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Oct 27, 2026
Jonny MillerGUEST
So I attempt to form a bunch of like, what are the best ideas that I have? And in this case, kind of going back to cohort two, like how could I fill another cohort of people? Like where might these people come from? And then over, I think it was like a four month period, I was like, okay, how many of these experiments can I run in that period of time? and will they work was basically what it was.
Jonny MillerGUEST
I'll say the other thing that was really helpful about using Notion in the beginning is that I could make so many tweaks to the landing page and just redesign stuff so much in a way that I don't think I would have been able to if I was using Webflow or WordPress or something more complex.
Jay ClouseHOST
Okay, I want to highlight a couple things.
Jay ClouseHOST
One, you just re-highlighted that the initial webpage for this was built in Notion, which I see webpages built in Notion, I see sales pages built in Google Docs, and I think that's brilliant.
Allison SchiffHOST
I see that when I interact with Claude and ask for...
Allison SchiffHOST
Hey, can you briefly summarize the story that I wrote so I can plop this one liner into WordPress because that is one of my tedious tasks and the line that comes back is just what? Although that's a little more, I don't know, probabilistic than a wrong decimal point.
Allison SchiffHOST
I know you guys place guardrails outside the agent.
Allison SchiffHOST
How does that work exactly? And yeah, who is accountable when an agent screws up?
Dave SobelHOST
The Verge laid out why that was the advice.
Dave SobelHOST
Two flaws in PHP, the programming language underneath a huge share of the web, including WordPress, let an attacker run code on the server.
Dave SobelHOST
They carry a severity score of 9.2 out of 10, and they reach every version back to PHP 5.
Dave SobelHOST
PHP runs about 70% of websites whose server-side language is known.
Ray CochraneHOST
The server is the computer on the other end that builds a web page before sending it to you.
Ray CochraneHOST
WordPress is built on it, and so are Wikipedia and Drupal.
Ray CochraneHOST
W3Techs track the technology behind websites.
Ray CochraneHOST
And from what I can tell, the language runs about 69% of sites.
Ray CochraneHOST
Researchers nicknamed these bugs PHP to Shell.
Ray CochraneHOST
The security firm Calif helped find them, and it says it's used them to take over 11 different web apps without logging in.
Ray CochraneHOST
WordPress and MediaWiki among them.
Ray CochraneHOST
PHP rated both bugs, yeah, 9.2 out of 10 on the industry standard scale for how dangerous a security hole is.
Nathan WrigleyHOST
It's time for This Week in WordPress, episode number 386, entitled PHP and AI.
Nathan WrigleyHOST
It was recorded on Monday, the 26th of October, 2026.
Nathan WrigleyHOST
My name's Nathan Wrigley, and today I'm joined by Michelle Frechette and Dave Gray and by Ivana Kirkovich.
Nathan WrigleyHOST
We talk a lot about AI towards the end.
Nathan WrigleyHOST
We talk about it in terms of the vulnerability in PHP, which was plaguing everybody last week, but also about the fact that it now seems that AI in an MCP way is going to be landing in WordPress Core in 7.3. We also talk a lot about other bits and pieces as well.
Nathan WrigleyHOST
So the WordPress contributor toolkit gets a mention, WordPress credits and the fact that they've now got sponsorship tiers, accessibility, the state of contributing in WordPress, ways of hosting your site for free on Cloudflare, static and various other ways, and a few plugins which we bring to people's attention as well.
Nathan WrigleyHOST
And it's all coming up next.
Nathan WrigleyHOST
on This Week in WordPress.
Max the BotHOST
His starting point is the critical PHP remote code execution vulnerability that broke last week.
Max the BotHOST
Thompson reflects on the old internet where anyone could spin up a WordPress server, configure PHP and MySQL, and publish to the world.
Max the BotHOST
That open, hand-rolled internet created blogs, media disruption, and extraordinary creativity.
Max the BotHOST
But he argues that the old model, anyone hosting anything, often without professional security, is effectively over.
Max the BotHOST
His own Stratechery site, he notes, runs on managed WordPress infrastructure through Pressable, an automatic company, meaning it was patched before disclosure.
Max the BotHOST
The sane choice today is not artisanal server management.
Max the BotHOST
It is managed, secured, professionally operated infrastructure.
Lynn AustinGUEST
But I will say one of the things that I... that I really like about, um, something that I did with Claude in particular, I'm not a website designer.
Lynn AustinGUEST
I'm not a, um, that's not my skillset, but I, I, my, my website, um, Lynn at boston.com. My website is a WordPress website and I know rudimentary elements of how to do it, but I learned that Claude has these other kind of MCP connectors and one of them is WP writer.
Lynn AustinGUEST
And so with WP writer, I just, what I did is I talked to Claude.
Lynn AustinGUEST
I said, Claude, can you access my website with this connector? And it said, yes.
Lynn AustinGUEST
And then I changed it to HTML code and gave it to Claude.
Lynn AustinGUEST
And then he did the page and put it onto the site.
Lynn AustinGUEST
So even when you think about that, those are things that I would have either had to hire somebody to do because I was already prepared to hire somebody to update my WordPress website.
Lynn AustinGUEST
The other thing that I'll do is if I get something, say, for example, from Chatty, and I'm like, I'm not quite sure that's right.
Ipek OzkardeskayaHOST
And last week's website security scare I'm sure you heard about strengthened the case for cybersecurity spending as critical flaws were discovered in PHP.
Ipek OzkardeskayaHOST
PHP being a programming language used in around 70% of websites around the world, including those from well-known providers like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, as well as MediaWiki, which is the software behind Wikipedia.
Ipek OzkardeskayaHOST
The latter incident prompted some operators to take sites offline as a precaution, as AI apparently helped uncover the vulnerabilities and develop working exploits, showing how the technology can strengthen defenses but also lower the barriers for attackers.
Ipek OzkardeskayaHOST
As a result, and unsurprisingly, cybersecurity names including Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, and Zscaler rallied on news.
Dennis OzGUEST
There are, this is a very...
Dennis OzGUEST
Telescoping containers? Did I hear that right? This is telescoping containers is a WordPress tool.
Dennis OzGUEST
And when you put like a picture and you can put like millions of words under that picture and it must be visible after a click.
Dennis OzGUEST
you don't mess up how this web page sees with the first-time arrivals, right? But if they would like to read more, you click on one, arrow right there, and it's just going to open up a dropdown, not a list, but a paragraph, and you will still be talking about that.
RainaHOST
Let's go.
RainaHOST
PHP is the programming language quietly running something like 70% to 75% of the websites you can identify, WordPress and Wikipedia's software included.
RainaHOST
And it turns out it had a 14-year-old bug that let a stranger run their own code on your server without logging in.
RainaHOST
Nobody caught it until security firms Wiz and Calif teamed up with OpenAI and pointed AI models at the code, and the robots found it in one pass and rated it 9.2 out of 10 on the oh-no scale.
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