Insights

When a high-traffic WordPress site keeps timing out, the reflex is more capacity. It’s almost always the wrong answer, and the real cause is usually hiding one layer down.

WordPress 7.0 has recently landed. For marketing and content teams, it is one of the more useful releases in years. It brings a standardised way to connect AI tools directly to your WordPress site, a more intuitive admin experience, and editor features that give content teams more control without having to wait on a developer.

Liquid content is 2026’s publishing buzzword, but no one has shipped it at scale. The reason isn’t execution. The whole premise is aimed at the wrong target.

WordPress has never had a way to certify enterprise-level developer skills. That just changed. Here’s what the new WordPress VIP certification means for agencies and the organisations that hire them.

Your CMS is a bit like a restaurant dishwasher. Nobody comes for it, but if it’s unreliable, the whole operation falls apart. The truth is your CMS isn’t glamorous, but it is foundational.

There hasn’t been a bigger story in software development this year than the rise of “vibe coding”.  While AI-assisted coding has been around in the engineering community for years, adoption has drastically increased in 2025, and consumer tools like Lovable and Bolt now allow anyone to create interactive websites or apps with natural language prompts.

Following the wave of enthusiasm around Cloudflare’s recent “Content Independence Day” last week, complete with tools to block AI bots and promises of a crawl-for-cash future, it’s worth asking what exactly publishers think they’re protecting.

You’re evaluating frontend solutions for your WordPress-based platform. Your team needs dynamic interactions, but you’re tired of managing multiple JavaScript frameworks, dealing with complex state management, and the overhead that comes with external dependencies.