At the heart of our community is our shared pledge to create a space that is harassment-free, welcoming, and inclusive for all. Our Community Code of Conduct already outlines a clear set of expectations, while also providing examples of unacceptable actions. Today, we are reinforcing our values by adding another element to our list of unacceptable behaviors: Publishing […]
WordPress Thanks Salesforce
In the midst of our legal battles with Silver Lake and WP Engine, I wanted to take a moment to highlight something positive. Because of my friendships with the co-founders of Slack, Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson, WordPress.org has had a free version of the Pro version of Slack since they started in 2009. We switched from IRC […]
WP Engine Promotions
Given the egregious legal attacks by WP Engine against WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, a number of their customers have been looking for alternative hosting, and in return a number of hosts have created specials and promotions for WP Engine customers looking to migrate to a host that has great relations with WordPress.org. Here they are, in alphabetical order. […]
Performance Chat Summary: 15 October 2024
Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements Welcome to our new members of #core-performance WordPress 6.7 Beta 3 is October 15, with RC1 on October 22 Reminder due to daylight savings, this meeting will shift to 16:00 UTC from October 29 Priority Items WordPress performance Trac tickets Current release (6.7) Future releases Performance […]
Performance Chat Agenda: 15 October 2024
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for October 15, 2024 at 15:00 UTC. Announcements Welcome to our new members of #core-performance WordPress 6.7 Beta 3 is October 15, with RC1 on October 22 Reminder due to daylight savings, this meeting will shift to 16:00 UTC from October 29 Priority items WordPress performance Trac […]
WordPress 6.7 Beta 3
WordPress 6.7 Beta 3 is now ready for testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended you evaluate Beta 3 on a test server and site. You can test WordPress 6.7 Beta 3 in four […]
Secure Custom Fields
On behalf of the WordPress security team, I am announcing that we are invoking point 18 of the plugin directory guidelines and are forking Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) into a new plugin, Secure Custom Fields. SCF has been updated to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem. On October 3rd, the ACF team announced ACF plugin updates […]
Forking is Beautiful
The right to fork the software is at the heart of open source. WordPress itself started as a fork of the b2/cafelog project. WordPress was one of several forks from b2, which included b2++ (which eventually became WordPress Multisite) and some like b2evolution which still continue today. The last decent fork attempt for WordPress was ClassicPress in 2018, […]
Please Welcome Mary Hubbard
We’re proud to announce that Mary Hubbard (@4thhubbard) has resigned as the Head of TikTok Americas, Governance and Experience, and will be starting as the next Executive Director of WordPress.org on October 21st! Mary previously worked at Automattic from 2020 to 2023, and was the Chief Product Officer for WordPress.com, so she has deep knowledge of WordPress and […]
WordPress 6.7 Beta 2
WordPress 6.7 Beta 2 is now ready for testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended you evaluate Beta 2 on a test server and site. You can test WordPress 6.7 Beta 2 in four […]