Ellen Bauer

Product @Automattic👩‍💻 #wceu #wckansai2025 speaker 🎤 AI, design, open source 🎨 Mama 🛝

[Rahul @sairahul1]

https://t.co/qkQnIyzGB7

[WordPress.com @wordpressdotcom]

Achievement unlocked! We’ve officially launched Achievements–a new page in the Reader where your milestones, badges, and activity streaks have a home. 🏅

If you’ve been showing up to write, comment, or follow daily, you may have already unlocked more than you think.

[WordPress @WordPress]

23 looks good on WordPress. 🎂

Since May 27, 2003, WordPress has been blogging, building, publishing, shipping, translating, theming, plugin-ing, and making the web a little more wonderfully weird.

Happy birthday, WordPress. 💙

[Jamie Marsland - Head of WordPress YouTube ❤️ @pootlepress]

Imagine if WordPress was built purely for writers.

That was the question behind my Write plugin, and I’m incredibly proud to see it forked, improved, and now made available for @wordpressdotcom users.

One of my favourite @automattic Radical Speed Month projects, now live in beta and available to test.

A clean page. A blinking cursor. The formatting you need, and nothing you don’t.

We’d love you to take it for a spin and let us know what you think 👇

https://t.co/jyGbYNBXiz

[Brian Coords 💻 @briancoords]

Color swatches coming to Woo core.

(I may be biased but I think the Woo team has been killing Radical Speed Month by hitting so many good, long-standing feature requests).

[Jamie Marsland - Head of WordPress YouTube ❤️ @pootlepress]

The Quickest & Easiest Way to Connect Claude Cowork to WordPress 👇

1,000 likes. 12,000 views. 106 comments. In just a couple of days on YouTube.

Safe to say this video seems to have landed 😊

So, here it is:

[Rich Tabor @richtabor]

WordPress 7.0 is a big deal.

[WordPress @WordPress]

WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” is here. 🎷

This major release introduces foundational AI tools, a refreshed admin experience, expanded design controls, new blocks, and powerful developer APIs.

Explore what’s new, update when you’re ready, and start building with WordPress 7.0 today. https://t.co/0aF3CG0WOt

[Matías Ventura @matias_ventura]

Making the canvas and agent experience one and the same. Allowing to drag items from canvas into a conversation, or generate something in the chat and drag it into the canvas.

[Felix Arntz @felixarntz]

WordPress 7.0 will be out next week, and it includes a built-in AI client SDK!

Learn how you can use it for adding AI features to your plugins: https://t.co/avcrNKsYAB

[Ellen Bauer @ellenbauer]

@lennysan @exiao3 I wonder what the relevance of design is in our new reality? There is a lot of talk about PMs pushing code but not as much conversations about the design role in it. Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts.

[Beau @beaulebens]

Just pushed a set of improvements and tweaks to this PR for changing how navigation/menus operate. Check it out, would love to hear more feedback from real merchants and developers who work with @WooCommerce .

[Matías Ventura @matias_ventura]

Trying a few ideas for representing colors and color palettes from styles and theme.json objects.

[fatih kadir akın @fkadev]

🚀 Introducing Pressmind: an experimental @WordPress Gutenberg plugin turns prompts into real interactive blocks! ✨

Type /pressmind, describe what you want, and it can generate summaries, tables, SVGs, interactive widgets (even games 👾), and AI images.

→ https://t.co/71wlmVGL8B

[Rich Tabor @richtabor]

WooCommerce for Claude is really shaping up.

[Matías Ventura @matias_ventura]

Objects can be connected, so you can build various flows by grouping elements. Notes would reference connected materials and you can engage an agent with the relevant context.

[Rob Pugh @RobPughCL]

Week 2 of @automattic #RadicalSpeedMonth is underway and I'm bringing podcast tools to @wordpressdotcom.

Here's a quick demo of progress so far. The goal is to make it as easy to start a podcast as a blog and newsletter, while keeping ownership of your data.

[Dave Martin @itsdavemartin]

Just shared https://t.co/mOBcwf2gio as a resource for distributed companies: 700+ places @automattic teams have stayed during meetups around the world.

[WordPress @WordPress]

WordCamp Europe 2026 has published its development session lineup for June 5–6 in Kraków. Topics include a panel on WordPress 7.0, the Abilities API, Block Bindings, headless API security, Full Site Editing, and WordPress Playground. https://t.co/2599xRxBsW

[Jamie Marsland - Head of WordPress YouTube ❤️ @pootlepress]

This was just merged into Gutenberg trunk, and it’s a much bigger deal than it looks 👇

WordPress is getting a native UI to create custom post types.

No code. No plugins.
Just:
Settings → Post Types → Add

That might sound small… it’s not.

Custom post types go from “developer feature” → “everyday user feature”

Which means:
• Better structured content from day one
• Easier onboarding
• Less plugin dependency
• A cleaner foundation for AI to understand your site

And this is just the start.

Post types → taxonomies → …you can probably guess what comes next

You can see where this is heading…

WordPress is becoming a powerful content modelling system 👀