More newly launched AI stuff this week, like Protuno Super Agents for WP, Miles WP Design Agent, Divi AI Agent, and more. Automattic has retired Telex, WordPress 7.1.1 RC 1 is around the corner, and tracking many new plugin releases.
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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
- Wall of Security Stories… the team at Melapress has a new Security Stories Wall project. “The idea behind this: We hear about vulnerabilities and security statistics every day, but rarely about the people behind those numbers. So, we created a place where people can explore the real impact of security incidents and submit their own stories”.
- Protuno + Super Agents for WP… Aditya R Sharma from the POSIMYTH team shared (Links X) about the launch of Protuno – Super Agents for WordPress that does jobs on your WordPress website. “Connect one of your sites and hand the work over. Super Agents do the work: take a backup, run the updates, check the site still loads, put it back if it breaks”.
- Miles + WP Design Agent… Andy Peatling, formerly with Automattic, shared (Links X) about launching Miles AI, which allows you to design new block themes, or even redesign sites you already run. It works with you, or with your coding agent. No templates, no page builders, no lock-in.
- Plugin Auditor + More Checks… WordPress plugin auditor service has expanded the auditing engine from 72 to 125 checks. Also, introduced scanning engine versioning, added dedicated Code, Behavior, History, and Community views, launched side-by-side plugin comparisons, and started building public audit pages.
New AI Updates: WPVibe, Novamira, & Divi AI
WPVibe + Fleet updates… 1.16v update enables the fleet updates feature, where you can ask AI what updates are available across your sites. WPVibe renders a live roster right in the chat: every connected site, every pending plugin, theme, and core update, with the version numbers – and perform updates.
Novamira Pro + Blocksy… 1.9.0v update has added Blocksy specialization to Novamira Pro, enabling you to use AI powers to design and build on Blocksy websites. This requires the Blocksy theme 2.1.47v or newer – Blocksy Companion and Companion Pro are supported.
Divi + AI Agent… now you can harness the power of AI agents inside the Divi builder with AI Agents for Divi5. Instead of clicking through settings panels and performing repetitive tasks one by one, you tell Divi what you want and let agents do the work. Agents can build layouts, edit modules, update design settings, create pages, manage menus, work with Theme Builder templates, and much more.
New Plugins: Rox, BoardScribe, & Block Studio
Rox + Appointment Booking… the team at Wpmet has launched the all-new Rox Appointment Booking plugin. It promises to be a complete appointment booking solution for WordPress users, allowing you to manage appointments, agents, schedules, payments, and customers from one powerful booking platform.
BoardScribe + Meetings & Agendas… Equalize Digital has released BoardScribe, an accessible board meeting, agendas & minutes, plugin. It creates a document library with blocks and shortcodes to support your compliance with ‘sunshine’, open meetings laws, and accessibility laws like Section 508, the ADA, and EN 301 549.
WPBits Block Studio + Custom Blocks… Cagdas from WPBits shared the WPBits Block Studio plugin released in the repository. It is a developer-focused plugin for creating static and dynamic custom blocks with visual attribute editing, Twig templates, file synchronization, and exportable block code.
More New Plugins: BerqWP, MailKite, & Rezicraft
BerqWP + Performance Optimization… Hamza Mairaj brought to notice BerqWP plugin, for WordPress performance optimization resulting in better loading speed and Core Web Vitals. It handles caching, critical CSS, image optimization, lazy loading, font optimization and CDN delivery with minimal configuration.
MailKite + SMTP… Gabe shared about the new MailKite SMTP plugin now available in the plugins repository. It replaces PHP mail in WordPress with delivery through MailKite, SendGrid, Brevo, Mailgun or any SMTP server, keeps a free email log, fails over automatically when a send fails, alerts you, and receives email into WordPress.
Rezicraft + Resume Builder… Ashiquzzaman Kiron has released the free Rezicraft plugin, Professional Resume & CV Builder, in the plugins repository. It allows you to create clean, professional, recruiter-ready resumes and CVs, rather than general portfolio pages.
Woo Plugins: Merchlint Store Audit & Variable Products
Merchlint + Woo Store Audit… Baltano shared about the release of free Merchlint plugin, a read only plugin that audit your product catalog of WooCommerce store. It tells you where your store is losing money through 15 checks related to money, content, catalogue, content, environment, performance and media.
Quick Variable Products + Variations for Woo… Hakkı Eren shared about Quick Variable Products for WooCommerce, now available in the plugins repository. It lets store admins generate every attribute combination in one click and fill stock, SKU, and price inline, instead of opening each variation accordion.
Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
- Moving Brands to PublishPress… Steve Burge has decided (Links X) on, “killing off some of our smaller WordPress brands. Not the products: just the standalone brands. Moving forward, they are being absorbed into PublishPress”. Starting with the activity log platform available at logtivity .io website and TaxoPress available at taxopress .com website – to be merged with PublishPress website.
- WooCommerce Variation Galleries… 11.1.0v brings the variation image galleries feature, which will be enabled for all stores in WooCommerce 11.1 and WooCommerce Additional Variation Images is being retired. Also, introduced experimental support for videos in both classic and block-based product galleries.
- Gutenberg Update… 23.9v brings quality-of-life editing improvements around block insertion and custom styling. Like easily finding custom style overrides, axial block gap for the group block, custom Duotone colors to Global Styles, and more.
- WP Milestones… WPConsent has crossed the 200,000 active install milestone on the WordPress Org repository with a 4.9 out of 5 star rating. Alexander Gilmanov shared (LinkedIn) about the free version of IvyForms plugin reaching the first 1000+ active installs milestone.
- WordCamp Asia Buzz… WordCamp Asia 2027 has received an official endorsement from the Ministry of Digital, Malaysia, an important step for the event and for the wider WordPress community. Also, the call for next host city for WordCamp Asia 2028 is now open.
- WP Accessibility & LoopConf… WordPress Accessibility Day 2026, the schedule is now available for the event starting October 7, 2026. LoopConf 2026 has been rescheduled to June 16, 2027, as the lead sponsor cancelled and eliminated 50% of the operating budget.
- PressConf & CloudFest… Raquel is bringing PressConf to Europe, with PressConf EU 2026 scheduled for October 27 to 30, 2026, in Barcelona, Spain. CloudFest Americas, speakers line up has been announced, the event is scheduled for November 11-12, 2026, in Miami, Florida.
WordPress Core Updates: 7.1.1 Release Schedule
WordPress 7.1.1 Release Candidate 1 is scheduled for release on September 10, 2026, at 11:00 PM GMT+5:30. WordPress 7.1.1 General Release is scheduled for September 17, 2026, at 08:30 PM GMT+5:30.
- Latest updates to the WordPress Vulnerability Disclosure Program.
- The runnable code examples are now live in the Code Reference.
- Replacing Dashicons in admin bar & sidebar with WordPress icons.
- More on relationship between WordPress project & PHP language.
- The AI team is looking for maintainers for AI Clients and Connectors.
Updates: FluentCommunity, MemberPress, Divi Share
FluentCommunity + Push Notifications… 2.9.0v update brings push notifications feature on desktop and mobile even when your community tab is closed, with per-member controls and community-wide defaults. Push runs on FluentNotify, an in-house plugin, which you can install from the FluentCommunity settings screen.
MemberPress + Question Bank… MemberPress Courses now has Questions Bank feature for one shared, taggable library instead of scattered across separate quizzes. Write a question once, and pull it into every quiz it belongs in, instead of keeping five near-identical copies straight across five different quizzes.
Divi Share Buttons + ChatGPT… Nelson Miller has updated the Divi Social Sharing Buttons Maker, with new buttons like ‘Summarize Post’ or ‘Ask ChatGPT’. These open platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and others with your content and a custom prompt ready to go.
Updates: Meta Box, FluentCRM, CraftForms, Woostify
Meta Box + WooCommerce HPOS… WooCommerce 8.2v added High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS), which uses custom tables to store order data instead of the default WordPress post and postmeta table. Meta Box has added support for WooCommerce HPOS, so that Meta Box fields can be stored in WooCommerce’s dedicated order tables for better performance.
FluentCRM + WhatsApp… 3.2.0v update brings WhatsApp Messaging feature to the whole customer journey. You can send WhatsApp campaigns to opted-in segments using approved templates, add ‘Send a WhatsApp Message’ to any automation (reminders, order follow-ups, enrollment next steps), manage WhatsApp and SMS from one chat-style messaging inbox.
CraftForms + Payment Connections… 1.8v update enable payment connections, which turn a single global Stripe/PayPal key pair into named, reusable accounts you can run side by side. Also, added abandoned form capture which saves partially-filled forms as leads instead of losing them.
Woostify + Upsells… 2.6.0v update added the upsells and cross-sells feature to encourage customers to purchase more. It allows you to show targeted product recommendations right inside the Mini Cart drawer as soon as customers add items to their cart, no heavy third-party plugins required.
Quick Bits 👍
- Fun Time: Play WordCamp World game at ‘The WP World’ site.
- StatWP released Chrome Extension for quick access in browser.
- Rank Math plugin accused of secretly taking admin access.
- Download Guide: Choosing an Enterprise WordPress Agency.
- Free Course: Start with Beaver Builder AI & build Beaver sites.
- WordPress PHP only Block Registration, by Fränk Klein at CSS Tricks.
- AI Block Building tool from Automattic, Telex has been retired.
- Perspectives & Insights
- WP is ready for agentic web, our ecosystem isn’t, by Miriam Schwab.
- Comparing patterns, template part, PHP Blocks – by Brian Coords.
- WordPress on YouTube
- Ferdy Korpershoek checks Elementor MCP for site building with AI.
- David McCan share FluentComments preview, a free WP plugin.
- OpenStation support brings a faster WordPress mobile dashboard.
- Building better product sites for Plugins & Themes, WP Product Talk.
- People of WordPress
- Dave Foy is leaving web & WordPress for teaching kids at school.
- Jeanherline is recipient of 2026 Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship.
Fresh UI: User Profile Builder & Advanced Query Loop
User Profile Builder + New Interface… Adi Spiac shared (Links X) about the entire new Form Builder Interface in the User Profile Plugin promising user forms creation seamless. “Profile Builder was our first paid WP product and what allowed us to transition from custom development and consulting to being a WordPress product company Cozmoslabs. So, how do you keep a 15-year-old WordPress plugin feeling modern and fast? By never stopping UX iteration”.
Advanced Query Loop + Refreshed UI… Ryan Welcher shared (Links X) the 5.0v update of the free Advanced Query Loop plugin. It features refreshed, grouped UI for faster setup, multiple sorting (e.g., date then title), new query control: add an identifier in one step, and now requires WordPress 6.7 version or above.
Vibe Coding Survey: How Businesses use it & Risks
The team at 20i Hosting conducted a Vibe Coding Survey with 600 non-developers participating to see how organizations are using AI coding tools. “Just 12.5% of respondents regularly wrote code before using AI tools, while 51.1% had very limited or no prior coding knowledge”.
“Nearly half (47.7%) of respondents use vibe coding primarily to improve productivity. Fewer than a third (31.5%) have their AI-generated code checked by a professional developer, while 9.3% do not verify it at all”.
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