I hope you’re okay with it, but I removed the WordPress & AI section in this newsletter. Not because there’s no news about WordPress and AI, but quite the opposite.
Things are moving faster than ever, and we’re reaching the point where pretty much anything happening in WordPress is touched by AI.
Hope you enjoy the newsletter either way 😅
🗞️ Within WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 is fast approaching. It’s slated for release at WordCamp Asia, so now’s a good time to check out everything that’s landed and likely to come in the next release. Likely, because it’s still a beta, not an RC (release candidate). This
”What’s new for developers”, February 2026 Edition is all about 7.0.
- CloudFest is happening in April again. And you should go. It’s quite a different WordPress event. In fact, this year there will be an entirely different format. No longer WP Day, but it’s called the WP [Business & Agency] Summit now.
A full Monday full of WordPress-related talks , panels, and all in all great insights.
I’ll be there for the
- A few episodes ago, I mentioned Justin Nealey released DesignSetGo. Well, he’s been busy! This week
he released a huge update with 3 new blocks, 150+ patterns, 12 homepage templates, shape dividers, SVG backgrounds, and mobile grid reordering. And performance optimizations!
- Greyd CEO Mark Weisbrod argues that
WordPress, as the ecosystem, needs a business reset .
- Jonathan Bossenger shared the
WP OpenRouter Provider is a WordPress plugin that brings OpenRouter’s extensive model library to the WordPress AI Client. This means you can access models from all kinds of models.
- Nick Hamze wrote down his thoughts about
how AI will affect WordPress . He says he’s spending 8+ hours a day with AI, and having seen the stuff he puts out there, I highly recommend you check out what he wrote.
Put differently, this answers a lot of the “AI will kill WordPress” chatter you may hear left and right.
- Adjacent to Nick’s write-up is my buddy Mark Westguard’s post about
how WS form now integrates directly with the WP AI Client SDK , expanding its AI capabilities while aligning with the official WordPress AI roadmap. It’s a good read and will help you understand the various parts as well, as Mark explains all concepts quite well before he dives deep.
- Came across this cool project/solution by Brad Vincent called
WP Git Sync. And it does what it says on the tin. It allows users to sync posts and their meta to a Git repo and pull changes back with diffs.
- As you can read a little further in the newsletter, WebMCP is coming. And WordPress is ready for it already. James LePage is a
sking for your feedback on this draft .
- Do you know how to find embedded videos that stopped working on your WordPress site?
Quite easy, as it turns out .
- This is huge: Cloudflare’s network now supports
real-time content conversion to Markdown at the source using content negotiation headers.
Coincidentally, Joost de Valk also published
- Per Søderlind keeps building cool stuff. His
Virtual Media Folders add-ons like AI Organizer, Editorial Workflow, and Rules Engine into a single, easy-to-manage dashboard in WordPress.
- If you work on/manage/build WordPress sites, you might like this. Version 1.1.0 of Christopher Smith‘s
WP System Report is released, and now adds enabling/disabling error logging (WP_DEBUG), grab the logs along with the full system report to send to someone else.
🚀 Performance & Security
- For performance purposes, it’s smart to keep your page as lean and mean as possible, as that simply means pages get loaded faster. But… as it turns out, there’s a very direct connection to SEO added now, as Google
now caps HTML processing at roughly 2MB of page content.
One more reason to
Some of my favorite WordPress tools:
- My two favorite forms for WordPress:
Gravity Forms and WS Form - These are the themes I use:
Ollie , Rockbase and GeneratePress - And, obviously,
Scanfully for all my Site Health & Performance monitoring
🔆 Within WordPress Highlight
Sandra Kurze from Greyd sat down with Derek Ashauer for a Greyd Conversation. They discussed how clean tracking, smart attribution, and simple funnels turn raw data into clear wins for clients and agencies, with his Conversion Bridge plugin integrating seamlessly into Greyd.Suite.
💡 Interesting Finds
- Chrome 146 includes an early preview of
WebMCP , accessible via a flag, that lets AI agents query and execute services without browsing the web app like a user. THIS IS A HUGE DEAL. If browsers are no longer designed exclusively for humans, but also agents, it will entirely change web development. - When you’re juggling dozens of active projects across multiple directories, it’s difficult to remember what exists, what’s active, and where things are.
Your Project Dashboard fixes that. - Customizing scrollbars used to be a pain, but now
scrollbar-color is available in Chrome . - Matt Shumer went every time someone asked him, “What’s going on with AI?” He gave them the safe answer. Because the real one sounded insane. Well, he’s done holding back.
He wrote what everyone should know that you care about . Big words, I know, but this is an excellent read and went viral on X.
🔎 Scanfully Updates
The
Now sporting better site URL detection, more reliable SSL checks behind proxies and load balancers. So, essentially, cleaner, more accurate data.
🎁 Bonus
ASI is here,
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
Best, Remkus
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