In July, it was announced that WordPress meetup groups will be moving off Meetup.com and onto events.wordpress.org, built on GatherPress. And since August 28, the team working on the project has ha…

Hey hosts 👋 Testing and development on the real-time collaboration feature (“RTC”) has picked up again after initially being removed from WordPress 7.0. A new server-aware approach for …

Discover how Aditya Shah is making an impact in the WordPress community and leading the official chapter in Bhopal.

In June 2025 I started googling seaside venues near Palermo. A small spreadsheet, a very optimistic (!) business plan, and the idea that WooCommerce developers

The Portuguese WordPress community is putting on a dedicated AI event in Faro on October 24, with two tracks and a bilingual program.

A year after withdrawing its first official block theme, WooCommerce says the time it spent improving core blocks and the editor made Purple worth bringing back.

This security and maintenance release features 17 bug fixes on Core, 19 bug fixes for the Block Editor, and 11 security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update …

WooCommerce introduces Purple, its first official block theme for beta testing, offering extensive customization options and modern templates for e-commerce. Users can provide feedback via GitHub…

WordPress Playground has shipped two new features: an integrated Terminal for PHP and WP-CLI, and a group for developer tools options on the Dock. The compact Dock keeps the everyday actions in vie…

Update to WordPress 7.1.2 now. Plus the WordPress 7.2 roadmap, AI agents and WordPress, a plugin developer trust checklist, and the WP Engine antitrust ruling.

खम्मा घणी! पधारो म्हारे WordCamp Rajasthan! ❤️ The wait is over. After inviting our WordPress community to design the Wapuu for the first-ever WordCamp Rajasthan, we can finally introduce you to ou…

“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a remin…

Maintenance of the GitHub mirror of the WordPress build repository has recently being transferred to the WordPress.org systems team. In future, any syncing issues with the GitHub mirror should be r…

The “Post” (or “Page”) tab of the editor’s Settings sidebar is being rebuilt on top of DataForm, the same form that Quick Edit uses in the Site Editor. It’s avai…

Following this year’s nominations, we are pleased to announce our new Test Team Reps for the 2026-2027 term! 🎉 Join us in welcoming Erick Wambua and Huzaifa Al Mesbah to re…

Date: 16.10.2026Place: Hotel Lasaretti 8:00 – 9:00 Registration + morning coffee (lobby) Time Talks / Auditorium Workshops / Classroom 9:00 9:00 – 9:15Opening Remarks Auditorium 9:15 Sisu Talk 09:15…

Everything is changing, and quickly. I feel it every day I work on Miles. It’s hard to keep up with, and often exhausting. There are threats and opportunities everywhere. WordPress…

Automattic's board crisis explained, WordPress security survey 2026 results, agency profitability data, and why WooCommerce devs keep losing to their own to-do

One of the most important aspects of any open source community is mentorship. In many ways, WordPress is what it is today due in large part to the many established contributors who have been willin…

A practical look at how AI agents inspect, change, and test WordPress—and why skills and MCP still need real evidence.

WooCommerce 11.1.1 has been released with targeted fixes for security, and a bug around the Mini-Cart.

Right now, the Student Clubs pages on this handbook are mostly an agreement: what a club is, and what’s expected of it. They don’t say how a club should actually run week to week, who&#…

This week’s WordPress AI contributor update covers progress on the AI plugin’s markdown feeds experiment, PHP AI Client 1.5.0 and embeddings, Anthropic web search support, and ongoing Model Context…

Automattic's board crisis explained, WordPress security survey 2026 results, agency profitability data, and why WooCommerce devs keep losing to their own to-do

Curious what AI actually looks like inside WordPress? Now you can find out for yourself. With the release of WordPress 7.0, AI is built directly into WordPress core through the canonical AI plugin.…

Hadrian reproduced WordPress core's critical CVSS 9.2 path traversal (CVE-2026-87902) with a working PoC and safe detection template. Patch to 7.1.2 now.

WordPress 7.1.2 landed on 22 September 2026. It’s a security-only release with a single fix, and that fix is the most serious thing WordPress has patched in a w

Earlier this year, real-time collaboration (RTC) was removed from WordPress 7.0. Since then, I, @alecgeatches, @dmsnell, and others have been working through the valid concerns that led to that dec…

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor sectio…

This security release features a fix for a critical severity security vulnerability. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download W…

Find upcoming WordPress events near you and around the world. Join your local WordPress community at a meetup or WordCamp, or learn how to organize an event for your city.

I have been thinking a lot lately about the state of the WordPress community in the United States and Canada. If you have been looking at the data, we still have a lot of meetups happening, and tha…

Contributors are closing in on replacing Meetup.com with an open source alternative that could save the WordPress Foundation over $200,000 a year.

There hasn’t been a single WordCamp run in the US this year outside the flagship. Automattic’s Karen Arnold has pitched a three-stage revival plan with new formats and no livestreams.

Staff say questions in Slack have gone unanswered and an internal anonymous forum has been shut down. One employee describes anger, frustration, and feeling disrespected.

There’s no GEO cheat code. Twelve months of logs show ChatGPT and Claude fetch your WordPress pages just fine while ignoring llms.txt.

My last commit to WordPress core was July 6, 2015. My next one was July 27, 2026. Eleven years and three weeks.

Ipsum is the proposal for the next default theme, planned to be bundled in WordPress 7.2. It is an intentionally minimal blog theme that centers on a blank canvas to make your own, with built-in ro…