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A free bot is now available for WCEU 2026 attendees, and it doubles as a live demo of the WordPress AI Team's work on Guidelines.

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🏳️ Mullenweg to Silver Lake: "You've Won. I Submit."
🛠️ Five for the Future gets overhaul
🤖 SiteGround auto-installs AI plugin on sites, sparks pushback
⚖️ WP Engine & Automattic clash in discovery disputes

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The magistrate judge gave each side a partial win on Wednesday, with neither side getting the clean sweep it wanted.

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SiteGround says WordPress 7.0's AI on-ramp was too steep for most users. Customers say that doesn't justify installing software on their sites without asking.

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The ROI of hacking WordPress just changed, according to Oliver Sild, who says the ecosystem needs to brace for what's coming.

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The WPCC's first-of-its-kind survey asks how the WordPress community is really feeling about the project, AI, open source, and what comes next.

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On the same day lawyers for both sides appeared in court over discovery disputes, Mullenweg published a public plea on WordPress .org asking Silver Lake and WP Engine to end the fight.

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ServMask CEO Yani Iliev has shipped new pledge and profile pages to https://t.co/Jk5Blxs14f, ranking contributors by completed work instead of pledged hours.

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Mullenweg sat for 21 hours of deposition. WP Engine wants 5 more hours. That's one of six discovery fights heading to court this week.

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After 7.0's six-week delay, the project is already eyeing its next flagship-event release date — and looking for the team to get it there.

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The AI plugin's tenth release includes request logging and connector-level permissions as the project crosses from experimental sandbox to mature canonical plugin.

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🚀 WordPress 7.0 ships with AI infrastructure and new design tools
👋 LePage and Arntz step down as AI Team co-reps, LePage leaves Automattic
⚡ Radical Speed Month wraps up with 400+ projects

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Jake Goldman's WP Detective side project is now an official WordPress browser extension, and together with core committer Fabian Kägy, he's calling for testers.

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From podcasting on https://t.co/eeIPLRpUHF to WooCommerce payments in 13 new countries and a Wapuu generator, Automattic's month-long hackathon produced an impressive range of shipped products and experiments.

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WordPress 7.0 is here, bringing new AI infrastructure to core, a modernized dashboard, new blocks and design tools, and an expanded developer toolbox.

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After a year that took the WordPress AI Team from zero to core, both founding co-reps are moving on — one to a new AI venture, the other after 12 months of volunteering.

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Out now: The Repository #302 🗞️

🔥 Liquid Web dumps StellarWP in botched rollout
💸 Envato moves all sellers to flat 50% revenue share
⚛️ CERN engineers to keynote WordCamp Europe 2026
🚀 WordPress 7.0 on track for release next week

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