WordPress News & Coverage
Kinsta returns to Australia this May to connect with WordPress agencies and digital marketers in Melbourne and Sydney, focusing on hosting performance and infrastructure.
Scaling WordPress sites often happens reactively, causing outages and wasted budget. Operational analytics reveal when to optimize infrastructure versus when to scale capacity.
WordPress 7.0 RC4 is now available, five days before the final release, accompanied by a detailed Field Guide outlining key changes and developer guidance.
WordPress 7.0 will not include real-time collaboration due to unresolved technical issues affecting stability, server load, and reliability. The feature will be revisited after broader testing post-release.
Comprehensive testing of WordPress's Real Time Collaboration storage strategies identifies custom-table-with-transients as the superior method, offering up to 52% faster REST dispatch times and broad hosting compatibility.
Plugin-based WordPress analytics offer limited insights into site performance. Hosting-level visibility reveals server resource usage, caching, and traffic patterns critical for diagnosing slowdowns and errors.
The WordPress core performance team reported a 10% regression in TTFB for WordPress 7.0 versus 6.9, with ongoing efforts to optimize script loading and real-time collaboration ahead of release.
The new Presence API plugin in WordPress offers real-time visibility of logged-in users and their admin activity, enhancing collaboration and preventing edit conflicts. This experimental feature uses dedicated ephemeral data storage to minimize performance impact.
The WordPress Core Performance team is advancing the Auto Sizes feature to optimize responsive images, focusing on the Gallery block to improve site speed and user experience.
Third-party API failures can cause cascading issues in WordPress hosting environments. Learn how Kinsta’s infrastructure isolates impacts and tools like APM provide visibility.
