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 […]
