WordPress News & Coverage
Austin Ginder reveals how AI is uncovering stealthy supply chain attacks in WordPress plugin updates, exposing a new level of risk for site operators and developers.
David Snead discusses how the Secure Hosting Alliance is fostering trust and collaboration among hosting providers to improve security and professionalism within the WordPress hosting ecosystem.
Automated bot traffic surpassed human web traffic in 2025, driven by AI-powered bots that mimic real users with high sophistication. For WordPress professionals, this shift demands new strategies for security, performance, and bot management to protect sites and maintain operational stability.
Review Signal returns with its 2026 WordPress and WooCommerce hosting benchmarks after a three-year hiatus, now powered by a new open source load testing platform built specifically for WordPress workloads. This relaunch offers fresh, transparent insights critical for agencies, developers, and site operators reassessing hosting decisions in a rapidly evolving infrastructure landscape.
WordPress agencies are adopting Vibe Coding—a new AI-driven development approach using the Kinsta API and GitHub Copilot—to automate workflows like site cloning and onboarding. This method offers scalability and efficiency but requires strong technical expertise and rigorous validation.
WordPress contributors have launched an outreach program to prepare the real-time collaboration feature for WordPress 7.1. This initiative seeks early testers, especially hosting providers, to ensure the feature's stability and performance across diverse environments. Agencies and developers should prepare for significant changes impacting workflows and compatibility.
Bot-driven bandwidth waste on WordPress sites often targets uncached endpoints like carts and product filters, causing high server load without increasing traffic. This tutorial explains how to identify, analyze, and selectively filter unwanted bot traffic using analytics and infrastructure-level controls, preserving essential bots like Googlebot for SEO and uptime monitoring.
WP Engine’s Campaign Manager Brandi Baggerman leverages her nine years of support experience to improve WordPress hosting communications. Her unique path highlights the operational importance of integrating support insights into marketing campaigns, which benefits WordPress agencies, developers, and site operators.
A zero-downtime migration protects WordPress sites from outages and data loss during hosting moves. This guide from WP Engine reveals essential steps and pitfalls every developer must know.
Kinsta launches a new Bot Protection feature for WordPress sites, integrated into the MyKinsta dashboard and included free on all plans. This tool offers granular control over AI and automated traffic, protecting dynamic WooCommerce and WordPress endpoints from resource-draining bots without requiring support tickets or extra costs.
