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 […]
Court Dismisses Antitrust and Extortion Claims in WP Engine v Automattic, Allows Other Counts to Proceed
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 Goes Bilingual, Promising International Speakers, Parties, and a Pirate Ship
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 […]
Documentation Team Challenges Reduced Role in WordPress Release Squads
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 […]
WordPress Hosting Team Launches Annual Survey, Promises to Publish Results
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 […]
Urumi.ai Brings Agentic AI to WooCommerce With Focus on Safety
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… […]
