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From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic has donated to the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) to launch AI Leaders, a workforce-focused AI literacy program that offers paid participation, a WordPress-backed…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WP Engine has launched Newsroom, a publishing platform built on WordPress for mid-to-enterprise news organizations, marking the hosting company’s move into newsroom publishing infrastructure. Newsroom’s…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress AI Team has a new home for its Agent Skills project — an official WordPress GitHub repository — and has published the project’s…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Community Team has outlined plans to revamp the project’s meetup program, with a review now underway and new resources coming to help organizers…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The FAIR project has published its 2026 roadmap and a year-in-review, outlining an ambitious plan to scale its federated WordPress distribution network while reflecting on…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WP Engine has won court approval to add WooCommerce as a defendant in its lawsuit against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg, a procedural win that resets…

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From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard has outlined her big picture goals for 2026, setting priorities across core development, AI, education, and meetups as the project…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress’ education initiatives now have a dedicated home on WordPress.org. A new Education landing page at wordpress.org/education brings together WordPress Campus Connect, WordPress Credits, and…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress 7.0 release team was announced earlier today, with Gutenberg lead architect Matías Ventura stepping in as release lead. The squad was announced by…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordCamp Europe 2026 is heading to Kraków, Poland, from June 4–6 for the 14th edition of the long-running annual event. After last year’s event in…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress AI Team has released version 0.2.0 of the AI Experiments plugin, adding a new editorial experiment for AI-powered excerpt generation and continuing work…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Community Team is encouraging local communities to organise women-centric WordPress events around International Women’s Day, following a successful pilot last year that saw…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress core contributors have locked in a February 3 release date for WordPress 6.9.1, confirming the update will ship as a bug-fix–only maintenance release following…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Matt Mullenweg was the first guest on the relaunched Do the Woo podcast last week, joining hosts James Kemp, Core Product Manager for WooCommerce, and…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WP Engine customers Ryan Keller and Sharon Schanzer have filed an amended class action against Automattic and CEO Matt Mullenweg, seeking to revive a lawsuit…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The official WordPress.org X account drew criticism last week after a mocking reply about the FAIR project sparked pushback from developers and community leaders over…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Plugins Team reviewed a record 12,713 plugins in 2025, a 40.6% increase on the previous year, as submission volumes surged and the team…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Concerns about how the WordPress Plugins Team uses AI surfaced last week after a Reddit post claimed that “AI-curated” review scanners were blocking legitimate plugins…

From therepository.email Source: Read More With WordPress 7.0 already in alpha, the project is now taking the next practical step: assembling the team that will be responsible for shipping it.…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress will drop support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3 with the release of WordPress 7.0, currently scheduled for April 2026. WordPress Security Team rep John…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WP Engine has acquired UK-based enterprise agency Big Bite, best known for its work with global news organizations including The Times, The Wall Street Journal,…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Looking back on 2025, it’s a little wild how much actually happened — and how many huge stories we covered. From contributor bans and Automattic…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A proposed schedule for WordPress in 2026 confirms plans to return to three major releases next year, with dates timed to coincide with WordCamp Asia,…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Real-world testing of real-time collaboration in WordPress involving WordPress VIP customers has shown promising results, as contributors continue working through questions around its possible inclusion…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action brought by two WP Engine customers against Automattic and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, finding that…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Do the Woo is back, returning to its roots as a podcast focused squarely on WooCommerce. The long-running brand relaunched on the OpenChannels.fm network this…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Sybre Waaijer, best known as the creator of The SEO Framework, has launched Troy, a new open source project that allows developers to distribute and…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress core contributors have flagged that a maintenance release for WordPress 6.9 is likely in January, following post-release bug reports involving CSS changes, email delivery…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Enterprises are increasingly committing to WordPress, with new survey data showing 95% of organisations plan to continue using the platform, up sharply from 75% last…

From therepository.email Source: Read More With WordPress 6.9 now released, core contributors have turned their attention to WordPress 7.0 — and an early look at its possible scope, spanning real-time…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Stripe has launched its new Agentic Commerce Suite, a platform designed to let businesses sell through AI shopping agents using a single integration, with WooCommerce…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress Playground creator Adam Zieliński has published the project’s 2025 year-in-review, tracking improvements in performance, compatibility, and developer tooling as Playground’s adoption continued to grow.…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress AI Team is calling for a fundamental rethink of how AI fits into WordPress. In a new post on the Make WordPress Core…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress has been making headlines in the UK, and not the kind anyone enjoys. A misconfigured plugin on the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) website…

From therepository.email Source: Read More At WordCamp Sydney last year, Ben May told me he wanted to organise an event, something aimed at developers who don’t typically go to WordCamps.…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg delivered his annual State of the Word address yesterday from Salesforce Tower in San Francisco as the project marked the release…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 6.9 “Gene” was released today, going live during a tightly choreographed moment at this year’s State of the Word in San Francisco. It’s the…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress AI Team has released version 0.1.0 of the AI Experiments plugin, a new canonical project that gives contributors a dedicated space to test…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress is set to return to three major releases in 2026. That’s the headline from this week’s quarterly Core Committers Check-in, where committers and project…