Automattic, the developer of WordPress, has announced that it will resume contributing to the WordPress project. When Automattic released WordPress 6.8 in April 2025, they stated that 'this will be ...

PHP is the underlying scripting language that WordPress runs on. The most current version is PHP 7.3.7. PHP is continually updated to make it more efficient and to patch security issues. Except ...

Automattic will only contribute 45 hours each week to ‘match’ the amount of time spent by third-party hosting platform WP Engine. Automattic will only contribute 45 hours each week to ‘match’ the ...

This week marks two interesting anniversaries for me. I've been writing here at ZDNet for six years, and I've been supporting adopted open source projects for one year. While my experience here at ...

WordPress is updating soon to version 5.6 which aims to be compatible with PHP 8. However, WordPress cautioned that it should be considered “beta-compatible” and explained why upgrading to PHP 8 ...

The premium WordPress plugin 'Gravity Forms,' currently used by over 930,000 websites, is vulnerable to unauthenticated PHP Object Injection. Gravity Forms is a custom form builder website owners use ...