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The main theme of this month’s WordPress news is measurement. Most of what shipped in July shows you something that your site was already doing without telling you. WPForms can now show which form field people abandon, and AIOSEO can tell you the day a plugin sets your homepage to noindex. On top of that,

AI Summary Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) stops a stolen password from becoming a compromised site. Every feature it offered, including two-factor authentication, XML-RPC protection, and login page CAPTCHA, is already in the main Wordfence plugin, which is free. If the 2FA plugin only hooks the default WordPress login, users arriving through a custom form skip the

WordPress 7.1 beta is now available for testing, and we have been running it on our test sites for the past week. The official release is scheduled for August 19, 2026, timed with WordCamp US. While WordPress 7.0 rebuilt the admin and introduced the AI Client, 7.1 turns to the editor. For the first time,