These are security and maintenance releases that include two security fixes, along with a number of compatibility improvements, bug fixes, and code modernization updates. We strongly recommend updating your sites as soon as possible.
Highlights
Two security issues:
Prevent user ID spoofing in the Messages REST API endpoint via improved validation.
Restrict Component management to Users with the appropriate Capabilities.
Improves compatibility with WordPress 6.9, including support for block style loading optimizations and replacement of deprecated WordPress APIs where appropriate.
Includes numerous bug fixes across BuddyPress, including BP Nouveau, Groups, Friends, Activity, Administration, and several PHP 8.x compatibility improvements.
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You can update automatically from your WordPress Dashboard, or download BuddyPress 14.5.0 directly:
Thanks to everyone who contributed patches, testing, reviews, bug reports, and responsible security disclosures that helped make this release possible.
Insights into the DevRel role’s importance, explore endless API possibilities, and consider the balance of digital freedom, cost, and usability in today’s tech landscape.
Ever wanted to build an AI support agent for your WordPress website or WooCommerce store?
Imagine customers asking a question at 2 a.m. and getting an instant, accurate answer, pulled straight from your own help docs, website content, and custom private SOPs. Plus, it can cut the repetitive 80% of support questions, so your team can focus on the questions that actually need a human.
Sadly, most AI support tools on the market are either crazy expensive or very complicated to set up.
It simply shouldn’t be this hard to give your customers fast, helpful answers.
That’s why today, I’m excited to announce HelpJet, an AI-powered support chatbot that learns your documentation and answers customer questions automatically, 24/7, built by our team at HeroThemes, a WPBeginner Growth Fund company.
What Is HelpJet?
HelpJet is a standalone AI support chatbot that trains on your own content and resolves the bulk of your repetitive tickets automatically.
It can read between the lines, understand what customers actually mean and respond with genuine empathy, especially when the customers are frustrated. In other words, it offers the human touch you’d expect from your best support person, combined with capabilities no human could ever match.
Aside from WordPress, it seamlessly integrates with BigCommerce, Shopify, Webflow, and more.
Here’s why every small business needs HelpJet:
Create a custom GPT trained on your own website content.
Add an AI support agent for your business that works 24/7.
Speed up WooCommerce store support and boost sales.
Train Your AI Chatbot in Five Minutes
Train your AI chatbot by dropping your content like private SOPs, URLs, help articles, and more.
If you drop a URL from your WordPress site, then HelpJet asks you which post types to fetch. Select the post types, and it trains from your content.
HelpJet also automatically re-scans your site weekly to stay up-to-date. You can also trigger a manual refresh anytime from your dashboard.
Easily Embed the Chatbot on Your Site
The easiest way to embed HelpJet’s chatbot on your website is by installing its WordPress plugin.
As soon as the plugin is activated, a floating chat widget will appear on your site.
You can choose which corner of the screen the widget should appear in, right or left.
Additionally, you can embed the chatbot in any articles with the ‘HelpJet Chatbot’ block or with a shortcode.
Built to Understand WooCommerce Stores
If you run a WooCommerce store, then HelpJet can help you with pre-sales and post-sales questions. The best part is that it can read product variations, stock levels, shipping classes, and tax rules.
So when a shopper asks, “Is this available in blue?” or “Do you offer shipping to Texas?”, it answers with real information instead of providing a generic answer.
For store owners, that’s the difference between a lost sale and a closed one.
Route Complex Questions to Your Team
Here’s the objection I always hear: “What happens when the bot can’t answer?”
When a question is too complex, or the customer simply wants a human, HelpJet routes the conversation to your team smoothly.
And here’s the clever part: when your support agent answers, HelpJet learns from that resolution. Next time, it can handle the question on its own.
That means your bot gets smarter every single day.
Clean Analytics Dashboard to See Exactly What’s Working
HelpJet includes a clean analytics dashboard so you’re never guessing.
You can track conversation volume, satisfaction rate, and resolution rate at a glance. You’ll see the questions customers ask most, which quietly reveal the gaps in your documentation.
Every answer gets a thumbs up or down, and the whole activity log is tagged by sentiment.
Test Your Chatbot Before You Go Live
You’d never want an under-trained bot talking to real customers. HelpJet includes a built-in preview environment for exactly this reason.
You can ask the bot real questions, check its answers, and fine-tune its tone and behavior… all before a single customer ever sees it.
Built by the Team Behind Heroic Themes
HelpJet comes from HeroThemes, a team that’s been building WordPress support software for roughly 15 years. They’re the folks behind Heroic KB, the popular knowledge-base plugin, and Heroic Inbox, their shared-inbox ticketing tool.
Over those years, HeroThemes kept running into the same frustration with Heroic KB customers: businesses had genuinely great documentation, but most visitors never read it. Customers would rather ask or just leave. HelpJet is their answer to that, turning the docs you’ve already written into instant answers your customers actually get.
If you’re already using Heroic KB or other knowledge base plugins on your site, then HelpJet works alongside them.
✅ Point it at your help docs, URLs, or PDFs to train your first bot.
✅ Preview and fine-tune the answers in the testing environment.
✅ Install the WordPress plugin to embed the chatbot on your site.
The free plan is genuinely free forever. You get one bot and 100 interactions per month, which is a great way to see the value before you commit to anything.
When you’re ready to scale, the Pro plan runs $29/month (or about $23/month billed annually) with three bots and 1,000 monthly interactions. It also comes with a 14-day free trial, again with no credit card.
I’d love to hear how you’d use HelpJet on your own site. If there’s a feature you’d like to see, let the team know… this is exactly the kind of feedback that shapes a young product.
Thanks, as always, for being part of our community. I truly believe HelpJet levels the playing field, giving small businesses the kind of live support that used to be reserved for the giants.
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Guadalajara vuelve a rendir culto a la palabra. Mañana martes, 7 de julio, a las 22:00 horas, el Palacio del Infantado abre sus puertas para una nueva edición de «Versos a Medianoche», la cita poética más veterana del verano alcarreño, que llega ya a su XXXIII edición dentro del ciclo de Veranos Culturales 2026 organizado por el Ayuntamiento. La entrada será libre hasta completar aforo.
El concejal de Cultura, Javier Toquero, ha destacado la solidez de esta cita en el calendario cultural de la ciudad: «Versos a Medianoche es ya una tradición asentada en el calendario cultural de Guadalajara, una cita que año tras año demuestra que la poesía sigue teniendo un lugar propio en el corazón de los vecinos».
Toquero ha querido subrayar también el valor del escenario elegido: «El Patio de los Leones del Infantado es, sin duda, uno de los rincones más especiales de nuestra ciudad, y convertirlo en el altar de la palabra durante una noche es todo un privilegio para quienes participan y para quienes nos acompañan». El edil ha aprovechado además para poner en valor la programación estival: «Con esta nueva edición seguimos apostando por unos Veranos Culturales 2026 vivos, diversos y accesibles a todos los vecinos, en los que la poesía, la música y las artes escénicas conviven en los espacios más emblemáticos de Guadalajara».
El evento estará conducido, un año más, por Carmen Niño, poeta y voz habitual de este recital, que en ediciones anteriores ha sido descrita como la conductora del evento y agradecida por su labor al frente del micrófono. Bajo su presentación, un grupo de poetas locales —entre jóvenes promesas y voces veteranas de la escena alcarreña— compartirá versos propios en una noche que combina literatura, cercanía y ese punto de magia que da recitar al raso, entre los muros históricos del Patio de los Leones.
La imagen que anuncia esta edición es obra de Fernando Benito, cuyo cartel recupera la estética de acuarela y el ambiente de tertulia nocturna que caracteriza a la cita, con guiño directo al título: versos que se leen y se comparten pasada la medianoche.
«Versos a Medianoche» es ya una tradición asentada en el calendario cultural de la ciudad. En ediciones recientes ha reunido a cerca de un centenar de asistentes y a más de una decena de poetas sobre el escenario, con trece poetas participando en la edición de 2024, cuando el recital tuvo que competir incluso con una semifinal de la Eurocopa y aun así llenó el patio del Infantado. El origen del recital se remonta a su nacimiento como homenaje al poeta José Antonio Ochaita, y a lo largo de las décadas ha pasado por distintos escenarios de la ciudad —la Plaza del Carmen, el Mercado de Abastos y, en los últimos años, el propio Palacio del Infantado— sin perder nunca su esencia: la poesía hecha por y para los vecinos de Guadalajara.
Con esta nueva cita, el Ayuntamiento reafirma su apuesta por la palabra como parte esencial de los Veranos Culturales 2026, en una noche pensada para quienes buscan una alternativa distinta al bullicio estival: versos, estrellas y la voz de los poetas de la ciudad.
On a globe, America is a landmass, a country. In an immigrant’s heart it is a belief that future is almost always better. It may not be perfect and it is certainly not equal, but it still is one of a kind — the only place where an absolute stranger with a funny name and a funny accent with no friends or contacts can show up, work hard and actually get to do what he was destined to do. […]
In most places in the world, outsiders like me don’t have that chance. That simple truth is what makes America so special. A chance – to be somebody even if you are nobody. America is a state of mind and I have opted-in!
I feel lucky to have been born here, and if I hadn’t been, I think I would have gotten here as fast as I could. I’m grateful to the public schools that educated me, the teachers who pushed me, the internet that freed my mind, and the culture of risk and innovation in technology that invested a million dollars in a 21-year-old dropout kid trying to build a company around (but not replacing) an Open Source project.
It’s not unimaginable that these things could have happened someplace else, but it would have been a long shot.
It’s quite surreal to type that WPBeginner turns 17 years old today!
I’m incredibly grateful to have the support of such an amazing community of website owners, small businesses, and web professionals. YOU are the best part of WPBeginner!
Like every year, I will take a few minutes to share all the major things that are happening in the business as well as my personal life.
But more importantly, to celebrate this big milestone, we’re doing a HUGE birthday giveaway with over $10,000+ in prizes!
If you’re new here, you might not know that I have been using WordPress since I was 16 years old, and I started WPBeginner in 2009 when I was in college at age 19.
Ever since then, WordPress community has played a huge role both in my life as well as my family’s life.
My son, Solomon is now 9 years old, and our baby girl, Aliyah, was born 6 months ago. Parenting is one of the wonderful gifts of life. We recently restarted our travels and took a trip to Mexico as well as Italy. I’ll be sharing more about these trips later in the year when I do my annual year end reviews.
If you didn’t get a chance to read my 2025 recap, I highly recommend checking it because I shared lessons learned from last year.
WPBeginner Updates
This year, Google’s algorithm updates and the rapidly changing A.I. landscape continued to impact our traffic.
The good news is that we’re fortunate to have an incredible community of readers and subscribers, and that’s what matters MOST.
Since starting WPBeginner, my focus has always been on creating helpful tutorials and resources for WordPress beginners, and that will never change. We’re already adapting how we create and share content for this new era, and we’re excited about what’s ahead.
I’m truly grateful for everything we’ve accomplished together this year.
As always, none of this would be possible without your continued support and trust. THANK YOU for being part of our journey!
Here are some of the big updates that happened on WPBeginner in the last 12 months:
1. New Product Launches
This past year, our team put their energy into building. Here are the new products we launched to help you get more done on WordPress:
We launched WPVibe, a WordPress MCP server that lets your favorite AI tool, like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor, manage your WordPress site directly. Our announcement video went viral on X and got over 440k views.
We released ActiveLayer, an AI-powered spam protection tool that stops form, comment, and registration spam server-side in milliseconds without CAPTCHAs or puzzles. Here’s the full background story.
We launched Universally, an AI website translation tool that automatically translates your site into 110+ languages in minutes without hiring professional translators. Here’s the full background story.
My team at Uncanny Automator released Uncanny Agent, the first true AI assistant built natively for WordPress. You can ask any questions about your site or tell it what you need done…and it takes care of it for you. Here’s the full background story.
We launched WPChat, a live-chat widget that lets you convert your visitors into paying customers by connecting them on WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, and Telegram. Here’s the full background story.
My team at WPForms released the Quiz Addon. It lets you build interactive quizzes and graded assessments right inside the form builder you’re already familiar with. Here’s the full background story.
My team at Duplicator released WP Media Cleanup, which enables you to reclaim disk space by identifying unused media files and removing them quickly and easily. Here’s the full background story.
We released WPFilters, which helps you easily add Amazon-style search filters to your site and make your content easily discoverable. Here’s the full background story.
I’m really proud of what our team has built this year, and it’s amazing to see the impact these products are making across the WordPress ecosystem and the larger open web.
Our WPBeginner Workshop is going strong, and this year, we hosted workshops every month covering WordPress fundamentals, AI tips, privacy compliance, and much more.
Every workshop is led by our own team at WPBeginner, sharing the real-world lessons we learn every day. At the end of each session, we also hold a live Q&A where attendees get their WordPress questions answered in real time.
WPBeginner is funded 100% through the support of our readers like you.
My various companies develop premium WordPress plugins to help you grow your website. These plugins are built with the same beginner-friendly approach you know and love from WPBeginner, and a large number of our product & feature ideas come from your feedback & suggestions.
When you buy a license for any of my premium plugins, you’re not only helping make your website better, but you’re also helping support WPBeginner and our mission.
My company, Awesome Motive, has over 300+ team members across the world, and all of us are committed to help you build a better website!
Here’s a list of our plugins that you should check out. Collectively, they’re being used on over 30 million websites. Your support means a lot to us whether you use the free version or purchase a premium license – we are here to serve.
OptinMonster: Powerful conversion optimization software that helps convert abandoning visitors into subscribers & customers. Download for free
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I want to say thank you to everyone who has supported us in this journey. I really do appreciate all of your retweets, personal emails, content suggestions, and the interactions at the events.
I also want to say special thank you to everyone who’s using our plugins because that enables us to keep bringing more free tutorials to WPBeginner.
You all are AMAZING and without you, there is no WPBeginner.
La Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) ha clausurado en Guadalajara el segundo ciclo de su vigésima edición de cursos de verano. Entre el 1 y el 3 de julio, el Centro San José ha sido el escenario del seminario sobre genealogía, marginalidad y poder de las hijas ilegítimas en la Edad Moderna. El programa, dirigido por la catedrática Esther Alegre Carvajal, ha analizado cómo la bastardía femenina en la monarquía y la alta nobleza determinaba la posición social y jurídica de estas mujeres en la Corte.
Ser una hija secreta de la realeza implicaba, a menudo, la reclusión en conventos o la imposición de matrimonios forzados con nobles como estrategia de expulsión familiar. Sin embargo, el curso ha expuesto casos como los de Juana de Trastámara, Ana y Giovanna de Austria, o Margarita de Parma, quienes lucharon activamente por construir su identidad real. La coordinadora del ciclo, Valeria Manfré, ha defendido que estas mujeres no fueron figuras periféricas, sino personas conscientes de su posición que recurrieron a sus redes y a la memoria dinástica para reafirmarse.
Durante las jornadas también se han explorado cuestiones relacionadas con el arte, el patrimonio y la onomástica. El profesor de la Universidad Autónoma, Jaime Elipe, apuntó que los bastardos solían compartir escudo con sus padres, pero recibían nombres más imaginativos como Tristán o Isolda, alejados de los tradicionales Juanes o Leonores. Tras finalizar este bloque histórico, la actividad académica se traslada ahora a la sede de la UNED en Azuqueca de Henares, donde el lunes 6 de julio arranca un nuevo curso sobre los abordajes clínicos frente al trauma dirigido por Genny Lubrini.
Veinte ediciones vertebrando el debate académico
Al consultar la hemeroteca de Liberal de Castilla, se observa cómo los cursos de verano de la UNED llevan dos décadas ininterrumpidas enriqueciendo la actividad cultural estival en la provincia. A lo largo de estas veinte ediciones, la institución ha consolidado una red que trasciende la capital para integrar a municipios clave del Corredor del Henares, consolidando a Azuqueca como una sede universitaria de referencia. Esta trayectoria histórica confirma cómo la UNED ha logrado asentar un modelo que aporta valor incremental a la región, conectando la revisión rigurosa del pasado silenciado con el análisis de los retos clínicos e intelectuales del presente.
El Teatro Auditorio Buero Vallejo de Guadalajara ha iniciado este viernes, 3 de julio, la venta de entradas para su Ciclo Teatro en Otoño 2026. La programación, impulsada por el Ayuntamiento, reunirá a destacados intérpretes de la escena nacional entre los meses de septiembre y diciembre. Las localidades tienen un precio único de 16 euros, con un descuento del 20% aplicable al adquirir el abono completo, y ya están disponibles tanto en la taquilla como en la web oficial del recinto.
El cartel de esta temporada está compuesto por siete representaciones:
El 26 de septiembre arranca con ‘La Pasión Infinita’, una tragicomedia con Pepón Nieto, Claudio Tolcachir, Ana Labordeta y Avelino Piedad.
El 3 de octubre llega el espectáculo de improvisación ‘Volar con los pies en el suelo’, de Rafael Álvarez «El Brujo».
El 25 de octubre se presenta ‘La Vida Extraordinaria’, una historia sobre la amistad con Malena Alterio y Carmen Ruiz.
El 14 de noviembre es el turno de ‘Bestseller’, una sátira sobre las redes sociales protagonizada por Nacho Guerreros.
El 20 de noviembre sube a las tablas ‘Gigante’, con José María Pou interpretando a Roald Dahl.
El 12 de diciembre la compañía Yllana propone humor y música clásica con el teatro-concierto ‘Pagagnini’.
El 19 de diciembre concluye la programación con el clásico ‘Las Amistades Peligrosas’, liderado por Pilar Castro y Roberto Enríquez.
El peso del Buero Vallejo
Buceando en la hemeroteca de Liberal de Castilla, el Ciclo de Otoño del Buero Vallejo se ha consolidado a lo largo de los años como el motor cultural indiscutible de Guadalajara tras el parón estival. Históricamente, este escenario ha logrado asentar un modelo que combina la dramaturgia clásica con el humor y la presencia de rostros muy conocidos de la televisión y el cine español, una fórmula que tradicionalmente asegura una alta ocupación y la venta rápida de abonos.
La programación de este 2026 mantiene esa línea continuista que ha demostrado ser efectiva en temporadas anteriores. Al recuperar a figuras habituales en las tablas alcarreñas, como El Brujo o la compañía Yllana, y sumar propuestas contemporáneas con actores de renombre, el teatro logra fidelizar al público local. El mantenimiento de precios fijos a 16 euros permite que Guadalajara siga fortaleciendo su posición como una plaza accesible y de paso obligatorio en las giras nacionales antes de que termine el año.
In ecommerce, it’s not just about the tech but how it helps merchants grow. Open source can offer control and adaptability, especially with platforms like Woo and WordPress.
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