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Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
Web professionals track the latest WordPress releases, essential plugin updates, and industry shifts shaping modern site development. Builders get the technical workflows and ecosystem news required to adapt in a rapidly changinguu open-source environment. A podcast on Wordpress news in the industry lead by web creators for web creators. Stay updated with the latest news tips and tricks. Hosts by Ido Navarro product manager at elementor And nick founder at Wpfavs.com Sponsored by Wpfavs.com…
Episodes
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
WordPress 7.1: What Matters for Agencies
A practical breakdown of the WordPress 7.1 beta updates, examining new core blocks, styling controls, and browser-side media processing. The hosts also discuss…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
WordPress Security Realities and the Rise of AI Agents
A look into the 2026 GuardingWP security report, highlighting why over half of scanned sites have unpatched vulnerabilities while AI agents gain server-level…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
The State of WordPress Agencies in 2026: Why Retainers Aren't Dead
We review fresh industry data from the State of WordPress Agencies in 2026 survey to see why maintenance retainers are surviving the AI wave. Discover why…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
AI Site Builders vs. WordPress: What the Benchmarks Miss
AI can build a polished website in minutes, but new benchmarks and audits reveal the hidden work behind production-ready sites: accessibility, security…
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Five Hours to Exploitation: Rethinking WordPress Security
New 2026 security data points to a dangerous gap: heavily exploited WordPress vulnerabilities can reach mass exploitation in a median of five hours, while…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
WordPress’s AI Era: New Agents, Bigger Security Risks
WordPress’s AI shift is moving beyond add-on chatbots, with new core APIs and agents that can work through the dashboard or directly with a site’s files and…
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Who Will Fund WordPress Security?
WordPress asks major commercial companies to help fund its Security Program as rising plugin vulnerabilities and a surge of low-install plugins sharpen…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
The Post-CMS Web and the Battle for AI Server Access
An analytical dive into the shifting web landscape explores the rise of no-CMS architectures, marketplace consolidation, and the growing ecosystem of abandoned…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
WordPress 7.1 Architecture, Abandoned Plugins, and AI Tooling
Explore the major architectural shifts in WordPress 7.1, including editor iframe isolation and AI integrations, alongside critical plugin security risks and…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
Why Site Security Fails: Breaches, Backups, and AI Risks
We break down alarming security survey data showing how often sites are breached, how rarely teams have recovery plans, and why downtime remains so common. The…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
The Ghost Plugin Problem and AI-Powered WordPress Cleanup
We dig into a massive audit of WordPress plugins that found thousands of popular utilities left unupdated for years, creating hidden security and maintenance…
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WordPress Plugins Meet AI, Permissions, and Ecosystem Turbulence
This episode explores how WordPress plugins are evolving for an AI-driven workflow, from WPCodeBox’s read-only MCP access and wpDataTables’ direct integrations…
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Why WordPress Agencies Must Shift from Maintenance to AI Stewardship
This episode explores how AI terminal agents are making routine WordPress maintenance obsolete, forcing agencies to shift from billable plugin updates to…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
SEO’s Collapse and the Rise of Dark AI Traffic
We dig into telemetry showing organic search revenue sliding while untracked dark AI traffic surges, and debate whether traditional SEO is being overtaken by…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
AI Agents Are Replacing WordPress Dashboard Work
This episode explores how AI agents are transforming WordPress maintenance, from fleet-wide update automation and live status rosters to the risks of bulk…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
Why WordPress Plugins Die: Feature Creep, AI, and Onboarding
The hosts break down why so many WordPress plugins get abandoned, arguing that feature creep and unsustainable freemium models are killing maintainability…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
WordPress Fatigue, Legacy Plugins, and Zero-Trust Security
A deep dive into the widening gap between enthusiasm for open source and growing frustration with WordPress, backed by 2026 community survey data. The…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
Why WordPress Admin Access Fails for AI Agents
WordPress’s new wave of AI agents is exposing why traditional admin permissions no longer work, and the episode breaks down the proposed four-tier Trust Ladder…
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Open Weights, Lean Builders, and the New WP Stack
The hosts unpack why open AI weights matter for WordPress and site infrastructure, then dig into how lean, purpose-built tools are overtaking bloated page…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
Ghost Plugins and the Rise of Terminal Agents
A look at why thousands of WordPress plugins remain active despite years of neglect, and how site owners often prefer these quiet, stable tools over bloated…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
Why WordPress Mobile Performance Is Falling Behind
This episode breaks down why so many WordPress sites fail Core Web Vitals on mobile, from slow shared hosting and lazy-loaded hero images to heavy page…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
WordPress Freelance Work Is Collapsing
Fresh survey data reveals a sharp drop in sentiment around WordPress, driven by the collapse of the entry-level freelance funnel as AI site builders erase…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
WordPress Moves Admin Tools Out of the Page
We dig into WordPress’s shift away from front-end clutter, from an official browser extension that lifts the admin bar out of the page to terminal-based agents…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
Why $99 WordPress Care Plans Are Dying
This episode explores why low-cost WordPress care plans are collapsing as AI agents take over routine maintenance, migrations, and troubleshooting in seconds…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
Why Lean Plugins Win in 2026
This episode explores why users are rejecting plugin bloat in favor of lean, reliable tools that clean up after themselves, stay stable through platform…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
WordPress 7.1: WebAssembly, Iframes, and AI APIs
This episode breaks down the biggest changes coming with WordPress 7.1 at WordCamp US in Phoenix, from browser-side image processing with WebAssembly to full…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
Native AI Agents Are Taking Over WordPress Admin
Explore how native AI agents are moving directly into WordPress admin, from building plugins inside the dashboard to making database changes with explicit…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
Native AI in WordPress: No MCP, No Middleware
An experiment inside WordPress shows how an AI agent can safely swap products and edit content using native core APIs, without external middleware or MCP…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
The Five-Plugin Future of WordPress
The hosts dig into a massive audit of stale WordPress plugins, why low-rated utility tools still rack up huge installs, and how convenience can turn into…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
llms.txt Hype vs. AI Agent Reality
This episode cuts through the hype around Generative Engine Optimization and llms.txt, showing why the file matters far more for business-to-agent routing than…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
WordPress RCE Chain Exposes the Plugin Supply Chain
An emergency WordPress core patch exposed how an unauthenticated RCE chain could emerge from REST API batch desync and SQL injection flaws, affecting millions…
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WordPress 7.1’s Full Iframe Shift: What Breaks First
WordPress 7.1 Beta 4 brings a fully isolated post editor canvas, forcing developers to rethink event listeners, CSS loading, and third-party scripts before the…
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Abandoned Plugins and the WordPress 7.1 Reckoning
This episode digs into the hidden risk of stale WordPress plugins, from abandoned codebases and maintenance liabilities to the security fallout of core…
- Wpfavs - Your favourite WordPress news
Autonomous WordPress Agents and the End of Manual Maintenance
This episode explores the rise of autonomous WordPress agents with deep system access, from AI tools that can run PHP, touch the file system, and tune…