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From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 7.0.1 is now available, fixing 31 bugs across Core and the block editor. It comes seven weeks after WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” shipped with AI…

From therepository.email Source: Read More There’s been a lot of online chatter recently about declining plugin sales and even some shops going out of business. Founders are venting about down…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress Community Support, the WordPress Foundation subsidiary that provides financial and legal infrastructure for WordCamps and meetups, ran a $372,000 operating deficit in 2025 —…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic has released Code for the People, a 20-minute documentary short that makes the case for open source software and the open web, and argues…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A plan hide the Classic block from the inserter in WordPress 7.1 has been reversed. Automattic Engineering Director and core committer Marin Atanasov, who proposed…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic software developer Andrew Duthie has published a merge proposal that would introduce design system theming to WordPress 7.1 and lay the groundwork for a…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A proposal to introduce three new read-only abilities to WordPress 7.1 has drawn “strong pushback” from one of the Abilities API’s maintainers, who says they…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WP Engine has filed formal oppositions to the WordPress Foundation’s “Managed WordPress” and “Hosted WordPress” trademark applications in both the United States and Canada, accusing…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordCamp US 2026 is heading to Phoenix Convention Center from August 16– 19, and yes, it’s going to be hot. Phoenix local and PressConf founder…

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 Core contributors have published a call for testing responsive styling ahead of its planned inclusion in WordPress 7.1, putting a long-requested feature gap in the…

From therepository.email Source: Read More According to W3Techs, WordPress now powers 41.5% of the web, down from a peak of 43.6% in early 2025. The decline started slowly, with WordPress…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The first cohort of AI Leaders, a workforce-focused AI course run through the University of Illinois Chicago, has graduated, producing the first group of students…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Elementor has laid off about 100 employees — around 30% of its workforce — in what the company is calling a voluntary restructuring to refocus…

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From therepository.email Source: Read More Tech writer, GigaOm founder, and True Ventures partner Om Malik has died at 59 after what his family described as “a long health journey with…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic has won its bid to claw back Slack messages from a private channel where CEO Matt Mullenweg and senior executives discussed trademark enforcement strategy…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The Classic block, the last remnant of WordPress’s pre-Gutenberg editing experience inside the block editor, will no longer be available to add in WordPress 7.1…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic-sponsored core committer Greg Ziółkowski has published a proposal to bring a new custom post type and the team’s work on Guidelines into WordPress core…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Contributor Dashboard has shipped its first major update since the pilot launched in March, adding four new views and a customizable contributor ladder…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Plugin developers and site maintainers have pushed back on the scope of WordPress.org’s Protect the Shire security initiative, with feedback centering on a key detail…

From therepository.email Source: Read More GoDaddy’s Adam Warner has had enough of what he calls outdated criticism of the company’s hosting for WordPress, and he’s using the 2026 Review Signal…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Anchor Hosting founder Austin Ginder has traced a 13-year supply chain operation back to a single operator who used 19 WordPress.org accounts, multiple fake brands,…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Anne McCarthy has published the roadmap for WordPress 7.1 on the Make WordPress Core blog, framing the release around “collaboration as a throughline” and acknowledging…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic’s Anne McCarthy has been named release lead for WordPress 7.1, stepping into the role for the first time and inheriting a release cycle that…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The fallout from a high-severity UpdraftPlus vulnerability has spread to two more Awesome Motive brands, with Uncanny Automator disclosing a separate data breach and MonsterInsights…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Core committers have floated the idea of moving WordPress development to a Chrome-style canary deployment model with feature flags — a shift that, if pursued,…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Plugins Team has welcomed three new reviewers and re-opened applications for another round of recruits as plugin submissions to the WordPress.org directory continue…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Awesome Motive’s OptinMonster, TrustPulse, and PushEngage plugins were compromised over the weekend in a supply chain attack that served tampered JavaScript to WordPress sites directly…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Nicholas Garofalo, Director of Marketing for WordPress.org at Automattic, has shared how AI and automation have been powering WordPress’s social media presence across 11 platforms,…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress is now powering the birthplace of the World Wide Web. Thirty-five years after the first website went live at CERN, the European Organization for…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has announced a new security initiative that imposes a mandatory 24-hour review window on every plugin and theme release before it…

From therepository.email Source: Read More When CERN Web Manager Joachim Valdemar Yde told a packed auditorium in Kraków on Friday that the organization’s flagship website, home.cern, was now live on…

From therepository.email Source: Read More A federal court has found that WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg “appeared to be evasive or to waste time” during his three-day deposition in the WP…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Review Signal founder Kevin Ohashi has published his 2026 WordPress and WooCommerce hosting performance benchmarks — the first edition in three years, and the first…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Gutenberg 23.3 has shipped with an experimental customizable dashboard that lets users add, move, resize, and rearrange widgets on the WordPress admin’s home screen. It’s…

From therepository.email Source: Read More Less than a month after WordPress 7.0 shipped without its original headline feature, contributors have launched a dedicated outreach program to get real-time collaboration ready…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress community has been invited to test new career functionality on WordPress.org that ties together a redesigned jobs board and new contributor profile features.…

From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress.com has launched WordCamp Agent, a free Telegram agent designed to help WordCamp Europe 2026 attendees plan their trip to Kraków, save sessions they don’t…

From therepository.email Source: Read More The U.S. District Court has ruled on two competing third-party discovery disputes in the WP Engine v. Automattic legal battle, ordering both Silver Lake and…