Hacker News - Newest: "WordPress"

Stolen UpdraftCentral Keys Are Backdooring WordPress Sites

wondersky — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:45:52 +0000

Article URL: https://patchstack.com/articles/updraftcentral-key-compromise-wordpress-backdoors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50181936

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

How to Convert a WordPress Blog to an Astro Static Site

gslepak — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:12:22 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.okturtles.org/2024/10/convert-wordpress-to-static-site/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50181344

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

WSP MCP – Free WordPress MCP Plugin for AI Integration

wspmcp35 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:23:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/bilalnaseer/wsp-wordpress-mcp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179708

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Accessibility in WordPress

edent — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:42:24 +0000

Article URL: https://blindaccessjournal.com/2026/10/an-open-letter-to-matt-mullenweg-on-accessibility-in-wordpress/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177322

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Contentrain Migrate – Move a WordPress site into a working Astro project

oraysercan — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:29:12 +0000

Article URL: https://migrate.contentrain.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167005

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Popular WordPress Backup Tool Breached

aksss — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:35:41 +0000

Article URL: https://teamupdraft.com/blog/security-incident-october-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50160293

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Footloom – Self-Hosted Google Analytics Alternative for WordPress

hamzamairaj — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:01:09 +0000

Article URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/footloom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152625

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Automattic Wants .wordpress. It Doesn't Own WordPress

ValentineC — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 13:27:36 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@kelliepeterson/automattic-wants-wordpress-it-doesnt-own-wordpress-d9e6be3f3a45

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140930

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

BugShield Scout: 1,415 WordPress theme vulnerabilities

wondersky — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:11:09 +0000

Article URL: https://bugshield.co.uk/blog/wordpress-theme-vulnerabilities-bugshield-scout

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137182

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: CanvoWP – Agent first website builder for WordPress (completely free)

hamzamairaj — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:32:21 +0000

Article URL: https://canvowp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115725

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Show HN: WP Replai – AI chatbot built right into WordPress

hamzamairaj — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:06:46 +0000

Article URL: https://wpreplai.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115538

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Matt Mullenweg Orders Accessibility Revert, Bans Core Wordpress Committer

slyall — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:47:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.therepository.email/matt-mullenweg-orders-accessibility-revert-tells-core-committer-to-contribute-your-talents-to-another-project

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113348

Points: 23

# Comments: 1

Show HN: BookPress, a WordPress core in C/C++ (Live Demo)

squareys — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:56:53 +0000

Since ~40% of all websites supposedly still run on WordPress (WP), I thought it might be useful to run it faster. BookPress is about 50% faster than a performance-tuned WP setup with Elementor and WooCommerce.

Every time I used WordPress in the past, I got frustrated how slow it was, even with just a few plugins. So I wrote an light-weight C/C++ core and an embeddable PHP engine to run plugins and themes, with most of the WP API surface covered.

Try the live demo, including wp-admin!

The embeddable PHP runtime that covers most of Zend PHP's features runs 2x slower than Zend, but BookPress is still faster than a performance-tuned WP instance with OPCache, page cache and object caches.

BookPress runs alongside a traditional WP installation on Linux arm64 and x86_64.

Looking forward to what you all think.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102404

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

WSP MCP – Free WordPress MCP for Connecting AI Coding Agents

wspmcp — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:45:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/bilalnaseer/wsp-wordpress-mcp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100970

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: A faster WordPress core written in C/C++ (Live Demo)

squareys — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:04:05 +0000

Over the last 20 years, I repeatedly got frustrated with how slow WordPress (WP) is, especially once you stack a few plugins on it.

Since 40% or what of all websites still run on WP, I decided [and please don't ask why, I have no idea what drove me] it could be useful to apply my C/C++ performance experience to a brand new from-scratch WP core to save about 50% of infrastructure while simultaneously increasing performance. With agent assisted coding I thought it could actually be doable to build out most of WP' API surface, and it was! (over multiple months)

Try the live demo, including wp-admin!

It shows WooCommerce + Elementor working, which is remarkable because I had to build an embeddable PHP runtime that covers most of Zend PHP's features for it. Runs 2x slower than Zend, but BookPress is still faster than a performance-tuned WP instance with OPCache, page cache and object caches.

I don't mean to replace WP, and am faithfully implementing the API to avoid any divergence or "BookPress" handling in plugins or themes. BookPress is meant to run alongside a PHP WP installation, with a single-command migrate and un-migrate.

Looking forward to what you all think.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090981

Points: 2

# Comments: 1