WPVibe launched on WordPress.org, and with it, something genuinely new: the ability to manage your entire WordPress site through a simple conversation with AI. No dashboard, no switching tabs. Just tell Claude or ChatGPT what you want done, and it happens. That’s the headline, but there’s plenty more to cover. AIOSEO, Charitable, PushEngage, OptinMonster, and others all shipped significant updates. WordCamp Asia brought the global community together in Mumbai. And Contact Form 7 — one of WordPress’s oldest and most-used plugins — officially closed the door on new features. It’s been a busy month. Let’s get into it. WPBeginner Spotlight…
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The March 2026 core update brought what Google describes as a design “to better surface relevant, satisfying content for searchers from all types of sites.” This confirms the simplest truth in search: people use Google to get answers. Whether it’s solving a problem, learning something new, or making a decision, searchers want content that is genuinely helpful in their busy, on-the-go lives. If your content does that, it succeeds. If it doesn’t, no amount of SEO tricks, hacks, or magic bullets will get your content to show up on page one, let alone in AI Overviews. How modern search systems surface…
Hackers are exploiting two authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the Qinglong open-source task scheduling tool to deploy cryptominers on developers’ servers. Exploitation started in early February, before the security issues were disclosed publicly at the end of the month, according to researchers at cloud-native application security company Snyk. Qinglong is a self-hosted open-source time management platform popular among Chinese developers. It has been forked more than 3,200 times and has over 19,000 stars on GitHub. The two security problems impact Qinglong versions 2.20.1 and older and can be chained to achieve remote code execution: CVE-2026-3965: A misconfigured rewrite rule maps ‘/open/*’ requests…
Dozens of vulnerabilities, including critical issues that can be exploited to steal sensitive patient information, were discovered recently in the open source electronic medical records platform OpenEMR. OpenEMR, which is used worldwide by over 100,000 healthcare providers to store data on more than 200 million patients, was analyzed by the application security firm Aisle. The company’s autonomous analyzer identified 39 issues, of which 38 have been assigned CVE identifiers. The research was conducted as part of a partnership between OpenEMR developers and Aisle, and all the vulnerabilities have been patched. The majority of the security holes were due to missing…
This post was sponsored by Uberall. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Local consumers have stopped searching the way we built our marketing around. This significant change in buyer habits has been quietly happening in the last 18 to 24 months. According to recent Uberall research into AI search behavior, an estimated $750 billion in consumer spend is already shifting toward AI-powered search. Roughly 60% of all searches now end without a single click to a website. And in a finding that should stop every marketer cold, or at least those working for multi-location businesses, 68%…
An AI-powered analysis of the OpenEMR codebase uncovered 38 previously undisclosed vulnerabilities in the open source electronic health record (EHR) platform used by more than 100,000 healthcare providers worldwide.The vulnerabilities, all patched now, range in severity from medium to critical and include missing or incorrect authorization checks, cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws, SQL injection, path traversal, and session-related issues.More Than Three Dozen Flaws in 3 MonthsThe flaws could have enabled a broad range of attacks against OpenEMR deployments, according to researchers at Aisle, which used the company’s AI-powered platform to autonomously scan the OpenEMR codebase. “In the most severe cases, SQL…
Every security team has a version of the same story. The quarter ends with hundreds of vulnerabilities closed. The dashboards are bursting with green. Then someone in a leadership meeting asks: “So, are we actually safer now?” Crickets. The room goes quiet because an honest answer requires context – which is something that patch counts and CVSS scores were never designed to provide. Exposure management was created to provide this context – to bridge the gap between remediation efforts and actual risk reduction. The market has responded with a flood of platforms claiming to deliver it. Yet the question security…
Ranking and visibility are no longer the same thing. For 20 years, SEO teams optimized for SERP position. Higher rankings meant more visibility, more clicks, and more traffic. That relationship is breaking down. Earlier this year, Ahrefs found that only 38% of pages cited in Google AI Overviews also ranked in the traditional top 10. Eight months earlier, that number was 76%. The implication is straightforward: being highly ranked no longer guarantees being seen. In AI-generated answers, visibility is determined by inclusion — and by how your brand is represented when it appears. That representation is determined by a different…
Appearing prominently in search results comes down to avoiding SEO mistakes that are easy to fix once you know what to look for.Here are the biggest SEO mistakes people make, how to spot them, and how to fix each one.1. Duplicate contentDuplicate content is when one webpage has the same or nearly the same content as another webpage. When your own site contains duplicate content, it can cause poor or chaotic page rankings and potentially prioritize the wrong page on search engine results pages (SERPs) or AI search results.Duplicate content can be an exact copy of a page or a near-identical…
The Quick Page/Post Redirect plugin, installed on more than 70,000 WordPress sites, had a backdoor added five years ago that allows injecting arbitrary code into users’ sites. The malware was uncovered by Austin Ginder, the founder of WordPress hosting provider Anchor, who found it after 12 infected sites on his fleet triggered a security alert. Quick Page/Post Redirect plugin, available on WordPress.org for several years, is a basic utility plugin used for creating redirects in posts, pages, and custom URLs. WordPress.org has temporarily pulled the plugin from the directory pending a review. It is unclear if the author of the plugin introduced the…