E157: Five Awesome Motive Plugins Compromised, Sunsetting Wordfence Login Security Plugin..
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This week on The WP Week Podcast, we cover a major security incident affecting five Awesome Motive products, including Uncanny Automator, following a supply-chain breach that has sent shockwaves through the WordPress ecosystem.We also discuss WordPress opening testing for long-awaited Unicode email address support, bringing internationalized email addresses to WordPress accounts, along with the launch of WordPress Studio for Linux, updates from the AI Team, and the redesigned plugin screenshots gallery on WordPress.org.In community news, Wordfence Login Security is being discontinued as its features move into the main Wordfence plugin, Kinsta launches free bot protection, Akismet releases an official PHP SDK, and Beaver Builder enters the AI website builder race with its new AI-powered page generation tools.Plus, we look at growing concerns around WordPress growth, AI-driven search traffic declines, the future of WordCamps, new WordPress projects, security updates, and much more.A big thank you to our sponsors:🎯 ProfilePress – Build membership sites and sell subscriptions on WordPress.⚡ 20i Hosting – Fast, reliable WordPress hosting you'll fall in love with.💼 WP Job Openings – Create professional career pages and start hiring in minutes.Tune in for your weekly roundup of everything happening across the WordPress ecosystem.
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