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From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic has applied to run .wordpress as a top-level domain that only the company and its affiliates would be able to use. The application was…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The judge overseeing discovery in WP Engine’s legal fight with Automattic has said he’s inclined to deny WP Engine’s motion to sanction Automattic and Matt…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard has asked more than 30 of the biggest companies in the WordPress ecosystem, including GoDaddy, Newfold Digital, and Hostinger, to…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress AI Team has released the project’s official MCP Adapter as a canonical plugin on WordPress.org, making the tool that connects WordPress sites to…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Contributors working to bring real-time collaboration (RTC) to WordPress are testing a new “server-aware” approach that would route edits through WordPress rather than syncing them…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.1.3 has shipped with fixes for seven security vulnerabilities and four bugs, as payouts to researchers soar alongside the flood of reports to the…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Weglot has launched Weglot 2.0, a ground-up rebuild of its website translation platform with AI built in natively. The French company rolled out 2.0 on…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Heads up: This is a sponsored post, which means it’s paid content from one of our sponsors, not a news piece. Sponsored content helps keep…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Two years ago today, WP Engine sued Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg. The fight is far from over — the jury trial is a…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Tech Differently, a new speaker accelerator and online conference for people in tech who “think and build differently,” will put its first cohort of speakers…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic’s new board is made up largely of people with long-standing personal ties to CEO Matt Mullenweg, including one director who spent almost nine years…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress has taken over the presidency of the Open Website Alliance (OWA), the coalition of open source CMS projects that also includes Drupal, Joomla!, and…

From therepository.email Source: Read More In short: Automattic CTO Barry Abrahamson testified about a password-protected WordPress.org dashboard that tracked installs of WP Engine’s ACF Pro, newly public court filings show.…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WP Accessibility Day 2026 will kick off October 7 at 3pm UTC with 24 hours of free online talks, headlined by Ed Summers, GitHub’s Head…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress professionals are just as worried about security as they were a year ago, but they’re no better prepared, according to Melapress’s 2026 WordPress Security…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Heads up: This is a sponsored post, which means it’s paid content from one of our sponsors, not a news piece. Sponsored content helps keep…

From therepository.email Source: Read More In short: The WordPress 7.2 roadmap includes new security features, a suggestion mode for Notes, expanded styling tools, and two new blocks. Real-time collaborative editing…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic’s Anne McCarthy has put seven framed WordPress release albums up for auction, with every dollar raised going to Stimpunks Foundation, the nonprofit co-founded by…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A federal judge has reversed course on WP Engine’s antitrust claims against Automattic, finding the hosting company has plausibly alleged that Automattic used its control…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.1.2 has shipped with a fix for a critical core vulnerability that could let unauthenticated attackers remotely run code on some sites. And according…

From therepository.email Source: Read More In the week since Automattic’s board placed CEO Matt Mullenweg on leave and he took back control roughly 33 hours later, the company’s employees still…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Fourteen months after shelving its first official block theme, WooCommerce has brought it back. Purple, the block-based successor to Storefront that Woo withdrew from the…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.1.1 has shipped with fixes for 11 security vulnerabilities, 17 core bugs, and 19 block editor issues, with Anthropic and AI penetration testing firm…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress’s next default theme has a name — and it isn’t Twenty Twenty-Seven. A proposal published on the Make WordPress Core blog on Wednesday introduces…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic’s Karen Almassi has laid out a three-stage plan to rebuild community events across the United States and Canada through 2027, acknowledging that the WordCamp…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The Portuguese WordPress community is hosting the first official WordPress event dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence. WordPress Day for AI will take place on October…

From therepository.email Source: Read More GatherPress, the community-built plugin at the heart of the WordPress project’s plan to bring meetup infrastructure to WordPress.org, is now available for testing on events.wordpress.org.…

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From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic has confirmed Matt Mullenweg is back as CEO, two days after the board voted to force him on paid leave and install CFO Mark…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Since Automattic’s board forced him on leave and installed CFO Mark Davies as interim CEO on Wednesday, Matt Mullenweg has posted a hiring call for…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic and Matt Mullenweg have filed their first formal answer to the WP Engine customer class action, denying nearly every allegation and arguing that the…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress.org is now automatically security-scanning every plugin release and blocking high-risk updates before they reach users. Plugins Team co-rep David Perez announced the latest development…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has stepped back into the release lead role for WordPress 7.2, after sitting out the previous two major releases. Fueled-sponsored core…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg has accused the company’s CFO of conspiring with board members to place him on leave, after the board removed him as…

From therepository.email Source: Read More LoopConf has been postponed to June 2027 after its lead sponsor pulled out just six weeks before the event, wiping out half the operating budget.…

From therepository.email Source: Read More CloudFest has a problem in America that it doesn’t have in Europe: people can leave. In Germany, 10,000 attendees descend on Europa-Park, a sprawling theme…

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From therepository.email Source: Read More After a long break, WordCamp Belgrade is returning to the Serbian capital this month, bringing the local WordPress community together for two days of talks,…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Andy Peatling spent 17 years at Automattic. He helped grow the company from 20 to nearly 2,000 people, led product teams across multiple divisions, and…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Security Team has tightened the scope of its HackerOne vulnerability disclosure program after monthly security reports nearly doubled from July’s already-record 450 to…