WordPress is getting another major release this year after all. Plans to ship WordPress 6.9 in late 2025 were a key focus of Tuesday’s quarterly core committers meeting with project leadership — a shift from April, when Executive Director Mary Hubbard announced there wouldn’t be another major release until 2026. At the time, she attributed the decision to […]
Introducing WordPress Credits: A New Contribution Internship Program for University Students
The WordPress Foundation is proud to launch WordPress Credits, a contribution-focused internship program that brings university students into the heart of the WordPress open source project. While WordPress thrives on contributions from a global volunteer community, many students and newcomers face barriers to entry, such as a lack of structured guidance or real-world experience in open source projects. […]
New Proposal Aims to Bring Phased Updates to WordPress.org Plugins
A new proposal to introduce phased plugin rollouts to the WordPress.org plugin directory has sparked active technical discussion on Trac. The feature, proposed by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, would allow plugin authors to gradually release updates to a subset of users before rolling them out to everyone, mirroring practices used in Apple’s App Store and Google Play. “This […]
Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine fight came after “a lot of community feedback”
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says the decision to take action against WP Engine last September was based on “a lot of community feedback,” pushing back against the idea that it was a “Matt decision,” in a new episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast. Automattic and WP Engine have been locked in a tense legal battle since last October […]
Performance Chat Summary: 1 July 2025
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @westonruter mentioned that the PR adding fetchpriority support for scripts (PR #8815) needs additional reviews if it is to land in the next minor release. But if WordPress 6.9 really is coming later this year then, the feature may be better suited as a […]
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