This post recaps how the WordPress project’s five Global Partners — Jetpack, WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Bluehost, and Hostinger — supported community events during the first half of 2026. Across more than a dozen regional the first WordPress Developers Day, and a growing network of WordPress Campus Connect events, Global Partners staffed booths, sponsored sessions, and connected with developers, freelancers, […]
Performance Chat Summary: 16 June 2026
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @westonruter shared the current performance-focused Trac report and highlighted #65215. @westonruter noted that the ticket is likely close to being merged and just needs another review. @mukesh27 asked whether there are any high-priority tickets the team should focus on for WordPress 7.1. @westonruter identified […]
What Happened at WordCamp Europe 2026
WordCamp Europe, the biggest WordPress conference in Europe, spent the first week of June in Kraków. The 2026 edition of this event filled the ICE Kraków Congress Centre from June 4 to 6, drawing 2,458 ticket holders from 81 countries to the south of Poland. Close to a quarter of them were attending their first WordCamp Europe. The […]
Protect The Shire
tl;dr: Temporary 24-hour cooldown period for plugin/theme releases before auto-updates. AI can give defenders an edge. We want to secure all 78K plugins and themes on WordPress.org. One of the things we’ve always striven to do as the developers of WordPress is to work harder so you don’t have to; we take technology that’s complex or inaccessible and […]
Performance Chat Summary: 2 June 2026
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @b1ink0 asked about updates on #64471, which aims to add cross-document View Transitions on the frontend. @westonruter shared that there is a bug with View Transitions in the WordPress admin tracked in #65032. @westonruter also shared that PR #11912 is ready for review and […]
WP23
WordPress at 23 is simultaneously both the strongest and most precarious it’s ever been. Last week, we shipped WordPress 7 to the world. In seven days, 46% of all WordPresses, tens of millions across countless different hosting environments, are already on 7.0, auto-updated with no breakage. From a Raspberry Pi to the most secure sites in the world, […]
Looking Ahead to WordCamp Europe 2026
June 4-6, 2026 | ICE Kraków Congress Centre, Kraków, Poland WordCamp Europe 2026 will bring the WordPress community together in Kraków, Poland, from June 4–6 for Contributor Day, two conference days, and a program shaped by the ideas, tools, and people moving WordPress forward. This year’s schedule includes two official keynotes, hands-on workshops, panels, and sessions across development, […]
WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong”
Every WordPress release celebrates an artist who has made an indelible mark on the world of music. Say Hello to WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong”, named in honor of “Satchmo” himself, jazz musician Louis Armstrong. Known as the “first great jazz soloist”, Louis Armstrong created ensembles that highlighted his own profound trumpeting skills, and in the process, transformed jazz from […]
Performance Chat Summary: 19 May 2026
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @westonruter shared updates related to WordPress 7.0 ahead of the scheduled release the next day. Regarding loading block styles on classic themes, which had several fixes during the 7.0 release cycle, @westonruter updated the Load Combined Core Block Assets plugin to bump the “Tested […]
WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 4
The fourth Release Candidate (“RC4”) for WordPress 7.0 is ready for download and testing! This 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’s recommended that you evaluate RC4 on a test server and site. Reaching this phase of the release […]
