Need to inspect a WordPress email without leaving Playground? Its Email tool shows form notifications, welcome messages and order emails under Dev Tools → Email, with an HTML preview.

make.wordpress.org/playground/202…

WordPress's September release-process announcement moves releases from conference stages to Zoom webinars, starting with 7.2, planned for early December. More of the squad can join without traveling.

make.wordpress.org/core/2026/09/2…

Has your role become your identity? Remkus de Vries asks how AI's influence on WordPress work changes the role you think you have.

remkusdevries.com/wordpress-isnt…

StoreAgent connects ChatGPT and Claude to WooCommerce for work such as product descriptions, tags and image alt text. Requires StoreAgent 1.1.9+; the hosted MCP connection is included on every plan, including free.

Read-only is preselected. Write abilities stay off until you enable each one. Check that scope before letting an assistant change your store.

storeagent.ai/woocommerce-mc…

WordPress Studio’s rebuilt workspace, wrapido turning REST routes into CLI commands, and It Looks Done’s fictional launch day.

This week’s Within WordPress:
withinwp.com/2026/woocommer…

Cloudflare Workers Builds can deploy from a configured Cursor Origin production branch. Enable preview builds for other branches to get isolated previews and PR build status. Access can be limited to selected repos.

developers.cloudflare.com/workers/ci-cd/…

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels gives localhost a temporary public HTTPS URL with one cloudflared command. No account or DNS setup. Your server becomes publicly reachable.

Keep it to development: 200 concurrent requests, no Server-Sent Events and no uptime guarantee. Useful for previews or testing webhooks when those limits fit.

try.cloudflare.com

bb puts coding agents in one local workbench, with plugins for GitHub, memory, scheduled jobs and your own tools. It's free and open source; agent-provider subscriptions are separate.

getbb.app

Jake A. Smith is retiring http_build_url with known bugs left unfixed. Existing releases still install. The README covers PHP 8.5's URI API and options such as league/uri for older PHP.

jakeasmith.com/blog/http-buil…

Agency on Slack, client on Teams? George Stephanis's InterBridge relays messages and threaded replies between the two. It's open source and self-hosted.

Early software: Teams support is limited to standard channels. Most files travel as links and still need access to the original. Read the setup and permission requirements.

github.com/georgestephani…

Ymir manages AWS infrastructure in an account you control for WordPress, WooCommerce and Laravel. Your developers still maintain application code, dependencies and configuration. Carl Alexander's site explains it.

ymirapp.com

Modern Font Stacks groups ready-to-copy system font stacks by style, with previews. The exact font varies by operating system, but you avoid another web-font download. Handy resource.

modernfontstacks.com

Matt Schwartz compared 12 WooCommerce hosting configurations with roughly 120,000 orders, 15,000 subscriptions and a 5GB database. Servebolt led the combined score; BigScoots was fastest in admin and order search.

Read the method: most tests were July 2025; Kinsta was July 2026 with newer software. Hosts used recommended setups. Best-of-run averages and extra weight for order search shape the scores.

The article is on Servebolt's site. Servebolt supplied its test environment and sponsored the Kinsta test. These conditions belong alongside the results.

servebolt.com/articles/best-…

Cloudflare's Vary support in Cache Rules lets different languages or formats from one URL be cached separately on every plan.

Configure the expected headers and bypass unexpected ones. The docs also recommend bypassing cookies or other visitor-specific values. Read the setup before applying it.

blog.cloudflare.com/vary-support/

Çağdaş Dağ's WPAcquire lists WordPress plugins, themes, stores and content sites. Revenue, profit and traffic figures are free to browse; names and seller contacts require a buyer membership.

wpacquire.com

Clean Markdown, a public menu of readable content, accurate metadata and RSS: Nick Hamze makes the case for helping agents discover what WordPress sites already publish.

teddy.blog/stories/wordpr…

Moving thousands of pages into blocks takes more than converting markup. K. Adam White explains Human Made's content audits, layout patterns and client checks to Nathan Wrigley.

wptavern.com/podcast/234-k-…

Automattic's Static Site Importer converts a static HTML export into editable WordPress pages. It won't recreate an application's backend.

Use a disposable test site. The newsletter's review found import-validation issue reports and an oversized WordPress Studio test report. Check the output and keep the original export.

github.com/Automattic/sta…

HelpHub pages, SVN tag commands, merge checks and contributor credits: WordPress Core's public release-tools repository covers six release jobs. Useful to inspect if you help ship releases.

make.wordpress.org/core/2026/09/2…

Contributor Toolkit 1.1.0 opens ticket links from your browser, bundles Git and preserves original commits when checking out pull requests. WP Trac Triager adds the link on Trac.

Upgrade detail: sites created before 1.1.0 become read-only. Export unfinished work as a patch and create a new site to continue.

github.com/WordPress/cont…