The Truly Meaning moment in this event Campus Connect Event Successfully Completed! We are pleased to share that the Campus Connect event, held on Thursday, October 1st, was successfully completed with the participation of students from Ahmad’s Education. Ahmad’s Education has already collaborated with WordPress and successfully completed two batches. This event was another valuable…

In tech, speed can make all the difference. One topic that doesn’t get enough attention is just how much faster AI inference is changing the way developers work. Training AI models still grabs the headlines with all the talk about big clusters and huge data sets, but the real impact for most developers happens when…

In mid-April 2026 my employer started a project called “Radical Speed Month” to step away from our existing structures and processes, make space for people to dive more deeply into AI tooling, and try to build new or sleeping ideas. My participation in this experiment ran until late September and I stacked up a lot…

Der Datenabfluss bei der Republik zeigt, warum Sicherheitsupdates, Überwachung und begrenzte Zugriffsrechte wichtig sind. Was WordPress-Betreiberinnen und -Betreiber daraus lernen können. Der Beitrag WordPress-Sicherheit: Was der Datenabfluss bei der Republik über Updates lehrt erschien zuerst auf Openstream.

The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute for American Democracy is a nonpartisan nonprofit carrying forward the work of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor through…

How employment is changing at Anthropic is a fascinating read.

A straightforward look at what the open web is, how it started, and why it matters for digital communities.

We get a lot of flak at WordPress.org for supporting older PHP versions, but an area we’ve always pushed the frontier is in Web Standards, getting websites and browsers evolving together to make the web richer. Ever since I caught the religion from Zeldman, promoting more functionality in the browser has been a life mission.…

On 19th and 20th September 2026, the WordPress community gathered at Civil Service College Uganda, a venue close to River Nile, for the fifth edition of WordCamp Jinja. The event brought together more than 300 diverse participants across 2 days and 3 parallel tracks of sessions full of learning, collaboration and connection. In a city…

bbPress 2.6.20 is a security and maintenance release. Everyone running bbPress should update. This release strengthens topic and reply password validation and keeps bbPress post shortcodes literal in ordinary WordPress content loops. It also adds a site-wide Forum Status setting with Open, Closed, and Frozen modes. Existing sites remain Open unless that setting is changed.…

When we think about what keeps the Internet humming, most of us imagine massive data centers and super-fast connections. Fewer people realize that our everyday digital experiences often depend on the efforts of a very small group of individuals. Recent analysis revealed that in many essential open source projects, just one or two people are…

Your October guide to WordPress development: the 7.2 roadmap, the Ipsum theme, new block APIs, and what to test before Beta 1.