Accessibility is back in focus with the latest Page Builder Accessibility Comparison 2025 and Human Made sponsoring Rian Rietveld for creating a comprehensive Accessibility Knowledge Base for WordPress. Plus, WordPress people will be busy this week at the WordCamp US 2025 event!
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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
- WordCamp Sessions + Google Calendar… If you are planning to attend the WordCamp US 2025 event this week, then check Andras Guseo’s handy guide on adding specific sessions to your Google Calendar for easy bookmarking and tracking.
- Trademark Violation in Plugin… the completely free Simple Cloudflare Turnstile plugin by Elliot Sowersby, has received a third-party trademark violation email (Links X) from WordPress org for using the word ‘Cloudflare Turnstile’. Interesting replies!
- Hosting Security Tested… the team at Patchstack tested 11 vulnerabilities across five distinct hosting environments. Surprisingly, 87.8% of threats bypassed hosting defenses but were successfully blocked by Patchstack’s application-layer solution.
- Beyond native HTML block… the team at DPlugins has released a free DBlocks CodePro plugin, built on the Monaco Editor and brings advanced code editing features directly into WordPress (Demo Video), ideal for developers and folks wanting to share code.
New: Search & Filter, AB Split Test, & Plugin Info Card
Search & Filter + Beaver… Search & Filter plugin has added support for Beaver Builder’s new Loop Module. Check the preview for easy implementation, set the content source to Search & Filter, and choose your connected query.
AB Split Test… 2.0.6v has introduced Split Test suggestions based on CRO principles, read about 12 Psychology Principles. Now you can also take a screenshot of your site and include that in the CROassist request.
WP Plugin Info Card… with 6.0v Ronald Huereca has added the ability to add your custom third-party plugins, display and share them with the world – through the WP Plugin Info Card plugin.
New Updates: LifterLMS & Paid Memberships Pro
LifterLMS… the 9.0v promises to be a big update focusing on making LMS more secure, like the ability to protect media files for those enrolled in a specific course or membership, and automatically blocking checkout spam. Also, added support for Turnstile, reCAPTCHA v3, Akismet with checkout and registration forms.
Messaging for LifterLMS… the team Honors WP has introduced Messaging for LifterLMS, in addition to existing support for LearnDash. This allows your course students to access the chat feature for instant messaging.
Paid Memberships Pro… Recurring Payment Reminder Emails, previously available as a premium Addon, this feature now included in the core plugin. Your members will get a built-in reminder 7 days before their next payment; you can customize days as per your requirement.
Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
- WP 6.9 Release Squad… Jeffrey Paul shared the release squad for the WordPress 6.9 release. Release Lead (Matt Mullenweg), Release Coordination (Akshaya Rane, Amy Kamala), Tech Leads (David Baumwald, Ella van Durpe, Héctor Prieto), Design Lead (Francisco Vera), Triage Leads (Aki Hamano, Ryan Welcher), and Test Leads (Jonathan Bossenger, Krupa Nanda).
- WP Accessibility Knowledge… Human Made is extending support in sponsoring Rian Rietveld’s project of creating a comprehensive Accessibility Knowledge Base for WordPress. This free, open, and community-driven space will feature consolidated guidelines, tutorials, and testing tools in one central location.
- WordCamp US 2025… this week many WordPress people will be attending WordCamp US 2025 (August 26 – 29, 2025). The event will feature a happiness bar to get website help from WordPress experts. Also, the closing keynote of Matt Mullenweg will focus on the future of WordPress and AI.
- LoopConf Speakers… the full schedule is available for the LoopConf happening on September 25, 2025, in London, UK. The speakers list features John O’Nolan, Founder/CEO of Ghost, among others from Awesome Motive, PatchStack, WP Engine, and Human Made.
- WP Milestones… Robert Abela shared (LinkedIn) about the WP 2FA plugin crossing the 80,000 active installs milestone in the repository. The block editor plugin, GutenKit, has crossed the 30,000+ active installs milestone. The AI-powered platform to build and host WordPress websites, ZipWP service, has reached the milestone of 1 million users.
New: WPCode, Directorist, & Independent Analytics
WPCode… 2.3.0v has introduced support for one click snippet updates from the library. As and when you make a change to a snippet in the library or push a snippet update from your WordPress admin, the snippet version changes automatically. No need for manual copying, pasting, or manually tracking changes.
Directorist… the team at Directorist has completely rebuilt the Business Hours extension, with support for overnight businesses which run past the midnight. There is a completely new interface for both the Add Listing form and the Single Listing page promising more intuitive experience.
Independent Analytics… 2.12.0v has introduced a new solo reports feature for deeper data digging. It allows you to view dedicated reports for individual pages, including the Quick Stats, chart, and tables from other report types.
Quick Bits 👍
- Bricks Toolbox is live at ToolboxWP for Bricks Builder users.
- Preview the upcoming new look (Links X) of ManageWP site.
- New Furniture Store Starter Site (Elementor) by Kalium Theme.
- How WordPress and AI Builders integrate using Crocoblock.
- Let’s Learn
- How to register custom social icons in WP 6.9, by Justin Tadlock.
- Block deprecation secrets (YouTube) only WordPress experts know.
- People of WordPress
- Elliot Sowersby shared learnings from 10yrs of Coupon Affiliates.
- Steph Y. is stepping into role of CEO (LinkedIn) at WordPress VIP.
- Aaron Jorbin’s WordPress Book Club, with book on open source.
Page Builder Accessibility Comparison 2025
The team at Equalize Digital has published its second annual report comparing the out-of-the-box accessibility of WordPress page builder plugins and block libraries. There is a lot of data and information on methodology and results.
As per the report, the top page builders were: Kadence (100%), GeneratePress / GenerateBlocks (81.66%), Greyd (77.28%), Elementor (75.55%), Greenshift (72.07%), Beaver Builder (68.47%), Breakdance (65.84%), and Bricks (63.57%).
New Features: xCloud & FlyWP, Hosting Panels
xcloud Host… 1.9.0v has introduced support for multiple themes in blueprints and redesigned the site backup management interface. Also, now you can easily find disk space taken up by large files and folders with color-coded size indicators and sortable results to optimize storage usage.
FlyWP… the team at FlyWP has released sites helper plugin status feature, which includes an auto-fix option. This feature provides a quick visual confirmation of the connection of your website with the platform.
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