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On September 30, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced a $1.35 million settlement with the Tractor Supply Company for allegedly violating the privacy rights of residents of California. The CPPA claimed that Tractor Supply violated California privacy requirements by failing to provide an effective mechanism to opt out of the selling or sharing of personal information, failing to have the required disclosures in its Privacy Policy, and failing to have the appropriate contractual protections when disclosing personal information Continue reading the post...

Early Release Spotlight This week, as we get closer to our next significant release, we’re putting out a call for help. Marc was on another episode of This Week in WordPress, plus a new poll and poll results. Check it all out below! You Can Help Us Build Surprises (The Good Kind) Have you ever updated a product to the latest version only to find bugs, annoyances, or changes that you weren’t ready for? If so, you’re exactly the person Continue reading the post...

Fresh Updates, Your Voice in Early Release, and Awards Season It’s another busy week at MainWP. We’ve released new updates for both the Dashboard and Child plugins, we’re still leaning on your feedback in the Early Release Program to shape what’s next, and awards season is in full swing with TemplateMonster’s voting underway (We’re still Number 1!). We’ve also added a couple of new Knowledgebase articles to help you work smarter, and of course we’ve got a fresh poll to Continue reading the post...

EU Data Rules, a Faster Dashboard, and Your Say on MainWP’s Future This week’s newsletter has a little of everything: a major new EU law that could affect your business, the latest MainWP Early Release packed with fixes and improvements, a community poll to help shape what comes next, and a breaking announcement for developers. We’ve also got voting news and last week’s survey results to share. The EU Data Act is Now in Effect As of September 14, the Continue reading the post...

Note: This change only affects developers and external collaborators working with our GitHub repositories. Regular MainWP users are not impacted and don’t need to take any action. master → main We’ve updated all MainWP GitHub repositories to use main as the default branch instead of master. This change aligns with current industry standards adopted by GitHub, major open-source projects, and development teams worldwide. Why the change? Git’s default branch naming has evolved over the past few years, with main becoming Continue reading the post...

On September 14, 2025, the major provisions of the EU Data Act went into effect, affecting companies producing connected products, offering related services, and third parties that may receive data from a connected device (even if the company is not located in the EU). The Act provides new rights to access data, implements new product design requirements, makes it easier for consumers to switch between providers, imposes new contract requirements, and more. In this article, we will discuss the major Continue reading the post...

Updates, Interviews, and a Big Question for You This week brings a mix of polish and personality. We’ve got a fresh maintenance release in the changelog, Marc making the rounds in interviews (including one with Seahawk Media), another stop at the WP Round Table coming up, and of course it wouldn’t be awards season without asking for your vote. And because we like to keep things interesting, we’re closing with one big question about why you chose MainWP in the Continue reading the post...

Over the last couple of years I’ve spent way too much time trying and removing different search solutions for MainWP’s websites. Years. For search. We run multiple properties: the MainWP website, a discourse community forum, blog, knowledgebase, API specific docs and the MainWP Developer website. Each one critical for our users. Each one generating support tickets when people couldn’t find what they needed. And somehow, in 2025, making search actually work across all of them, at a price that made Continue reading the post...

Earlier this year, in our weekly newsletters (if you haven’t subscribed, why not do it now?), we’ve been asking our MainWP Community a series of questions designed to help shape the future of MainWP. These surveys, designed to be answered in just a few seconds, have given us insight into the things you need and want as well as helped to enhance our knowledge of our customer base so we can better serve their needs.With a few under our belt, Continue reading the post...

On June 22, 2025, the Governor of Texas signed the Texas Responsible Artificial Governance Act (TRAIGA) into law, prohibiting the development of AI systems for certain purposes, protecting consumers, and developing a sandbox program. This new law goes into effect on January 1, 2026 and includes numerous notable provisions for developers of AI systems, which are discussed below.  Who does the Act apply to?  The TRAIGA applies to any person who:  Promotes, advertisers, or conducts business in Texas;  Produces a Continue reading the post...