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WordPress 7.1 Broke WP Rocket: The Fatal Error and the Plugin Problem
WordPress 7.1 was released on August 19, 2026. Soon afterward, websites running WP Rocket began experiencing a fatal PHP error that could take the entire website offline, including the WordPress administration area.
WP Rocket released a fix the next day.
But the incident has become more than a story about one plugin needing an update. The problem had been publicly reported on GitHub to WP Rocket on July 6, while WordPress 7.1 was still in development. The report included
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