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Post Status Happiness Hour Session Eighteen
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Transcript ↓ In this episode of the Post Status Happiness Hour, host Michelle Frechette interviews Ian Stewart, a seasoned WordPress enthusiast and lead at WordPress.com.…
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Business Roundup Week Ending January 17
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Is WordPress Crashing or Are We Debugging It? It’s been a busy week for what I’ve come to call The Recent Unpleasantness in WordPress. The…
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Developer Seeking to Intervene in WP Engine vs. Automattic Lawsuit, Citing Financial Ruin and Community Harm
From therepository.email Source: Read More A web developer who claims he has lost clients and struggled to pay his mortgage and employees since Matt Mullenewg and WP Engine’s feud went…
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Automattic Cuts Weekly Contributor Hours to WordPress.org by 99% – Community Members Fear ‘Beginning of the End’
Source: WPShout Last week, Automattic announced that they’d be cutting their weekly contributor hours to WordPress.org from roughly 4,000 to a mere 45. This is a massive shift in how…
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Women WordPress Day 2025 Ajmer, India
From wordcamp.org Source: Read More We’re excited to announce the Women in Tech event in Ajmer to celebrate and empower women in the tech community. This special event will take place on International Women’s…
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Fork or Fiction? WordPress Co-Founder Bans Governance Advocates in Latest Dispute
From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has again taken to WordPress.org to falsely claim community members have forked WordPress, this time also deactivating the accounts of five…
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Joost/Karim Fork
From wordpress.org Source: Read More Making great software, great product that stands the test of time and not just survives but thrives through monumental technological shifts is incredibly hard. That…
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Post Status Happiness Hour Session Seventeen
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Transcript ↓ In this episode of the Post Status Happiness Hour, host Michelle Frechette interviews Mark Westguard from WS Form. Mark discusses the new styling…
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Business Roundup Week Ending January 10
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Automattic Reduces Contributions to the WordPress Project “The Automattic Team” has announced they will reduce their contribution to the WordPress project to match that of…
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Automattic Scales Back WordPress Contributions to Match WP Engine Amid Legal Battle
From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic is significantly reducing its contributions to WordPress, announcing that it is matching its WP Engine’s 45 pledged hours to the open source project for…
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Women WordPress Day 2025 Delhi, India
From wordcamp.org Source: Read More Dates: March 8, 2025 – March 8, 2025 Location: Delhi, India Venue: Avanta Business Centre Website: https://events.wordpress.org/delhi/2025/WomensDay/ From wordcamp.org Source: Read More
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Mullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash
From therepository.email Source: Read More Members of the fledgling WordPress Sustainability Team have been left reeling after WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg abruptly dissolved the team this week—an action prominent tech…
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The Rise of “GEO” – or How AI is Transforming Search Engine Optimization
Source: WPShout If you’ve used Google lately, you’ve probably noticed a change: instead of just getting a mix of links and snippets, you’re now seeing AI-generated responses that synthesize information…
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Patchstack rejected as WordCamp Europe 2025 sponsor, CEO calls it “insulting”
From therepository.email Source: Read More Oliver Sild has labeled the rejection of his security company’s sponsorship application for WordCamp Europe 2025 as “insulting” after it was revealed that WordCamp Central…
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Patchstack Rejected as WordCamp Europe 2025 Sponsor Due to Lack of ‘Significant’ WordPress Contributions
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Oliver Sild, CEO of Patchstack, shared on X an email he received from WordCamp Central explaining why Patchstack’s application to sponsor WordCamp Europe 2025 was…
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Joost de Valk’s Bold Plan for WordPress Leadership Faces Mullenweg’s Resistance
From therepository.email Source: Read More Three weeks after Joost de Valk pitched his vision for change in WordPress leadership, the Yoast founder has kept his promise to step back during…
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WordPress.com Launches Studio Sync
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress.com has introduced Studio Sync, a new feature for its local development app, Studio. Launched last year as a free, open-source tool for Mac and…
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Voces que inspiran: Women´s Day 2025 Latam
From wordcamp.org Source: Read More On March 1, 2025, starting at 8:00 a.m., the virtual event Voces que Inspiran: Women’s Day Latam will bring together the vibrant WordPress community to…
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Hosting and Themes Teams Announce Representatives for 2025
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Themes and Hosting teams has unveiled their representatives for 2025. Themes Team Reps In November, the Themes Team announced their search for community members…
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Call for “More Weirdness” in WordPress Theme Design Sparks Debate About Accessibility
From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress.org has republished a blog post by a former Automattic employee advocating for “more weirdness” in WordPress theme design. Nick Hamze, who was Automattic’s Chief…
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Eleni Stergatou Named First Recipient of Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship to Attend WordCamp Europe
From therepository.email Source: Read More Eleni Stergatou has been named the first recipient of the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship to attend WordCamp Europe in June 2025. The scholarship, established in…
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WordPress.org Resumes Full Services After Unexpected Holiday Break
From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress.org has resumed full services after owner Matt Mullenweg announced a surprising “holiday break” on December 20, ahead of Christmas. The partial shutdown — the…
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WordPress.org Services Resume After Holiday Break
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattician Alex Shiels of the Meta team has announced the resumption of WordPress.org services after the holiday break of two weeks. Users can now register…
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Nick Hamze’s Call to Make WordPress Themes Weird and Exciting Sparks Accessibility Discussion
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Nick Hamze has called for making WordPress themes exciting and the web weird again. “WordPress desperately needs your creativity, your weird ideas, your willingness to…
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EmpowerWP Bhopal 2025
From wordcamp.org Source: Read More EmpowerWP Bhopal 2025 is a groundbreaking event hosted by WordPress Bhopal aimed at celebrating and empowering women in the WordPress ecosystem. Scheduled for 9th March…
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WordPress Themes Need More Weird: A Call for Creative Digital Homes
From wordpress.org Source: Read More The modern web has gradually shifted from a vibrant tapestry of personal expression to a landscape of identical designs, where millions of websites share not…
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India to Host Three WordCamps in January 2025
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Indian WordPress community is set for an exciting start to 2025, with three WordCamps scheduled for January, as per WordCamp Central. India has a…
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Community Team Proposes Women-Centric WordPress Events for International Women’s Day
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The WordPress Community Team has proposed hosting women-centric events on International Women’s Day through local WordPress communities to celebrate, empower, and inspire women. These events…
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Plugins Team Unveils Roadmap for Phase 2 of Plugin Check
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Chris Christoff of the Plugins Team has published the roadmap of Phase 2 of the Plugin Check plugin. According to the statistics shared at this…
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WordCamp Jinja 2025
From wordcamp.org Source: Read More WordCamp Jinja 2025, our annual event organized by the Jinja WordPress meetup community and one of the largest tech events in Eastern Uganda, will be…
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WordCamp Europe 2025: Tickets and Diversity Scholarship Now Available
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordCamp Europe has released tickets for the 2025 edition of the event scheduled for June 5-7 in Basel, Switzerland. There are two types of tickets:…
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How the Holidays Are Shaping Web Traffic Trends (and Why You Should Care)
Source: WPShout Happy almost-2025, everyone! While you’re finishing up your year-end to-do’s (or wishing you had started them earlier), I’ve been diving into some fresh data published by Cloudflare. This…
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Best Donation Plugins for WordPress Compared and Tested (2025-Ready)
Source: WPShout Fundraising is hard. Accepting payments shouldn’t be. I tested popular WordPress donation plugins to determine how well they can help you meet your online fundraising goals. From wpshout.com…
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Business Roundup Week Ending December 27
From poststatus.com Source: Read More The Call for Change is Getting Louder Following the holiday shutdown of WordPress.org, some interesting conversations have been happening among leaders in the WordPress world.…
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WordPress Training Team Launches New Course for Designers: Beginner WordPress Designer
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Training Team has launched a new course on Learn WordPress specifically for designers: Beginner WordPress Designer. This learning pathway is crafted to help designers…
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Matt Mullenweg Asks What Drama to Create in 2025, Community Reacts
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More On Christmas Eve, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg took to Reddit, causing quite a stir by asking what kind of drama he should create in 2025.…
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I Tried OpenAI’s Sora Video Generator…It’s Mostly Unusable
Source: WPShout If you haven’t tried Sora yet (or are in a region where it’s not currently available) and you’re curious about it, then keep reading. I will begin with…
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Joost de Valk Calls for Breaking the WordPress Status Quo, Community Reacts
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Joost de Valk, co-founder of the Yoast SEO plugin has called for Breaking the Status Quo of the WordPress world. This comes in the wake…
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Matt Mullenweg Declares Holiday Break for WordPress.org Services
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More For the first time, Matt Mullenweg has announced a holiday break for WordPress.org services. In his blog post, he said, “In order to give myself…
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Joost de Valk Calls for End to Matt Mullenweg’s BDFL Leadership of WordPress
From therepository.email Source: Read More Joost de Valk, a long-time figure in the WordPress community, has called for radical change to WordPress leadership, today publishing his vision for a new…