A WordPress Commenter

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 […]

Back in 2011, Jon Penland was selling centrifugal pumping units into the water and wastewater markets — a job as glamorous as it sounds. He was good at it, but nine hours a day in a gray cubicle left him restless. “There has to be a different way to live,” he told his wife one afternoon while driving […]

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. Starting a business is one thing, but getting a website live? No big deal if you work with WordPress every day. But if you’re, say, a hairdresser, it can feel […]

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