WordPress 7.1.x Maintenance Cycle: Responsibilities, Timeline, and Call for Release Managers
Following the release of WordPress 7.1.0 on August 19, 2026, the core team has opened calls for WordPress 7.1.x release managers to
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Securing WordPress Staging Environments: A Technical Guide to Safe Provisioning and Deployment
A WordPress staging site provides an isolated environment for testing code updates, plugin changes, and infrastructure upgrades. However, copying production environments without