Ollie Pro 2.0, MU plugins snippets & Patchstack just surpassed Microsoft

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It’s been a particularly quiet week on the WordPress and WordPress tools side of things. This is quite typical before any large WordCamp, so for today, it’s just a short list of items.

Hope you still enjoy it 😅

🗞️ Within WordPress News

Here’s what I saw happening this past week:


  • Equalize Digital released one of largest releases of Accessibility Checker ever adding under the hood improvements for faster scans, more accurate evaluations, and laying the groundwork for future features.

  • Two years ago, Felix Arntz opened an experimental pull request for a “Speculation Rules” module in the Performance Lab plugin. Little did he know then that it would launch as a key feature of WordPress 6.8 last month. Learn more about the history of this incredible powerful feature.

  • New plugin submissions to WordPress.org have doubled in 2025, according to a recent update from the Plugin Review team. This means the ecosystem is thriving, with faster reviews, better tooling, and a growing number of developers shipping new ideas.

It should go without saying that AI has had a huge impact on this.


  • Elementor’s new CSS-only carousel, built in collaboration with Google using the UI Element API, was featured at Google I/O for showcasing a modern, JavaScript-free approach to UI. It reduces page weight, improves performance, and enhances accessibility.

Now that’s exciting.


  • In about a week and a half we’ll be at WordCamp Europe, Basel Switzerland edition. Over at Do the Woo, organizers Ivelina Dimova, Patricia BT, Val Vesa, Valerie Galassi and Wendie Huis in ‘t Veld share insights into this flagship WordPress event. It’s looking to be a good one again with 1900+ tickets sold as of today.

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  • Switch to better email & SMS marketing in WordPress with Omnisend. Get the top-rated email marketing platform to convert & keep more customers. Get started today!

  • Here’s another one from Felix Arntz. He’s got a library full of interesting snippets that go into your /mu-plugins/ folder in a GitHub repo. So many cool snippets to use for so many use cases.

  • Brian Coords asks a timely question: Is clean code still important? In an age of AI-assisted coding and rapid iteration, he argues that clarity, maintainability, and empathy still matter. Maybe now more than ever.

🚀 Performance & Security

  • Here are the Google I/O web announcements you need to know! Experiment with the Interest Invoker API, debug with AI assistance in Chrome DevTools, use multimodal AI APIs backed by Gemini Nano, and more.
  • Patchstack just surpassed Microsoft as the world’s top CVE coordinator, according to CVE.icu. Their rise is driven by a sharp focus on WordPress plugins, ethical hacking, and an open-source bug bounty program. As CEO Oliver Sild puts it, this proves securing open-source at scale isn’t just possible—it’s big business. Read the full story.

🔆 Within WordPress Highlight

Ollie Pro 2.0 has arrived! With this release, the full vision of Ollie starts to become a reality:

  • A no-code site builder in the world’s most popular website platform
  • An intuitive onboarding experience
  • Beautiful design democratized

I’ve converted my remkusdevries.com site over to Ollie 2.0 this week. I’ve not used the setup wizard, any starter site, or their child theme creator, but the rest I’ve for sure used ad nauseum. There’s a lot I haven’t made public on the site yet, but trust me when I say Ollie Pro makes everything so incredibly easy and fun to work with.

Congrats Mike & Patrick. You guys knocked it out of the park!

💡 Interesting Finds

  • The Tailwind team just released a new template and there are some seriously neat little CSS tricks under the hood. It’s called Compass, and it’s for e-learning with a video focus. Learn more via this thread.
  • Katie Keith said she used to rely on Chrome’s Inspect tool to temporarily edit web pages—great for mocking up plugin changes or grabbing clean screenshots. Through her daughter, she learned about Edit Anything, a Chrome extension that makes the whole process way easier. Just click and edit, no dev tools needed.

That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!

Best, Remkus

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