WooCommerce .com is now running on nightly WC Core: It is now running on nightly WooCommerce Core builds in production, allowing the team to catch regressions and performance issues earlier than traditional release cycles.
→https://t.co/xzvPo7LNou
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Notes from an informal core committers meeting at WordCamp Asia in April reveal the WordPress Performance Team is facing a contributor decline
→ https://t.co/H2IENXrRyY
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The WordPress Foundation has published a progress update on the first cohort of Open Horizons Scholarship recipients, finding all six remain active contributors since attending WordCamp US 2025.
→ https://t.co/twQRQQnTIv
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WordPress will upgrade from React 18 to React 19 in WordPress 7.1, with the change shipping first in Gutenberg 23.3
→ https://t.co/NBCeiDIRMX
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The WordPress Hosting Team has published its server compatibility recommendations for WordPress 6.9, advising hosts to run PHP 8.3 or 8.4 alongside MySQL 8.0/8.4 or MariaDB 10.11/11.4 for new installations.
→ https://t.co/5VnUNRelYT
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WordCamp Europe attendance has fallen roughly 35% from its 2023 peak, with Kraków 2026 projecting around 1,900–2,050 attendees, the second consecutive year of contraction
→ https://t.co/Dl8zo7J7VX
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The WordPress Developer Blog's May roundup highlights three features taking shape in the Gutenberg plugin
→ https://t.co/FNwiV9gAtg
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WordPress Credits has expanded to Africa for the first time, with Uganda's E-zone School of Computing joining as a partner institution.
→ https://t.co/j27peoLYRV
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CERN Engineers to Deliver WordCamp Europe 2026 Opening Keynote as Workshop Registrations Start Filling Up
→ https://t.co/qcKWTiwJg7
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WordPress 7.0 shipped with 40 accessibility fixes across Core and Gutenberg, including voice control support for the media library, automatic alt text import from IPTC metadata, and color contrast fixes
→ https://t.co/0nzevuvLnM
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WordPress. org is testing new career functionality that turns contributor profiles into lightweight candidate pages,
→ https://t.co/h22NZlC9eg
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SiteGround Auto-Installs AI Plugin on Customer Sites, Calls WordPress 7.0 a ‘Watershed Moment’ as Customers Push Back
→ https://t.co/su8qPt4bNl
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Matt Mullenweg Uses WordPress’s 23rd Birthday to Appeal Directly to Silver Lake: “You’ve Won. I Submit.”
→ https://t.co/37s6M0MqaX
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