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Nick Hamze’s ‘Cool Kids’ Post Kicks Off Fresh Debate on WordPress’s Image Problem
From therepository.email Source: Read More After calling for “more weirdness” in WordPress theme design earlier this year, Nick Hamze has again struck a nerve, this time with a post unpacking…
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New FAIR 1.0 Release Brings Decentralized Package Management to WordPress
From therepository.email Source: Read More FAIR has reached its first major milestone with the release of version 1.0 this week, bringing together all the moving parts of its decentralized package…
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From RV Life to CEO: Jon Penland’s Unlikely Road to Leading Kinsta
From therepository.email Source: Read More Back in 2011, Jon Penland was selling centrifugal pumping units into the water and wastewater markets — a job as glamorous as it sounds. He…
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GoDaddy’s AI-Powered Airo Site Designer Creates WordPress Sites in Minutes
From therepository.email Source: Read More Heads up: This is sponsored content, created and paid for by one of our sponsors. Their support helps keep The Repository going. All sponsors follow…
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Woo & Klaviyo Report Reveals Shift Toward Intentional Shopping, Shares Tips for Merchants
From therepository.email Source: Read More Shoppers in 2025 aren’t impulse buyers — they’re cautious, they do their research, and they’re harder to win over. That’s the message from Commerce Insights:…
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WordPress Project Launches New Experimental Core Program Team
From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress project is trying something new: a Core Program Team. Announcing the experiment this week, Executive Director Mary Hubbard said the team’s goals were…
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Enqueue Reveals Speaker Line-Up With Focus on AI, Performance, and the Future of WordPress
From therepository.email Source: Read More Enqueue, a new one-day event for engineers working with WordPress at scale, has unveiled what co-organizer Ben May is calling “the best lineup of any…
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Enterprise WordPress Survey Closing Soon as Scale Consortium Calls for Final Responses
From therepository.email Source: Read More The State of Enterprise WordPress Survey is closing soon, and the Scale Consortium is making a last call for big brands, universities, and publishers running…
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GoDaddy Launches Airo Site Designer, Promising WordPress Sites in Minutes With AI
From therepository.email Source: Read More GoDaddy has launched Airo Site Designer, an AI-powered website builder that can spin up a WordPress site in minutes from simple text prompts. The product…
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Court Dismisses Antitrust and Extortion Claims in WP Engine v Automattic, Allows Other Counts to Proceed
From therepository.email Source: Read More A federal judge has dismissed WP Engine’s antitrust and extortion claims against Automattic but allowed most of the company’s lawsuit to continue, including allegations Automattic…
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WordCamp Gdynia Goes Bilingual, Promising International Speakers, Parties, and a Pirate Ship
From therepository.email Source: Read More WordCamp Gdynia is doing something no other Polish WordCamp has attempted: it’s going bilingual. When the conference kicks off September 26–28 in the seaside city,…
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Documentation Team Challenges Reduced Role in WordPress Release Squads
From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Documentation Team has pushed back against the decision not to have a Docs lead on the 6.9 release squad, warning that the move…
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WordPress Hosting Team Launches Annual Survey, Promises to Publish Results
From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Hosting Team has launched a 2025 Hosting Survey, inviting providers of all sizes to share how they run and support WordPress. And in…
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Urumi.ai Brings Agentic AI to WooCommerce With Focus on Safety
From therepository.email Source: Read More Two longtime friends from India — Vedanshu Jain, a former technical lead at Woo, and Kamal Joshi, a software engineer at Meta — have teamed…
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Why Sustainability Sells in WordPress
From therepository.email Source: Read More Heads up: This is sponsored content, created and paid for by one of our sponsors. Their support helps keep The Repository going. All sponsors follow…
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YouTuber’s Secret Shopper Project Reveals Gaps in Customer Support at Hosting Companies
From therepository.email Source: Read More A “secret shopper” experiment has exposed gaps in how some major hosting companies in the WordPress space deliver support. YouTuber Christian Taylor put seven hosts…
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Melapress Survey Finds 96% of WordPress Pros Have Experienced Security Incidents
From therepository.email Source: Read More Almost every WordPress professional has faced a security incident, yet fewer than a third have a plan for what to do when things go wrong,…
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Automattic Debuts Telex, Bringing AI-Powered “Vibe Coding” to Gutenberg Blocks
From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic’s latest AI experiment, Telex, is giving WordPress developers something new to play with: a chat-style tool that generates custom Gutenberg blocks and packages them…
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WordCamp US 2026 Heads to Phoenix in the Middle of Summer
From therepository.email Source: Read More Next year’s WordCamp US will take place in Phoenix, Arizona, from August 16–19, 2026. The announcement came during WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s WCUS 2025 keynote…
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WordCamp US 2025 Wraps in Portland: AI Demos, Student Programs, and What’s Next for WordPress
From therepository.email Source: Read More WordCamp US 2025 wrapped up Friday at Portland’s Oregon Convention Center, closing four days of contributions, sessions, and hallway conversations. Attendance dipped this year —…
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Black Friday Prep Shifts From Stockrooms to Site Speed, According to Woo Survey
From therepository.email Source: Read More Holiday sales prep isn’t just about what’s in the warehouse anymore. Woo’s latest Black Friday Cyber Monday Trends Survey reveals website performance has overtaken inventory…
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Judge Weighs Automattic’s Bid to Dismiss WP Engine’s Antitrust Claims
From therepository.email Source: Read More A federal judge is weighing whether to dismiss most of WP Engine’s claims in its lawsuit against Automattic following a hearing today that focused on…
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WordPress Credits Expands to Costa Rica as Program Enters Beta Phase
From therepository.email Source: Read More The WordPress Credits program is set to welcome its first international students outside of Europe, marking an early milestone for the internship-style initiative launched in…
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USPTO Rejects WordPress Foundation’s Bid to Trademark “Managed WordPress” and “Hosted WordPress”
From therepository.email Source: Read More The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has refused the WordPress Foundation’s attempts to trademark “Managed WordPress” and “Hosted WordPress” — at least for now, according…
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LoopConf Returns With New Organizer and London Debut
From therepository.email Source: Read More LoopConf, the independent conference once billed as “the greatest conference ever created for WordPress developers,” is back — now under new organiser Brian Richards and…
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Rocket.net Joins hosting.com as Ben Gabler Steps Into Product Role
From therepository.email Source: Read More Rocket.net is joining forces with hosting.com in a partnership that will put its managed hosting for WordPress platform in front of hundreds of thousands of…
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Willman Pushes Ahead With Contempt Motion Against Automattic & Mullenweg
From therepository.email Source: Read More Michael Willman isn’t giving up in his dispute with Matt Mullenweg. After a judge recently denied his bid to join WP Engine’s legal battle with…
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Ditch Trello and Jira: Manage Projects Natively in WordPress with GravityBoard
From therepository.email Source: Read More Heads up: This is sponsored content, created and paid for by one of our sponsors. Their support helps keep The Repository going. All sponsors follow…
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WordPress VIP Demos Its New Enterprise Suite: Remote Blocks and Parse.ly AI Updates
From therepository.email Source: Read More In June, WordPress VIP announced a new suite of enterprise tools. At the heart of the release was Remote Data Blocks, an industry-first feature that…
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Patchstack Case Study Finds Hosting Defenses Fail Against 87.8% of WordPress Exploits
From therepository.email Source: Read More Many hosting companies market themselves on security. Patchstack decided to put those claims to the test — and found most hosts failed. In a new…
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WordPress 6.9 Release Squad Named as Features Take Shape
From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress 6.9 now has a release team and its first public progress report — and with just over two months until the first beta, the…
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WordPress Themes Team Co-Rep Ganga Kafle Reaches 7,000 Theme Reviews
From therepository.email Source: Read More When you think about WordPress milestones, it’s usually version releases, download counts, or some celebratory birthday. But here’s one that quietly shapes the WordPress experience…
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Ollie’s New Menu Designer Brings Intuitive Menu Creation to the Block Editor
From therepository.email Source: Read More Menus have long been one of WordPress’s pain points. Ollie co-founder Mike McAlister thinks he’s cracked it with Menu Designer, a new plugin that leans…
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Cloudways Copilot: The AI Assistant That’s Changing Managed Hosting
From therepository.email Source: Read More Heads up: This is sponsored content, created and paid for by one of our sponsors. Their support helps keep The Repository going. All sponsors follow…
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Proposal to Expand WordPress Core Block Library Sparks Debate Among Contributors
From therepository.email Source: Read More A new proposal from Gutenberg lead architect Matías Ventura to add more blocks to WordPress core has prompted a wide-ranging discussion among contributors about what…
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Automattic Pushes WP Engine to Hand Over Evidence of Customer Confusion
From therepository.email Source: Read More The tug-of-war over discovery in WP Engine, Inc. v. Automattic Inc. et al. has flipped sides. Last week, WP Engine was pressing Automattic to expand…
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From Groundhogg to Guideline Violations: How the WordPress Plugins Team Enforces Trademarks
From therepository.email Source: Read More The closure of Groundhogg’s CRM plugin in the WordPress.org plugin directory last week put a spotlight on the WordPress Plugins Team’s behind-the-scenes work policing trademarks,…
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Judge Denies Willman’s Bid to Join WP Engine v. Automattic Case
From therepository.email Source: Read More Michael Willman’s attempt to join WP Engine’s high-profile lawsuit against Automattic and CEO Matt Mullenweg has been denied — and not on the merits, but…
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WordCamp Canada 2025 Is All About Generational Change, Open Web Energy, and Tinkering With What’s Next
From therepository.email Source: Read More WordCamp Canada is back for its second year, and this time the focus is firmly on students, innovation, and the future of the open web.…
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Phased Plugin Releases Land on WordPress.org With 24-Hour Delay Option
From therepository.email Source: Read More A first version of phased plugin releases is now live on WordPress.org, giving developers a way to roll out updates to a smaller group of…