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Copy Your WordPress Site with Reprint
Reprint is a free, open-source, PHP-based tool that copies a WordPress site’s files and database. The plugin is available in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory, along with the command-line client used to copy the site. WordPress has long let you export your posts and pages. Moving the site itself means bringing along its theme, plugins, uploads,…
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Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne
Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch are the co-hosts of Lingthusiasm, a podcast that explores the weird, wonderful and surprising ways language works. Gretchen McCulloch is the author of Because Internet, a New York Times bestselling book about internet language which has been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Gretchen has written for media including…
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Moving your site used to mean starting over. Not anymore
Moving your website used to mean starting over. Not anymore. Paste your site's address, and we bring your pages, images, and design to WordPress.com. Plans start at $4 a month, billed yearly.
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Start a Newsletter with ChatGPT and Claude
From a wedding guest list to your first newsletter: see how ChatGPT or Claude can help you build, publish, and send with WordPress.com.
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Security fix for WooCommerce Stripe Gateway: update to 11.2.0 or 11.1.2
Update WooCommerce Stripe Gateway to 11.2.0 or 11.1.2 for an important security fix. The post Security fix for WooCommerce Stripe Gateway: update to 11.2.0 or 11.1.2 appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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WooCommerce 11.3.0: Release notes
WooCommerce 11.3 gives store owners more control over how products and promotions appear, with new sale-badge options, expanded block styling, and more natural Product Gallery swipes on mobile. The post WooCommerce 11.3.0: Release notes appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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WordCamp Asia 2027 Is Coming to Penang
Next year, WordCamp Asia 2027 heads to Penang, Malaysia. From April 9 to 11, the WordPress community will gather at the Penang Waterfront Convention Centre for three days of contribution, learning, and connection. Tickets are on sale and sponsorship applications are open, so now is the time to make your plans. In 2026, WordCamp Asia…
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Beyond the ticket: what a Happiness Engineer does with two hours a day
Before starting at Automattic I wondered what the Happiness Engineer role involved outside of direct support work. Happiness Engineers (HEs) are customer support agents who help users with WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and other Automattic products and services. HEs spend six hours of their day on direct support in chat or answering emails, and two hours…
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Teaching Across Languages and Building Toward Reusable Lessons
Catch up on our work to support multilingual courses and lay the groundwork for reusable lessons. The post Teaching Across Languages and Building Toward Reusable Lessons appeared first on Sensei LMS.
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What’s the Best CMS for Higher Education? Everything You Need to Know
A decision framework for choosing a CMS for higher education: how to weigh accessibility deadlines, security authorizations like TX-RAMP and FedRAMP, multisite governance, and content ownership against the usual feature checklist.
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WordPress.com Education’s First Government Agreement Started With a Teacher
A teacher’s introduction in Toledo helped lead to WordPress.com Education’s first agreement with a regional government. The plan can now be promoted across 40 vocational schools in Castilla-La Mancha, with approximately 45,000 students eligible.
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WordPress 7.2 Beta 5
WordPress 7.2 Beta 5 is ready for download and testing! This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, use a test environment or local site to explore the new features. How to Test WordPress 7.2 Beta…
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Pressable’s Zapier Integration: Automate Your WordPress Hosting
Most hosting tasks are really just reactions to an event. A site gets flagged as compromised, and someone posts in Slack. A deploy finishes, and someone remembers to clear the cache. A deal closes, and […] The post Pressable’s Zapier Integration: Automate Your WordPress Hosting appeared first on Pressable.
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Your Content, Your Terms: New AI Controls and SEO Tools
Your WordPress.com SEO settings are now together in Jetpack → SEO. See how to manage AI crawler preferences, site details, and missing titles or descriptions.
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We went looking: What Woo has done about security since June
Why so many WooCommerce security updates? Well, we went looking. Here’s what we found, what we changed, and what you can do now to take action.
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WordPress Credits Welcomes More Than 50 Institutions
More than 50 educational institutions have joined WordPress Credits, giving students worldwide a way to earn academic recognition for contributing to WordPress. The program had two participating institutions in September 2025 and four the following month. By June 2026, that number had reached 27, before passing 50 this October. The program launched with the University…
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Meet Spacefast, Everything Your Agents Need to Bring Your Ideas to Life
Connect Spacefast to Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot, Muse, Cursor, or any AI. Ask it to put your project on Spacefast. A few seconds later, there’s a link in the chat.
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AO3 is down: a few safety tips
safety:AO3 is down: a few safety tips AO3 is down for now, and we know a lot of fanfic writers here are worried about their work. We see you, and we’re with you. 💛A few safety tips to always keep in mind:• Be careful with blogs or links claiming to be AO3, an “AO3 mirror,”…
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Choose ecommerce analytics tools based on questions, not features
The right ecommerce analytics tool can make or break fast and efficient business growth. Here are six analytics options for your store.
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Election night, behind the dashboard
Election night, behind the dashboard We forecasted that reading across the Parse.ly network would reach about 1.76x that of a … The post Election night, behind the dashboard appeared first on Parse.ly.
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We went looking: what Woo has done about security since June
Why so many WooCommerce security updates lately? Well, we went looking. Here’s what we found, what we changed, and what store owners and devs can do now to be a part of the security conversation and take action. The post We went looking: what Woo has done about security since June appeared first on The…
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What We Learned in a Room Full of New York Agencies
Agency owners from New York and Philadelphia sat down with us to talk honestly about pricing, pipelines, client prototypes, and bringing their teams along with AI. Here’s what we heard.
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They Carried the News on Election Night. WordPress VIP Carried Them.
On the one night newsroom websites absolutely cannot go down, we made sure they didn’t.
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WooCommerce 11.2.2: Release notes
WooCommerce 11.2.2 has been released with a number of updates focused on security. We strongly recommend updating to the latest release. The post WooCommerce 11.2.2: Release notes appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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A New Workspace for Building with WordPress
In WordPress Studio, a website starts as a conversation. You describe what you want, and an AI agent builds a first version for you. To change something, just tell the agent what you’d like instead. If you’ve used an agentic coding tool recently, the latest version of WordPress Studio will feel familiar. You’ll find a…
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What Readers Are Reading: Introducing Parse.ly’s Midterms 2026 Page
What Readers Are Reading: Introducing Parse.ly’s Midterms 2026 Page Parse.ly is an analytics product; how could we miss out on … The post What Readers Are Reading: Introducing Parse.ly’s Midterms 2026 Page appeared first on Parse.ly.
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Connect ChatGPT or Claude to Your WordPress.com Sites, Free Through November
Connect ChatGPT or Claude to your WordPress.com sites free through November. Draft posts, clear comments, and check stats on every site from one chat.
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AI Readiness for Federal Agencies: How to Keep Agency Information Accurate in AI Search
AI tools get government information wrong roughly half the time. Here’s how federal agencies can fix the content issues causing the errors.
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Before AI scales, Someone Has to Own it: What News Product Leaders Said at NPA Summit
At NPA Summit in Chicago, news product, editorial, and technology leaders answered nine questions about AI in their newsrooms and compared notes on what's working and what's stuck. Here's what they said, and where to start.
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October Wrap-Up
Hey, everyone! 👋🏽 October went by fast, and the Beeper team has plenty to show for it. Let’s dive in! WeChat is here Last month we promised a little more ‘we.’ Here it is: you can now bring WeChat into Beeper. Family overseas, friends from school, the group that only ever talks on WeChat. Those…
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Security update for WooPayments
A subscriptions function security update is now available for WooPayments. If you run the WooPayments plugin, please check your version and update to the fix version listed. The post Security update for WooPayments appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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Do More From Your Inbox With Professional Email Plus and Ultra
More room for your messages, less time on email admin. Meet Plus and Ultra, the new Professional Email plans, and see which fits your business.
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WordPress 7.2 Beta 4
WordPress 7.2 Beta 4 is ready for download and testing! This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, use a test environment or local site to explore the new features. Wait, what happened to 7.2 Beta…
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Automated PHP stubs for Woo extensions
WooCommerce introduces woocommerce/php-stubs to auto-generate PHP stubs for extensions, allowing PHPStan to verify integrations effectively, avoiding unverified class calls and enhancing compatibility checks. The post Automated PHP stubs for Woo extensions appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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How we protected sites during the UpdraftCentral compromise
TLDR: When UpdraftCentral was breached in October, we blocked the attack across WordPress.com the same day, then tracked down and cleaned up hundreds of affected sites. Most of their owners never noticed anything was wrong, and nobody paid a thing. What happened On October 19, 2026, the team behind UpdraftPlus, a popular backup plugin for…
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The Open Source Objections Executives Raise (and the Misconceptions Behind Them)
Misconceptions can get in the way of getting senior buy-in for important IT investments. Here’s how to turn the conversation around.
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Protect your profit margins by designing discounts that pay for themselves
Too many discount codes eating away at your profits? Learn how to run sales without sacrificing your margins. Proven sales strategies you can use today!
