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WordCamp US 2025 Schedule Now Live, With New Career Corner and Student Initiatives Keynotes from Google and Matt Mullenweg headline a four-day program packed with AI, skill-building and new initiatives, with more still to come.

WordCamp US 2025 Schedule Now Live, With New Career Corner and Student Initiatives

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Issue #268 - WP Engine v Automattic, Campus Connect's rise, GoDaddy's new AI, and WCUS 2025

Out now: The Repository #268 🗞️

⚖️ WP Engine & Automattic clash over discovery

🌏 WordPress Campus Connect goes global
🤖 GoDaddy launching agentic AI
📅 WCUS 2025 full schedule now live

💼 WP Includes mentorship cohort now open

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GoDaddy Bringing Agentic AI to Its Platform With Ask Airo The hosting giant reported its Q2 2025 financial results this week and revealed it’s been testing Ask Airo, a new conversational AI assistant designed to help customers manage domains, sites, payments,...

GoDaddy Bringing Agentic AI to Its Platform With Ask Airo

WP Includes Is Helping Women Level Up Their Careers in WordPress — and Applications Are Now Open Applications are now open for WP Includes’ next mentorship cohort, but the real story is the program’s impact since it launched in 2023.

WP Includes Is Helping Women Level Up Their Careers in WordPress — and Applications Are Now Open

WordPress Campus Connect Quickly Growing With Global Events, Student Clubs and Scholarships From Spain to the Philippines, WordPress Campus Connect is expanding with global events, student clubs, scholarships, and local impact.

WordPress Campus Connect Quickly Growing With Global Events, Student Clubs and Scholarships

WordPress Coding Standards 3.2.0 Adds Sniff for Meta Functions, Updates for PHP 8.4

Patchstack Mid-Year Report Flags Sharp Rise in Exploitable WordPress Vulnerabilities Patchstack has published its 2025 mid-year vulnerability report, revealing a sharp rise in both the volume and severity of security issues across the WordPress ecosystem.

Patchstack Mid-Year Report Flags Sharp Rise in Exploitable WordPress Vulnerabilities

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WordPress Holds Ground in Higher Ed But the Sector Is Demanding More, According to New Report A new report surveying 115 higher education professionals has found that while WordPress remains a foundational CMS across universities, confidence in its future is mixed — and expectations are rising...

WordPress Holds Ground in Higher Ed But the Sector Is Demanding More, According to New Report

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Out now: The Repository #267 🗞️

🗺️ WP 6.9 Roadmap: Block comments, Site Editor updates, admin redesign
🤖 Hostinger & Elementor tease AI agents
🖼 Woo pulls block theme
🎓 Higher ed still bets on WP but wants more

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Agentic AI Coming to WordPress: Hostinger and Elementor Rolling Out Chat-Based Site Management Managing a website may soon feel less like wrangling the backend of WordPress and more like having a conversation with a coworker.

Agentic AI Coming to WordPress: Hostinger and Elementor Rolling Out Chat-Based Site Management

Woo Withdraws Block Theme Submission, Reconsiders Successor to Storefront

Inside Enqueue: A New Developer-Focused WordPress Event Coming to APAC A new event is set to launch in Sydney this November, aimed at providing the kind of professional development space WordPress engineers in the Asia-Pacific region rarely get access to.

Inside Enqueue: A New Developer-Focused WordPress Event Coming to APAC

WordPress 6.9 Roadmap: Block Comments, Site Editor Updates, and an Admin Redesign The roadmap for WordPress 6.9 is out, and with it, a clearer picture of what's being actively pursued for the release, which drops on December 2.

WordPress 6.9 Roadmap: Block Comments, Site Editor Updates, and an Admin Redesign

Finix Launches WooCommerce Plugin, Enters Crowded Payments Field Finix, a relatively new payments company with big ambitions and Stripe in its sights, has launched a new plugin for WooCommerce that promises fast setup, flexible payment options, and transparent pricing....

Finix Launches WooCommerce Plugin, Enters Crowded Payments Field

The WP Community Collective Lays Foundations for Project Development and Board Expansion The WP Community Collective is settling into its nonprofit structure and laying the foundation for what comes next: member-led projects, more transparent processes, and a bigger board.

The WP Community Collective Lays Foundations for Project Development and Board Expansion

Google's Danny Sullivan to Keynote WordCamp US 2025 as Speaker Lineup Begins to Take Shape With just a month to go before WordCamp US 2025 kicks off in Portland, Oregon, organizers have unveiled the first round of speakers and announced that Google's Danny Sullivan will deliver this year's...

Google’s Danny Sullivan to Keynote WordCamp US 2025 as Speaker Lineup Begins to Take Shape

Who Will Lead FAIR Next? Nominations Now Open for TSC Co-Chairs Nominations are now open for the first official co-chairs of FAIR's Technical Steering Committee, as the Linux Foundation-backed project moves from provisional leadership to a long-term governance model.

Who Will Lead FAIR Next? Nominations Now Open for TSC Co-Chairs

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Issue #266 - Woo gets louder, Danny Sullivan to keynote WCUS, and Test Team pushes for change

Out now: The Repository #266 🗞️

🔊 Woo turns up the volume
🧪 Test Team seeks deeper ties with Core Team
🇺🇸 Danny Sullivan to keynote WCUS 2025
📈 WPCC sets out growth plans
🎴 Marcus Burnette launches Unleash the Wapuu

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New Contributor Group Aims to Strengthen Collaboration Between Testers and Core Committers The WordPress Test Team has launched a new contributor group aimed at improving collaboration between testers and Core committers.

New Contributor Group Aims to Strengthen Collaboration Between Testers and Core Committers

Unleash the Wapuu: A WordPress Card Game Built with AI and Open Source Spirit Build your WordPress dashboard. Deploy plugins. Sabotage your friends with malware. Block their moves with a perfectly timed “Access Denied.” That’s the premise of Unleash the Wapuu, a new Wapuu-themed...

Unleash the Wapuu: A WordPress Card Game Built with AI and Open Source Spirit

Woo Is Getting Louder: Inside Its New Marketing Strategy Woo is turning up the volume on its marketing. Since February's rebrand, the team's been busy rolling out campaigns, reorganizing internally, and rethinking how they show up in the market.

Woo Is Getting Louder: Inside Its New Marketing Strategy

New QA Report Aims to Bridge the Gap Between WordPress Testing and Core Teams WordPress Test Team contributor Manuel Camargo has published a first-of-its-kind report analyzing quality practices in WordPress Core — and raising important questions about how the project handles...

New QA Report Aims to Bridge the Gap Between WordPress Testing and Core Teams

If you're building multilingual sites, this one's for you.

Weglot's new AI-powered translation feature adapts to your brand and gives you full control.

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Translation isn't a one-size-fits-all. Weglot's new AI model is part of a bigger shift toward personalized, brand-aware localization.

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Managing a multilingual site? Weglot's new AI feature helps you keep translations consistent with your brand voice — without extra effort.

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We explored Weglot's new AI Language Model and how it gives you control over translation quality. Here's what it looks like to train an AI to match your brand tone.

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