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On 10 July 2026, a merge proposal that would have given WordPress its first shared place to store site knowledge was closed. It did not fail review, and nobody found a bug in it. It was reviewed with Matt Mullenweg and, in the words of the closing comment from Anne McCarthy (annezazu) on Make/Core, “this…

Every guide to WordPress API key security says roughly the same thing: your keys live in the database, so protect the database. That sentence is true and it is also misleading, because it describes where the key sits at rest and not where it spends most of its life. I ran the audit on a…

Clari + Salesloft announced a gradual sunset of Drift on 5 March 2026. What was actually said, how to check whether your WordPress site still loads the widget, how to remove it, and how the replacement plugins compare on maintenance signals.

If you run a WordPress site, there is a reasonable chance it already exposes a set of callable tools to AI agents — and that nobody made a decision to turn them on. Not because anything was installed carelessly, but because tool registration now arrives bundled inside ordinary plugins: an SEO plugin, an image optimiser,…

Updated 18 August 2026. The shutdown happened on schedule. OpenAI’s deprecations page now lists gpt-5.2-chat-latest and gpt-5.3-chat-latest as retired on 10 August 2026, both pointing to gpt-5.6-sol as the replacement. If your chatbot still names either model, it is failing now rather than about to. Three further waves are already dated: the Videos API and…

/* mxchat-css */ /* MxChat — Fullwidth Theme Reset */ /* Generic WordPress themes */ .entry-content-wrap, .entry-content, .post-inner .entry-content, .container.site-content, article .entry-content, .content-area .site-main, .single-content .entry-content, .type-post .entry-content, .type-page .entry-content, .page .entry-content, .single .entry-content { padding: 0 !important; max-width: 100% !important; width: 100% !important; } /* Outer wrappers that themes use to add spacing */…

/* mxchat-css */ /* MxChat — Fullwidth Theme Reset */ /* Generic WordPress themes */ .entry-content-wrap, .entry-content, .post-inner .entry-content, .container.site-content, article .entry-content, .content-area .site-main, .single-content .entry-content, .type-post .entry-content, .type-page .entry-content, .page .entry-content, .single .entry-content { padding: 0 !important; max-width: 100% !important; width: 100% !important; } /* Outer wrappers that themes use to add spacing */…

Automotive WordPress Chatbots Lead Capture Independent Dealers It’s 9pm. A Buyer Is on Your Website Asking About That F-150 — Nobody’s There to Answer 📅 July 2026 ⏰ 10 min read 👥 For independent dealers, auto shops & WordPress-based automotive businesses A practical guide to using an automotive chatbot on your WordPress site to capture…

Healthcare Chatbot WordPress HIPAA Clinic Tech Healthcare Chatbot for WordPress: A Practical Guide for Clinics and Practices Published June 2026 · 12 min read · For clinic owners, practice managers & healthcare marketers It’s 9pm. A prospective patient lands on your clinic’s website, wants to know if you take their insurance, and is ready to…

Restaurant Tech WordPress AI Chatbot Practical Guide Your Restaurant Gets Calls After Hours. Most of Them Go to Voicemail. A website chatbot answers instantly, 24/7 — handling questions about hours, menus, reservations, and more so guests stop calling the next place on their list. June 2026 · 10 min read · Restaurant Owners & WordPress…