Oliver Sild, CEO of Patchstack, shared on X an email he received from WordCamp Central explaining why Patchstack’s application to sponsor WordCamp Europe 2025 was rejected. The email, written by Felipe Santos, detailed a shift in the sponsorship process. It… Continue Reading →
WordPress.com has introduced Studio Sync, a new feature for its local development app, Studio. Launched last year as a free, open-source tool for Mac and Windows users, Studio now integrates seamlessly with WordPress.com through this update. Studio Sync allows developers… Continue Reading →
The Themes and Hosting teams has unveiled their representatives for 2025. Themes Team Reps In November, the Themes Team announced their search for community members familiar with WordPress theme development to serve as representatives for 2025. The call for nominations… Continue Reading →
Automattician Alex Shiels of the Meta team has announced the resumption of WordPress.org services after the holiday break of two weeks. Users can now register new accounts, submit plugins, themes, and photos, and review plugins once again. Last month, Matt… Continue Reading →
Nick Hamze has called for making WordPress themes exciting and the web weird again. “WordPress desperately needs your creativity, your weird ideas, your willingness to break the visual rules. The future of the web shouldn’t be a monochrome landscape of… Continue Reading →
The Indian WordPress community is set for an exciting start to 2025, with three WordCamps scheduled for January, as per WordCamp Central. India has a thriving WordPress community and according to the WordPress Meetup global trends report (January 2023 to June… Continue Reading →
The WordPress Community Team has proposed hosting women-centric events on International Women’s Day through local WordPress communities to celebrate, empower, and inspire women. These events are envisioned as platforms where women can connect, share experiences, and enhance their skills in… Continue Reading →
Chris Christoff of the Plugins Team has published the roadmap of Phase 2 of the Plugin Check plugin. According to the statistics shared at this year’s State of the Word, 41% fewer issues were reported per approved plugin after launching… Continue Reading →
WordCamp Europe has released tickets for the 2025 edition of the event scheduled for June 5-7 in Basel, Switzerland. There are two types of tickets: the General ticket, priced at €50, and the Micro-Sponsor ticket, which costs €250. Both options… Continue Reading →
The Training Team has launched a new course on Learn WordPress specifically for designers: Beginner WordPress Designer. This learning pathway is crafted to help designers new to WordPress gain the skills needed to create professional websites. The course covers essential… Continue Reading →
For the first time, Matt Mullenweg has announced a holiday break for WordPress.org services. In his blog post, he said, “In order to give myself and the many tired volunteers around WordPress.org a break for the holidays, we’re going to… Continue Reading →
Lena (Eleni) Stergatou has been awarded the first-ever WordCamp Europe Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, previously exclusive to WordCamp US, was recently extended to include WordCamp Asia and Europe following the latest meeting of the WordPress Foundation Board…. Continue Reading →
Support Inclusion in Tech (SiNC) has announced the expansion of its grant program to now include applicants from North and South America. SiNC was proposed by Winstina Hughes in 2022 to mitigate the financial stress of underrepresented groups seeking to… Continue Reading →
The WP Community Collective has announced that it has incorporated as a California membership nonprofit for mutual benefit. Sé Reed, President & CEO of WPCC, shared, “A lot is said about (and to) the #WordPress community. But for the most… Continue Reading →
The controversial mandatory pineapple pizza checkbox on WordPress.org’s login form has been made optional. This decision follows a Twitter poll conducted by WordPress.org, in which 81.2% of respondents voted against making the checkbox mandatory. Additionally, 58.3% of respondents declared that… Continue Reading →
The latest release of Gutenberg, version 19.9, brings a suite of powerful features, tools, and improvements for WordPress users. From enhancing classic themes with the Style Book to introducing the new Query Total block, here’s everything you need to know… Continue Reading →
WP Gives A Hand, a charitable initiative within the WordPress community, uniting businesses to donate a portion of their revenue to support various nonprofit organizations, has turned five. The businesses choose whichever charity they would like to donate to. Over… Continue Reading →
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg delivered his annual State of the Word (SOTW) address today from Tokyo Node Hall in Tokyo, Japan. This marks the second time the event was held outside North America, following last year’s address in Madrid, Spain…. Continue Reading →
Does pineapple belong on pizza? The answer may vary from person to person. But WordPress users were in for a surprise when they tried to login to the WordPress.org website. A new mandatory checkbox require users to confirm that “Pineapple… Continue Reading →
WordPress.com is now offering new annual plans at 25% off as part of their year-end promotion. The offer includes a free domain for the first year. This exclusive deal ends on December 31st, 2024. To claim the offer, use the… Continue Reading →
After removing the mandatory WordPress.org login checkbox and the WP Engine Tracker CSV file, Automattic has reinstated WP Engine’s WordPress.org repository access and control over the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin repository. This follows a court ruling that required Automattic… Continue Reading →
After the court issued a preliminary injunction in favor of WP Engine, Automattic has begun complying with the orders. The mandatory login checkbox in WordPress.org website has been removed, and the WP Engine Tracker website has been updated, including removing… Continue Reading →
The CEOs of Barn2Plugins, Patchstack, and LayerWP have announced plans to expand their businesses beyond WordPress. While none of them are leaving the WordPress ecosystem, they are branching out into new territories to diversify their offerings and drive growth. Barn2Plugins:… Continue Reading →
WPExperts has acquired the Advanced File Manager plugin from Modal Web. WPExperts (formerly WooExperts) is a leading WordPress development company with an extensive portfolio of WordPress and WooCommerce plugins. The Advanced File Manager plugin has over 100,000 active installations on… Continue Reading →
Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the Northern California District Court has granted WP Engine’s motion for a preliminary injunction against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg. The ruling follows a November 26, 2024, hearing where the judge expressed an inclination to approve WP… Continue Reading →
Automattic has announced that it has acquired WPAI, a company specializing in AI-powered tools for WordPress. Founded two years ago, WPAI has developed innovative products like CodeWP (an AI IDE for WordPress developers), AgentWP (an AI agent for WordPress), and… Continue Reading →
Awesome Motive’s WP Forms plugin has patched a Missing Authorization to Payment Refund and Subscription Cancellation vulnerability. This issue allowed authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to refund Stripe payments and cancel subscriptions without proper authorization. Wordfence reports that… Continue Reading →
Jessica Lyschik, a WordPress Developer at GREYD, has won the highly anticipated WordPress Speed Build Challenge, defeating WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. Jessica announced that she would donate her $5,000 prize money to Girls Who Code. The showdown was set following… Continue Reading →
The WordPress Core team is gathering consensus around integrating the WP Consent API into Core. The WP Consent API feature plugin was originally introduced in early 2020 to standardize the communication of accepted consent categories between plugins. Automattician Brian Alexander… Continue Reading →
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg will deliver his annual State of the Word (SOTW) address on December 16 at 18:00 JST / 09:00 UTC, live from Tokyo Node Hall in Tokyo, Japan. This marks only the second time the event will… Continue Reading →
