https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports Data-driven reports on the WordPress + AI ecosystem, with the data attached. en-us https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports/mcp-2026-07-28-spec-wordpress https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports/mcp-2026-07-28-spec-wordpress Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT MCP's 2026-07-28 revision makes the protocol stateless — no initialize handshake, no session header — and deprecates Roots, Sampling and Logging. The official WordPress MCP Adapter currently targets 2025-11-25, the revision this one supersedes. This brief covers what actually breaks, what it means for each WordPress MCP server we track, and which parts of the coverage elsewhere are wrong. https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports/mcp-servers-for-wordpress-2026 https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports/mcp-servers-for-wordpress-2026 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Model Context Protocol went from an Anthropic spec in late 2024 to an official WordPress AI Building Block in 2026. WordPress.com shipped full write support, the core Abilities API + MCP adapter give self-hosted sites the same path, and Automattic is openly positioning WordPress as 'the operating system of the agentic web.' Here's the landscape and what it means for site owners and developers. https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports/wordpress-security-vulnerabilities-2026 https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports/wordpress-security-vulnerabilities-2026 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT WordPress core is not the problem — plugins are. Disclosure volume keeps climbing, a large share of vulnerabilities ship public with no patch available, and over half of notified plugin developers don't fix before disclosure. The 2026 picture, and a practical hardening checklist that beats installing one more plugin. https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports/state-of-wordpress-page-builders-2026 https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports/state-of-wordpress-page-builders-2026 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Elementor powers ~13% of all WordPress sites and still leads page builders, but its share has slid from a 2023 peak as Gutenberg becomes the universal default and Bricks takes the performance-minded middle. AI generation is the new battleground. Here's the 2026 leaderboard and the pick for each kind of build. https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports/state-of-wordpress-block-themes-2026 https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports/state-of-wordpress-block-themes-2026 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Block themes still account for roughly 8% of the active WordPress install base, but they make up 47% of themes shipped or updated in the last 6 months and outperform classic themes on every benchmark we run. For new builds in 2026, the default smart choice is a block theme. Three reasons, then the call. https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports/state-of-wordpress-ai-plugins-2026 https://bestwordpressthemes.com/reports/state-of-wordpress-ai-plugins-2026 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The WordPress repository now hosts roughly 212 plugins that mention AI in their description. About 30 are AI-native; the rest bolted on. The natives compete on feature surface and provider breadth. The MCP frontier is one canonical server away from real agentic WordPress. EU AI Act compliance is sitting there waiting for a serious plugin. A mid-2026 look at what's working, what isn't, and what to bet on.