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WordPress 7.1 was supposed to speed up prerendering by itself on well-cached sites. That is not what shipped. What landed instead is a lever only your host can pull, and the caching test behind the deferred idea cannot see most of what makes hosting fast.
WordPress 7.1 shipped on 19 August with responsive styling and hover states built into the editor, two jobs that have pushed people towards Elementor for years. Updated for the release: what actually landed, the one thing we got wrong in July, the two settings that can hide the new controls, and the UK maths on whether your page builder site should care.
WordPress is turning from software humans drive into software AI agents can inspect and operate. Giving an agent access without backups, permissions, logs and easy rollback is like giving a very enthusiastic apprentice the server password and going to lunch. Here is what changed in WordPress 7.0, what goes wrong, and what AI-ready WordPress hosting actually needs to include.
Nearly every host promises "daily backups included", but that phrase tells you almost nothing about whether you could actually recover your site on a bad day. Here is what really gets backed up, why retention matters more than frequency, whether the backup can be restored, and how 365i's Timeline Backups handle files, databases and mailboxes without a plugin.
Some managed WordPress hosts now block AI crawlers by default, silently, and that can quietly cut your site out of AI search. Here is the case against blanket blocking, our own 19-day crawler log showing which AI bots actually read a real site, and how to set it up properly at the infrastructure layer.
WordPress 7.0 launched on 20 May 2026 without real-time collaboration, which Matt Mullenweg pulled on 8 May. Here's what shipped, what got cut, and our hands-on findings from running RC5 on two of our own sites for the 24 hours before launch.
mcneece.com scores 97 on mobile PageSpeed Insights. The number isn't a plugin trick. It's a layered stack: PHP 8.5, the 365i Web Optimisation panel, the 365i CDN with 180-day edge caching, and one tuned plugin. Real screenshots of the actual settings.
Webflow locks your CMS content to their servers. Cloudflare's EmDash only runs its security features on Cloudflare. WordPress lets you host anywhere. Here's the honest comparison nobody else is making.
The complete reference guide to every common WordPress error message. White screen of death, 500 errors, database connection, memory exhausted, redirect loops. Diagnose, fix, and stop it happening again.
Every comparison on page one of Google is funded by affiliate commissions. This one isn't. We run a WordPress hosting company, but we'll tell you where Shopify, Squarespace and Wix genuinely win, and where WordPress still wins everything else.
WordPress 7.0 didn't ship on 9 April. The core team extended the cycle to redesign the database layer for real-time collaboration, then pulled real-time collaboration entirely on 8 May. The release shipped on 20 May with block-level Notes in its place. This is the record of the database rework that happened anyway.
The WordPress Foundation has announced that WordPress 7.0 will require a physical USB-C hardware key plugged into your computer to access wp-admin. Four pricing tiers start at £29.99. The Agency Bundle weighs 1.4kg. We have questions.
