM. Also, more projects like WP Wiki and ToolboxWP received a positive reception. Hostinger gets into the email marketing space with Reach and WordPress .com now offered in two modes.
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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
- Hostinger Reach… the team at Hostinger has launched the all-new Hostinger Reach plugin, offering email marketing features within the WordPress dashboard. This connects with the Reach service, Hostinger’s AI email marketing platform, which has free to paid plans for various subscriber levels.
- Hide non-core WP Items… Jack Arturo from WP Fusion has created a free WP Admin Menu Cleaner Chrome extension that hides non-core items in your WordPress while preserving the current page’s menu item. This is useful if you want to record a dashboard preview without the plugins clutter, the reason this came into existence.
- Slim SEO Writing Assistant… the Pro version of Slim SEO plugin now includes a writing assistant that provides real-time feedback as you write content on your WordPress website. Like if you have forgotten a featured image, your keywords are all over the place, or paragraphs read like a wall of text.
- Photo on pCloud…. I have been using pCloud for many years as a secondary backup solution for storing WordPress website backups. Now, pCloud has launched Photos on pCloud web for easier and faster access to your photos stored on pCloud.
New Plugins: SleekByte, DB Reset, Tabs Block
SleekByte Code Snippets… Dennis shared (Links X) about the all-new SleekByte, an agentic code snippets plugin that writes, fixes, and manages your code through natural conversation. It stores and manages WordPress code snippets as files for optimal performance without database overhead.
Database Reset… John Turner shared (LinkedIn) about the release of a free Database Reset Pro plugin that promises a bloat-free solution and a simple solution to reset your WordPress database to its default state.
BlaBlaBlocks Tabs Block… the team at LUBUS has open-sourced the BlaBlaBlocks Tabs Block for everyone to use and contribute to the project. It is a responsive tabs block WordPress plugin for creating tab layouts with real use cases in mind.
Performance: FlyingPress & PerfMatters
FlyingPress + Cloudflare… FlyingPress has introduced Cloudflare Full Page Caching, allowing it to cache your HTML pages at their global edge locations, resulting in faster ‘Time to First Byte’ (TTFB) for visitors worldwide.
Permatters… 2.4.8v update has added built-in stylesheet exclusion for Bricks layer stylesheets and adjusted the emoji_svg_url filter to only return false outside the WordPress admin dashboard.
Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
- WP .com in Two Modes… WordPress website hosting at WordPress .com simplified in two modes. Matt Mullenweg explained that the free and lower-priced accounts will run a version of WordPress called WordPress MS, or WordPress Multisite. While the higher-priced plans can leverage WP .cloud in the backend, which supports unlimited plugins, themes, and custom code.
- Recording Studio at WordCamp… for the first time ever, WordCamp US will be offering a bookable recording studio on the ground in Portland for creators, influencers, podcasters, or anyone interested in recording content, on the spot.
- MainWP Developer Program… Marc Benzakein explained about (YouTube) their MainWP Developer Program, through which you can integrate your WordPress plugins into the MainWP dashboard.
- Gutenberg Update… Héctor Prieto shared about 21.4v, which introduces DataViews table layout grouping and multi-select support. Also, sections get a style shuffling button in write mode.
- Reviews + Hosting Milestones… Ganga Kafle has reached an amazing milestone of reviewing over 7,000 WordPress themes. Also, Rocket .net ranked at no. 167 on the 2025 Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies, impressive!
- WP Plugins Milestones… From Roxnor (Wpmet), WP Social Login and Register Social Counter plugin has crossed the 40,000+ active installs milestone in the repository. Automation plugin, WP Webhooks, has crossed the 20,000 active installs milestone in the repository.
New In: SmartCreatorPress, Beaver Builder, & ACF Pro
Smart Affiliate… Veena Prashanth shared about introducing the Smart Affiliate feature, now built right into SmartCreatorPress, so that users can create and manage affiliate programs for your memberships, courses, and products with ease.
Beaver Builder… 2.9.3v includes security fixes, new alignment and order fields in the Box Module. Also, the Heading Module color field is now responsive.
ACF Pro… 6.5v added UX improvements to the Flexible Content field, like you can now rename each layout directly in the post editor. Also, layouts can now be disabled without needing to delete them.
Quick Bits 👍
- Groundhogg restored back in (Links X) repo at the WP org.
- Jeff Starr moved ShapeSpace Theme site to Perishable Press.
- SureCart removed fee on extras & announced Summer Games.
- See August 2025 developer recap at WordPress Developer Blog.
- Matt Mullenweg shared Haitian Times on Newspack story.
- Insights: How AI summaries changing web traffic patterns.
- Let’s Learn
- Florian Dee shared 9 tools to run WordPress eCom business.
- David McCan using system font stack (YouTube) for performance.
- Oliver Sild explains why to avoid abandoned WordPress Plugins.
- People of WordPress
- Jessica Frick join Rocket .net as General Manager, from Pressable.
- Saif Hassan join Awesome Motive (LinkedIn) as PM, from weDevs.
- Aaron Campbell has left Hosting .com (LinkedIn), & what’s next?
New Resources: WLOG FM, WP Wiki, & ToolboxWP
WordPress meets Melody… check the WLOGdotFM project where ‘Where WordPress meets melody’. It features AI generated tunes for the WordPress community with tunes like plugin blues, broken permalinks, and more.
WP Wiki Project… Michelle Frechette & Corey Maass have launched the WP Wiki project, promising to be a community-driven encyclopedia dedicated to all things WordPress. Community members can submit and sponsor articles on the website.
ToolboxWP… this project was launched by me (Davinder) last week, and the feedback has been amazing (Thanks!). The Elementor Toolbox has been updated with new resources, and watch out for the next, Bricks Toolbox.
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