diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 500da84..6eb2dbf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -87,15 +87,32 @@ build(composer):   Update humbug/php-scoper to v0.18.19
 chore(actions):    Update actions/checkout to v7
 ```
 
-Allowed: `deps`, `deps-dev`, `wp-plugin`, `wp-theme`, `npm`, `composer`, `actions`. These are emitted by [linchpin/renovatebot-config](https://github.com/linchpin/renovatebot-config); anything else must still be a task key, `NO-TASK`, or an issue number.
+Allowed: `deps`, `deps-dev`, `wp-plugin`, `wp-theme`, `wporg`, `linchpin`, `npm`, `composer`, `actions`. These are emitted by [linchpin/renovatebot-config](https://github.com/linchpin/renovatebot-config); anything else must still be a task key, `NO-TASK`, or an issue number.
 
 `build` is the [Angular convention's type for external dependencies](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0-beta.4/), and `update` reads better for a WordPress plugin bump — both are valid here.
 
+### WordPress types
+
+`wp-plugin` and `wp-theme` are types as well as scopes. [release-please](https://github.com/googleapis/release-please) groups changelog sections strictly by **type** — its schema has no scope key — so WordPress updates need their own types to get their own changelog sections. Under those types the scope names where the package came from:
+
+```
+wp-plugin(wporg):    Update akismet to v5.3
+wp-plugin(linchpin): Update gravityforms to v3
+wp-theme(deps):      Update ollie-pro to v2.6.1
+deps(npm):           Update webpack to v5.94.0
+deps(composer):      Update wp-cli to v2.11
+platform(deps):      Update php to v8.3
+```
+
+`wporg` is anything public — [wp-packages.org](https://wp-packages.org) and [wpackagist.org](https://wpackagist.org) are two routes to the same wordpress.org packages, so they share a scope. `linchpin` is our own [packagist.linchpin.com](https://packagist.linchpin.com). Themes are routed as one group upstream, so they carry the generic `deps` scope.
+
+The matching changelog sections live in [linchpin/release-please-config](https://github.com/linchpin/release-please-config), whose test suite asserts that its section list equals the type list here — so a type added in one place and not the other fails CI rather than silently dropping commits from a changelog.
+
 ## Rules
 
 | Rule | Level | Description |
 | --- | --- | --- |
-| `type-enum` | error | Type must be one of: `add`, `improve`, `build`, `chore`, `ci`, `docs`, `feat`, `feature`, `fix`, `perf`, `refactor`, `remove`, `revert`, `style`, `test`, `update` |
+| `type-enum` | error | Type must be one of: `add`, `improve`, `build`, `chore`, `ci`, `deps`, `docs`, `feat`, `feature`, `fix`, `perf`, `platform`, `refactor`, `remove`, `revert`, `style`, `test`, `update`, `wp-plugin`, `wp-theme` |
 | `subject-case` | warning | Subject must be in sentence-case |
 
 The config also sets a custom `parserPreset.parserOpts.headerPattern` that enforces the scope format.
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 332fff1..1be3f6b 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,12 +1,25 @@
 'use strict';
 
-const TYPES = ['add', 'improve', 'build', 'chore', 'ci', 'docs', 'feat', 'feature', 'fix', 'perf', 'refactor', 'remove', 'revert', 'style', 'test', 'update'];
+// wp-plugin and wp-theme are types here, not only scopes, because release-please groups
+// changelog sections strictly by type - there is no scope key in its schema - so
+// `update(wp-plugin)` and `update(wp-theme)` would share the type `update` and collapse into
+// one section. As types they get a section each. linchpin/renovatebot-config emits them.
+//
+// deps and platform are no longer emitted by renovatebot-config, which routes that traffic
+// through build(npm) and build(composer). They stay allowed because the fleet's history
+// contains them, and because either reads better than `build` for a hand-written dependency
+// commit. @linchpinagency/release-please-config maps every type here to a section, and its
+// tests assert the two lists are identical - so adding a type in one place without the other
+// fails CI instead of silently dropping commits from a changelog.
+const TYPES = ['add', 'improve', 'build', 'chore', 'ci', 'deps', 'docs', 'feat', 'feature', 'fix', 'perf', 'platform', 'refactor', 'remove', 'revert', 'style', 'test', 'update', 'wp-plugin', 'wp-theme'];
 
 // Dependency updates have no task behind them, so the scope slot carries the kind of
 // dependency instead - which is what the wider ecosystem does too (`build(deps)`,
-// `chore(deps-dev)`). wp-plugin and wp-theme keep WordPress updates obvious at a glance
-// in a log that is mostly automated. deps-dev precedes deps so the longer one wins.
-const DEP_SCOPES = ['deps-dev', 'deps', 'wp-plugin', 'wp-theme', 'npm', 'composer', 'actions'];
+// `chore(deps-dev)`). Under the wp-plugin and wp-theme types the scope names where the
+// package came from: `wporg` for anything public (wp-packages.org or wpackagist.org, which
+// are two routes to the same wordpress.org packages) and `linchpin` for our own
+// packagist.linchpin.com. deps-dev precedes deps so the longer one wins.
+const DEP_SCOPES = ['deps-dev', 'deps', 'wp-plugin', 'wp-theme', 'wporg', 'linchpin', 'npm', 'composer', 'actions'];
 
 // A ClickUp-style task key, NO-TASK, a GitHub issue number, or a dependency scope.
 const SCOPE = new RegExp(`^(?:[A-Z]+-\\d+|NO-TASK|#\\d+|${DEP_SCOPES.join('|')})$`);
diff --git a/index.test.js b/index.test.js
index 84b36e6..a780d89 100644
--- a/index.test.js
+++ b/index.test.js
@@ -18,10 +18,18 @@ describe('@linchpinagency/commitlint-config', () => {
 
 	test('type-enum includes expected types', () => {
 		const [, , types] = config.rules['type-enum'];
-		const expected = ['add', 'improve', 'build', 'chore', 'ci', 'docs', 'feat', 'feature', 'fix', 'perf', 'refactor', 'remove', 'revert', 'style', 'test', 'update'];
+		const expected = ['add', 'improve', 'build', 'chore', 'ci', 'deps', 'docs', 'feat', 'feature', 'fix', 'perf', 'platform', 'refactor', 'remove', 'revert', 'style', 'test', 'update', 'wp-plugin', 'wp-theme'];
 		expect(types).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(expected));
 	});
 
+	// These four exist so release-please can give them their own changelog sections — it
+	// groups strictly by type, with no scope key in its schema. They are listed separately
+	// from the rest because dropping one here silently collapses a section over there.
+	test('includes the types release-please sections depend on', () => {
+		const [, , types] = config.rules['type-enum'];
+		expect(types).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['deps', 'platform', 'wp-plugin', 'wp-theme']));
+	});
+
 	// Every type in type-enum must also be reachable through headerPattern. The two are
 	// separate lists, so a type added to one and not the other passes type-enum and is
 	// then rejected by the parser — the failure mode this guards against.
@@ -144,11 +152,26 @@ describe('@linchpinagency/commitlint-config', () => {
 			'build(composer): Update humbug/php-scoper to v0.18.19',
 			'build(npm): Update webpack to v5.94.0',
 			'chore(actions): Update actions/checkout to v7',
+			// The WordPress types, with the scope naming where the package came from.
+			'wp-plugin(wporg): Update akismet to v5.3',
+			'wp-plugin(linchpin): Update gravityforms to v3',
+			'wp-theme(deps): Update ollie-pro to v2.6.1',
+			'deps(composer): Update wp-cli to v2.11',
+			'deps(npm): Update webpack to v5.94.0',
+			'platform(deps): Update php to v8.3',
 		])('accepts %s', (header) => {
 			expect(explain(header)).toBeNull();
 			expect(header).toMatch(pattern);
 		});
 
+		// wp-plugin and wp-theme are valid in both slots. A hyphenated type must not be
+		// truncated by the alternation the way deps-dev could be.
+		test('parses a hyphenated type as a whole type', () => {
+			const [, type, scope] = 'wp-plugin(wporg): Update akismet to v5'.match(pattern);
+			expect(type).toBe('wp-plugin');
+			expect(scope).toBe('wporg');
+		});
+
 		// deps-dev must win over deps, or the scope parses as `deps` and the header breaks.
 		test('parses deps-dev as a whole scope', () => {
 			const [, , scope] = 'build(deps-dev): Update svgo to v3'.match(pattern);
diff --git a/release-please-config.json b/release-please-config.json
index 2b563cc..3495b3a 100644
--- a/release-please-config.json
+++ b/release-please-config.json
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 	"release-type": "node",
 	"bump-minor-pre-major": true,
 	"bump-patch-for-minor-pre-major": true,
-	"include-v-in-tag": true,
 	"include-component-in-tag": false,
+	"include-v-in-tag": true,
 	"pull-request-header": ":gem: Automated Release",
 	"packages": {
 		".": {
@@ -13,19 +13,88 @@
 		}
 	},
 	"changelog-sections": [
-		{ "type": "feat", "section": "Features ✨" },
-		{ "type": "feature", "section": "Features ✨" },
-		{ "type": "fix", "section": "Bug Fixes 🐛" },
-		{ "type": "improve", "section": "Improvements 🎨" },
-		{ "type": "update", "section": "Improvements 🎨" },
-		{ "type": "docs", "section": "Documentation 📚" },
-		{ "type": "refactor", "section": "Refactoring ♻️" },
-		{ "type": "perf", "section": "Performance ⚡️" },
-		{ "type": "style", "section": "Styles 💄" },
-		{ "type": "test", "section": "Tests 🧪" },
-		{ "type": "chore", "section": "Miscellaneous 🧹" },
-		{ "type": "revert", "section": "Reverts ⏪️" },
-		{ "type": "ci", "section": "Continuous Integration 👷", "hidden": true },
-		{ "type": "build", "section": "Build System 📦", "hidden": true }
+		{
+			"type": "feat",
+			"section": "Features ✨"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "feature",
+			"section": "Features ✨"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "add",
+			"section": "Features ✨"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "fix",
+			"section": "Bug Fixes 🐛"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "improve",
+			"section": "Changes to Existing Features 💅"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "refactor",
+			"section": "Changes to Existing Features 💅"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "update",
+			"section": "Changes to Existing Features 💅"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "perf",
+			"section": "Performance Improvements ⚡️"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "remove",
+			"section": "Removed 🗑️"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "wp-plugin",
+			"section": "WordPress Plugins 🔌"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "wp-theme",
+			"section": "WordPress Themes 🖌️"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "deps",
+			"section": "Dependencies 📦"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "docs",
+			"section": "Documentation 📚"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "style",
+			"section": "Styles 🎨"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "test",
+			"section": "Tests 🧪"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "revert",
+			"section": "Reverts ⏪️"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "chore",
+			"section": "Miscellaneous Chores 🧹"
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "platform",
+			"section": "Platform 🏗️",
+			"hidden": true
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "build",
+			"section": "Build System 🔧",
+			"hidden": true
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "ci",
+			"section": "Continuous Integration 👷",
+			"hidden": true
+		}
 	]
 }