The new Ollie Menu Designer plugin has caused quite a stir in the scene of the popular open source CMS WordPress, since it arrives to solve (totally free) a major shortcoming of the current block editor regarding menus. Until now there has been a valid menu system in WordPress core. You can create menus and dropdowns and it works, but what was really needed was the ability to add more things to menus and not just links in the way many other CMS do (mega menus).
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MCP for AI, now enabled in WordPress
The artificial intelligence team at WordPress.com is moving very quickly and has just announced a new and important milestone. It is the integration of MCP technology (Model Context Protocol), which it uses to connect any generative artificial intelligence to any software, in this case within the CMS.
(more…)Newspack’s most notable product improvements in Q3 2025
Each quarter Newspack publishes the top five product improvements it adds to this CMS, based on WordPress and designed for small and mid sized newspapers, to help them reach more users and be sustainable.
(more…)Learn everything coming in WordPress 6.9 in a video just 250 seconds long
Jamie Marsland’s videos are among the best ways to stay informed about WordPress progress. This time he outlines in only 250 seconds what will come in the next major update, 6.9.
(more…)AInnovación 2025, a successful event that Google failed to overshadow
AInnovación 2025 took place the 24th of September, the great celebration of artificial intelligence (AI) and content that CMS MAG organizes every year. If last year’s edition was a discovery for many, this edition has been the moment of consolidation despite the bad luck that Google, despite having an office in Spain since 2003 (according to what I checked in chatGPT), waited until 2025 to hold its first Publisher Day in Spain, among other events that directly competed with those showcased at AInnovación 2025.
(more…)AI bot managers, the new trend inside CMS
Bots, the share of Internet traffic generated by machines rather than humans, have become a huge problem, largely driven by the rise of web scraping, a technique aimed at extracting information from websites in an automated way. In recent times it has grown considerably thanks to the spread of generative AI companies, so the question is what to do about it.
(more…)Which CMS should you choose after WordPress?
I have always argued (and will go on doing so until Drupal CMS or another open-source product proves otherwise) that WordPress is the best open-source CMS to start with, to launch into the content market on a very tight budget, to test an editorial idea and gauge market acceptance.
(more…)Drupal can rest easy with Acquia’s new CEO, Chris Tranquill
This is at least what Drupal founder Dries Buytaert states in one of his recent blog communications. Chris Tranquill is now the new CEO of Acquia, one of the world’s most popular DXP (digital experience platforms), replacing Steve Reny, who spent many years at the company, the last three as CEO.
(more…)Protecmedia, the seventh company to showcase its AI at Ainnovación 2025
Protecmedia has confirmed that it will also unveil its artificial intelligence (AI) developments this year, at Ainnovación 2025, after taking part in last year’s edition and showcasing its powerful CMS with a large number of AI features to the Spanish market.
(more…)Drupal: the best placed to succeed in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)?
Dries Buytaert, Drupal’s founder, is as unequivocal as other CMS and DXP leaders. The arrival of AI has completely reshaped the market; that is no longer in dispute. The question now is which platform the agencies or companies will choose to prosper in an AI-dominated world. On his blog, Buytaert argues that Drupal is the best-placed platform to prosper in the AI era.
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