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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…

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 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…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Rank Math has paused a support agent feature that silently created WordPress Application Passwords with full administrator privileges and sent them to parent company group.one’s…

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 The WordPress project has announced a coordinated security effort called the Core Security Initiative, formalizing its response to a dramatic surge in vulnerability reports driven…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The team behind last year’s bilingual WordCamp Gdynia has launched CMS Conf, a new cross-platform conference for CMS creators and developers scheduled for November 12–14…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Enqueue is coming back. The Code Company’s one-day developer conference, which drew about 80 people to its Sydney debut last November, has locked in December…

From therepository.email Source: Read More GiveWP has patched an unauthenticated PHP object injection vulnerability that can be chained to achieve remote code execution, with a CVSS rating of 10 —…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress has signed NVIDIA’s Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter, adding its name to a coalition of more than 270 companies and organizations, including…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Pods, a free content development framework for WordPress with more than 100,000 active installations, has shipped emergency patches across six major versions after Wordfence disclosed…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WP Rocket has published a post-mortem of the WordPress 7.1 fatal error that took down sites last week, estimating that roughly 10% of its user…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A new proposal on the Make WordPress Core blog outlines a Secrets API planned for WordPress 7.2, which aims to give the project its first…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Wordfence has disclosed a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the popular Avada theme, discovered by a new AI agent the company says it…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Anchor Hosting founder Austin Ginder has called out hosting companies for failing to test major WordPress releases on real customer sites, arguing that the WP…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Playground team has shipped support for legacy WordPress versions going all the way back to WordPress 0.7, the project’s first official public release,…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.1 release lead Anne McCarthy has published a detailed decision log documenting the calls they made across the release cycle, from shipping the roadmap…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic-sponsored contributor Anne McCarthy has published a prototype for a new Accessibility Lab plugin, the first step toward the WordPress Accessibility Team having its own…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Matt Mullenweg and the official WordPress X account have drawn community pushback after using last week’s WP Rocket fatal error incident to take public shots…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A compatibility bug between WP Rocket and WordPress 7.1 has taken down sites running the popular caching plugin’s Cloudflare module. The bug was reported on…

From therepository.email Source: Read More PressConf, the conference for WordPress businesses founded by Raquel Manriquez, is heading to Europe for the first time. A four-day edition is scheduled for October…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Elementor Pro has patched a critical vulnerability in its Forms module that allows unauthenticated attackers to upload executable PHP files to WordPress sites for remote…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordCamp US 2026 wrapped up in Phoenix on Wednesday after four days of contribution work, sessions, demos and hallway conversations, and ended with WordPress co-founder…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” was released yesterday during WordCamp US 2026 in Phoenix. Named for pioneering jazz pianist, arranger, and composer Mary Lou Williams, the…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Nearly three in four people surveyed about their experience in the WordPress community say they feel worse about the project than they did two years…

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From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic has launched WordPress.com Education, a free product that gives teachers and students professional WordPress.com hosting, a custom domain, and plugin support at no cost…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress Credits contributors have proposed a graduate retention program that would turn the education initiative from a one-time experience into the first step in a…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.1 hasn’t even been released yet, and the project is already moving on to its next major release. Fueled-sponsored contributor Jeffrey Paul published a…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordCamp US 2026 has finalized its keynote lineup ahead of the four-day conference in Phoenix, with speakers from PayPal, Disney, and Waymo joining WordPress co-founder…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The official WordPress Browser Extension has landed in the Chrome Web Store and Mac App Store, bringing the project from community testing to a public…

From therepository.email Source: Read More What makes a great plugin? “I believe there’s a short list of people you should listen to when building your product, and it doesn’t start…