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In July, students at two campuses in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh, built 108 websites. In eastern Uganda, a workshop that arrived to find no electricity at the school ran anyway, for more than 100 learners, because a former student had asked for it. In Costa Rica, three university students taught a three-session WordPress class to 40 high […]

We’re proud to announce that WordPress has signed Open Weights and American AI Leadership, an open letter asking US policymakers to not place early restrictions on open weight AI models. These are artificial intelligence models that anyone can download, inspect, modify, and run on their own infrastructure. The letter was published on July 24, 2026, […]

WordCamp US (WCUS) 2026 just wrapped up after 4 days at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Over 1,100 people from around the world registered to attend, and thousands more watched online through livestreams. Contributor Day and Showcase Day opened the week before two main conference days, featuring over 50 speaker-led sessions across 4 tracks, […]

WordPress 7.1, “Mary Lou,” is here—celebrating the pioneering jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mary Lou Williams and her spirit of reinvention and collaboration. This release brings a more flexible, responsive, and collaborative WordPress experience, with new responsive styling controls, a redesigned media editor, richer Notes with mentions and inline feedback, improved image processing, and new Playlist and Tabs blocks.

The official WordPress Browser Extension is now available for Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers in the Chrome Web Store and for Safari on macOS in the Mac App Store. This new open source extension lets logged-in site users easily hide the admin bar while keeping its most helpful shortcuts in the browser toolbar, provides quick […]

WordPress 7.0.4 is now available WordPress 7.0.4 is now available which features a security fix. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can update to WordPress 7.0.4 by downloading it from WordPress.org, or visiting your site’s Dashboard → Updates and clicking Update Now. Sites that support […]

WordPress 7.0.3 is now available WordPress 7.0.3 is now available which features several security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can update to WordPress 7.0.3 by downloading it from WordPress.org, or visiting your site’s Dashboard → Updates and clicking Update Now. Sites that support […]

The first Release Candidate (“RC1”) for WordPress 7.1 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is still under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended to evaluate RC1 on a test server and site. WordPress 7.1 RC1 […]

WordPress 7.1 Beta 4 is ready for download and testing!  This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, use a test environment or local site to explore the new features. How to Test WordPress 7.1 Beta […]

WordPress 7.1 Beta 3 is ready for download and testing!  This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, use a test environment or local site to explore the new features. How to Test WordPress 7.1 Beta […]

New stores on the WordPress.com Commerce plan start with Purple, a WooCommerce theme built by Woo. Its shop, product, cart, and checkout designs work together, giving you a storefront to make your own.

Want your blog to cover its own costs without becoming another job? Start small with tips, affiliate links, or one digital download—and stop whenever you reach “enough.”

See what's new on WordPress.com: a way to get an AI-generated custom theme, a redesigned video player, and various fixes across the site.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, we look at how people across WordPress.com are keeping the memory of that day alive.

When Google sends fewer clicks, growing traffic takes more than a bigger content calendar. Here are eight practical ways to earn visits through useful content, email, partnerships, and a site people can trust.

WordPress.com’s latest updates include a redesigned Hosting Dashboard, a new ChatGPT plugin, WordPress 7.1, and practical improvements for users.

Two months after my first WordCamp, I landed in Phoenix, AZ, for WordCamp US to experience it again, this time in another part of the world but with a similar group of people equally passionate about open source.  At first glance, the Arizona desert seems simple, barren. But look closer, …

We rebuilt the WordPress Studio desktop app around Studio Code, our expert WordPress agent. Your sites, the chat, and a live preview now sit side by side in one window, so you describe what you want, watch it build on real local WordPress, and point at anything that's off. It's in beta today on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

The new WordPress.com ChatGPT plugin enables you to manage your site efficiently and safely, streamlining tasks like publishing, checking stats, and more.

Manage all your WordPress.com sites from one consistent interface, with persistent navigation for domains, hosting, updates, and performance.

BuddyPress 14.5.0, 12.7.0, and 11.6.0 are now available. These are security and maintenance releases that include two security fixes, along with a number of compatibility improvements, bug fixes, and code modernization updates. We strongly recommend updating your sites as soon as possible. Highlights Prevent user ID spoofing in the Messages REST API endpoint via improved […]

BuddyPress 14.4.0, BuddyPress 12.6.0, and BuddyPress 11.5.2 are all now available. This is a security release. Please update as soon as possible. 14.4.0, 12.6.0 & 11.5.1 fixed one bug and one security issue: The BP REST API signups endpoint could leak signup data, including user email addresses, because of a too-lenient lookup function. Thanks to […]

BuddyPress 14.3.4, BuddyPress 12.5.3, and BuddyPress 11.4.4 are all now available. This is a security release. Please update as soon as possible. 14.3.4, 12.5.3 & 11.4.4 fixed two bugs: Restrict bulk notification management to owner. Many thanks to Brian Mungah for responsibly reporting the problem. Improve security of status update messages. Many thanks to mikemyers […]

BuddyPress 14.3.3 is now available. This is a maintenance release. 14.3.3 fixes a mistake made in the build process for 14.3.1 (and 14.3.2 attempted to fix, but didn’t completely fix the issue, so was never released). 14.3.1 fixed two bugs: WordPress 6.7 compatibility: WP 6.7 will throw notices for plugins that load their textdomain before […]

BuddyPress 14.3.1 is now available. This is a maintenance release. 14.3.1 fixes two bugs: WordPress 6.7 compatibility: WP 6.7 will throw notices for plugins that load their textdomain before ‘init’ (see #9247). BP Legacy Theme Pack: Make sure the bp_heartbeat property is included in the WP Heartbeat data object (see #9248). For complete details, visit […]

BuddyPress 14.2.1 is now available. This is a maintenance & security release. All BuddyPress installations should be updated as soon as possible. The 14.2.1 release addresses the following security issue: The “Take Photo” feature (which uses the logged in user’s Webcam to capture their profile photo) was vulnerable to an authenticated (Subscriber+) directory traversal. Discovered […]

Immediately available is BuddyPress 14.1.0. This maintenance release fixes 4 bugs. For details on the changes, please read the 14.1.0 release notes. Update to BuddyPress 14.1.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org plugin repository. Many thanks to 14.1.0 contributors  thomaslhotta, shailu25, emaralive, espellcaste & imath.

We’re very excited to announce the immediate availability of BuddyPress 14.0.0 « Da Lucia », named after the excellent pizza restaurant located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France. Get it now from the WordPress.org plugin repository, or right from your WordPress Dashboard. This new major version of your site’s community engine introduces around 80 changes mostly working under the […]

The first release candidate for BuddyPress 14.0.0 is now available! “Release Candidate” means that we think the new version is ready for release, but with the many possible specific WordPress configurations, hundreds of BuddyPress plugins and Thousands of WordPress themes, it’s possible something was missed. BuddyPress 14.0.0 is slated for release on July 12, 2024, and your help is […]

Please note the plugin is still in development, so we recommend running this beta release on a testing site. Please note BuddyPress 14.0.0 will require at least WordPress 6.1. The current target for final release is: July 8, 2024. Please read the 14.0.0-beta1 announcement post for a list of nice improvements to expect from our next major release. […]

bbPress 2.6.17 is a security and maintenance release with broad improvements to permissions, private content, subscriptions, moderation workflows, and forum counts. Everyone running bbPress should update as soon as possible. 🔒 (You may notice 2.6.17 release follows 2.6.15. Well, I found a SQL bug right after 2.6.16 was tagged and I didn’t want to wait […]

bbPress 2.6.15 is a security and maintenance release that fixes five security issues and includes a few compatibility improvements. Everyone running bbPress should update as soon as possible. 🔒 This release strengthens authorization around topic and reply editing, topic splitting and merging, user profile updates, and private or hidden forum visibility. It also hardens imported […]

bbPress 2.6.14 is a minor release that fixes 20 issues. For everyone running bbPress 2.6, feel free to update at your earliest convenience. 🍯 This release improves Akismet, BuddyPress, and PHP 8.2 support, moderation terms, search, and more! (All of these fixes have already been merged into trunk/2.7.) Thank you to everyone who contributed to […]

bbPress 2.6.13 is a minor release that fixes 1 small incompatibility with WordPress 6.8. (This fix is already merged into the 2.7 development branch.) Thank you to vortfu, peterwilsoncc, spacedmonkey, joemcgill, swissspidy, and jorbin for helping communicate this to the bbPress team 🐝

bbPress 2.6.12 is a minor release that fixes 1 security issue and 1 small bug. The security issue was responsibly disclosed via the WordPress HackerOne bounty program. It does not appear to be actively exploited, and specifically targets: single-site WordPress installations, newer than 5.3.0, with the “Membership” setting set to “Anyone can register”, and with […]

bbPress 2.6.11 is a minor release that fixes 13 relatively small bugs reported over the past few years. Most notably, it improves HTML output escaping in the topic & reply forms (nothing serious, just some entities showing up where they should not), prevents a bunch of different debug notices from filling up error logs, and […]

bbPress 2.6.9 is a minor release that improves the Akismet clean-up routines introduced in the 2.6.7 release. If you are using Akismet with bbPress and saw some debug notices in your logs, this release is for you! Thank you to our friends over at Automattic’s Akismet team for helping! 💚

bbPress 2.6.8 is a minor release that fixes 1 regression in the 2.6.7 release. 😬 Thank you to everyone who provided prompt feedback in the support forums. Because of you, we were able to react quickly and repackage this release right away. 🎉

bbPress 2.6.7 is a minor release that fixes 19 issues. For everyone running bbPress 2.6, feel free to update at your earliest convenience. 🍯 This release improves Akismet and BuddyPress support, allows Moderators to reply to unapproved Topics, and fixes a user-interface issue with the hierarchical replies feature, just to highlight a few notable changes. […]

bbPress 2.6.6 is a minor release that fixes 22 issues. For all y’all running bbPress 2.6, you are welcome to update at your earliest convenience. 🐝 This release fixes a few PHP warnings & notices, some output formatting bugs, and improves a few different moderator experiences, just to name a few of my favorite changes. […]

Ipsum is the proposal for the next default theme, planned to be bundled in WordPress 7.2. It is an intentionally minimal blog theme that centers on a blank canvas to make your own, with built-in room for creativity. The approach for this theme also marks a move away from year-based naming, based on direction from @matt. Going […]

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The various curated agenda sections below refer to additional items. If you have ticket requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section […]

“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with Gutenberg and the Editor. Gutenberg 24.0 has been released and is available for download! This […]

Maintenance of the GitHub mirror of the WordPress build repository has recently being transferred to the WordPress.org systems team. In future, any syncing issues with the GitHub mirror should be reported to the system team, either on the make/systems blog of via the Slack #meta channel if you are unable to post a report to […]

Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @amykamala 🔗 See the agenda post. Announcements 📢 7.1 Everyone is encouraged to give feedback on the 7.1 release cycle. Check out the WordPress 7.1 Release Retrospective. 7.1.1 WordPress 7.1.1 RC1 is planned on September 10. 7.2 The WordPress 7.2 Release Squad has been announced. The Bug Scrub Schedule […]

WordPress 7.1.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing! Some ways you can help test this minor release: As this is a minor RC release, select the Point Release channel and the Nightlies stream. This is the latest build including the RC and potentially any subsequent commits in trunk. Use WP-CLI to test: wp […]

As of September 8th, the versions of Node.js and npm required for WordPress development are now 24.x (minimum 24.18.0) and 11.x (minimum 11.16.0). This applies to trunk in both repositories, the wp/7.1 branch in gutenberg, and the 7.1 branch in wordpress-develop. Older branches remain unchanged (requiring >=20.10.0 and >=10.2.3 of Node.js and npm, respectively). See […]

It’s time to get WordPress 7.2 ready for release, and help is needed to ensure it’s smooth and bug-free. Whether you’re an experienced contributor or joining in for the first time, everyone is welcome! 🎉 Schedule Overview Regular bug scrubs are being held twice a week with @audrasjb and @im3dabasia1 leading them. As the release […]

Meet the WordPress 7.2 Release Squad who will help guide the release and its new default themes. The cycle continues WordPress’s smaller, focused squad model while creating plenty of opportunities for contributors across Make teams to get involved.

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The various curated agenda sections below refer to additional items. If you have ticket requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section […]

WordPress core runs about 31,000 PHPUnit tests on every commit. These tests need maintenance just like core code: many leak state into other tests, some assert nothing, and several are coupled to network calls. A goal for the Build/Test Tools component for the 7.2 release is to reduce build time and load across wordpress-develop and […]

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @spacedmonkey shared ongoing work to improve query caches and requested more eyes on the work. The idea came from a chat with @peterwilsoncc on the RTC ticket #65487, and @spacedmonkey said the idea has legs. PR #12220 has some test coverage, […]

A huge congratulations, and a giant thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 7.1 happen! The release was only made possible by your dedication and hard work. You all are heroes. Now that the development cycle is over, it’s time for a retro. You’re invited to share your thoughts on the 7.1 cycle, on […]

WordPress 7.1 shipped the first two runnable code examples in the Code Reference. They are powered by WordPress Playground, and more are coming in 7.2. On the WP_HTML_Processor::class_list() Code Reference page, select Run button in the code snippet and the code example will run right there, in your browser. Runnable snippets can be defined in […]

A patch has been in progress since June that replaces Dashicons in the admin bar and the sidebar with WordPress icons, using the wp_get_icon() function that was introduced in WordPress 7.1. Props to @fushar, @wildworks, and @lucasmdo for moving this forward. Because the change being proposed is very visible, it deserves a wider audience than […]

At WordCamp US 2026, a group of contributors gathered for an informal conversation about the relationship between the WordPress project and the PHP language and community. The discussion was held under the Chatham House Rule, so notes below are not attributed to individual participants. Attendees: @jorbin @johnbillion @obenland @griffbrad @joemcgill @dmsnell @jason_the_adams @desrosj @mdawaffe @4thhubbard […]

Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @audrasjb 🔗 See the agenda post. Announcements 📢 7.2 We have a Proposal: Secrets API for WP 7.2 We are still waiting for a release squad to be published, probably early next week as per @jeffpaul 7.1.1 We now have a WordPress 7.1.1 Release Schedule! General Updates to WordPress […]

“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with Gutenberg and the Editor. Gutenberg 23.9 has been released and is available for download! This […]

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. Dev chat is back on Wednesdays again! The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The various curated agenda sections below refer to additional items. If you have ticket requests for help, please continue […]

Since WordPress 7.1 was released, contributors have kept a close eye on incoming reports to the WordPress.org Support Forums, Trac, and the Gutenberg repository on GitHub. The volume and severity of tickets mean that the maintenance release should be prepared habitually. This release will be co-led by @adamsilverstein, @adrianduffell, and @andraganescu. Schedule Date/Time Event Bug Scrub Bug Scrub Bug Scrub. WordPress 7.1.2 Milestone […]

Tests: Correct the WP_Font_Face tests dataset. Due to being placed at the wrong level of the array, the indexed array as input test case was not actually used when running the tests. The fix can be confirmed with the --testdox parameter: composer test -- --filter Tests_Fonts_WPFontFace_GenerateAndPrint --testdox ... _Fonts_WPFont Face_Generate And Print ✔ Should not generate and print when no fonts ✔ Should generate and print given fonts with data set "single truetype format font" ✔ Should generate and print given fonts with data set "multiple truetype format fonts" ✔ Should generate and print given fonts with data set "single woff2 format font" ✔ Should generate and print given fonts with data set "multiple woff2 format fonts" ✔ Should generate and print given fonts with data set "indexed array as input" Follow-up to r57720. See #65819.

The last EXTREMELY confusing element that no one seems to understand is this option on Groups, etc: “Inner blocks use content width” IT IS SINGULARLY THE MOST CONFUSING DESIGN ELEMENT IN WORDPRESS. This needs to be changed and somehow reworked so that it makes sense to a 10 year old!

Backports ​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/83012 to core. The Icons API introduced in [62748] registers the default WordPress icons in the core collection. #65089 proposes replacing the dashicons in the admin bar and the admin menu with SVG icons rendered through wp_get_icon(). Those icons live in the core collection, so a plugin that unregisters that collection — something it might legitimately do to hide the default WordPress icons from the Icon block — would also wipe out every icon in the dashboard chrome. The admin bar and admin menu icons should not be removable under any circumstances. The proposal is to add a reserved _builtin icon collection, holding a private copy of the icons that WordPress itself renders.

WP_Image_Editor_GD::flip() uses negative dimensions with imagecopyresampled(). With PHP 8.6's bundled GD 2.4.0, this causes Tests_Image_Editor_GD::test_flip to fail: Failed asserting that 0 is identical to 8434407 The same operation works with PHP 8.5/GD 2.3.3. imageflip() produces the expected result on both versions. This patch replaces the imagecopyresampled() implementation with imageflip() while preserving the existing flip behavior.

Build/Test Tools: Use the null coalescing assignment operator in the test suite. Replaces the “assign a default only if not already set” guard blocks in the PHPUnit test suite, the shared test infrastructure and the PHPStan hook docblock helper with the null coalescing assignment operator (??=). Developed in ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/13511. Props Soean, westonruter. See #65823.

Tests: Use strict assertions in user tests. Replace loose comparisons with strict assertions for user query results, post reassignment, site flags, and user levels. Cast expected IDs to strings to match database return values and preserve meaningful negative comparisons. Retain object-value comparisons where distinct instances are expected, and explain the user level type before a role change. Developed in: ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/13545 Props haritpanchal. See #64895.

Tests: Reduce export fixture cost and fix upload cleanup. Create export attachment fixtures directly in the database instead of copying images and generating intermediate sizes. Preserve the attachment parent and featured-image relationships. Cache an initially empty upload snapshot and clean up files created by the admin media tests, preventing leftover uploads from changing later filenames. Add regression coverage for empty and nonempty initial snapshots. Developed in: ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/13495 Props sainathpoojary. See #66074.

Code Quality: Fix the variadic @param in opens_block(). The @param annotation for $block_type in WP_Block_Processor::opens_block() documented the type as string[], while the method signature declares the variadic string ...$block_type. The PHPDoc specification documents a variadic parameter as its element type followed by ...$parameter_name, which is how core annotates the others, such as in Walker::walk() and walk_page_dropdown_tree(). The array notation instead described $block_type as receiving a single array argument, which PHPStan reported as incompatible with the native type. With the last occurrence fixed, tests/phpstan/baselines/parameter.phpDocType.neon is now empty, so it is deleted along with its includes entry in phpstan.neon.dist, as the baseline header directs. Developed in ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/13500. Follow-up to r60939, r63020. Props noruzzaman. See #65817.

Build/Test Tools: Remove a stale matrix exclusion in 6.9. Remove the PHP 7.3 and MySQL 9.4 exclusion left behind when [62945] removed PHP 7.3 from the 6.9 PHPUnit matrix. The unmatched exclusion causes actionlint to fail when workflow files change. Retain the PHP 7.2 exclusion. The innovation-release matrix remains unchanged at 14 jobs. Developed in: ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/13544 Reviewed by: johnbillion. Props johnbillion. See #65736.

Build/Test Tools: Group tests that depend on Core assets. Add the assets group to existing tests that depend on Core JavaScript and CSS files, covering shortcode regex parity, oEmbed rendering, CSS inlining and hoisting, admin view transitions, and generated script modules. Allow these tests to be selected with --group assets while retaining their existing groups and normal suite coverage. This prepares for reduced PHPUnit runs on changes limited to Core assets. Developed in: ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/13522 Props adrianmoldovanwp, johnbillion. See #65889.

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Not many of the present readers might know me very well, and that in part, is the reason that I have made the decision to transfer WLTC to more willing and presently capable hands. I am a stranger on my blog and the time has come for me to make sure that this blog, its contents and its knowledge are archived and preserved and maybe rejuvenated at a later time. I delved into blogging tools back in 2004 when I started my Masters degree in CS. I wanted some code to mess around with in my free time and everyone was talking about blogging. I looked into a variety of tools, built a small Linux server for myself at home, and installed a few of the tools that were freely available at that time. I had a heck of a time getting a hold of MT (Moveable Type, the most well-known name) and […]

The landscape of news has changed so much over the last few years that news about a particular topic or platform is readily available to anyone within an instant. With WordPress, I imagine that could be one of the perks of powering over 16% of the web, but it’s true that news is becoming incredibly accessible. In short, news is everywhere. Speaking of WordPress in general, you can of course acquire official direct news from WordPress News, but you can also take a peak behind the curtain and follow news in the making at Make WordPress.org. Though it’s only specific to the WordPress.com blogging platform, WordPress.com News is also worth watching for WordPress development news, as WordPress.com users often get access to new WordPress features before they’re released, so you’ll be able to try new features rather than just read about them. There’s more news than just direct official news, like I […]

New plugins GC Message Box allows you to highlight your key message(s) in smart ways within articles and blog posts. Simple Social Icons allows you to insert social icons in any widget area. Stick It allows you to stick the navigation menu in any theme to the top of browser window. Updated plugins Jetpack allows you to supercharge your WordPress site with powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users. Nav Menu Images enables uploading of images for nav menu items on the menu edit screen.

AirTime is a subtle and simple theme. FirmaSite is a responsive theme with BuddyPress and bbPress support. Stark Lite is a minimalist and simple theme.

New plugins Easy Watermark automatically adds watermark to images when they are uploaded. Internet Defense League Cat Signal automatically loads either the modal or the banner Cat Signal when there is an active campaign from the Internet Defense League. Updated plugins BFT Autoresponder allows scheduling of automated autoresponder messages and managing a mailing list. Google Analytics Dashboard for WP will display Google Analytics data and statistics inside your Dashboard. WordPress MU Domain Mapping allows users of a WordPress MU site or WordPress 3.0 network to map their blog/site to another domain.

Memori Jingga is a responsive, clean, and simple theme. Rockers is a responsive theme with a clean design. Satu is an elegant single-column responsive theme.

The dates have been announced for WordCamp San Francisco 2013, an event which is often heralded as the annual WordPress conference. WordCamp San Francisco 2013 will be held on July 26 and 27 at the Mission Bay Conference Center with a Developer Hack Day on July 28. A list of speakers is not yet available, but they would like you to nominate your favorite past WordCamp speakers. Will you be attending WordCamp San Francisco this year?

New plugins Google Adsense Dashboard for WP will display your Google Adsense earnings and related reports inside your Dashboard. Google Analytics Dashboard for WP will display Google Analytics data and statistics inside your Dashboard. Updated plugins Ad Code Manager allows you to manage your ad codes through the WordPress admin in a safe and easy way. BFT Autoresponder allows scheduling of automated autoresponder messages and managing a mailing list. CampTix Event Ticketing is an easy to use and flexible event ticketing plugin.

Cazuela is a neutral colored theme. Ilisa is a clean and minimal theme that can be easily used as a personal portfolio or a business website. Partition has a light, lively, colorful, yet professional and classic appearance.

New plugins Barc Chat provides a simple yet feature rich chat room for your whole community to interact in real-time directly on your site. Get Directions is a flexible and responsive map plugin. Namaste! LMS is a learning management system for WordPress. Pinterest Verify Meta Tag simply inserts the Pinterest meta tag verification code to the correct section of your site. Updated plugins BackWPup allows you to backup your WordPress database, files, and more. Ooyala Video allows you to easily embed videos from the Ooyala Video Platform.

Ease is a simple red and white theme. Nomad is an attractive professional, business or blog theme with an unusual, very narrow orientation and design. Sensitive is fully responsive theme using Twitter Bootstrap and a Metro-styled accent. Visual is a dark minimalist theme for displaying photos and images.

The impending release of WordPress 3.6 has been pushed back one more week to April 29. At this time, WordPress 3.6 is not yet feature complete (meaning that all intended new features have not been entirely finished), so the decision was made to push the first beta release back two weeks to March 27 and the final release back one week to April 29. This will allow the team time to focus on finalizing the in-progress new features so that they (and the brave folks who enjoy running beta software) can simply focus on testing and bug fixing rather than polishing up partial features.

New plugins Easy Media Gallery is designed to display portfolios and various media types including gallery sets, single images, google maps, video, audio, and links with ease and elegance. ytlink provides a preview image for embedded YouTube videos. Updated plugins BackWPup allows you to backup your WordPress database, files, and more. Genericon’d enables easy use of the Genericons icon font set from within WordPress. Icons can be inserted using either HTML or a shortcode. Keyring provides a very hookable, completely customizable framework for connecting your WordPress site to an external service. WP All Import makes it easy to import any XML or CSV file into your WordPress site.

There has been a lot of talk lately about working from home and maintaining a distributed workforce. Web-based software, like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, are taking over the publishing industry and allow you to work from anywhere with an internet connection. Though, even though they can be managed  from home, working from home and maintaining a distributed workforce is not yet broadly acknowledged in society as a successful and efficient alternative to working in an office. Despite working with software that doesn’t need to be tied to one specific workstation, you could still find yourself tied to a desk in cubicle. I work full-time for Automattic and have the pleasure of both working from home and setting my own hours. After all, I only need a browser, an email client, and IRC client, and Skype to do my job. A desk is nice, but there’s no one saying that said desk has to be […]

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Every WordCamp needs a great send-off, and this year, we’re doing it the way our community actually talks to each other: two chairs, a real conversation, and a room full of people who get it. Think of it less like a keynote and more like the best hallway conversation of the week, just given a mic and a stage. The conversation we’ve all been having comes to the big stage. WordPress is evolving alongside AI, changing user expectations, and a rapidly shifting web. How do we keep open source thriving? What should we hold onto? What needs to change? And where do we go from here? That’s what this conversation is about. Not prepared talking points, but an honest discussion between two people who’ve spent decades helping shape, support, and steward the WordPress ecosystem from different perspectives. Even better, it doesn’t end on stage. The final 30 minutes belong to the community, with live audience Q&A. Two perspectives shaped by decades in open source. Ma.tt Mullenweg has helped guide the project since co-founding WordPress more than twenty years ago, while also leading Automattic and its portfolio of products supporting publishing, commerce, and the open web. Robert Jacobi has spent his career guiding organizations build, secure, and scale open source technologies, contributing across hosting, infrastructure, community leadership, and digital strategy. Together, they bring two distinct perspectives on the opportunities, challenges, and decisions shaping WordPress today. It’s a conversation grounded in years of experience, but one that’s ultimately about where the project goes from here and what that means for everyone building with it. The best conversations don’t end when the session does. By the time Wednesday afternoon arrives, you’ll have spent four days learning new skills, meeting people from across the community, and sharing ideas that continue long after the event ends. This conversation is a chance to zoom out and connect those experiences to the bigger picture. Expect an honest discussion about open source, the evolving web, AI, community, and the future of WordPress. Then, the conversation opens up to you. The final 30 minutes are dedicated to audience Q&A, giving you the opportunity to ask questions, share perspectives, and be part of the discussion that closes out WordCamp US 2026.

AI is quickly becoming part of everyday work for WordPress teams, but in many cases we are still using it in a very limited way: asking isolated questions, retrying prompts, and manually feeding context into every conversation. Whats next is not simply using better prompts. It is learning how to delegate. In this session I will check how agentic development, is a new way of structuring repositories, workflows, and AI tooling so coding agents can operate with memory, reusable processes, and external awareness instead of acting like one-time chat assistants. I will look at why this changes the way modern WordPress teams think about development, delivery, documentation, and internal knowledge sharing, and why the competitive advantage in the near future will not come from access to AI itself, but from how well teams learn to organize AI execution.

Two clients showed up with the same UX problem: visitors land on a complex site and can’t find the right path forward. One project ended up shipping a GPT-powered search block. The other shipped a deterministic, persona-driven block on rails, no AI at all. Both worked. Neither was wrong. This talk walks through both production engagements side by side. The AI search block, built for a community college’s 643-course catalog, comes with the production-hardening list nobody mentions in the demos: rate limits, kill switches, prompt-injection mitigations, token ceilings, and cost predictability. The persona-by-goal Mosaic block, built for an industrial services company after their legal team rejected an AI chatbot SOW, comes with a different lesson: deterministic UX, full editorial control, zero model cost. Attendees leave with a framework for when an AI block belongs in a project and when a deterministic block does the same job better, plus a reusable persona-by-goal pattern they can adapt on their next engagement.

Plugins are how most WordPress users solve problems, and for good reason. But there’s a point where adding another one starts to hurt. Performance gets shaky, updates break things, and your site ends up depending on a chain of small tools nobody fully understands. This talk is about recognizing that point. How do you tell when a workflow has outgrown its plugin? How do you move that logic somewhere else without losing what made WordPress easy in the first place? We’ll work through real examples, like a membership flow that started as three plugins and became one automation, and a CRM sync that stopped breaking once it left the plugin world. Most WordPress talks assume the right answer is always to find the right plugin. This one is honest about when the right answer is to stop adding plugins.

Product builds. Partnerships open doors. Most companies treat these as separate functions that meet quarterly to align. Deals close on promises the roadmap doesn’t reflect, integrations ship that no partner actually asked for, customer feedback dies in notes that nobody on the product side ever sees, and the next big partnership opportunity fades away because nobody connected the dots in time. The presenters have been working this loop together for years. They’ve seen what happens when the loop holds and what happens when it breaks, and they’re shaping how a business operates around that hard-won pattern. In this talk, they’ll walk through partnership decisions made without product context and what they cost, product decisions made without partnership context and what those cost, and key moments where the loop worked and value compounded. They’ll talk candidly about AI as a tool running the loop with them: surfacing patterns across partner conversations and product signals, drafting the first version of things humans then sharpen, and making it possible for a small team to hold more of the big picture at once. The argument isn’t that AI replaces either role. It’s that AI, used well, makes the loop between them faster, sharper, and harder to drop. Expect concrete examples, honest failure stories, and a working model you can take back to your own team whether you sit on the product side, the business side, or somewhere in between.

AI agents don’t browse the web the way humans do. They need to read it, query it, take actions on it. A new layer of the web is being built right now – one where sites aren’t just destinations for human visitors but interfaces that AI systems can interact with directly. WordPress, which already powers 43% of the web, has a real structural role to play here. But it requires the ecosystem to think differently about what a WordPress site actually is. In this talk I’ll dig into what the agentic web actually means in practice – what agents need from a site, how MCP and the WordPress AI infrastructure being built in core (WP AI Client, MCP Adapter, Abilities API) fit in, and what developers, agencies, and site owners should be thinking about now before this shift accelerates..

Most agencies still update WordPress sites the same way regardless of risk: backup, update, then click through some pages hoping nothing broke. That approach burns hours, scales badly, and still misses the layout break a client catches first. This session presents a rock-solid maintenance workflow.

Block themes give WordPress an opportunity to become more than a publishing tool or a place where finished designs are implemented. With the right theme structure, patterns, templates, and brand guidelines, a WordPress site can become the source of truth for how new pages and layouts should be built. That matters even more as agencies begin using AI in their build process. AI is useful when it can work from existing pieces: approved patterns, real content, design tokens, reusable blocks, and known template structures. It is much less useful when it starts every landing page from scratch. In this session, we’ll look at how agencies can treat WordPress as a practical design system for real client work. We’ll cover how block themes, patterns, `theme.json`, reusable layouts, and clear content structure can give both humans and AI better building blocks. WooCommerce will be used as a case study because store pages make the stakes obvious: product, cart, and checkout experiences need brand consistency, editing flexibility, and reliable structure. Attendees will leave with a clearer model for using block themes as a foundation for agency workflows, client handoff, and AI-assisted page building without losing control of the design system.

The creator economy is rapidly evolving beyond sponsored posts and display ads. Today’s most successful creators are building diversified, community-driven businesses powered by owned platforms, strategic partnerships, and commerce-first content. As both the COO of Tastemaker Conference — a leading conference for food creators and digital entrepreneurs — and a longtime creator myself, I’ve had a front-row seat to how the industry is changing. In this session, I’ll share what brands, creators, and audiences are prioritizing in 2026 and how WordPress creators can position themselves for long-term growth. Attendees will learn: Why creator commerce is becoming more valuable than traditional influencer marketing How creators are building sustainable income beyond ad revenue The role WordPress plays in audience ownership and long-term business stability What brands are actually looking for in creator partnerships today How community and trust are becoming a creator’s greatest competitive advantage in the AI era Practical ways creators can future-proof their businesses Whether you’re a blogger, content creator, entrepreneur, marketer, or WordPress professional, this session will provide actionable insights into the next era of digital business and creator-led commerce. Audience Takeaways Understand where the creator economy is heading Learn how to diversify revenue streams Discover why owned platforms matter more than ever Gain practical strategies for building trust-driven creator businesses Learn how creators can stand out in an increasingly AI-saturated internet”

Accessibility in WordPress is often misunderstood as something that can be solved by simply installing a plugin. While plugins can be helpful, true accessibility requires understanding how themes, content, design choices, navigation, forms, images, headings, and interactive elements affect real users. In this session, I will explain what real WordPress accessibility looks like beyond automated tools and quick fixes. Attendees will learn common accessibility issues found on WordPress websites, how to identify them, and practical steps they can take to make their sites more usable and compliant with WCAG and Section 508 standards. This presentation is designed for WordPress site owners, designers, developers, content creators, and anyone who wants to build websites that work better for everyone.

Hook: Every dev on your team has their own pile of AI prompts and one-off scripts — which means every hard-won lesson stays trapped with the person who learned it, and the rest of the team keeps paying to learn it again. What if your team’s AI tooling lived in a versioned, reviewed, CI-enforced repo — the same way your plugins do? Take-away: a concrete starter pattern for a team-skills repo + the three policies that make it stick.

Earlier this year I was the sole developer on a new WordPress site build. AI tools moved the work along, but only because I spent the project teaching them how to work in my way – correcting mistakes, capturing what I learned, and feeding it back so they wouldn’t repeat them over and over again. This talk is about that practice: teaching your AI tools your process as you go, so they get better instead of just faster. Two actual instances from the project as examples: A mega-menu nav with a dead click zone where the AI’s first move was a complicated JavaScript event handler – the actual fix was a few CSS utility classes on the link. A tangled Tailwind class string that smelled wrong before I could name why – four AI agents running in parallel helped me diagnose it, clean it, and codify a rule that’s held up since. What I’ve learned and my process improvements go beyond just writing code: Asking for HTML output instead of markdown when richer visualizations are helpful. Dispatching multiple models to get different viewpoints for comparison and brainstorming solutions. Keeping the lessons I’ve taught the tools portable so I don’t lose the learning when I migrate to a new model. My processes are still evolving and improving. This talk gives a snapshot of where I’m at now and attendees will leave with a new set of tools and perspectives to improve their own AI interactions, grounded in actual project work on a shipped site.

AI is now embedded in plugins, themes, content pipelines, and client sites across the WordPress ecosystem. Most WordPress professionals have focused on what AI can do. Almost nobody has focused on what it requires of you legally This talk covers the compliance gap that agencies, freelancers, and product builders are about to run into: GDPR and data residency implications of AI tools processing user content, consent requirements when AI is involved in personalization or communication, the EU AI Act and what it means for WordPress businesses serving European clients, and disclosure obligations that are already in effect in some jurisdictions. These are not hypothetical future risks. They are current, and the WordPress ecosystem is largely unprepared for them. Attendees will leave with a practical checklist for auditing their own sites and client sites, an understanding of which AI use cases carry the most legal exposure, and clarity on what questions to bring to their legal counsel.

Join Waymo’s Amanda Ventura and host David Levine for a fireside chat about earning public trust in AI that moves beyond screens and into the physical world. Amanda works on Waymo’s public affairs team at the intersection of artificial intelligence and community engagement. By working directly with road safety and accessibility advocates, her team is helping shape a future of safer, more inclusive travel powered by autonomous driving. David Levine is a member of the WordPress Core AI Team and Director of Growth Engineering at rtCamp. He brings more than a decade of experience working with nonprofits, NGOs, local governments, and organizations building technology people can rely on. Together, Amanda and David explore questions relevant to anyone building with emerging technology: How do you earn trust from people who did not ask for the technology? How should communities help shape the products affecting their lives? What does it take to maintain trust when safety and accessibility are at stake?

The standard toolkit for custom WordPress theme development is undergoing a generational shift. Legacy bundlers, bulky frameworks, and guessing games with AI code completion are being replaced by lightweight execution environments, composable architectures, and rigid, deterministic code scaffolding. In this immersive, hands-on workshop, developers will dive into the future of theme development using WP Rig, the open-source progressive development starter theme and build tool system tailored for modern WordPress theme development. Participants will strip away development friction by moving into a completely automated local development environment powered by Bun and Lightning CSS, unlocking instantaneous feedback loops and hyper-optimized assets. We will dive deep into native WordPress Block support, exploring how to structure high-performance layout systems and map them cleanly to global styles. Next, we’ll unlock the true power of modern development: AI-Native Engineering. Attendees will discover how WP Rig’s structural blueprints interact seamlessly with AI coding agents. By leveraging codebases intentionally architected to minimize model hallucinations, you will learn how to turn your AI coding agent into a reliable pair-programmer for complex theme features. Finally, we’ll touch on the future of building “a la carte,” demonstrating how open-source component library paradigms allow developers to inject community-driven, plug-and-play features instantly into their projects without introducing theme bloat and increasing deterministic AI theme enhancements. Bring your laptop, leave legacy tooling behind, and discover how to write cleaner code faster while remaining fully aligned with modern WordPress standards. 🎯 What Attendees Will Learn (Learning Objectives) Directory-First QA Pipelines: How to leverage WP Rig’s native automated check suite to identify and correct code violations against official WordPress.org Theme Review guidelines. Modern Block & Hybrid Scaffolding: Safely integrating standard PHP-based code with block architectures, including flawless generation and testing of theme.json. AI-Guided Architecture (Agentic Workflows): Utilizing AI coding assistants alongside WP Rig’s structured structural blueprints to build error-free, custom block patterns rapidly. Blazing-Fast Tooling: How to bypass legacy configurations using an integrated build tool system designed for instant compilation feedback loops. 🛠 Prerequisites & Requirements Attendees should have a foundational understanding of PHP, CSS, and localized development. To participate in the coding portions, they will need: A laptop with a local WordPress development environment (e.g., WordPress Studio or LocalWP). Node.js/Bun and Composer installed locally. A code editor equipped with an AI programming extension (optional, but recommended for experiencing the agentic workflow elements). Directly Supports the Open Source Project: One of WordPress’s biggest needs is getting more developers to submit high-quality, block-compatible themes to the official directory. This workshop removes the intimidation factor of theme submissions and directly trains attendees to become directory contributors. Aligns with Core Innovation: The session balances the historical PHP strength of WordPress with modern Block paradigms and automated testing frameworks, providing a masterclass in how hybrid development should look in 2026. Solves the “Review Loop” Pain Point: By showing how the framework mimics the validation logic of the Theme Review Team, this workshop solves a massive developer pain point (waiting weeks for code-review feedback only to get rejected over basic formatting rules). It introduces an automated safety net.

Every mature WordPress site accumulates plugins the way a garage accumulates boxes… one at a time, each for a reasonable purpose, until the whole thing is load-bearing and nobody wants to touch it. The problem is not that plugins exist. The problem is that most teams have no repeatable method for evaluating what they actually have, what is redundant, what is risky, and what can safely go. This talk walks through a practical audit playbook developed across enterprise WordPress sites with 40, 60, even 80+ active plugins. The presenter will cover how to inventory a plugin stack against actual usage rather than assumed need, how to score plugins for maintainability and risk, how to identify consolidation opportunities that reduce surface area without losing functionality, and how to sequence removals so the site stays stable throughout the process. Attendees will leave with an audit template they can run on their own sites the following week. Attendee takeaways A repeatable plugin audit method that goes beyond “”check the last updated date”” How to score plugins for real risk: maintainability, overlap, dependency depth, and data exposure A sequencing strategy for simplifying a plugin stack without breaking production Concrete examples from enterprise sites where plugin consolidation reduced maintenance cost and improved stability

For years, WordPress engineers have lacked a globally recognized, professionally governed credential—an unusual gap in an ecosystem that powers a significant portion of the web. Employers have likewise struggled to reliably identify qualified WordPress engineering talent for mission‑critical work. To address this need, a small team at Automattic spent a year designing and building the new standards‑based Advanced Professional WordPress Developer Certification for WordPress developers, in partnership with Kryterion, a global leader in secure testing and assessment design. This session offers a behind‑the‑scenes look at how this credential was created, validated, and how it is structured, governed and delivered. We’ll explore what value credentials deliver to engineers and employers, and how they can expand access, equity, and diversity within open source communities. We’ll also discuss what additional credentials could emerge in the future. This session is ideal for engineers, employers, and anyone curious about the role credentialing can play in strengthening the WordPress ecosystem.

If you’ve heard of the Abilities API at all, it’s probably in the context of AI in WordPress. That’s a valid use case and is what drove the development of the Abilities API by the Core AI team, but the Abilities API has a lot more to offer than just AI integration. This talk will help you understand those pieces and how they create a new fundamental architecture for the platform so you can start building with the Abilities API today.

AI is rapidly changing the WordPress industry, automating repetitive tasks and reshaping what companies expect from developers. In this session, the presenter explores the skills that continue to create long-term value in modern WordPress careers — from performance, accessibility, and problem-solving to communication, systems thinking, and business awareness. Drawing from experience leading teams and working on enterprise WordPress projects, this talk examines how developers can adapt to AI-assisted workflows, stand out in a globally competitive market, and evolve beyond task-based development work. Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of how WordPress careers are changing and which skills are becoming increasingly important in 2026 and beyond.

Walk through any enterprise procurement conversation in 2026 and one thing becomes clear: customers are no longer shopping for “WordPress agencies.” They are shopping for partners who can solve digital experience, content operations, governance, and editorial workflow problems at scale. Whether WordPress sits underneath is increasingly a technical decision, not a strategic one. This is not a problem for WordPress. It is a problem for how agencies in the WordPress space describe themselves. The argument of this talk is simple: the strongest agencies in the WordPress space have shifted from platform identity to outcome identity. They no longer come across as WordPress specialists. They come across as solution drivers. And that is what enterprise customers actually want to buy. The agencies that have already made this shift are having very different conversations. Different stakeholders in the room. Different scope and budget. Different competitive set. Customers stop comparing them to other WordPress specialists and start comparing them to other solution partners, which is a smaller and less commoditized pool to be in. None of this means abandoning WordPress. WordPress is still the substrate. Technical depth still matters. The shift is in how the agency is seen, not in what it actually does. Drawing from 17 years of enterprise WordPress engagements, this session explores what changes when an agency makes this shift, what stays the same, and why the agencies that look invisible from the WordPress side are often the most valuable to their enterprise customers. This is not a case against WordPress. It is a case for what comes next.

AI is improving every day, giving us tools that surface security vulnerabilities in our software faster than ever before. But there’s a catch. Those same tools are available to everyone, including attackers. It feels like every day a new supply chain attack rolls across your feed. Bad actors are using AI to discover vulnerabilities, steal credentials, and inject malware into packages consumed by millions. After years of skating by on suboptimal dependency hygiene, many projects are now paying the price. So how do we protect ourselves from becoming the next headline? What does this shift mean for a massive open source project like WordPress, with its sprawling ecosystem of plugins, themes, and contributors? And what’s now non-negotiable on our security checklist in an age where AI finds the vulnerabilities first?

In a lot of organizations, there’s one person who owns WordPress. They didn’t necessarily choose the job, they just became the person who knows the most. That means fielding every request, managing vendors, and fighting for every budget dollar while translating technical decisions for people who don’t speak your language. This session is for that person. We’ll cover how to communicate the value of your work to stakeholders who don’t understand it, how to manage agency and freelance relationships so you stay in control, and how to make a case for resources when leadership sees the website as a cost center. You’ll leave with practical frameworks, real language you can use with your team, and the reassurance that you’re not alone.

[Joint presentation by the Agency Project Manager and Tech Lead, and the Client.] What happens when you hand a global industrial manufacturer’s website over to an AI and ask it to speak fluent German, Japanese, and beyond, all within WordPress? This session is a candid, data-driven deep dive into a real-world project for Standex Electronics, a precision engineering company operating across multiple international markets. We focus on integrating OpenAI’s translation capabilities into a multilingual WordPress multisite. We’ll walk you through exactly why the team chose to explore AI translation as a serious contender alongside well-known tools, and what the architecture of that decision actually looked like in production. We put the tools head-to-head, and we’ll share accuracy benchmarks comparing OpenAI against well-known translation platforms. The things that surprised us, the ones that didn’t, and the meaningful gaps that only revealed themselves when native speaking colleagues, not developers, were the target audience. Industrial and technical language is its own dialect, and machine learning doesn’t always get the memo. We’ll share a collection of our favourite “technically correct, and completely wrong” translations – the moments where a direct translation produced something that ranged from mildly confusing to a genuinely hilarious problem, and what each tool revealed about the difference between translating words and translating intent. Beyond the laughs, we’ll get into the operational reality: how long it actually takes to push translation updates, run human review cycles, and maintain consistency across a multisite at scale. We’ll share honest timings from the Standex project, from content change to live translated page, you’ll also hear how OpenAI was woven directly into a leading multilingual WordPress content management workflow, the integration decisions made along the way, and what the team would do differently if starting from scratch today. This session is presented by three people who lived it together: the Project Manager, the Developer who built the integration, and the client from Standex Electronics who commissioned it and trusted the output. They have the kind of candid working relationship that makes for an honest conversation – the kind you don’t usually get at a conference. Whether you’re a developer scoping a multilingual build, a project manager navigating client expectations around AI, or a digital leader wondering whether machine translation is ready for your audience, this session will give you the real picture, stats, stumbles, and all.

Every WordPress agency lives or dies by the next contract. Outreach, follow-ups, qualification, proposals. They sit on the founder’s desk and have done so for as long as agencies have existed. That part is changing first. AI agents now run entire pieces of the sales process on their own, without supervision. In this session, I share examples from my own work and how I automate my processes and standards with AI agents. What runs reliably in production and what fails, with a path you can follow without losing your voice.

AI Search isn’t just SEO’s problem anymore – it’s everyone’s. From content teams to developers, PPC to partnerships, the shift to AI-native discovery affects your entire business. This session is your wake-up call: why you’re probably already behind, what’s changed, and the quick wins you can implement now to catch up.

Every few years, something new shows up at your WordPress site that isn’t a person. Search engines, mobile browsers, social platforms — each time, the ecosystem adapted. But those were one-way streets: your site pushed content out to be indexed or previewed, and that was the end of the conversation. Agentic commerce flips the script. The buyer’s AI agent never opens a browser, never sees a checkout page, never clicks “Pay” — yet the transactional plumbing still has to work. For the first time at real scale, your store isn’t just sending data out, it’s taking instructions back. An AI agent submits a cart, requests a price calculation, initiates a payment — and your store has to accept, validate, and follow through, with real money on the line. That raises the same trust question that comes up every time a new commerce channel emerges: when there’s no UI, where does trust live? The answer, as it’s always been, is infrastructure — trusted payment providers, buyer protection, and fraud detection doing the heavy lifting, just as they did when people were first nervous about typing a credit card into a website. This talk explores what it looks like to build for that reality — walking through real implementations using custom REST endpoints in WooCommerce payment plugins, as a first step toward open agentic commerce, where any AI agent can walk up to any WooCommerce store and complete a transaction.

Whether we’re modernizing an old personal blog or migrating hundreds of thousands of existing posts from another CMS, using WordPress in 2026 means converting our content to Blocks. The “Convert to Blocks” button in the editor works well enough for one post, but if we have dozens or hundreds, what can we do to make the process less manual and more powerful? How can we migrate a site’s content directly into full block patterns, without losing the columns and structure it had before? In this talk I will share my experience leading a Sitecore-to-WordPress migration for a global nonprofit, and how full-site editing and AI are reshaping site migrations. We’ll show how we leverage AI to analyze and understand the structure of an existing site, the decisions and process we use to map that content into WordPress data structures, the strengths and limitations of agents and WordPress MCP for restructuring content, and how we build in-editor tools to let humans customize and enhance bulk-migrated content where it matters most. We’re excited to share practical lessons from bringing an entire project directly into block patterns and templates, along with takeaways about block transforms, block bindings, and balancing automation with editorial oversight… lessons that can apply to WordPress projects of any scale!

Are you struggling to grow a loyal community because building engagement funnels feels too technical or complex? In this session, we will share an accessible, no-code blueprint that empowers anyone to seamlessly connect with readers and understand how different types of visitors interact with your content. By exploring simple ways to reduce friction and gather actionable insights, you’ll learn how to turn casual readers into a dedicated community.

Every web agency has been there: a client’s site goes down at the worst possible moment, support is unreachable, or a security incident turns into a client-relationship crisis, and the root cause is a hosting provider that was never up to the job. Picking the right host matters, but in a market where every provider claims to be reliable, secure, and agency-friendly, how do agencies sort signal from noise? This session talks about two things: the Secure Hosting Alliance (SHA) and its trust seal program, a practical, standards-based framework designed to help WordPress agencies identify hosting partners that meet a clear, defensible bar for quality, transparency, and security; and how agencies can leverage this trust to better market to their clients and earn a premium on their services. We’ll walk through the real-world concerns agencies have: from control panel access and PHP version control to abuse response and terms of service clarity. We’ll show how to address each one. We’ll also discuss how hosting providers that earn the SHA trust seal benefit from the association, and how that alignment of incentives creates a better ecosystem for everyone in the WordPress community.

We used to think the hard part of digital work was consistency: building reusable components, scalable systems, and reliable patterns that teams could ship quickly and safely. Today, modern tooling has made production almost too easy, generating interfaces, layouts, and variations almost as fast as we can think of them. The harder problem is what we optimized away in the process: intent. As systems scale and tooling matures, it becomes easier to move fast without asking whether we’re still solving the right problem. Our components and tokens may remain visually coherent, but drift emerges at the level of meaning, purpose, and direction. In this talk, we’ll discuss how design systems must evolve from static libraries into living feedback systems, shaped as much by governance, communication, and organizational learning as by tokens or components. We’ll look at how intent gets lost at scale, why “doing the thing right” is not the same as “doing the right thing” and what it means to build stewardship practices that help teams notice and correct drift over time. Attendees will leave with a different way of thinking about design systems: not just as tools for consistency, but as infrastructure for ongoing decision-making in complex, changing environments.

Large WordPress content platforms often contain thousands of articles maintained by editorial and SEO teams over many years. Over time, this creates content debt: outdated blocks and shortcodes, inconsistent links, missing image ALT text, legacy markup, and other large-scale issues that are impossible to fix manually. In this hands-on workshop, participants will build practical WP-CLI commands designed for large-scale WordPress content operations. Together, we will create reusable and production-safe WP-CLI scripts that can: perform bulk content transformations, migrate blocks and shortcodes, normalize internal links, generate missing image ALT text using OpenAI, The workshop will focus on real engineering workflows used for maintaining large WordPress sites and multisite installations. Participants will learn how to: structure reusable WP-CLI command classes, process posts safely in batches, work with parameters like: limit offset category_id dry-run integrate external APIs, and evolve one-time migration scripts into automated cron-based maintenance workflows. By the end of the session, attendees will have built multiple practical WP-CLI commands and gained patterns they can immediately apply to large WordPress projects. Participants should bring a laptop with LocalWP or a Docker development environment installed. All setup instructions, requirements, and workshop materials are available in the workshop repository: https://github.com/lukaszwilczakhostinger/wp-cli-workshops

You don’t use AI to help your team. You build a team that happens to be AI. That shift — from AI as a tool to AI as a workforce — changes everything: how you structure work, how you delegate, how you quality-check, and what you actually need to show up for yourself. This workshop is where you make that shift for real, not in theory. In 90 minutes, you will design, assemble, and employ multiple AI-only teams — each with a defined role, a scope, and a manager agent coordinating their output. By the end of the session, your teams will have produced something tangible: a working plugin stub, a set of publish-ready blog posts, or a deliverable from your own work that you brought into the room.

What does it take for a group of volunteers to evolve a website with 20+ years of history through multiple CMS onto one that runs on a current and modern stack? This case study will look at what it took to give a face lift to a legacy site.

Editorial teams are leaving WordPress, not because it can’t handle their content, but because the default admin experience makes it feel like it can’t. Writers face a cluttered interface built for developers. Editors have no clear approval workflow. And when stakeholders compare WordPress to tools like Sanity, the gap feels obvious: structured content, clean review flows, role-based UX. So teams migrate. They add headless layers, adopt new CMSes, and spend months and lots of money rebuilding what WordPress already does, just hidden under the wrong interface.

Daily Kos isn’t just a media publisher, it’s a 20-year-old community where readers write, organize, and show up every single day. When it was time to migrate 1.5 million posts, 2.7 million users, and 88 million comments off a custom-built CMS, the technical challenge was only half the problem. The real risk was losing the trust of the people who fund 90% of the platform. In this session, the CTO of Daily Kos, and the staff engineer walk through what it took to migrate a community-first platform: The scale: 1.5M posts, 2.7M users, 88M comments, and two decades of technical debt The decisions that mattered: architecture choices made around user psychology, not just infrastructure What we learned and what we’d do differently How we ran a fully public beta with 500+ vocal community members, and what we learned

Anyone can vibe-code a plugin in an afternoon. Most of those plugins can’t go anywhere near a business-critical site (and you know it the moment you read the code). Learn how to build your own AI pipeline that ships plugins you can actually deploy: secure, performant, and built to the standards your senior engineers enforce in code review.

We spend a lot of effort making the editorial experience good for humans — clear blocks, sensible constraints, guardrails that keep content on-brand. It turns out those same rules are exactly what an AI agent needs to publish well. This talk walks through the key tenets of a strong editorial experience in WordPress with Gutenberg, then demos how agents use the very same structure and constraints to produce on-brand content without breaking your visual integrity. Build it right for editors, and agents come along for free.

There’s a common narrative that publishers are leaving WordPress for Substack. Don’t believe the hype. The Ankler is the case that runs the other way — and it’s a case worth studying. With 15 newsletters and around $10m in annual revenue, The Ankler is one of Hollywood’s most respected insider publications. In April 2026 it moved off Substack onto a fully owned and operated WordPress site, giving the business direct control over its platform, data, and reader experience. This is what happens when a publication outgrows a platform built for individual creators. This talk looks at what that transition actually took, and why it made sense at this stage of the company’s growth. We migrated tens of thousands of posts and media files, with one all-or-nothing export that can hang for 28 hours, no images in the dump, and no comments, authors or SEO data at all. We reconstructed thousands of hand-placed paywall boundaries, and mapped a single Substack paid tier onto six Passport audiences, adopting Passport as the new paywall, membership, and newsletter infrastructure while it was still in beta. But the transferable lessons go beyond migration mechanics; they also include how the site was designed. Instead of Figma, we built directly in the block theme we’d chosen, selectively codifying designs into templates, patterns and a child theme, deciding in real time where flexibility mattered and where it introduced risk. The result is a publication with direct ownership of its content, subscriber data, revenue logic, and reader experience. This talk makes the case that for media companies serious about independence, WordPress isn’t the platform people are leaving. It’s the one they should be building on.

LLMs are here and they’ve already disrupted software development at every level. Revolutions are messy, fraught with challenges, risks and disruption as the status quo evolves to make room for new ideas. Large language models can dramatically improve productivity, but they also confidently output plausible garbage. This session is about getting the speed without surrendering responsibility. I will be live demoing Claude Code in a terminal by interrogating a real WordPress plugin codebase and working backwards into the workflow that helps make it trustworthy: having Claude itself maintain a CLAUDE.md “project contract”, requiring a plan for major feature development and using a verification loop where changes aren’t pushed unless validation checks pass. We’ll dig into common points of failure that matter in real projects—hallucinated assumptions, approval fatigue, and the licensing/attribution questions raised when AI tools ingest open source—and how to work in a way that treats the model as untrusted by default.

AI can now write, test, and ship code with almost no human keystrokes — so why does developer trust in its output keep falling even as adoption climbs past 84%? The answer isn’t a tooling problem, it’s a taste problem. AI isn’t eliminating developer work—it’s moving it. Time saved writing code now reappears in specifying intent, assembling context, supervising agents, verifying changes, and owning the outcome. AI mostly reshuffles a developer’s day away from typing and toward judgment calls: what to delegate, what to verify, what to reject outright. Drawing on real WordPress examples — the “almost right” bug that passes every glance-test, the security debt hiding in AI-suggested dependencies, the new bottleneck of feeding an agent the right context — we’ll unpack what’s actually changing in developer experience, and why the developers who thrive won’t be the ones who prompt best, but the ones with the sharpest taste. You’ll leave with a practical model for working with AI—specify, delegate, verify—and a clear vision of the developer’s future role: writing less code, perhaps, but making more consequential decisions.

They didn’t guess the password. They didn’t break 2FA, bypass the firewall, or trigger a single alert. The activity log shows no failed attempts, no unusual login times, no new accounts created. And yet, the attacker is inside your WordPress site, accessing your WordPress dashboard. Session hijacking leaves no login trace, because the attacker never logged in. They took an authentication cookie and reused an existing session. To WordPress, every request looks legitimate; the real user’s credentials, their 2FA, their login restrictions, none of it applies. The session was already authenticated. Most WordPress security advice is built around hardening and protecting, however, that leaves a critical blind spot: what happens after authentication succeeds? In this talk, we’ll walk through how WordPress creates and validates authentication cookies and session tokens, explore the real-world scenarios where sessions get stolen, and map out what an attacker can do with a hijacked session before the damage becomes visible. Then we’ll get practical. We will look into how session visibility, timeout policies, concurrent login controls, device recognition, and activity logging that captures post-login behaviour are the controls that catch what firewalls and 2FA miss. Firewalls, 2FA, and passkeys are essential. This talk covers what comes after them.

Every agency has seen it happen: the site launches, the training session goes well, and three months later the content team has questions no one remembers covering. WordPress offers a huge amount of educational material, but most of it is not designed to be handed directly to a client team with real workflows, custom tools, accessibility needs, and editorial decision-making. This talk shares how Modern Tribe created Learn.tri.be, a reusable training system for WordPress and ModernPress that combines documentation, walkthrough videos, editor-focused guidance, and an AI assistant built directly into the WordPress editor. We’ll explore how teams can move beyond one-time training sessions and build scalable education systems that support content creators at the moment they need help most.

The U.S. Latino market represents over $3.7 trillion in purchasing power but most WordPress sites are built for only one language and one culture, missing a massive, underserved, and far less competitive search opportunity. In this session, the presenter draws from years of real-world experience across four agencies — targeting bilingual audiences in industries as diverse as beauty, healthcare, retail, and tourism — to show how WordPress, the right plugins, and AI tools can be used to reach multicultural audiences based on location, language, and cultural context. The secret? Search volumes in Spanish and culturally specific niches are less competitive, more targeted, and highly underutilized by most brands. And this same principle applies to any multicultural or multilingual community that has been overlooked by mainstream digital marketing strategies not just Spanish speakers. Attendees will walk away knowing how to: Identify low-competition bilingual and multicultural keyword opportunities Choose the right WordPress plugins to manage multilingual content without the overwhelm Use AI to create culturally relevant content in multiple languages without doubling their workload Understand why diversity and cultural awareness is not just good values — it is a real competitive advantage in search

Many modern websites are still not complying with a single privacy law. Not GDPR. Not CIPA. Not PIPEDA. Nothing. With the rise of privacy-law lawsuits – and exploding cases of CIPA demand letters – now is not a good time to tempt the fates. But, as with most problems, the first step towards fixing a problem is to first identify there is a problem. So, here are three things all website owners, designers, and agencies need to check their websites for to ensure they are being compliant with modern privacy laws: 1) Data collection methods (forms, ecommerce, newsletter subscriptions, etc.) 2) Data collection methods behind the scenes (analytics, pixels, reCAPTCHA, etc.) 3) Are your policies and consent methods adequate?

WordPress started as a blogging tool. It has grown into the operating system of the web. This talk takes that one step further: WordPress as the operating system of a company, the single surface where every business unit and every tool people depend on come together behind one login. It doesn’t do every job. It coordinates them. And now that AI is in the picture, that layer is the one place a model can reach everything at once. Drawing on a real multi-brand operation running in production, with thousands of daily users across dozens of offices, we’ll walk the pattern, where it breaks, and the choices everything else depended on. You’ll learn how to run a whole company on WordPress as an operating system: orchestrating the tools each unit already relies on, architecting multiple brands on a single block theme, and using AI to let anyone edit content easily and on brand. You’ll leave with a working model that scales from a 3-person shop to a 3,000-person enterprise.

WordPress has changed dramatically since 2020, with Full Site Editing, block themes, the Site Editor, patterns, performance improvements, accessibility work, and modern development workflows reshaping what the platform can do. At the same time, public-sector websites are being asked to do more than ever. They are not just marketing tools. They are public-service infrastructure where residents find services, access emergency information, apply for programs, report issues, and interact with local government. This session connects the evolution of modern WordPress with the practical realities of public-sector digital service. Drawing from real-world experience with city microsites, accessibility challenges, resident personas, service-based content strategy, and an in-progress effort to migrate a large city website to WordPress, this talk will explore how WordPress can support more accessible, trustworthy, and sustainable civic websites. Attendees will learn how to think beyond pages and templates and toward services, tasks, accessibility, governance, editor workflows, and long-term public value.

Cleaning Malware-Infected WordPress Sites with AI 🎤 Speaker: Hasin Hayder 📍 WordCamp Rajshahi 2026 Learn how AI can help detect, analyse, and clean malware from WordPress websites. In this session, Hasin Hayder shares practical techniques and security best practices for keeping WordPress sites safe.

Learn how to set up and use WordPress Studio, the official local development tool for WordPress, to build and test WordPress websites directly on your computer.

Die Kombination aus WordPress und React mag technisch, aufwendig und für manche unmöglich klingen. Manchmal ist sie aber die eleganteste Lösung im Raum. Noemi Frischknecht, UX Designerin und Entwicklerin teilt in diesem Vortrag ihre Erfahrung mit genau dieser Kombination. Anhand echter Projektbeispiele zeigt sie, wann und warum hybride Setups entstanden sind, welche Vor- und Nachteile sie mitbringen, wo Reibung entstehen kann und weshalb die Kombination für sie als UX Designerin & Entwicklerin persönlich besonders wertvoll ist. Noemi ist nicht nur in der Entwicklung zu Hause und freut sich, diese Thematik für alle zugänglich zu machen. Der Vortrag richtet sich darum wirklich an alle, die in irgendeiner Form mit WordPress-Projekten zu tun haben. Technisches Vorwissen zu React ist nicht nötig - technisches Interesse erhofft sie sich durch den Vortrag zu wecken. Tips wohin mit diesem Interesse sind in der Teilnahme inbegriffen.

WordPress an der Hochschule – Herausforderungen einer offenen Wissensplattform Die Hochschule Luzern betreibt eine WordPress‑Plattform mit dem Anspruch, Dozierenden und Studierenden eine offene Wissensplattform bereitzustellen. Sie ermöglicht einen niedrigschwelligen Zugang zu einem eigenen digitalen Raum, um Wissen sichtbar zu machen und zu teilen. Grundlage dafür ist die Multisite‑Funktion von WordPress: Sie erlaubt individuelle Blogs, erlaubt mehrere Autor:innen und unterstützt die digitale Selbstbestimmung der Nutzer:innen. Im Unterschied zu klassischen Lernmanagement‑Systemen, die zentral gesteuert und auf geschlossene Nutzerkreise ausgerichtet sind, setzt unsere WordPress‑Plattform auf Offenheit und Eigenverantwortung. Dieser Ansatz bringt besondere Herausforderungen in der Verwaltung von Nutzenden und Blogs mit sich. In der Präsentation stelle ich das Konzept der Blog-Plattform vor und zeige, wie wir diesen Herausforderungen in der Praxis begegnen. Du erfährst dabei, wie der User Lifecycle zweckvoll umgesetzt werden kann, nach welchen Kriterien und wie Blogs weitergeführt oder archiviert werden, und wie die Sichtbarkeit von Blogs je nach Nutzungskontext eingestellt werden kann. Über Cinzia Gabellini Cinzia Gabellini ist Spezialistin für digitale Lehre an der Hochschule Luzern. Mit ihrer Expertise in E-Learning und Erwachsenenbildung unterstützt sie Dozierende bei der Umsetzung nachhaltiger digitaler Lernszenarien sowie bei der Weiterentwicklung ihrer didaktischen Ansätze. Zudem betreut sie die «WordPress-Plattform Lehre» als Teil der Lehr- und Lerninfrastruktur.