Two longtime friends from India — Vedanshu Jain, a former technical lead at Woo, and Kamal Joshi, a software engineer at Meta — have teamed up to build Urumi.ai, an “agent-first” platform for WooCommerce with safety at its core. Pitched as the first agentic AI platform for WooCommerce, Urumi.ai isn’t a plugin, but infrastructure built from the ground […]
Why Sustainability Sells in WordPress
Heads up: This is sponsored content, created and paid for by one of our sponsors. Their support helps keep The Repository going. All sponsors follow our Advertising Policy. In the WordPress ecosystem, conversations about site performance, security and scalability are common. But there’s a topic quietly becoming just as critical… sustainability. The internet’s carbon footprint is similar… Source
YouTuber’s Secret Shopper Project Reveals Gaps in Customer Support at Hosting Companies
A “secret shopper” experiment has exposed gaps in how some major hosting companies in the WordPress space deliver support. YouTuber Christian Taylor put seven hosts to the test in a 23-minute video on his Craylor Made channel, uncovering big differences in response times and troubleshooting quality. Taylor reviewed BigScoots, Rocket.net, Kinsta, Hostinger, InMotion Hosting, WP Engine… Source
Melapress Survey Finds 96% of WordPress Pros Have Experienced Security Incidents
Almost every WordPress professional has faced a security incident, yet fewer than a third have a plan for what to do when things go wrong, according to Melapress’s 2025 WordPress Security Survey, published this week. Now in its third year, the survey paints a picture of a community deeply aware of the security risks but struggling to translate […]
Automattic Debuts Telex, Bringing AI-Powered “Vibe Coding” to Gutenberg Blocks
Automattic’s latest AI experiment, Telex, is giving WordPress developers something new to play with: a chat-style tool that generates custom Gutenberg blocks and packages them as downloadable plugins. CEO Matt Mullenweg introduced the project during his keynote at WordCamp US 2025 in Portland last Friday, comparing it to AI-powered “vibe coding” platforms like V0 and Lovable that turn… […]
WordCamp US 2026 Heads to Phoenix in the Middle of Summer
Next year’s WordCamp US will take place in Phoenix, Arizona, from August 16–19, 2026. The announcement came during WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s WCUS 2025 keynote last Friday and raised eyebrows since August in Phoenix means daily highs over 100°F (37.8°C). “Bring a hat, it might be a little warm,” Mullenweg joked during his keynote. He promised plenty of […]
WordCamp US 2025 Wraps in Portland: AI Demos, Student Programs, and What’s Next for WordPress
WordCamp US 2025 wrapped up Friday at Portland’s Oregon Convention Center, closing four days of contributions, sessions, and hallway conversations. Attendance dipped this year — 1,200 tickets sold, down from 1,928 in 2024, according to WordCamp Central revenue data — while nearly 18,000 people tuned in online for the daily livestreams. The vibe on the ground was upbeat. […]
