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Shoppers in 2025 aren’t impulse buyers — they’re cautious, they do their research, and they’re harder to win over. That’s the message from Commerce Insights: Cracking the Code on the Modern Consumer, a new report from Woo and Klaviyo that doubles as a guide to help agencies and freelancers optimize their WooCommerce sites. The survey of more than […]

The WordPress project is trying something new: a Core Program Team. Announcing the experiment this week, Executive Director Mary Hubbard said the team’s goals were to strengthen coordination between core sub-teams, improve efficiency, and make contribution easier. Its focus will be documenting practices, surfacing roadmaps, and supporting new teams with clear processes. Source

Enqueue, a new one-day event for engineers working with WordPress at scale, has unveiled what co-organizer Ben May is calling “the best lineup of any WordPress event this year.” The program, coming to Sydney on November 28, featuring local and international speakers, with talks spanning technical deep dives, case studies, and forward-looking sessions on AI and modern workflows… […]

The State of Enterprise WordPress Survey is closing soon, and the Scale Consortium is making a last call for big brands, universities, and publishers running WordPress at scale to have their say before the deadline. Now in its third year, the survey has become the closest thing the enterprise side of the ecosystem has to an annual health […]

GoDaddy has launched Airo Site Designer, an AI-powered website builder that can spin up a WordPress site in minutes from simple text prompts. The product is now available for all GoDaddy Managed WordPress Hosting customers after several months in beta. The tool is aimed at small business owners — GoDaddy’s core audience — along with agencies and freelancers […]

A federal judge has dismissed WP Engine’s antitrust and extortion claims against Automattic but allowed most of the company’s lawsuit to continue, including allegations Automattic interfered with WP Engine’s business and “covertly” replaced Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) with its own plugin. U.S. District Court Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued a 30-page order on Friday, granting in part and… Source

WordCamp Gdynia is doing something no other Polish WordCamp has attempted: it’s going bilingual. When the conference kicks off September 26–28 in the seaside city, sessions will run in both Polish and English — a deliberate move to open the event to international speakers, attendees, and sponsors. For co-organizer Maciek Palmowski, the shift has been about breaking out […]

The WordPress Documentation Team has pushed back against the decision not to have a Docs lead on the 6.9 release squad, warning that the move undermines recognition of their work and risks leaving documentation as an afterthought. The change is part of an experiment to slim down the release squad, announced in August, with responsibilities like marketing and […]

The WordPress Hosting Team has launched a 2025 Hosting Survey, inviting providers of all sizes to share how they run and support WordPress. And in a first, the results will be published in full and used to inform updates to the WordPress.org Hosting page — a page every host wants to be on but few understand who, or […]