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The WP World has introduced a new way for WordPressers to connect: real-time multilingual messaging. Write in your own language, and the person on the other end sees it in theirs. Creator Marcus Burnette said the feature was designed to make conversations across the global WordPress community easier, without the friction of translation. “Messaging isn’t anything new. But […]

WordPress 6.8.3 was released yesterday, rolling out security fixes for two vulnerabilities in core. The update addresses a data exposure issue where authenticated users could access some restricted content, and a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting navigation menus. If your site has automatic background updates switched on, the release has already been applied. Source

WordPress Credits has taken another step in its journey to educate the next generation of WordPress users and contributors. Costa Rica’s Fidélitas University has become the first institution outside Europe to formally join the program, and the first in Latin America to host a WordPress Campus Connect event. The partnership was formalized at WordCamp US earlier this month… […]

In a wide-ranging Crossword interview released last week, WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg opened up about jazz, his blogging habits, and his crash course in American discovery law. A year on from his contentious WordCamp US 2024 keynote, hosts Jonathan Wold and Luke Carbis pressed him on what they called “the infuriating, heartbreaking, grey-hair-making drama that’s… […]

As a small publisher working with WordPress, there are three things that consistently slow me down when I’m editing content submitted by other writers, or when I’m putting together sponsored posts like the one you’re reading now: If this is what I’m dealing with as a teeny newsroom, I can only imagine the headaches for larger publishers with […]

Cloudways is bringing back its free Prepathon online event next week, from September 30 to October 2, just in time for the busiest shopping season of the year. Over three days, speakers and panelists will dig into how ecommerce is changing, and how businesses can keep pace as younger generations rewrite the rules of shopping. According to Danish […]

Fueled has confirmed layoffs this week, cutting 4–5% of its workforce. But the news reached the WordPress community sooner than the agency planned, after a former employee decided to go public. On Monday, former staffer Sam Sidler, who worked in account and strategy roles until his own layoff in 2024, published a blog post pre-empting Fueled’s announcement. Sidler […]

After calling for “more weirdness” in WordPress theme design earlier this year, Nick Hamze has again struck a nerve, this time with a post unpacking WordPress’s image problem and why it has “lost the cool kids.” His critique, Why WordPress Lost the Cool Kids (And How to Win Them Back), published on Monday, has drawn strong agreement from […]

FAIR has reached its first major milestone with the release of version 1.0 this week, bringing together all the moving parts of its decentralized package manager into a working system for the first time. In its announcement, the FAIR team said the release enabled WordPress site admins to find, trust, and install packages from independent sources or from […]