Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (December 9, 2024 to December 15, 2024)

Time to wrap up this year and kick-off the new year with a bang! We’re wrapping up the year with our End of Year Holiday Extravaganza, High-Risk Bonus Blitz Challenge, and Superhero Challenge for the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program. Through January 6th, 2025: All in-scope vulnerability types for WordPress plugins/themes with >= 1,000 active installations are in-scope for ALL researchers … Read more

Holiday Break

In order to give myself and the many tired volunteers around WordPress.org a break for the holidays, we’re going to be pausing a few of the free services currently offered: New account registrations on WordPress.org (clarifying so press doesn’t confuse this: people can still make their own WordPress installs and accounts) New plugin directory submissions … Read more

State of the Word 2024: Legacy, Innovation, and Community

On a memorable evening in Tokyo, State of the Word 2024 brought together WordPress enthusiasts from around the world—hundreds in person and millions more online. This event marked the first time State of the Word was hosted in Asia, reflecting the platform’s growing global reach. The setting couldn’t have been more fitting: a city where … Read more

Write Books With the Block Editor

If you need a little push to start writing this winter, in the comfort of your familiar editor, here it is! You can now use the Block Editor to create electronic books and other documents—all completely offline. What a full circle moment for Gutenberg! The Block Editor contains so many features I miss when writing … Read more