WordPress 7.0.2 is now available.
\n\n\n\nThe 7.0.2 security release addresses one critical and one high severity security issue.
\n\n\n\nBecause this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. Due to the severity, the WordPress.org team have enabled forced updates via the auto-update system for sites running affected versions.
\n\n\n\nTo manually update you can visit your WordPress Dashboard, click ΓÇ£UpdatesΓÇ¥, and then click ΓÇ£Update NowΓÇ¥, or you can download WordPress 7.0.2 from WordPress.org. On sites that support automatic background updates, the update process will begin automatically.
\n\n\n\nSecurity updates included in this release
\n\n\n\nThe security team would like to thank the following people for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities and allowing them to be fixed in this release:
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- A facilitated SQL injection issue reported as a team by TF1T, dtro, and haongo \n\n\n\n
- A REST API batch-route confusion and SQL injection issue leading to Remote Code Execution reported by Adam Kues at Assetnote / Searchlight Cyber \n
For more information on this release, please visit the HelpHub site.
\n\n\n\nBackports
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- WordPress 6.9 is affected by both vulnerabilities. Version 6.9.5 has been released containing fixes for both. \n\n\n\n
- WordPress 6.8 is only affected by the first vulnerability. Version 6.8.6 has been released containing a fix. \n\n\n\n
- The beta release of WordPress 7.1 is affected by both vulnerabilities. Version 7.1 beta2 has been released containing fixes for both. \n\n\n\n
- Versions of WordPress prior to 6.8 are not affected. \n
CVE and GHSA references
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you to these WordPress contributors
\n\n\n\nThis release was led by John Blackbourn and Barry Abrahamson. In addition to the security researchers mentioned above, WordPress 7.0.2 would not have been possible without the significant contributions of the following people: Aaron Jorbin, Alex Concha, annezazu, Barry, David Baumwald, Dominik Schilling, Ehtisham Siddiqui, Joe Dolson, Joe Hoyle, John Blackbourn, Jonathan Desrosiers, Marius L. J., Matt Mullenweg, Mohammad Jangda, Peter Wilson, Sergey Biryukov, vortfu, Weston Ruter, plus representatives from Altis, Automattic, Bluehost, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Hostinger, and WP Engine.
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\n\n\n\nThis 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.
\n\n\n\nHow to Test WordPress 7.1 Beta 1
\n\n\n\nYou can test WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 in any of the following ways:
\n\n\n\n| WordPress Beta Tester Plugin | Install and activate the WordPress Beta Tester plugin on a WordPress install. Select the ΓÇ£Bleeding edgeΓÇ¥ channel and ΓÇ£Beta/RC OnlyΓÇ¥ stream. |
| Direct Download | Download the Beta 1 version (zip) and install it on a WordPress website. |
| Command Line (WP-CLI) | Use this WP-CLI command: wp core update --version=7.1-beta1 |
| WordPress Playground | Use a 7.1 Beta 1 WordPress Playground instance to test the software directly in your browser. No setup required-just click and go! |
The scheduled final release date for WordPress 7.1 is August 19, 2026. The full release schedule can be found here. Your help testing Beta and RC versions is vital to making this release as stable and powerful as possible. Thank you to everyone who contributes by testing!
\n\n\n\nHow important is your testing?
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\n\n\n\nIf you encounter an issue, please share it in the Alpha/Beta area of the support forums. If you are comfortable submitting a reproducible bug report, you can do so via WordPress Trac. You can also check your issue against this list of known bugs.
\n\n\n\nCurious about testing releases in general and how to get started? Follow along with the testing initiatives in Make Core and join the #core-test channel on Making WordPress Slack.
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.1 will include new features that were previously only available in the Gutenberg plugin. Learn more about Gutenberg updates since WordPress 7.0 in the WhatΓÇÖs New in Gutenberg posts for versions 22.7, 22.8, 22.9, 23.0, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, 23.5 and 23.6.
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\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.1 delivers a more complete set of styling controls, a smoother media experience, and a more personalized admin experience. Notes have evolved to add inline notes with @mentions and rich text formatting that make asynchronous feedback feel more powerful. New styling features unlock long requested features to style how blocks look across screen sizes and to style interactive states, all without writing custom CSS. Various client side media improvements means better format support, improved performance, and more resilient uploads when adding media to your site. A new inline cropping tool brings a fresh and more robust experience to editing images. Finally, the admin experience becomes easier to navigate with an ever present admin bar in the editors, improvements to the command palette, and various quality of life improvements. Underneath it all, developers get an expanding set of APIs to build on, and site owners get better support for a truly global audience.
\n\n\n\nNew suite of Notes features
\n\n\n\nNotes continue to grow into a fuller collaboration experience, making asynchronous feedback between teams faster and more expressive.
\n\n\n\nText Formatting: Notes now support inline formatting like bold, italic, code, links and adding emoji; each with a respective keyboard shortcut, so feedback reads clearly without breaking your flow.
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\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.1 takes a major step toward built-in responsive design and interactive styling, letting you achieve looks that once required writing custom CSS.
\n\n\n\nResponsive styling: Define how a block looks at different screen sizes directly in the editor, for both Global Styles and individual blocks without the need of writing custom CSS.
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\n\n\n\nA smoother media experience
\n\n\n\nUploading, editing, and browsing media keeps getting more capable and more reliable.
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- Client-side media processing: Image and media processing moves into the browser, now with broader format support that includes HEIC (the default format for iPhone photos), UltraHDR, AVIF and WebP support built in, plus GIF-to-video conversion for lighter, more efficient files. Uploads are also more resilient, with a progress indicator and automatic retries if your data connectivity drops off. \n\n\n\n
- New Media Editor Modal: A dedicated modal for editing images replaces the inline cropping tool, bringing cropping, rotation, and metadata editing together in one streamlined workflow. \n\n\n\n
- Smarter galleries: Gallery blocks can automatically pull in and sort media already attached to the current post, cutting down on manual set-up. \n\n\n\n
- View attached images: After you upload images to a post, the inserter will automatically surface them in a new Attached images section to make it easier to find relevant images. \n\n\n\n
- Infinite scrolling by default: The Media Library grid view now loads additional items automatically as you scroll, rather than requiring a click on “Load more” especially handy for sites that handle large media libraries. This can be disabled under your user profile. \n
A more personal, more navigable admin
\n\n\n\nThese meaningful upgrades make the WordPress admin easier to move around in and more consistent with how you like to work.
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- Persistent toolbar (Omnibar): The admin toolbar now travels with you into the Site Editor and Block Editor, with a series of polish improvements throughout. \n\n\n\n
- Command palette improvements: Moving through the dashboard and editor with the command palette
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- DataViews and DataForms iterations: Continued refinement of the components behind managing lists of posts, pages, patterns, and templates, alongside the forms used to edit them. \n\n\n\n
- Excerpts in the Posts list: The Posts list view now shows a short excerpt for each entry, making it easier to identify the post you’re looking for without opening it. \n\n\n\n
- Visual revisions: This release adds a picker activity layout for browsing history in more detail, clearly labeled autosaves in the timeline, and an autosave notice that opens straight into the visual revisions view. Global Styles revisions get a small polish too, swapping the active style’s text label for a badge. \n\n\n\n
- A dedicated Identity section: Site identity settings like your title, tagline, and icon are now live in their own clearly labeled section of the Site Editor, making them easier to find and update. \n\n\n\n
- On This Day Widget: A new widget resurfaces what you published on this date in past years, right on your dashboard. A small nudge to look back on what you’ve written, and a reason to write something new today. \n\n\n\n
- Allow Changing Comment Parent: Fixing a misthreaded comment used to mean editing the database directly. WordPress 7.1 adds an editable “In reply to” control to the Edit Comment screen, letting you pick a new parent from a dropdown of the post’s other comments. It’s scoped to the same post, so this is about untangling threads, not moving comments across posts. \n
New blocks and block-level enhancements
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- Playlist Block: A new block for adding a collection of audio files to a post or page, with an optional waveform visualization that shows the audio’s shape as it plays; a more visual way to present podcasts, music, or audio content without using any third-party plugins. \n\n\n\n
- Tabs Block: A new block for organizing content into clickable tabbed panels instead of showing everything at once. It’s a cleaner way to present related content without overwhelming the page. \n\n\n\n
- Background gradients: Background gradients and background images no longer conflict. The gradient used to get silently overridden by the image, but now they combine and display together. This fix extends beyond the Group block to Verse, Accordion, Pullquote, Post Content, and Quote block. \n\n\n\n
- HTML block editable content: The HTML block now supports editable nested blocks. This is great to use for AI-generated content, which often arrives as raw HTML. \n\n\n\n
- “Mark as decorative” for images: A new toggle on the Image block lets you hide purely decorative images from screen readers for a better accessibility experience. \n\n\n\n
- Smarter shortcode handling: Pasting or converting a shortcode into the Embed block now creates a proper Embed block instead of leaving raw shortcode text behind, and the Shortcode block gains block-specific transforms of its own. \n
Built for a global audience
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.1 continues work to make Core reflect the full diversity of its worldwide community, with progress toward supporting Unicode email addresses so usernames, slugs, and email addresses can better represent users everywhere.
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- Abilities API expansion: Continued refinement of the Abilities API with improved querying, filtering, and input validation, giving developers and AI tooling a more reliable foundation to build on. \n\n\n\n
- Block Bindings for list items: Block Bindings now extend to List Item, making it possible to connect more block content to dynamic data sources without custom code. \n\n\n\n
- Custom icon registration: New functions let plugin and theme authors register their own icons for the Icons block for use throughout the block editor. \n\n\n\n
- Enforced iframed editor: The post editor now always runs inside an iframe, isolating the editing canvas from admin styles for more predictable rendering. Blocks using Block API v2 or lower should be updated to v3 for compatibility. \n\n\n\n
- wordpress/theme stabilization: Introduces design tokens and a stable React ThemeProvider to provide a more consistent, customizable foundation for WordPress admin interfaces. \n\n\n\n
- Connectors authentication improvements: The Connectors screen now also supports username and application-password login – a more familiar way to connect plugins and services. This release also closes a security gap where browsers could auto-suggest saved credentials into the API key field. \n
With so much in progress for WordPress 7.1 Beta 1, this is still only the beginning; expect continued refinement with each Beta and RC release ahead of the final release on August 19, 2026.
\n\n\n\nJust for you: a Beta 1 haiku:
\n\n\n\nSeeds of Seven-One,
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Test, and watch them bloom.
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\n\n\n\nThe week begins with Contributor Day, a full day set aside for giving back to the project that makes everything else possible. Attendees will gather in teams to improve WordPress itself, from Core code and documentation to design, training, accessibility, and translation.
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Not all of the value happens in the session rooms. On the show floor, the Happiness Bar is a free, drop-in help desk where you can sit down with a volunteer WordPress expert and work through whatever has you stuck. The Sponsor Hall next door is where many of the best unplanned conversations happen, and its Career Corner gives anyone weighing their next move a relaxed place to browse the job board, meet company reps, and see who is hiring across the ecosystem.
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\n\n\n\nGetting to Phoenix is straightforward. The Phoenix Convention Center sits in the heart of downtown, less than five miles from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) and about 15 minutes away on the Valley Metro light rail. WordCamp US has a room block at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, close to the convention center, so book your hotel before the block fills, and reserve your ticket if you have not already. The full event lineup and details live on the WordCamp US 2026 site, and the conference closes with an evening social before everyone heads home.
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Help Us Spread the Word!
\n\n\n\nWhether attending in person or following along online, share your experience and help welcome others to the WordPress community. Use the #WCUS and #WordPress hashtags to tell your story on social.
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\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.0.1 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major version of WordPress will be 7.1; it is scheduled for release on 19 August 2026 at WordCamp US.
\n\n\n\nIf you have sites that support automatic background updates, the update process will begin automatically.
\n\n\n\nYou can download WordPress 7.0.1 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click ΓÇ£UpdatesΓÇ¥, and then click ΓÇ£Update NowΓÇ¥. For more information on this release, please visit the HelpHub site.
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\n\n\n\nTo get involved in WordPress core development, head over to Trac, choose a ticket, and join the conversation in the #core channel. Need help? Check out the Core Contributor Handbook.
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When the pilot launched, the goal was to test whether open source learning could connect directly to job pathways rather than stopping at a certificate. What makes this program distinct is that it is built on open source from the ground up: students learn on WordPress, contribute to it, and use generative AI the way the WordPress ecosystem uses it every day, leaving with a credential that employers can verify and a community that continues long after the course ends.
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\n\n\n\nThe next round of AI Leaders is on the horizon. Subscribe for updates to be the first to hear when the next cohort opens and how to take part.
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WordPress offers a wide range of educational opportunities for people at every stage, from first steps to advanced contribution. Explore workshops, lesson plans, and community-created resources designed to help you build practical skills while connecting with others who are learning and contributing at WordPress.org/education/.
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This latest redesign supported the Mercantile booth at WordCamp Europe. To make in-person sales work smoothly, the team enabled local pickup at checkout and added a set of event-only products refined to match the rest of the catalog. Fifty orders were completed at the event using in-person payments, a strong real-world test of the new checkout flow.
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The new Mercantile is the work of many contributors who designed, built, tested, and refined it together. Every purchase supports the WordPress Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, in its mission to democratize publishing and preserve open source software for generations to come. Take a look around and find something you love.
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Applications are now open for the 2026 Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship, which supports one active WordPress contributor who identifies as a woman and has not previously attended WordCamp US. The scholarship helps make it possible for a community member with financial need to join WordCamp US 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona, and take part in one of the largest annual gatherings in the WordPress project.
\n\n\n\nThe scholarship honors Kim Parsell, a longtime WordPress contributor whose work and presence left a meaningful mark on the project. Kim was known for her care, generosity, and commitment to helping others feel welcome in open source spaces. For readers who are less familiar with her story, the tributes shared by friends and colleagues offer a deeper look at her role in the WordPress community and the lasting impact she had on those who knew her. Through this scholarship, the WordPress Foundation continues to recognize contributors who reflect that same spirit of participation and community.
\n\n\n\nWordPress is built by people from many backgrounds, experiences, and areas of expertise. Events like WordCamp US create space for contributors to meet in person, learn from one another, and continue the work that supports the software and the community around it. For some contributors, the cost of travel, lodging, and registration can make attending difficult. The Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship helps reduce that barrier for one eligible contributor each year.
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\n\n\n\nOne scholarship will be awarded for WordCamp US 2026. Applicants must:
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- Identify as a woman. \n\n\n\n
- Be actively involved as a contributor to WordPress. \n\n\n\n
- Have never attended WordCamp US before. \n\n\n\n
- Demonstrate financial need to attend the event. \n
The scholarship includes the cost of a WordCamp US 2026 ticket, round-trip flight, and lodging. Applications are open through July 10, 2026, and all applicants will be notified of the decision by July 24, 2026.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWordCamp US 2026 will take place August 16ΓÇô19, 2026, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Contributors, attendees, volunteers, organizers, and sponsors will come together to share ideas, learn from each other, and continue building the future of WordPress. For many contributors, attending in person creates new ways to collaborate, find support, and stay connected to the open source work that happens throughout the year.
\n\n\n\nTo learn more about eligibility, visit the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship page. Community members are encouraged to share this opportunity with contributors who may qualify. You can also learn more about attending WordCamp US 2026 on the WordCamp US tickets page, explore volunteer opportunities, or review sponsorship opportunities.
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This post recaps how the WordPress project’s five Global Partners ΓÇö Jetpack, WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Bluehost, and Hostinger ΓÇö supported community events during the first half of 2026. Across more than a dozen regional the first WordPress Developers Day, and a growing network of WordPress Campus Connect events, Global Partners staffed booths, sponsored sessions, and connected with developers, freelancers, students, and agency owners around the world.
\n\n\n\nA global footprint
\n\n\n\nThe year began in January with WordCamp Nepal, where Jetpack joined the community in Kathmandu. The momentum carried into India, where WordCamp Kolhapur and, a week later, WordCamp Pune brought Global Partners face-to-face with a student-heavy audience of roughly 200-250 attendees. In Pune, a session on connecting WordPress with AI workflows drew a large crowd, and attendees were curious about WordPress.com plans, new AI features, and Automattic for Agencies.
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In February, Jetpack traveled to WordCamp Port Harcourt in Nigeria, an inclusive and well-organized event with 256 attendees that featured talks on inclusion and accessibility. Locally produced swag was a standout success there, a reminder that the WordPress community’s reach extends well beyond Europe and North America.
\n\n\n\nAcross Europe
\n\n\n\nSpring brought a wave of European events. At WordCamp Madrid, with 280 attendees, WordPress.com served as a Global Sponsor and ran a Wapuu treasure hunt that drew 97 participants.
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Down the coast in France, WordCamp Nice gave Jetpack a chance to connect with 247 freelancers and developers, an audience that appreciated concrete, easy-to-explain solutions and asked questions about newsletters, security, and Jetpack’s broader feature set.
\n\n\n\nWordCamp Vienna stood out for its developer-heavy crowd of 277. From a Jetpack-branded booth staffed on both days, the team engaged with agencies and merchants, fielded numerous questions about WooCommerce and security, and booked 8 agency meetings. Many builders were interested to learn that Automattic stands behind both WordPress.com and WooCommerce. In Italy and Germany, WordCamp Torino and WordCamp Leipzig both reflected growing curiosity about AI, a theme that resurfaced throughout the year. At Leipzig, with 109 agencies, hosting companies, and freelancers in attendance, WordPress.com staffed a booth where tote bags were in high demand, while conversations kept returning to AI and WordPress Studio.
\n\n\n\nWordCamp Slovenia and WordCamp Portugal closed the European stretch. WordPress.com brought a booth to Ljubljana, and in Porto, it appeared with both a booth and logo presence alongside WooCommerce, which suited an event filled with e-commerce builders and Woo payment providers. The first WordPress Developers Day in Novi Sad introduced a new format, with Jetpack as a global sponsor and nearly 30 in-depth conversations on Jetpack, WooCommerce, performance, and the realities of client work.
\n\n\n\nCommunity in Uganda
\n\n\n\nIn May, WordCamp Kampala brought four Global Partners onto the sponsor roster: Jetpack, WooCommerce, Bluehost, and WordPress.com. The event, themed “Tech for Social Good,” welcomed more than 200 attendees and reflected the energy of a fast-growing local community.
\n\n\n\nSupport from Global Sponsors
\n\n\n\nBehind every one of these events is a layer of support that does not always appear at a booth. In 2026, Bluehost and Hostinger both joined the WordPress community sponsorship program as top-tier Global Sponsors, alongside Jetpack and WordPress.com. Their contributions help underwrite the global WordCamp program and the community events that make a year like this possible. That program-level backing is what allows organizers in Kathmandu, Porto, and Kampala to bring their events to life, and the WordPress community is grateful to every partner that invests at that scale.
Campus Connect reaches 6,200 students
\n\n\n\nOne of the most notable stories of 2026 is not a WordCamp at all. It is WordPress Campus Connect. As of early June, the program has passed 6,200 students, with 25 events completed in 2026, 45 events all-time, and 42 more in planning or already scheduled. WordPress.com has played a direct support role throughout, including providing hosting for WordPress Campus Connect events around the world.
\n\n\n\nThe connective tissue between these events and the broader community is real. An organizer first met at WordCamp Mukono went on to help lead WordPress Campus Connect work in Uganda. A student who built her first WordPress site at a WordPress Campus Connect event later attended a WordCamp. These events serve as a pathway for the next generation of WordPress contributors, builders, and professionals.
\n\n\n\nLooking ahead
\n\n\n\nIf 2026 has shown anything, it is that interest in WordPress, and in the tools and services that Global Partners provide, continues to grow around the world. The questions being asked at booths and in sessions are sharper, the audiences more diverse, and the community’s reach more genuinely global. Thank you to Jetpack, WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Bluehost, and Hostinger for being part of that story this year, and to every organizer, volunteer, speaker, and attendee who made these events possible.
\n\n\n\nTo find an upcoming event near you, visit WordCamp Central. To learn how organizations can support the WordPress project, see the community sponsorship program.
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WordCamp Europe, the biggest WordPress conference in Europe, spent the first week of June in Krak├│w. The 2026 edition of this event filled the ICE Krak├│w Congress Centre from June 4 to 6, drawing 2,458 ticket holders from 81 countries to the south of Poland. Close to a quarter of them were attending their first WordCamp Europe.
\nThe city made it easy to settle in. Every attendee’s badge carried a transport hologram good for unlimited trams and buses. The Main Market Square, the largest in Europe, sat a short ride away, and the local food ran the gamut from pierogi to ┼╝urek soup to obwarzanek pretzels sold off the street.
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– Sebastian Mi┼¢niakiewicz, local team lead
The program kept pace with the setting. Across multiple tracks, the schedule held 49 talks and eight hands-on workshops, grouped into themes that ran from core development and AI to business and the open web. Around them sat a full Contributor Day, a sponsor area, side events, on-site childcare, and an after-party the local team stretched to eight hours.
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Contributor Day Opens the Week
\n\n\n\nAs it does every year, the event began the day before the talks. Contributors filled the venue for Contributor Day, a working session where people work together to improve WordPress itself rather than watch a presentation about it. The morning started with registration and a welcome, the room split into teams, and a group photo broke up the work around midday. The afternoon ran a second working block before each team gathered to share what it had done.
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The range of tables is the clearest picture of how wide the project has become. Newcomers could sit down with Polyglots to translate WordPress into their own language, with Documentation to fix the pages people reach when they get stuck, or with Support to answer questions in the forums. More technical tables covered Core, Performance, Testing, Themes, and the Plugins team, whose reviewers screen every plugin submitted to the directory.
\n\n\n\nFirst-timers were not left to find their own way. The day was built around onboarding tables, named table leads, and mentors, with an open invitation for experienced contributors to adopt a newcomer and walk them through their first patch, string, or ticket.
\n\n\n\nPeople who could not travel to Krak├│w were welcomed to join remotely through the #contributor-day channel in the Make WordPress Slack, so distance was not a reason to sit the day out.
\n\n\n\nThe Birthplace of the Web
\n\n\n\nIt was fitting that the opening keynote came from CERN. The European Laboratory for Particle Physics, on the French-Swiss border outside Geneva, is where the World Wide Web was invented more than 30 years ago, and Joachim Valdemar Yde, who has managed CERN’s web team since 2021, came to explain why the laboratory had chosen WordPress to carry its web presence forward.
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\n\n\n\nMoving years of existing content onto the new platform is the other half of the work, and the team automated it: a single command lifts each site’s pages, headings, and images and rebuilds them as Gutenberg blocks, with no downtime. They plan to open source the tool.
\n\n\n\nThen Yde delivered the line that the room had been waiting for.
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– Joachim Valdemar Yde, Web Manager, CERN
The rollout is on track to wrap up over the coming months, and early impressions, Yde said, have been overwhelmingly positive, with easy wins in responsiveness and accessibility. For those at the event, the keynote pointed the room toward a later talk by CERN’s Akanksha Chatterjee on building and maintaining the laboratory’s engineering websites on the same service.
\n\n\n\nThere is a neat symmetry to it. The institution that published the world’s first website now runs on the software that powers more than 40% of today’s web, licensed under the GPL and maintained by the people in the room.
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.0 and AI
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.0 was a throughline of the conference. Several sessions placed the release at the center, framing it less as a routine update than as a change in what the software is, and in what it makes possible for the people who build with it.
\n\n\n\nThe anchor for that conversation was a panel called “Inside WordPress 7.0.” It gathered contributors who worked on the release, among them Juan Manuel Garrido, Adam Silverstein, Benjamin Zekavica, Sarah Norris, and Milana Cap. It was framed around more than a feature list, setting out to cover how a release of this size actually comes together: the contribution workflows, the coordination, and the human aspects of shipping software in the open.
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What gives this release its weight is the work moving into WordPress’s core: a native AI client, a new Abilities API that lets plugins declare what they can do in a way other tools can discover, and a Connectors screen for wiring up providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini. The argument running through the AI sessions was that this belongs to everyone who builds on WordPress, not only to developers shipping their own integrations. Speakers got specific about how to put that to work.
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- Anukasha Singh focused on how the Abilities API can make plugin permissions cleaner and safer than the capability checks developers have leaned on for years. \n\n\n\n
- In a workshop, Vito Peleg set out to take builders from one-off prompts toward a tool-using workflow that audits a live site and files structured tickets. \n\n\n\n
- Alain Schlesser, a WP-CLI maintainer who has worked on structured data and the AI-native web, turned to a fast-growing opportunity. AI assistants and search now send real traffic to the open web, with more than a billion referral visits logged by the middle of 2025. His session framed WordPress as well-placed to earn that attention, with a practical checklist for getting a site ready to be found, read, and cited. \n
People stayed at the center of the conversation, too. Tammie Lister, in a talk called “Human in the loop means something,” framed the phrase as a real commitment rather than a checkbox. Humans and AI are each good at different things, and the products worth building let each do what it does best.
\n\n\n\nDevelopment and Craft
\n\n\n\nThe development sessions were where the craft lived. Dennis Snell, who co-wrote the HTML API and designed the block parser, devoted a deep-dive workshop to that API. Peter Wilson, a long-time Core committer on the Performance team, focused on how the WP_Query class has been made faster through better caching, and how site builders can take advantage of that at scale.
\n\n\n\nScaling got a hands-on session of its own. One talk set out to see how far a WordPress site can run on a twelve-dollar virtual server, profiling it under load in Grafana and tuning away the bottlenecks, with a GitHub repository so attendees could follow along at home. Fellyph Cintra focused on the latest in WordPress Playground, the browser-based tooling and architectural changes that the project credits with a real speed-up.
\n\n\n\nJessica Lyschik, a Core contributor and former default-theme co-lead, set out to make the case that accessibility-ready requirements are far easier to meet than most theme developers assume, drawing on real reviews of both block and classic themes.
\n\n\n\nTwo members of the Plugins team, David Perez and Fran Torres, framed their session as a practical clinic. Between them, they have reviewed more than 25,000 plugins, and they set out to name the common, avoidable issues that keep good plugins stuck in the review queue. For a first-time author, that is the difference between an afternoon and a month of waiting.
\n\n\n\nThe Business of WordPress and the Open Web
\n\n\n\nThe business and community sessions pulled the lens back to people, with a refreshingly unsentimental view of running a WordPress business. Debbie Levitt built her talk around a model for finding product-market fit at three levels at once, on the premise that teams celebrate one good metric and then wonder months later where their users went. Vassilena Valchanova took on a quieter problem: being good at the work is not the same as anyone knowing you are.
\n\n\n\nThere was a local thread here as well. Irfani Silviana, a full-stack developer at a Krak├│w-based agency, framed the Business Model Canvas as a translation layer that moves developers from shipping features to engineering business value, a fitting talk to give in her own city.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe web’s standards, the argument goes, remain as open as the day Tim Berners-Lee created them at CERN.
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That idea carried through the rest of the community sessions.
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- David Snead, an attorney who works with internet infrastructure providers, set out to explain how hosts, registrars, and registries coordinate against abuse through shared, real-time intelligence, on the logic that a threat to one WordPress host is a threat to all of them. \n\n\n\n
- Marcel Bootsman shared a practical playbook for how companies and individuals can support open source sustainably and look after the people who keep it going. \n\n\n\n
- Karin Christen set out to describe how her Swiss agency turned Five for the Future from a good intention into a standing team habit through internal contributor days. \n
Running alongside the talks, the hands-on workshops were a chance to build something on the spot. In one, Ryan Welcher set out to build a touch-enabled gallery slider with the Interactivity API, while another centered on Full Site Editing, with a working portfolio theme attendees could reuse on their next client project. These were laptop-open, leave-with-working-code sessions.
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Closing Fireside Chat
\n\n\n\nThe closing session opened with a warm gesture from Krak├│w University of Technology. Representatives took the stage to thank the organizers and the community and to present Mary Hubbard, the Executive Director of WordPress, with a gift from their faculty of informatics and mathematics. They described what the university and the WordCamp community share: a love of learning and sharing knowledge, and an openness to new ideas, skills, and connections.
\n\n\n\nHubbard used the moment to share some news. Starting in October, the university will open a WordPress-specific course, which she called a trail-blazing event for Poland and for WordPress. Earlier that day, the program’s first cohort, around 20 students, had shown what they built, part of the WordPress Campus Connect and WordPress Credits education work.
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Hubbard then turned the stage into a conversation, inviting Matías Ventura, the lead of the Gutenberg project, and Rich Tabor, a WordPress designer and developer, to talk through where WordPress is heading and how AI fits in. WordPress 7.0 had just launched with Ventura as its release lead, and he asked everyone who had contributed to it to stand for a round of applause.
\n\n\n\nMuch of the chat explored the balance between building WordPress with AI, and building with AI on WordPress, without losing the human part. Ventura noted that WordPress’s long investment in its design system is paying off now that you can ask an AI to extend a menu or a control, and it reaches for the right components. He pointed to older primitives gaining new value, like WP-CLI, which AI models use fluently, and to Studio Code, an open source, agent-based coding tool the team has been building for WordPress. Tabor showed how he now ships many small editor improvements by talking to an agent instead of typing code, and Ventura demoed desktop mode and open-canvas experiments that reimagine the admin.
\n\n\n\nOn open source and AI, Hubbard argued that open source is why WordPress has thrived, that the same values should shape AI, and that the community should be far more vocal about it. As she put it, “We should be talking about it, and we should be much louder about it.”
\n\n\n\nAudience questions pushed on multilingual support, unsticking long-stalled tickets, and reaching a younger, more diverse community. On that last point, Hubbard came back to education, pointing to a US pilot of an AI literacy micro-credential that uses WordPress as the playground, and made the case for it:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI think that focusing in on younger generations, and bringing them into the project in a healthy way, with the dynamic of education as well as mentorship, and how we can understand and learn from them, as well as mentor them and adopt them as contributors, is very important.
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– Mary Hubbard, WordPress Executive Director
Beyond the Talks
\n\n\n\nWordCamp is also about the corridor outside the talks, and Krak├│w gave people reason to roam. Between sessions, attendees moved through the sponsor area for product demos and conversations that often carried on over lunch.
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The after-party was the not-so-subtle flourish of a local team that doubled the usual length to eight hours, with Polish food and dragon-and-floral swag that nodded to the Wawel Dragon of Krak├│w legend. The nearby artistic Kazimierz district kept the evening going, and the trams, as one organizer had promised, were still running reliably afterward.
\n\n\n\nWhat Comes Next
\n\n\n\nWordCamps run on people, and 2026 was no different. The organizing teams, the speakers, the sponsors who funded the venue and the meals, the local crew who sorted trams and pierogi, and the contributors who arrived a day early to work on the project all built this WCEU together. The people watching the livestream from outside Krak├│w were part of it as well.
\n\n\n\nFor anyone whose appetite was only sharpened by three days in Poland, the calendar already has the next stop. WordCamp US 2026 (Phoenix, USA) runs August 16 to 19, with its own Contributor Day opening the week.
\n\n\n\nWordCamp Europe will return next year (May 27-29, 2027) in Málaga, Spain.
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Photography by the WCEU 2026 photography team. See the full galleries on Flickr.
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One of the things weΓÇÖve always striven to do as the developers of WordPress is to work harder so you donΓÇÖt have to; we take technology thatΓÇÖs complex or inaccessible and make it available to everyone, running in as many environments as possible. ItΓÇÖs the Open Source way.
\n\n\n\nJust last December there was a step-change in coding ability that rocked many developers, and since AprilΓÇÖs reveal of Mythos, security activity has kicked into high gear. A few days ago, Chrome shipped a release with 429 security fixes! The threats and opportunities of these new capabilities inspired us to kick off an initiative we call Protect The Shire (hat tip J. R. R. Tolkien) with the aim of using our best minds and the infrastructure of WordPress.org to make all code in our directories and repositories as secure as possible.
\n\n\n\nMuch of this work was and will remain behind the scenes, and we hope its success is defined mostly by what doesnΓÇÖt happen. However, while we reckon with our newfound powers, we need to make space for review.
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\n\n\n\nWordPress core updates go through multiple people and layers of review before they go out, a process weΓÇÖve polished to a high art in the 18 years since we introduced one-click upgrades in 2.7 ΓÇ£Coltrane.ΓÇ¥
\n\n\n\nCore is solid, and IΓÇÖm so proud that over 50% of all WordPress sites have upgraded to 7.0 within two weeks! ThatΓÇÖs the result of an unimaginable amount of work across thousands of hosts, developers, and teams across WordPress.org. WeΓÇÖve pushed hard to make upgrades happen automagically, and as fast as possible.
\n\n\n\nWeΓÇÖre in a liminal period now, and I believe 2026 will be a year of tension between two approaches: updating as quickly as possible to stay secure, and holding back on updating to stay secure.
\n\n\n\nWeΓÇÖve seen clever and dangerous supply chain attacks across the npm, PyPI, GitHub, and RubyGems ecosystems, and we even had our own mini-version with the Essential Plugins debacle, where good plugins were unknowingly sold to a new author who had malicious intent.
\n\n\n\nHow to balance security updates and securing updates?
\n\n\n\nMirkwood or the Wild West?
\n\n\n\nEveryone knows the fun of WordPress is in its 78k+ plugins and themes. We have a rigorous, human-powered review process for theme and plugin submissions, but once youΓÇÖre published in the directory, youΓÇÖre on your own. Our update system currently distributes every plugin and theme release as soon as a developer presses the button. ThatΓÇÖs what keeps the directory as robust as WordPress itself. There were over 3,000 commits to the plugin repository yesterday!
\n\n\n\nFor now, each new plugin release will wait up to 24 hours before being distributed through auto-updates. This will give everyone, including a new Wapuu we call Gandalf, a chance to review changes.
\n\n\n\nI expect 24 hours could be reduced to minutes as the process evolves, but weΓÇÖll err on the side of caution while AI models are advancing so rapidly.
\n\n\n\nOur plugin review team seems superhuman, but still needs to sleep. But bots donΓÇÖt, and a depth of review that seemed unimaginable before is now a matter of time and tokens.
\n\n\n\nThe security capabilities of AI are going to make the world weird and take a lot of our focus in the next few months, but thereΓÇÖs a light at the end of the tunnel.
\n\n\n\nOur Shire Is Special
\n\n\n\nThereΓÇÖs no shortage of ways to find, install, and update plugins and themes for WordPress. For those who choose WordPress.org, though, we want to make sure that it feels safe and secure. That means staying strict about some thingsΓÇölike guidelines and Open Source licensesΓÇöwhile also remaining flexible enough to allow solo hackers, community projects, and for-profit commercial plugins and themes to thrive in our ecosystem.
\n\n\n\nGitHub stars may get the hype, but if you add up all the numbers in our plugin directory, itΓÇÖs over 400M installs. There are 78k+ extensions, many from solo devs, installed on over a million sites each! Now we need to learn from the best parts of GitHub and make that available to every developer on WordPress.org.
\n\n\n\nJust because WordPress plugins have a reputation for vulnerabilities is no reason not to aim for the same security and stability weΓÇÖve achieved in core. WeΓÇÖve done the impossible a few times already in our journey from a b2/cafelog fork to where we are today.
\n\n\n\nFreedom and security are not zero-sum. With Open Source, we can show how security comes from transparency, not obscurity. Collaboration over competition. What we accomplish when we come together is nothing short of incredible. Success always attracts bad actors, but we grow stronger through every adversity.
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\n\n\n\nMore than just a technology conference, WordCamp Rajshahi became a place where people connected, exchanged ideas, and inspired one another to contribute to the future of WordPress.
\n\n\n\nSharing Knowledge That Matters
\n\n\n\nThe conference featured a diverse lineup of local and international speakers who shared practical experiences, real-world case studies, and emerging trends shaping the web today.
\n\n\n\nArtificial intelligence was one of the most discussed topics throughout the event. Sessions explored how AI is transforming the way developers and businesses workΓÇöfrom integrating AI into WordPress without writing code to building customer support agents, using modern Large Language Models (LLMs) for development, debugging applications, and improving everyday workflows.
\n\n\n\nPerformance, architecture, and security also received significant attention. Speakers demonstrated advanced WordPress optimization techniques, object caching strategies, no-code animations using GSAP, methods for identifying system vulnerabilities, and practical approaches to cleaning malware-infected WordPress websites with AI.
\n\n\n\nBeyond technical sessions, the conference emphasized personal and professional growth. Attendees learned about building successful careers, transitioning from startups to multinational companies, product marketing, the realities of remote work, and maintaining mental well-being while working in the technology industry.
\n\n\n\nContributor Day: Giving Back to WordPress
\n\n\n\nContributor Day, held on July 2, served as one of the most meaningful parts of the event.
\n\n\n\nParticipants worked alongside experienced WordPress contributors and Table Leads to improve the WordPress project itself. Whether they contributed to Core, Accessibility, Themes, Plugins, Polyglots (translations), Education, or Photos, attendees experienced firsthand how community collaboration built the global WordPress ecosystem.
\n\n\n\nFor many first-time contributors, it was their first opportunity to make a direct contribution to one of the world’s largest open-source projects.
\n\n\n\nCampus Connect: Inspiring the Next Generation
\n\n\n\nOne of the highlights of WordCamp Rajshahi 2026 was the Campus Connect initiative.
\n\n\n\nTo encourage student participation in open source, 40 university students received complimentary tickets to attend the event. This initiative introduced young learners to the WordPress community, allowing them to interact with experienced professionals, attend technical sessions, and discover opportunities to contribute to open source.
\n\n\n\nBy investing in students today, the community hopes to cultivate the next generation of developers, designers, and contributors who will help shape the future of WordPress.
\n\n\n\nSponsors Who Made It Possible
\n\n\n\nWordCamp events are made possible through the generous support of organizations that believe in strengthening the open-source ecosystem. Rather than simply sponsoring an event, these companies invest in community growth and knowledge sharing.
\n\n\n\nThis year, the sponsorship tiers celebrated Rajshahi’s famous mango heritage.
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Their support enabled the community to deliver a world-class experience while keeping the event affordable and accessible.
\n\n\n\nThank You to Everyone Behind the Scenes
\n\n\n\nAn event of this scale is never the work of a single person.
\n\n\n\nOur sincere appreciation goes to every speaker and Contributor Day table lead who generously shared their knowledge and experience with the community.
\n\n\n\nWe are equally grateful to our organizers and volunteers. From sponsorship coordination, website management, registration, design, photography, audiovisual production, venue operations, food management, and attendee support, every team member played a vital role in ensuring the event ran smoothly.
\n\n\n\nTheir dedication transformed months of planning into an unforgettable experience for every attendee.
\n\n\n\nLooking Ahead
\n\n\n\nWordCamp Rajshahi 2026 demonstrated what is possible when passionate volunteers, contributors, sponsors, and community members work toward a common goal.
\n\n\n\nThe event was more than a conferenceΓÇöit was a celebration of learning, collaboration, and the open-source values that make WordPress one of the world’s most successful communities.
\n\n\n\nAs the community continues to grow, the relationships built, ideas shared, and contributions made during WordCamp Rajshahi 2026 will inspire future events and encourage even more people to participate in the global WordPress ecosystem.
\n\n\n\nHere’s to many more WordCamps, more contributors, and a stronger open-source community in Bangladesh and beyond.
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\n\n\n\nWhat a week! WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 (and Beta 2) arrived with a huge array of updates. We’ll unpack them together over the next four weeks, right up to the final release on August 19, 2026.
\n\n\n\nOne thing shouldn’t wait, though: the security release WordPress 7.0.2. Go update your production sites now ΓÇö this newsletter will still be here when you’re back. ![\"≡ƒÿë\"](\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f609.png\")
In this edition, you’ll also find the first speaker lineup for WordCamp US, a fourth page-builder migration story, WooCommerce 11.0 on the horizon, and plenty of block development goodness: from iframed editors to on-brand maintenance pages.
\n\n\n\nGrab your favorite Saturday beverage and dig in.
\n\n\n\nYours, ![\"💕\"](\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f495.png\")
Birgit
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WordCamp US 2026: Four Tracks, Three Workshops, 33 Speakers
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The first wave of WCUS 2026 speakers is live ΓÇö and it reads like a who’s-who of WordPress in practice.
\n\n\n\nWordCamp US just published its opening lineup for August 16ΓÇô19 in Phoenix: 34 confirmed speakers so far, including K Adam White, Brian Coords, Jamie Marsland, Kathy Zant, Miriam Schwab, and Robert Abela, all experienced developers, educators, security specialists, community builders.
\n\n\n\nThe program runs four tracks.
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- AI in Action leads with sessions on agentic workflows, AI search, and guardrails for AI-assisted development. \n\n\n\n
- Honing Your Skills covers the practical side: maintenance, privacy compliance, creator commerce, security. \n\n\n\n
- Technical WordPress digs into block migrations at scale, WP-CLI automation, and plugin pipelines. \n\n\n\n
- Beginning WP101 is the on-ramp for newcomers ΓÇö or for clients you’re bringing along. \n\n\n\n
- Three hands-on workshops round out the program, where you build something real in the room and leave with it.
The full session schedule isn’t out yet, but the speaker list alone is a useful signal. If someone on that page is a voice you follow, a tool you depend on, or a corner of WordPress you’re actively navigating, you now have a specific reason to be in the room. us.wordcamp.org/2026/tickets ΓÇö $100 General Admission ┬╖ $750 Micro-Sponsor (includes listing on the sponsors page) ![\"≡ƒæÑ\"](\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f465.png\")
Full speaker list →
Developing Gutenberg and WordPress
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.1 Beta 1 was release on July 15, 2026. is now available for testing. The release post offers instructions how to sent up a test side and shows an extensive list of new features.
\n\n\n\nThe security team released WordPress 7.0.2 with the urgent appeal to update right away. The security fixes were also backported in 6.9.5 and 6.8.6.
\n\n\n\nThe security fix was also included in WordPress 7.1 Beta 2, so testing sites are also protected during this release cycle.
\n\n\n\nHuzaifa Al Mesbah, from the Core Test team, published the accompanying Help Test WordPress 7.1 post.
\n\n\n\nA few WordPress 7.1 Dev Notes are already available:
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- Consistent navigation in WordPress 7.1 with persistent toolbar \n\n\n\n
- The Classic block stays in the inserter for WordPress 7.1 \n
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The latest episode is Gutenberg Changelog #132 ΓÇô Proposals for Core, Calls for Testing, WordPress 7.1 and Gutenberg 23.4 and 23.5
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Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners
\n\n\n\nIn about 10 days, WooCommerce 11.0 release is schedule. Brain Coords has the skinny for you in what’s coming for developers in WooCommerce. Performance leads the release with 28 PRs ΓÇö product object caching becomes the default for new stores, speeding up variable products by 9ΓÇô12%. You’ll also find email verification connecting guest orders to accounts, new phone validation hooks, video embeds in the block email editor, and the final removal of the Product Editor beta. The beta is ready for your testing now.
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Jamie Marsland followed his instincts and build Jamie’s Front-End Editor for Content Teams, a plugin that lets your editors click any paragraph or heading on the live page and start typing ΓÇö no block editor required. With the latest updates, you can now edit text, links, buttons and images right on the live page. No wp-admin, no block editor, just click and change it in place.
\n\n\n\nBuilt on the Interactivity API with no build step, it preserves block markup on save, records edits as native block notes for an audit trail, and lets you restrict chosen roles to front-end-only editing. Let Marsland what you think.
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Last week, I shared three migration stories from page builders to the Core block editor and block themes. Here’s a fourth perspective: The team at WP Expert, an Ottawa agency founded by Frederic Sune, put together a comprehensive post on migrating agency sites from page builders to Gutenberg, should you go on that journey, too. You’ll find the strategic arguments (better Core Web Vitals, smaller attack surface, less technical debt) alongside a practical playbook covering backups, staging, block theme selection, pattern development, and SEO safeguards. The post also explores what block-based architectures mean for an agency’s business model, from premium modernization packages to fewer layout-related support tickets. An FAQ rounds it out.
\n\n\n\nTheme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks
\n\n\n\nBrian Coords tackles a common WooCommerce pain point: custom product templates for block themes. He combines two core WordPress features ΓÇö the plugin template registration API from 6.7 and the venerable single_template_hierarchy filter ΓÇö to serve custom templates for product collections, like all products in a category. His example plugin falls back to your Single Product template unless you override it. Clone the repo and give it a try; custom Product fields are next on his list.
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On the WordPress Developer Blog, Troy Chaplin shows you how to build an on-brand maintenance mode for block themes. You add one small hook to your theme’s functions.php once, then design and manage the maintenance page entirely in the Site Editor with full access to your Global Styles. Renaming or deleting the template toggles maintenance mode on and off, no code needed. An SEO-friendly variant adds 503 headers so crawlers know the downtime is temporary.
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“Keeping up with Gutenberg – Index 2026”
A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test, and Meta team from Jan. 2024 on. Updated by yours truly.ΓÇé
Building Blocks and Tools
\n\n\n\nOn WP Mayor, Jean Galea untangles when to reach for WP-CLI, the REST API, or the Abilities API. His mental model: they’re layers, not rivals. WP-CLI lives on the server for bulk work, REST serves off-server callers like headless front ends, and the Abilities API tells AI agents what they’re allowed to do, complete with schemas and permission checks. Galea also shares how his own sites lean on all three at once.
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Get up to speed how to make your custom blocks plugin work in the iframed post editor, if you haven’t yet. After five years of ruminating and communicating the switch is coming to WordPress 7.1. In his post, Ryan Welcher explains why the post editor is going full iframe in WordPress 7.1 and what that means for your custom blocks. You’ll find the fixes for the most common breakage ΓÇö global window and document references, editor styles enqueued into the wrong document, stale admin-scoped CSS, and third-party libraries ΓÇö plus a companion demo plugin with broken/fixed block pairs, Playground blueprints for testing both states, and a handy pre-flight checklist.
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The video volunteers at WordCamp Portugal uploaded all recordings to WordPressTV and two of the talks caught my eye:
\n\n\n\nImran Sayed walks you through the fastest way to build Gutenberg blocks with modern tools, scripts, and AI. If custom block development has felt complex or time-consuming, you’ll appreciate his focus on practical, real-world workflows you can adopt immediately ΓÇö moving fast without over-engineering. The recording is available on WordPress.tv, and the presentation slides are linked below the video for easy reference.
\n\n\n\nJorge Costa shows you how to use the AI building blocks already shipped in WordPress core (the WP AI Client, the Abilities API, and the MCP adapter) to bring AI-powered features into your own plugins, themes, and sites. He also tackles the bigger question: when agents can spin up entire projects on any stack, why is WordPress still the right bet? Slides are linked alongside the recording.
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Check out the not so new any more Talk Devy to Me series on Ryan Welchers YouTube Channel! In the latest epsiode, Antonio Sejas demos Studio Code, the agentic AI assistant built into WordPress Studio’s desktop app and CLI. You can spin up sites, run performance audits, add content, and install plugins and themes through natural language conversation ΓÇö all locally, so nothing you break goes public. Sejas explains how it works under the hood before building something live with the host. Studio Code is free while in beta, so now’s a good time to experiment.
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If you rather want to read about the updates in WordPress Studio, Fredrik Rombach Ekelund shares three big updates to WordPress Studio: a new default Native PHP runtime makes your local sites load 30ΓÇô50% faster while using a third of the memory, the Studio CLI now installs with one dependency-free command ΓÇö no Node.js or npm required ΓÇö and Claude Sonnet 5 is the new default model in Studio Code, improving multi-step work like tracing bugs across files. A Sandbox runtime remains available for testing untrusted code.
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Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg’s master branch?
Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review.
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Now also available via WordPress Playground. There is no need for a test site locally or on a server. Have you been using it? Email me with your experience.
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Questions? Suggestions? Ideas?
Don’t hesitate to send them via email or
send me a message on WordPress Slack or Twitter @bph.
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For questions to be answered on the Gutenberg Changelog,
send them to changelog@gutenbergtimes.com
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WordPress 7.0.2 went out today with two important security updates. One is a type of pre-authorization RCE we (fortunately!) have only seen a few times in WordPress’ 23-year history; the last, I believe, in the PHPMailer class five years ago.
\n\n\n\nMajor kudos to Adam Kues of Searchlight Cyber for finding the batch REST API RCE, to TF1T, dtro, and haongo on the facilitated SQL injection!
\n\n\n\nThanks to responsible disclosure, the WordPress.org Security team was able to coordinate with hosts and CDNs to mitigate the attack at the network layer. Please upgrade anyway! But it’s a huge relief to know the vast majority of WordPress sites were protected by defense-in-depth even before the updates went out.
\n\n\n\nI really appreciate how people and organizations that otherwise might not be on the best of terms come together in times like this. (Full credits in the release post.) Everyone buries the hatchet to protect as many people as possible as quickly as possible.
\n\n\n\nI’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: security is going to be a big topic this year as the technology industry digests the incredible advances in AI models. It’s a good time to review your plans and processes, sweat the details, invest in maintenance, and hug a sysadmin. ![\"≡ƒÖé\"](\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f642.png\")
WordPress 7.0.2 is now available.
\n\n\n\nThe 7.0.2 security release addresses one critical and one high severity security issue.
\n\n\n\nBecause this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. Due to the severity, the WordPress.org team have enabled forced updates via the auto-update system for sites running affected versions.
\n\n\n\nTo manually update you can visit your WordPress Dashboard, click ΓÇ£UpdatesΓÇ¥, and then click ΓÇ£Update NowΓÇ¥, or you can download WordPress 7.0.2 from WordPress.org. On sites that support automatic background updates, the update process will begin automatically.
\n\n\n\nSecurity updates included in this release
\n\n\n\nThe security team would like to thank the following people for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities and allowing them to be fixed in this release:
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- A facilitated SQL injection issue reported as a team by TF1T, dtro, and haongo \n\n\n\n
- A REST API batch-route confusion and SQL injection issue leading to Remote Code Execution reported by Adam Kues at Assetnote / Searchlight Cyber \n
For more information on this release, please visit the HelpHub site.
\n\n\n\nBackports
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- WordPress 6.9 is affected by both vulnerabilities. Version 6.9.5 has been released containing fixes for both. \n\n\n\n
- WordPress 6.8 is only affected by the first vulnerability. Version 6.8.6 has been released containing a fix. \n\n\n\n
- The beta release of WordPress 7.1 is affected by both vulnerabilities. Version 7.1 beta2 has been released containing fixes for both. \n\n\n\n
- Versions of WordPress prior to 6.8 are not affected. \n
CVE and GHSA references
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you to these WordPress contributors
\n\n\n\nThis release was led by John Blackbourn and Barry Abrahamson. In addition to the security researchers mentioned above, WordPress 7.0.2 would not have been possible without the significant contributions of the following people: Aaron Jorbin, Alex Concha, annezazu, Barry, David Baumwald, Dominik Schilling, Ehtisham Siddiqui, Joe Dolson, Joe Hoyle, John Blackbourn, Jonathan Desrosiers, Marius L. J., Matt Mullenweg, Mohammad Jangda, Peter Wilson, Sergey Biryukov, vortfu, Weston Ruter, plus representatives from Altis, Automattic, Bluehost, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Hostinger, and WP Engine.
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If your block never touches the global document or window, you can probably stop reading after you’ve changed \"apiVersion\": 2 to \"apiVersion\": 3 in block.json. For everyone else ΓÇö and especially anyone shipping blocks that wrap third-party libraries ΓÇö the iframe changes where your code runs versus where your markup lives. That gap is where things break.
Quick reference guide: Are your blocks ready?
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The timeline, in one table
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| June 21, 2021 | The iframed editor was announced on make.wordpress.org |
| WordPress 6.9 (Dec 2025) | Console warning (with SCRIPT_DEBUG) when a block registers with apiVersion 2 or lower. The block.json schema now only validates apiVersion: 3. |
| WordPress 7.0 (Apr 2026) | The iframe decision now looks at blocks actually inserted in the post, not every registered block. All inserted blocks on v3+ → canvas is iframed. Insert a single v1/v2 block → the iframe is removed on the fly. Nothing is enforced yet. |
| Gutenberg 22.6+ | The iframe is enforced regardless of theme ΓÇö this is the feedback-gathering phase. |
| WordPress 7.1 (Aug 19, 2026) | The iframe is enforced on every theme, regardless of apiVersion. The conditions are gone, not tightened. |
The WordPress 7.0 change is subtle but important: before 7.0, one apiVersion: 2 block registered by any active plugin ΓÇö even one never used in the post ΓÇö kept the entire editor out of the iframe for everyone. Now only inserted blocks count. Your v3 block gets the iframe until the user inserts a legacy one, at which point the editor quietly reloads the canvas without the iframe. The companion plugin ships a legacy-api-v2 block so you can watch this happen ΓÇö insert it into an otherwise-v3 post and the iframe disappears. In 7.1, that escape hatch closes.
Worth knowing, as an aside: the “every theme” decision landed in WordPress 7.1 Beta 1, and it’s deliberately being tested in public. Gutenberg merged “Post editor: always iframe” (#74042) on July 10, 2026, deleting the theme and apiVersion conditions outright. The 7.1 release lead signed off on that merge on the condition that the team could “move to the softer approach” if Beta 1 feedback surfaced real problems ΓÇö the softer approach being enforcement on block themes only, with everything else staying on the 7.0 rules. No specific mechanism is committed to; the plan is to respond to what the beta actually turns up.
Which is a reason to test harder, not to wait and see. If that rollback happens, the iframed and non-iframed editors both stay in the wild longer ΓÇö and your block has to work in both regardless of which way it goes.
\n\n\n\nIt’s also worth noting that blocks that will break with the 7.1 changes are most likely already breaking in the Site Editor.
\n\n\n\nWhy the iframe is a good thing
\n\n\n\nThis isn’t change for change sake. Rendering the canvas in an iframe gives the editor a real document boundary:
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- Admin CSS stops leaking into your content. No more
#wpadminbar-adjacent style resets, no more admin styles subtly changing how blocks render in the editor versus the front end. \n\n\n\n - Viewport units and media queries finally work.
vw,vh, and@mediarules resolve against the canvas, not the admin page ΓÇö so tablet/mobile previews and zoomed-out views actually behave like the front end. \n\n\n\n - What you see is much closer to what you get. The canvas document is built from your theme’s styles, not the admin’s. \n
The issue this raises for block developers? Your editor JavaScript runs in the admin page, but your block’s DOM lives in a different document. Every assumption baked into document.querySelector(...) and window.addEventListener(...) just became wrong.
What actually breaks (and how to fix it)
\n\n\n\nEverything below is demonstrable with the companion plugin ΓÇö each pattern ships as a broken/fixed pair of blocks: iframe-editor-examples on GitHub.
\n\n\n\n1. Global window and document references
\n\n\n\nThe classic: a block that reads the viewport or listens for resize.
\n\n\n\n// ❌ Broken in the iframed editor\nuseEffect( () => {\n const update = () => setWidth( window.innerWidth );\n update();\n window.addEventListener( \'resize\', update );\n return () => window.removeEventListener( \'resize\', update );\n}, [] );Editor scripts load in the admin page, so window is the admin window. In the iframed editor this reports the wrong width and never reacts to the canvas resizing ΓÇö switch to the Tablet preview and the number doesn’t move.
The fix is to derive the document and window from your block’s own DOM element:
\n\n\n\n// ✅ Fixed ΓÇö works iframed or not\nimport { useRefEffect } from \'@wordpress/compose\';\n\nconst ref = useRefEffect( ( element ) => {\n const { defaultView } = element.ownerDocument;\n const update = () => setWidth( defaultView.innerWidth );\n update();\n defaultView.addEventListener( \'resize\', update );\n return () => defaultView.removeEventListener( \'resize\', update );\n}, [] );\n\nconst blockProps = useBlockProps( { ref } );Two things to notice:
\n\n\n\n- \n
element.ownerDocumentis whatever document the block is rendered into ΓÇö the iframe’s document when iframed, the admin document when not.ownerDocument.defaultViewis that document’s window. Code written this way is context-agnostic: it doesn’t care whether the iframe exists. \n\n\n\nuseRefEffect(from@wordpress/compose) instead ofuseRef+useEffect: it re-runs the callback when the ref changes, so if the block ever moves between documents, your listeners re-attach to the right window. \n
2. “Close on outside click” and other document-level events
\n\n\n\nThis one is my favorite because it fails weirdly. A dropdown that closes when you click outside, implemented the way every React tutorial teaches it:
\n\n\n\n// ❌ Broken in the iframed editor\nuseEffect( () => {\n const closeOnOutsideClick = ( event ) => {\n if ( ! containerRef.current.contains( event.target ) ) {\n setIsOpen( false );\n }\n };\n document.addEventListener( \'click\', closeOnOutsideClick );\n return () => document.removeEventListener( \'click\', closeOnOutsideClick );\n}, [] );In the iframed editor, clicks inside the canvas happen in the iframe’s document. They never bubble to the admin document, so the listener never fires. The result: click another block in the canvas and the dropdown stays open ΓÇö but click the admin sidebar and it closes. Same code, same block, works perfectly in the non-iframed editor. This is the kind of bug report you’ll get from users that “can’t be reproduced” ΓÇö because whoever tested it happened to have a v2 block sitting in their post, which quietly dropped the iframe and made everything work.
\n\n\n\nFix: same principle, attach to element.ownerDocument instead of document (see the plugin for the full useRefEffect version).
3. Editor styles enqueued into the wrong document
\n\n\n\nIf you’re styling your block’s editor experience with enqueue_block_editor_assets, those styles load in the admin page ΓÇö outside the iframe. They silently stop applying the moment the canvas is iframed:
// ❌ Loads in the admin page ΓÇö never reaches the iframed canvas.\nfunction myplugin_enqueue_editor_styles() {\n wp_enqueue_style( \'myplugin-editor\', plugins_url( \'editor.css\', __FILE__ ) );\n}\nadd_action( \'enqueue_block_editor_assets\', \'myplugin_enqueue_editor_styles\' );The fix is to register editor styles through block.json, which WordPress injects into the canvas document, iframed or not:
{\n "editorStyle": "file:./index.css"\n}(add_editor_style() also gets copied into the iframe, if you need theme-level editor styles.)
The demo plugin makes this visual: the same block carries a green banner from editorStyle and a red banner from enqueue_block_editor_assets. Count the banners ΓÇö two means no iframe, one means you’re iframed.
4. Stale CSS written for the leaky editor
\n\n\n\nThe section above is about CSS loading into the wrong document. This one is the sneakier inverse: the stylesheet loads into the right document ΓÇö injected straight into the canvas, exactly as intended ΓÇö and still gets it wrong, because of what it was written to describe. These are the rules that quietly stop matching, or start over-matching, once the canvas becomes its own document. It’s the code that’s been sitting in themes and plugins for years, “working,” right up until the iframe is enforced.
\n\n\n\nSelectors keyed on admin body classes
\n\n\n\nThe most common one, and it fails exactly like the “close on outside click” bug ΓÇö silently.
\n\n\n\n/* ❌ The canvas body no longer carries these classes */\n.wp-admin .my-block { padding: 2rem; }\nbody.block-editor-page .my-block__title { font-size: 2rem; }Inside the iframe, the canvas <body> is a clean document ΓÇö no wp-admin, no block-editor-page. The selector matches nothing and your editor styling just evaporates. Same block, same stylesheet, works perfectly in the non-iframed editor.
/* ✅ Scope to the block, not the admin chrome */\n.my-block { padding: 2rem; }\n.my-block__title { font-size: 2rem; }.editor-styles-wrapper does still wrap the canvas content inside the iframe, so .editor-styles-wrapper .my-block keeps working if you need genuinely editor-only styling ΓÇö but the admin ancestor was almost never necessary in the first place.
Offsets that compensate for admin chrome
\n\n\n\n/* ❌ Subtracting the admin sidebar and adminbar from the viewport */\n.my-fullwidth { width: calc( 100vw - 160px ); } /* 160px = admin menu */\n.my-toolbar { position: fixed; top: 32px; } /* 32px = #wpadminbar */This is the flip side of the win from earlier: now that 100vw resolves against the canvas instead of the admin page, there’s no sidebar to subtract ΓÇö so the calc() overshoots, and top: 32px pushes your toolbar below an admin bar that doesn’t exist in this document.
/* ✅ The canvas is the viewport now ΓÇö no compensation needed */\n.my-fullwidth { width: 100vw; }\n.my-toolbar { position: fixed; top: 0; }Specificity walls built to fight leakage
\n\n\n\n/* ❌ Cranked up to beat leaking admin styles */\n.editor-styles-wrapper .my-block p {\n font-family: Georgia, serif !important;\n line-height: 1.6 !important;\n box-sizing: border-box !important;\n}The iframe already stops admin CSS from leaking in ΓÇö that’s one of the reasons it’s a good thing. These !importants and resets have no admin styles left to override, but they do now override the theme styles the iframe loads into the canvas. The result: your editor preview drifts away from the front end ΓÇö the exact opposite of what the iframe is for.
/* ✅ Let theme styles through; set only what your block truly owns */\n.my-block p { font-family: Georgia, serif; }Two things to notice:
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- The pattern is the same as the JavaScript fixes: stop describing the admin, start describing your block. A selector that names
.wp-admin,#wpadminbar, or.block-editor-pageis reaching for chrome that isn’t in the canvas document anymore. \n\n\n\n - Most of these were workarounds for problems the iframe solves. Deleting them is usually the fix. \n
5. Third-party libraries that assume one global context
\n\n\n\nThe biggest real-world hazard. Masonry layouts, sliders, lightboxes, maps ΓÇö a generation of libraries was written assuming there is exactly one document:
// Inside some-legacy-lib.js\nconst targets = document.querySelectorAll( selector ); // finds nothing in the iframeYour block calls the library, the library queries the admin document, finds zero matches, and silently does nothing. No error, no warning ΓÇö the block just stops being enhanced.
\n\n\n\nYour options, in order of preference:
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- Pass elements, not selectors. If the library accepts an element (
lib.init( element )), hand it the block’s element fromuseRefEffectand you’re usually fine. \n\n\n\n - Patch the library. For unmaintained dependencies,
patch-packageis the pragmatic answer: edit the module innode_modulesto resolvedocument/windowfrom the element (node.ownerDocument), runnpx patch-package <pkg>, commit the patch, add apostinstallscript. The official migration guide walks through a real patch for@panzoom/panzoom. \n\n\n\n - Guard and bail. If the library is loaded inside the iframe (front-end scripts are), check for it on
defaultViewbefore using it:if ( ! defaultView.jQuery ) return;\n
So what does apiVersion: 3 actually do?
\n\n\n\nLess than you might think ΓÇö and that’s the point. Declaring \"apiVersion\": 3 in block.json doesn’t change how your block renders; it’s a signal that your block is iframe-ready. All core blocks have been on v3 since WordPress 6.3. For most blocks the migration is literally a one-line changeΓǪ followed by the actual work: testing that nothing in your edit component (or the libraries it pulls in) touches the global document/window.
And to be clear about 7.1: the iframe will be enforced there regardless of apiVersion. Staying on v2 doesn’t opt you out anymore ΓÇö it just means you get the console warning and the breakage.
How to test today
\n\n\n\nYou don’t need to wait for 7.1. What you’re testing is that your block works in both states ΓÇö iframed and not ΓÇö because both will exist in the wild for a while yet.
\n\n\n\nIframed: install the Gutenberg plugin 22.6+. It enforces the iframe regardless of theme, so this is the fastest way to live in the future. 7.1 Beta 1 does the same ΓÇö I’ve confirmed it forces the iframe on a classic theme, which is the merged behavior shipping in August.
\n\n\n\nNot iframed: run WordPress 7.0 without the plugin and insert a v1/v2 block alongside yours ΓÇö the canvas drops the iframe on the fly. The companion plugin’s legacy-api-v2 block exists for exactly this. Any theme will do: core 7.0 has no theme check in the iframe decision at all, so you don’t need to hunt down a classic theme to reproduce this.
Confirm which state you’re in: element.ownerDocument !== document, or look for iframe[name=\"editor-canvas\"] in devtools.
The Site Editor has been iframed for years ΓÇö if your block already behaves there, you’re most of the way home.
\n\n\n\nThe companion plugin ships a wp-env setup, an example override file that adds Gutenberg for enforced mode (copy it to .wp-env.override.json), and two Playground blueprints ΓÇö one per state, so you can flip between iframed and not in two tabs without installing anything.
The block author’s checklist
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- Set
\"apiVersion\": 3in everyblock.json. \n\n\n\n - Check your editor code for
window.anddocument.ΓÇö every hit is a suspect. Replace withelement.ownerDocument/.defaultViewviauseRefEffect. \n\n\n\n - Check for
enqueue_block_editor_assetsΓÇö move canvas-affecting styles toeditorStyleinblock.json. \n\n\n\n - Check your editor CSS for
.wp-admin,#wpadminbar, and.block-editor-page, admin chrome offsets and!important\n\n\n\n - Audit third-party libraries: pass elements not selectors, patch what you must. \n\n\n\n
- Test both states, not both themes: iframed (Gutenberg 22.6+ active) and not iframed (no plugin, v1/v2 block inserted). \n\n\n\n
- Watch the console with
SCRIPT_DEBUGon ΓÇö the deprecation warnings tell you which registered blocks are still on v1/v2. \n
Note What’s not on that list: checking whether the active theme is a block theme. Core exposes that answer twice ΓÇö as __unstableIsBlockBasedTheme in the editor settings and as is_block_theme on the REST themes endpoint ΓÇö and there’s a shelved PR and a live debate behind it. Your block never needs to ask. element.ownerDocument !== document answers the only version of the question that affects you. If you’re curious what that theme check does under the hood, that’s its own story: How WordPress decides a Theme is a “Block theme”.
Resources
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- Iframed Editor Changes in WordPress 7.0 ΓÇö the dev note this all builds on \n\n\n\n
- Post editor: always iframe (#74042) ΓÇö the merged PR that makes 7.1 always-iframed, and the discussion behind the beta-feedback plan \n\n\n\n
- Roadmap to 7.1 ΓÇö the original block-themes-first plan, superseded by #74042 \n\n\n\n
- Preparing the Post Editor for Full iframe Integration ΓÇö the 6.9 groundwork \n\n\n\n
- Migrating Blocks for iframe Editor Compatibility ΓÇö the official migration guide \n\n\n\n
- Block API Versions ΓÇö what each version means \n\n\n\n
- Enqueueing editor assets \n\n\n\n
- Editor styles for themes \n\n\n\n
- Companion demo plugin: iframe-editor-examples \n
GiveWP is the most popular fundraising and donation tool on WordPress, powering over $500 million in donations. It integrates with Akismet to ensure that spammy or potentially fraudulent submissions get filtered out. Recently, some Give users saw an unusually high level of false positives on their donation forms: legitimate donation submissions that were being marked as spam.
\n\n\n\nWe investigated and found that the donation forms were being sent to Akismet for checking after each step in the donation process: once after choosing an amount, again after the user entered their name, again after they entered an optional message, etc. To Akismet, this looks like sudden repeated submissions from the same user, all with similar content (better known as spam).
\n\n\n\nAkismet supports rechecking content, but only if the integration includes the recheck_reason parameter. If that parameter is present, Akismet knows not to classify the repeated duplicate (or nearly duplicate) checks as part of a spam attack; however, if recheck_reason is omitted, this kind of consecutive similar content looks very similar to spam, and Akismet blocks it.
We reported the root issue to Liquid Web, and they quickly addressed it and released a fix in version 4.16.0. This kind of collaboration is what makes Open Source great!
\n\n\n\nWe’re planning on bringing automatic integration review to more clients and platforms, so stay tuned for more tips and insights.
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\n\n\n\nThis 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.
\n\n\n\nHow to Test WordPress 7.1 Beta 1
\n\n\n\nYou can test WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 in any of the following ways:
\n\n\n\n| WordPress Beta Tester Plugin | Install and activate the WordPress Beta Tester plugin on a WordPress install. Select the ΓÇ£Bleeding edgeΓÇ¥ channel and ΓÇ£Beta/RC OnlyΓÇ¥ stream. |
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The scheduled final release date for WordPress 7.1 is August 19, 2026. The full release schedule can be found here. Your help testing Beta and RC versions is vital to making this release as stable and powerful as possible. Thank you to everyone who contributes by testing!
\n\n\n\nHow important is your testing?
\n\n\n\nTesting for issues is a critical part of developing any software, and itΓÇÖs a meaningful way for anyone to contribute ΓÇô whether or not you have experience. Details on what to test in WordPress 7.1 are available here.
\n\n\n\nIf you encounter an issue, please share it in the Alpha/Beta area of the support forums. If you are comfortable submitting a reproducible bug report, you can do so via WordPress Trac. You can also check your issue against this list of known bugs.
\n\n\n\nCurious about testing releases in general and how to get started? Follow along with the testing initiatives in Make Core and join the #core-test channel on Making WordPress Slack.
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.1 will include new features that were previously only available in the Gutenberg plugin. Learn more about Gutenberg updates since WordPress 7.0 in the WhatΓÇÖs New in Gutenberg posts for versions 22.7, 22.8, 22.9, 23.0, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, 23.5 and 23.6.
\n\n\n\nWhatΓÇÖs new in WordPress 7.1?
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.1 delivers a more complete set of styling controls, a smoother media experience, and a more personalized admin experience. Notes have evolved to add inline notes with @mentions and rich text formatting that make asynchronous feedback feel more powerful. New styling features unlock long requested features to style how blocks look across screen sizes and to style interactive states, all without writing custom CSS. Various client side media improvements means better format support, improved performance, and more resilient uploads when adding media to your site. A new inline cropping tool brings a fresh and more robust experience to editing images. Finally, the admin experience becomes easier to navigate with an ever present admin bar in the editors, improvements to the command palette, and various quality of life improvements. Underneath it all, developers get an expanding set of APIs to build on, and site owners get better support for a truly global audience.
\n\n\n\nNew suite of Notes features
\n\n\n\nNotes continue to grow into a fuller collaboration experience, making asynchronous feedback between teams faster and more expressive.
\n\n\n\nText Formatting: Notes now support inline formatting like bold, italic, code, links and adding emoji; each with a respective keyboard shortcut, so feedback reads clearly without breaking your flow.
\n\n\n\n@mentions: Type “@” in a Note to pull up a searchable list of collaborators and tag someone directly, so feedback points at the right person without leaving the sidebar.
\n\n\n\nLeave notes anywhere: Start more than one conversation on the same block instead of folding every comment into a single thread, making it easier to track distinct pieces of feedback.
\n\n\n\nInline notes: Leave a note on a text selection instead of on an entire block.
\n\n\n\nShow more / show less: Long notes now collapse by default with a toggle to expand them, keeping the margin tidy while you write.
\n\n\n\nStyle it your way, on any screen
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.1 takes a major step toward built-in responsive design and interactive styling, letting you achieve looks that once required writing custom CSS.
\n\n\n\nResponsive styling: Define how a block looks at different screen sizes directly in the editor, for both Global Styles and individual blocks without the need of writing custom CSS.
\n\n\n\nViewport breakpoint customization: Theme authors can now define their own responsive breakpoints in theme.json, giving more flexibility for how responsive controls behave on a given site.
Interactive state styling: Style how blocks respond to interaction, like a button changing color on hover or focus, using a standardized set of controls for both Global Styles and individual block instances.
\n\n\n\nA smoother media experience
\n\n\n\nUploading, editing, and browsing media keeps getting more capable and more reliable.
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- Client-side media processing: Image and media processing moves into the browser, now with broader format support that includes HEIC (the default format for iPhone photos), UltraHDR, AVIF and WebP support built in, plus GIF-to-video conversion for lighter, more efficient files. Uploads are also more resilient, with a progress indicator and automatic retries if your data connectivity drops off. \n\n\n\n
- New Media Editor Modal: A dedicated modal for editing images replaces the inline cropping tool, bringing cropping, rotation, and metadata editing together in one streamlined workflow. \n\n\n\n
- Smarter galleries: Gallery blocks can automatically pull in and sort media already attached to the current post, cutting down on manual set-up. \n\n\n\n
- View attached images: After you upload images to a post, the inserter will automatically surface them in a new Attached images section to make it easier to find relevant images. \n\n\n\n
- Infinite scrolling by default: The Media Library grid view now loads additional items automatically as you scroll, rather than requiring a click on “Load more” especially handy for sites that handle large media libraries. This can be disabled under your user profile. \n
A more personal, more navigable admin
\n\n\n\nThese meaningful upgrades make the WordPress admin easier to move around in and more consistent with how you like to work.
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- Persistent toolbar (Omnibar): The admin toolbar now travels with you into the Site Editor and Block Editor, with a series of polish improvements throughout. \n\n\n\n
- Command palette improvements: Moving through the dashboard and editor with the command palette
(Ctrl/Cmd+K)is more refined to make finding what you need even faster! Now results are grouped into Recent, matching and Suggestions sections instead of one flat list. \n\n\n\n - Admin color scheme in the Site Editor: The Site Editor now reflects your chosen admin color scheme instead of always using a fixed background. \n\n\n\n
- DataViews and DataForms iterations: Continued refinement of the components behind managing lists of posts, pages, patterns, and templates, alongside the forms used to edit them. \n\n\n\n
- Excerpts in the Posts list: The Posts list view now shows a short excerpt for each entry, making it easier to identify the post you’re looking for without opening it. \n\n\n\n
- Visual revisions: This release adds a picker activity layout for browsing history in more detail, clearly labeled autosaves in the timeline, and an autosave notice that opens straight into the visual revisions view. Global Styles revisions get a small polish too, swapping the active style’s text label for a badge. \n\n\n\n
- A dedicated Identity section: Site identity settings like your title, tagline, and icon are now live in their own clearly labeled section of the Site Editor, making them easier to find and update. \n\n\n\n
- On This Day Widget: A new widget resurfaces what you published on this date in past years, right on your dashboard. A small nudge to look back on what you’ve written, and a reason to write something new today. \n\n\n\n
- Allow Changing Comment Parent: Fixing a misthreaded comment used to mean editing the database directly. WordPress 7.1 adds an editable “In reply to” control to the Edit Comment screen, letting you pick a new parent from a dropdown of the post’s other comments. It’s scoped to the same post, so this is about untangling threads, not moving comments across posts. \n
New blocks and block-level enhancements
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.1 release brings a handful of block refinements that give more control with fewer steps.
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- Playlist Block: A new block for adding a collection of audio files to a post or page, with an optional waveform visualization that shows the audio’s shape as it plays; a more visual way to present podcasts, music, or audio content without using any third-party plugins. \n\n\n\n
- Tabs Block: A new block for organizing content into clickable tabbed panels instead of showing everything at once. It’s a cleaner way to present related content without overwhelming the page. \n\n\n\n
- Background gradients: Background gradients and background images no longer conflict. The gradient used to get silently overridden by the image, but now they combine and display together. This fix extends beyond the Group block to Verse, Accordion, Pullquote, Post Content, and Quote block. \n\n\n\n
- HTML block editable content: The HTML block now supports editable nested blocks. This is great to use for AI-generated content, which often arrives as raw HTML. \n\n\n\n
- “Mark as decorative” for images: A new toggle on the Image block lets you hide purely decorative images from screen readers for a better accessibility experience. \n\n\n\n
- Smarter shortcode handling: Pasting or converting a shortcode into the Embed block now creates a proper Embed block instead of leaving raw shortcode text behind, and the Shortcode block gains block-specific transforms of its own. \n
Built for a global audience
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.1 continues work to make Core reflect the full diversity of its worldwide community, with progress toward supporting Unicode email addresses so usernames, slugs, and email addresses can better represent users everywhere.
\n\n\n\nBuilt for developers
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.1 continues to expand the foundation developers build on.
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- Abilities API expansion: Continued refinement of the Abilities API with improved querying, filtering, and input validation, giving developers and AI tooling a more reliable foundation to build on. \n\n\n\n
- Block Bindings for list items: Block Bindings now extend to List Item, making it possible to connect more block content to dynamic data sources without custom code. \n\n\n\n
- Custom icon registration: New functions let plugin and theme authors register their own icons for the Icons block for use throughout the block editor. \n\n\n\n
- Enforced iframed editor: The post editor now always runs inside an iframe, isolating the editing canvas from admin styles for more predictable rendering. Blocks using Block API v2 or lower should be updated to v3 for compatibility. \n\n\n\n
- wordpress/theme stabilization: Introduces design tokens and a stable React ThemeProvider to provide a more consistent, customizable foundation for WordPress admin interfaces. \n\n\n\n
- Connectors authentication improvements: The Connectors screen now also supports username and application-password login – a more familiar way to connect plugins and services. This release also closes a security gap where browsers could auto-suggest saved credentials into the API key field. \n
With so much in progress for WordPress 7.1 Beta 1, this is still only the beginning; expect continued refinement with each Beta and RC release ahead of the final release on August 19, 2026.
\n\n\n\nJust for you: a Beta 1 haiku:
\n\n\n\nSeeds of Seven-One,
Notes, styles, media, and toolsΓÇö
Test, and watch them bloom.
Props to @benjamin_zekavica, @amykamala, @wildworks, @adamsilverstein, @annezazu, @fushar, @jorgefilipecosta, @joedolson for proofreading and review.
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\n\n\n\nJukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, the risks of legacy PHP in WordPress and why upgrading matters for security.
\n\n\n\nIf you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players. If you have a topic that you’d like us to feature on the podcast, I’m keen to hear from you and hopefully get you or your idea featured on the show. Head to wptavern.com/contact/jukebox and use the form there.
\n\n\n\nSo on the podcast today we have Milan Petrovi─ç. Milan has been deeply immersed in the WordPress ecosystem since 2007, developing an array of plugins, especially for expanding bbPress forums, and running his own company, creating plugins before joining the Freemius team as a full stack developer. With nearly two decades of hand-on experience, Milan has witnessed firsthand the evolution of both the WordPress and PHP landscapes.
\n\n\n\nMany WordPress users may be only partially aware of PHP. Perhaps they’ve noticed version numbers in their hosting panel, but few of the millions of WordPress users understand the real impact that PHP versions have on the security and performance of their websites. Milan is here to shine a light on why embracing newer versions like PHP eight isn’t just good practise, but a crucial step for security and efficiency.
\n\n\n\nMilan begins by recounting his journey through WordPress development. The conversation gets into the heart of his recent WordCamp Europe presentation, which tackles how legacy PHP code exposes sites to thousands of open bugs and vulnerabilities. And why relying on old versions is, as he describes, an active invitation for automated exploitation.
\n\n\n\nThe discussion explores the contrast between running legacy code, and using the native shields of modern PHP, and highlights how PHP 8 not only closes security holes, but also delivers major performance boosts, reducing memory usage, and accelerating speed.
\n\n\n\nIf you’re wondering why you should care about the PHP version your site is running on, or you’re a developer interested in practical ways to harden your code, Milan unpacks both the existential risks of outdated PHP, and the step-by-step benefits for hosts, agencies, and plug-in developers alike.
\n\n\n\nHe introduces his Vulnerability Lab plugin, designed for developers to see firsthand how code exploits play out differently across PHP versions, and makes the case that modernising can happen gradually, one update, one plugin at a time.
\n\n\n\nIf you’ve ever questioned how your hosting choice, or plugin stack, could affect your site’s future. Or you’re ready to take the first steps towards building more secure and future proof WordPress products, this episode is for you.
\n\n\n\nIf you’re interested in finding out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading to wptavern.com/podcast, where you’ll find all the other episodes as well.
\n\n\n\nAnd so without further delay, I bring you Milan Petrovi─ç.
\n\n\n\nI am joined on the podcast by Milan Petrovi─ç. Hello Milan.
\n\n\n\n[00:03:58] Milan Petrovi─ç: Hello Nathan. Thank you for having me here.
\n\n\n\n[00:04:00] Nathan Wrigley: You are very welcome. We’re in a beautiful, beautiful media room at WordCamp Europe. And I know that you have already done your presentation because we just had a little chat about the fact that you’ve done it and it went well and all of that.
\n\n\n\nDo you want to tell us a little bit about you and your background working with code and developing and security and all of that kind of stuff? And then we’ll talk about your actual presentation and how it went.
\n\n\n\n[00:04:25] Milan Petrovi─ç: So I started with WordPress almost 20 years ago, so way back in 2007. And I created a lot of plugins for WordPress, and I especially have a lot of plugins for bbPress for expanding forums. Yeah, people still use forums these days. So that was, I really like bbPress and all the stuff I did with that.
\n\n\n\nI have been working as a freelancer for a lot of years. I have my own company that was doing plugins, it’s called Dev4Press. But in 2024, I joined the amazing team at Freemius. So for almost two years I am a full stack developer at Freemius. And that was a really nice change of pace for me and the work I usually do before that. So yeah, that’s a short of it.
\n\n\n\n[00:05:13] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. That’s great. Thank you. And so the presentation that you did that is now over, goes like this. I’m going to read the entire blurb because it’s short enough to read, and it says, secure by design, hardening plugins with PHP 8.x. In the WordPress ecosystem, we’re often forced to choose between supporting the lowest common denominator of hosting and implementing modern security. But in 2026, writing legacy PHP 7 code isn’t just a bad habit, it’s an active invitation for automated exploitation. It’s time to stop playing whack-a-mole with sanitisation, and start building products that are secure by design. This talk isn’t just another slide deck on security tips. Through comparisons of a Vulnerability Lab plugin, you will see how common exploits like authentication bypass, and server side request forgery succeed on legacy code, only to be neutralised by the native shields of the latest PHP. You learn how to leverage the modern PHP patterns to ensure your plugins are resilient to a wide range of exploits.
\n\n\n\nNow into the show notes I will put Milan’s wordpress.tv presentation so that you can go and watch the entirety of it. I guess basically if at any point you get confused, that would be a good idea, pause this podcast and go and check that out. But, how did it go? How well received was it?
\n\n\n\n[00:06:33] Milan Petrovi─ç: For me personally, I’m very satisfied with how how it went. I don’t know, it’s a bit overwhelming to be honest, but I am very satisfied and I got a lot of questions after the talk. I met a lot of people that liked what I had to say. And I think it’s good feedback to have, for something that is more technical like this was.
\n\n\n\n[00:06:52] Nathan Wrigley: Well touching on the fact that it’s more technical, I have to confess that I think you are going to have to shepherd me through this, because a lot of the content that you I think probably got stuck into is beyond my pay grade. But hopefully we’ll get through it.
\n\n\n\nNow at WordCamp Europe, where we are now, I don’t know what the ratio is, but I’m guessing that a significant proportion of the people out there are not developers. They kind of know that PHP is a thing. They realise that WordPress is built on that, but they don’t really have an understanding.
\n\n\n\nThey’ve probably heard of PHP 7. They’ve probably heard of PHP 8, because somewhere in a control panel that was shown to them. But maybe there’s not much of an understanding of the fact that it gets better over time. It gets secure over time. I think there’s probably a notion of, well, my website works. Why do I need to change anything?
\n\n\n\nSo let’s get into that. What were you talking about in your presentation? What’s changed in the landscape of PHP more recently that you brought to the fore that you shared with your audience?
\n\n\n\n[00:07:51] Milan Petrovi─ç: Yeah, I think that PHP 8 was a big milestone for a lot of things. And I’m not sure, but I don’t think that the wider communities are kind of aware about the impact of the PHP, or the server environment in general, on how the websites work and how secure they are. Maybe the WordPress in itself needs to spread more awareness about that.
\n\n\n\nBecause right now we get a notice in the dashboard that maybe the PHP needs to be updated. But for a lot of website users, that can be too much and too little information at the same time, because they may be not aware of how to do things on their hosting site.
\n\n\n\nWe need to spread more awareness about how important the changes in the code are when it comes to the newer PHP versions, and what they can do to improve the security. And how developers should be starting to use more of those new features and the new things that PHP provides on a language level nowadays.
\n\n\n\n[00:08:49] Nathan Wrigley: WordPress has got this real legacy, I suppose is the right word, of supporting legacy code. So WordPress itself is supported way, way, way back. You can keep using versions of WordPress, which are many, many, many years old. And I wonder what your stance is in terms of PHP, whether or not WordPress runs versions of PHP which are far too old, in your opinion.
\n\n\n\nSo in other words, should WordPress have a policy of, I don’t know, 8.x only? Or is 7 okay. And I don’t know what other CMS platforms, you know, Drupal, Joomla as was. I don’t know what they do, I don’t know what their posture is.
\n\n\n\n[00:09:32] Milan Petrovi─ç: I think that one of the most important decisions that, it was done with WordPress early on, is that backwards compatibility, because it opened the doors for a wider adoption. Because you don’t need to change server every year, or you don’t need to upgrade your software that often. And that helped a lot of hosting companies to provide WordPress hosting very cheaply, because they didn’t have to have the latest PHP, they didn’t have to invest much more money into all that. So WordPress got a lot of adoption from backwards compatibility policies.
\n\n\n\nBut in the same time, that also proved a bit of a problem. Because even the WordPress Core code is kind of stuck because of that policy of backwards compatibility. And it’s not only compatibility with old versions of WordPress, but the old versions of PHP. And we are running now maybe six years behind end of life PHP versions. Because PHP 7.4 end of life was four and a half years ago. And we still support it in the Core.
\n\n\n\n[00:10:33] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I guess it’s a nice thing to support it. And it, as you described, it was a great way of onboarding the millions of people that came along. But things have moved on.
\n\n\n\nWhat would be some of the top level items? And I’m inviting you to open the scary book and sort of give out the worst case scenarios basically of running legacy code. So really, go to town, frighten us all. What are some of the horrors that await if you’re quite willing to, as a hosting company, support seven point whatever or beyond, six or five, or dare I say it, four, who knows? What are some of the terrible things that await us?
\n\n\n\n[00:11:08] Milan Petrovi─ç: To be honest, when I was researching some of the statistics and things like that, I was kind of scared when I saw that there are 3 or 4,000 open bug reports for PHP 7 and PHP 5, which are still in use today, and there are WordPress websites running on both of them in the millions. And there are 3 or 4,000 open and confirmed bags that are never going to be fixed. Never. So PHP 7 has thousands of bugs, and I’m sure that not everything security related, but a big chunk of those bags are related to security.
\n\n\n\nAnd there are open exploits that run on the PHP level. They don’t care really about if you are using WordPress or using something else. It’s more like a exploit on the level of a, on a server side that can be quite scary because you, even the technical people are not really sure what are all those bugs. Who is going to go through 3,000 or 4,000 bug reports?
\n\n\n\n[00:12:05] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, so just to sort of describe that, the fact that there is no more updates to the 7 branch of PHP means that all of those bugs which are publicly available, anybody can go and read great detail about what they are. Well that then means that any hacker can do that, and probably did like a dozen years ago. And so really you are painting a picture there of you are asking for trouble.
\n\n\n\n[00:12:30] Milan Petrovi─ç: There are hosting companies that maybe do things a bit differently because you don’t need to run PHP as it was created. You can build your own version of PHP. You can patch bugs on your own. And a lot of hosting companies are doing that. But in the same time, that also poses a problem. You are going to run WordPress in your own plugins on a platform that is not actually officially PHP supported. It can have some different quirks that make your code run a bit differently.
\n\n\n\nA while ago we had the Facebook running their own PHP build, that was quite different from the public PHP. But they used it, and other people started using it. So I don’t know. Still I think that the official PHP is the one you should be on because you never know what other issues. Even when hosting company patches the PHP they’re using, maybe they’re opening doors to something else that is not quite documented on that level.
\n\n\n\nI think that the best policies, I don’t expect for WordPress to adopt the latest PHP or only supported PHP versions, but to kind of move quicker on the adoption of the newest version. So maybe we should be quicker to adopt PHP 8.0 or 8.1 is a next minimal required version for WordPress.
\n\n\n\n[00:13:50] Nathan Wrigley: When you say you don’t expect WordPress to do it, is that simply because it doesn’t have a history of doing it? Is there a technical reason why WordPress could not keep up with the latest version? I know we’ve got this plugin architecture where there’s thousands and thousands of developers who are all doing their own thing, and there’s all of that. Is there any technical reason why WordPress couldn’t be on the cutting edge, most up-to-date, latest version?
\n\n\n\n[00:14:15] Milan Petrovi─ç: There are two factors in all that. First one is you can declare, PHP 8 is the minimal version we support. We don’t support PHP 7.4 anymore. And that means that you don’t need to make any changes in WordPress at that point. You can declare it because WordPress is compatible with all PHP versions. It works on 8.0 and 8.5. That’s no problem. But say that branch 7 is no longer supported, you’re kind of pushing other developers and hosting companies to improve their support for newer versions.
\n\n\n\nAnd you don’t need to make immediate changes to WordPress. But at that point, you are open to modernise the code because now you can have more stricter typing across the board. There are some strict typing things in older PHP versions, but with 8.0, you can do all of that. And it doesn’t have to be a process that is done immediately. It can be done gradually. You can update parts of the WordPress Core over time. And it’ll take a few years, to get up to date, but at least you are closing doors to some older versions of PHP, and you are pushing developers as well for plugins to have that policy.
\n\n\n\nRight now, each developer can have their own plugins supporting any version of PHP you want. For my plugins, I have policy of 8.0 as a minimal version since this year. And, I’m updating the code as I go along. I don’t do it, it’s impossible to do it all at once. And for WordPress, it’s going to be even worse to make it all up to date. But declaring PHP 8 is a minimal required version, would be a great step in the right direction for wider adoption.
\n\n\n\n[00:15:51] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I think the problem is simply one of the user base, isn’t it? There’s just millions of people, thousands of developers all doing their own thing. And casting 8.x, 8.0 and above as the new minimum, there’s going to be a moment where some things do go wrong.
\n\n\n\nSo that calendar plugin that you’ve been using for ages, which just works. And sure, you’ve never really received any updates from the developer, but it just works. Everybody’s booking on my calendar and we are all good. And then suddenly PHP 8 is required and it turns out the calendar plugin now no longer works.
\n\n\n\nYou can imagine those kind of stories a million times over coming to the fore. But equally, we got to move on. There’s no way of, you know, because we can’t in 10 years still have sites on 7.4.
\n\n\n\n[00:16:43] Milan Petrovi─ç: We have sites on five point something. I recently checked the official WordPress tracking. 7.4 is on 20% even now. So we are far away from WordPress ditching the 7 branch. And I think there are still few percent of PHP 5 in all that so.
\n\n\n\n[00:17:01] Nathan Wrigley: Yes, I regularly look at the, it’s like a little donut chart, isn’t it? That is often produced and you gradually see the eight point x whatever section of the pie getting bigger as they produce the next survey. But you’re right, it’s still a significant chunk that’s on 7 and below.
\n\n\n\nAnd whilst when I look at that chart, it doesn’t really bring any alarm bells to the fore, I just think, oh, that’s a shame. But now that you are presenting this talk, and giving me this information, I realise that that attack surface is worse.
\n\n\n\nWhen you gave that talk, who is your target audience? Were you directly sort of aiming at the hosting companies who presumably can do a lot of work very quickly? You know, they could take a million people onto 8 with a little bit of development work and on the back end of their platform. Or are you really encouraging the general WordPress user, like me, to take a bit more interest and make sure that I am going into the cPanel or whatever it is and updating myself? Or is it a bit of both?
\n\n\n\n[00:17:59] Milan Petrovi─ç: For everyone actually. It’s for developers to be more aware of what they can gain with the new PHP versions. It’s for hosting companies. Because it’s not only about security when it comes to the newer PHP. The PHP is faster and faster. So each new version gets you 5 or 10% more performance without doing anything. So PHP 8.5 is more than 50% faster than PHP 7.4. So that’s a significant update.
\n\n\n\nAnd I have even, one slide was showing how much less memory PHP 8.5 used to run exactly the same piece of code. So it’s pretty wild to see that hosting companies are maybe the biggest factor in all this. They will gain a lot more because they’re going to free a lot of resources to run more websites because PHP is going to use less memory and it’s going to be faster.
\n\n\n\nSo I understand they need to invest a lot of money to do all that. But, I don’t know, I think that gains from that are very significant, on that level alone.
\n\n\n\n[00:18:57] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, so you described there are really compelling scenario. You know, it’s quicker, it uses less memory, you’ll save money. I mean what else do you need? You’ve just presented the entire argument.
\n\n\n\nHowever, it hasn’t happened. So technically speaking, why do you think it hasn’t happened? Is there an acquisition of new knowledge that is difficult to take in? Is it that simply you would have to, I don’t know, retrain your staff? How do you understand that it hasn’t happened? What are the reasons people are digging their heels in and not making these updates?
\n\n\n\n[00:19:25] Milan Petrovi─ç: I kind of make the group of two or three types of hosting companies. One, and that’s usually more expensive managed hosting solutions. They are forcing the updates. They’re not maybe on the latest version, but they are forcing their users to use at least three or four versions of PHP back. So maybe 8.2 or 8.3, which is a great step in the right direction.
\n\n\n\nThere is also a problem of support. If something starts breaking, they’re going to be the first one to be asked about that, because they made the change to the server. So why now website that was working yesterday is no longer working today because of some change made on a hosting level. So there are a lot of factors to play into that adoption.
\n\n\n\nBut on the other hand, there are a lot of developers that have moved on with supporting PHP 8. A lot of plugins are very much updated and, especially popular plugins. They invested a lot of time to do the update. It’s getting easier to support it. But on the other hand, you have very old websites that are simply cannot move without proper testing, without updating the plugins. And there are cases when you cannot simply update one plugin because something else may break, or you made some changes that will make some other thing break. So it’s a big puzzle that is definitely not easy to solve, but maybe we should start some work on that as a community to do it, and to move people along.
\n\n\n\nI don’t want to say force the change, but make people aware of the benefits. Make people aware of the risks if they continue to run the old and outdated software. And the same goes for not updating plugins, not updating WordPress. No matter how much work is done in that regard, there are still most likely some exploits on a WordPress level for very old versions that at some point someone is going to find out about and exploit.
\n\n\n\n[00:21:16] Nathan Wrigley: I mean I guess the motto of WordPress was democratised publishing, which means basically make it available to everybody. No matter your level of expertise, make it available to everybody. And I’m sure that if you were to grab the CEO of any hosting company and say, I can save you money, I can save you resources, and all of those things that you outlined earlier, they would, yeah, we know, we know. But we’ve got thousands of non-technical people using WordPress.
\n\n\n\nI kind of have this analogy in my head, and it goes a bit like this. Several years ago, I bought a bike. And it sits in my garage and there is my bike. And I expect my bike to work tomorrow in the same way that it did four years ago. And in 10 years, I expect my bike to work. I don’t expect there to be an update to wheels or gears or the saddle. It doesn’t need an update. It’s just a bike. And I need my bike to be a bike and nothing more.
\n\n\n\nAnd I get the impression that many people treat their WordPress website as the same thing. This sort of static commodity that, sure enough, they pay a monthly fee for it, but it’s this website. It’s a thing, and it doesn’t need changing. And so what I’m trying to say is, I’m fairly sure that the hosting companies are met with that an awful lot. The customers who just, it’s a bike, it’s a website. Do you know what I mean?
\n\n\n\n[00:22:37] Milan Petrovi─ç: Yeah, but you need to maintain your bike. If you don’t do it, it’s going to, your belt is going to rust, your wheels are going to be deflated or whatever. A lot of things can happen with it if you don’t maintain it. So, we don’t need to upgrade everything all at once, but we can start from someplace. We can do it gradually. But still, WordPress needs to be the platform that leads the charging that, because it’s going to force other developers to do it. It’s going to force hosting companies to start doing it. And it’s not a big jump on moving just that one version, but it’s going to help to move things along faster. Let’s see how it goes in the next few years. But I really don’t expect for WordPress to drop 7.4 for at least a year or two, maybe even more.
\n\n\n\n[00:23:24] Nathan Wrigley: I loved your rebuttal of my bike analogy there. That was perfect. That’s exactly right. The bike will rust, the wheels will be deflated and all of that, yeah. So we need to drag the WordPress users along.
\n\n\n\nNow, in your presentation, you mentioned something that I have never used, the Vulnerability Lab plugin, which you used to demonstrate the attack. Can you just tell us a little bit about that? Because I’d be curious to follow that up, and maybe some people listening to this would too.
\n\n\n\n[00:23:47] Milan Petrovi─ç: I started it for, created for this talk specifically to add few examples and to run the code that is going to show those things if you run the plugin on the old version and the new version of PHP. And I do plan to expand on it because there are a lot more PHP security elements that can be demonstrated in that way.
\n\n\n\nSo it can show you, you have like a, in many cases the same code, but if you run it on one platform, you’re going to get one result. And if you run it on the newer one, you will get something different. So it’s useful to show, and some of those changes are quite small, those attributes that you can add to the code are very, very small, but they can really help you to improve security of your plugin.
\n\n\n\nAnd there are more complex security measures that can be implemented, but the format of the talk wasn’t really suitable to mention everything. But this was like something to get you started on the path of discovering what else PHP 8 can offer, when it comes to improving the security of the plugins and what possible exploits and vulnerabilities are there.
\n\n\n\nI try to use some obvious things that are very easy to spot. And I’m sure I did made some of those errors myself in the past. So some of those examples are something that I dealt with when I was upgrading my code. So I’m sure that a lot of people can see similar problems in their own code, and similar kind of solutions that can help them to overcome those and to make them much more resilient in the future.
\n\n\n\n[00:25:17] Nathan Wrigley: So is your plugin designed primarily, would you say for developers in mind, or is it something that just a typical end user may get some mileage out of?
\n\n\n\n[00:25:26] Milan Petrovi─ç: No, it’s more for developers that they can see, they can run that code and see how it behaves on the old version and the new version to demonstrate some of those things. And I will definitely expand it to include more examples in the future. Even for myself to like a document, what can happen if you run something in the old version, and the new version?
\n\n\n\nI had some suggestions coming to me like, maybe like a pattern library that is going to show what is the pattern that we use with old PHP and how to improve it with a new one, and document which version of PHP is going to support it, and how it’s going to improve the code.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:01] Nathan Wrigley: So is the idea then that you would instal it on various different, let’s say that you’ve got a live site and you’ve got, I don’t know, a development site and another development site, is that you would put it on each of those, different PHP versions, and just sort of compare and contrast what.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:16] Milan Petrovi─ç: Yeah, that can be used.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:17] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, in that way. And what’s the reporting that you get? Is it kind of error logs, you know, that only a developer would be able to understand, or is it in plain language that somebody like me could understand?
\n\n\n\n[00:26:26] Milan Petrovi─ç: Right now it’s a bit technical because if you run a certain part of the code, some of those elements do have a visual component in the admin section. You will see, one of the examples, if it’s run on PHP 7.4, it’s going to result in a fatal error for sure, depending on the server settings. And if you run it on the new version, you will get a full code running and executing as expected.
\n\n\n\nSo it’s a bit of a development thing that developers can use themselves to show maybe to potential clients or to website owners what is going to happen if they continue to run the outdated versions of the PHP. So it’s not just, yeah, the PHP 7.4 is bad, but here it is, why it is bad actually.
\n\n\n\n[00:27:12] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, that’s a really interesting use case, isn’t it? So if I’m an agency owner and I’ve got, I don’t know, a client over here who is absolutely wedded to this plugin, this calendar plugin say, and we know that the development of that plugin has ended years ago, then trying to persuade that client to find something new, or have something new built is difficult.
\n\n\n\nBut with the capabilities of the plugin that you’ve created, you’ll be able to show in a sort of readable human way, okay, right. That’s all very well, but we’ve got to get onto PHP 8.0. And when we do that, this is going to happen.
\n\n\n\nSo that’s actually quite a useful tool for agencies to be able to dangle things in front of the noses of their clients. Potentially, I don’t know, get some new work out of it as well, because there’s this extra work that needs to be done to bring it up to the modern standards.
\n\n\n\n[00:28:01] Milan Petrovi─ç: Yes. And one example especially demonstrates not only security, it demonstrates the performance. It shows you how much memory that piece of code is using on old version. Almost half the memory is going to be used less with a new version. So that’s very on the nose demonstration on security, and the performance in the same time. So things like that can help. And I will definitely try to invest more time in showing more examples and anyone can contribute.
\n\n\n\nIt’s a plugin available on GitHub, so any contributions in that regard are welcome. And we can maybe all work to create like a list of patterns that are something that a lot of people can use, and show different people how the PHP can help them move along.
\n\n\n\nAnd again, I don’t want to sound like we don’t need whatever WordPress is doing. We still need to use all the security enhancements that WordPress has built in the Core. Escaping, sanitisation. All that is still very important because you cannot solve everything by upgrading PHP and upgrading your code to use some of the PHP features. There are still a lot of security elements in WordPress itself that are very important and should not be replaced, or removed, from the code. There are patterns that are crucial to ensuring the security is on a top level. So combination of what WordPress already has, plus everything we get with the newer PHP is something that we should strive in the future, and to make things better.
\n\n\n\nAnd it’s not that complicated to start with the process. You can start upgrading small things. You can start with stricter typing. You can start with very small changes, and then gradually you can add those new attributes. You can replace some of the functions that you may be used with old version of PHP, but there is something better in the new version. So that’s something that everyone can do. Do a bit at a time so not everything at once. Spend time and make some gradual upgrades, and that’s going to help moving along.
\n\n\n\n[00:29:57] Nathan Wrigley: You are obviously here to talk about where PHP meets WordPress, but presumably you, yourself are gaining intel from the PHP community. Is there a resource, like a central PHP resource that you would direct people to, or would you rather steer them towards kind of WordPress resources? The things that people are doing in the WordPress space and the hosting space. There’s not really a question there, but it’s more where do you find your information? Where’s the most reliable place?
\n\n\n\n[00:30:25] Milan Petrovi─ç: You need to check everything. PHP website is a really good resource to find the information about what’s coming in the next version of PHP, because the preparations take up to a year to release a new version of PHP. So they’re now on a cycle that every December we get a new feature version. So in December this year, there is going to be PHP 8.6. And you already know most of the things that are coming to that version. You have the detailed list of changes for every PHP version. And that’s something that any developer should look at, and to see maybe something that will drive them to upgrade.
\n\n\n\nIn the current usage of third party libraries, there are a lot of libraries used in PHP that have moved on beyond 7.4. There are a lot of libraries that now require 8.1 or 8.2. If you depend on some library for, I don’t know, parsing URLs, or doing something else, something for security, something for whatever. You may face the problem that if you want to use the latest version of that library, you will need to have the newer PHP version. So you are kind of forced to upgrade your plugin requirements to meet with the requirements of the third party libraries.
\n\n\n\nAnd outside of WordPress ecosystem, those libraries will move much faster with the adoption of newer PHPs versions than WordPress itself, because they don’t deal with millions and millions of websites that are affected. They are creating the library the best way they can. And they want to ensure that their library is secure, that their library has access to the latest features. So they are going to bump requirements for those libraries on their own. And if you are depending on it, you need to do it yourself for your plugin. So it’s kind of, those libraries are kind of forcing the hand of some developers to upgrade, even if they maybe are not ready at this point to do it.
\n\n\n\n[00:32:15] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, it certainly sounds like there’s no lack of information out there. If you make your business to find the information, then it’s all there. You’ve just got to make the effort to go and find it.
\n\n\n\nI’ve kind of run the gamut of everything I wish to ask. However, I’m very conscious, as I said at the beginning, that this conversation is a little bit above my pay grade. Is there anything that I missed that you wished you had been asked that you wanted to get across?
\n\n\n\n[00:32:38] Milan Petrovi─ç: No, I think we covered a lot of stuff in that.
\n\n\n\n[00:32:42] Nathan Wrigley: Well I’m glad to hear it. That’s great. Yeah, thank you.
\n\n\n\nIn which case, I’m assuming, given that you’ve come to an event like this and you’ve put a plugin on GitHub, you are sort of semi available, or very available, to have conversations with people around this. And if that’s the case, where’s the best place to find you online? A website or an email address or a Twitter handle or whatever.
\n\n\n\n[00:33:00] Milan Petrovi─ç: We included the slide with the contact information. So even the email, if someone wants to get more information, they can do it on various social networks as well. So any input about all that is welcome. And I’d be happy to help if someone needs, some pointers or additional information to get started with all this.
\n\n\n\n[00:33:21] Nathan Wrigley: Well, thank you. That’s very much appreciated. As always, if you go to the show notes on the WP Tavern website and click on the episode involving Milan, you’ll be able to find, buried probably towards the bottom, all the different bits and pieces, the wordpress.tv video that will go with his presentation and various other links that have been discussed during the course of this episode.
\n\n\n\nSo with that said, Milan, thank you so much for chatting to me today. I really appreciate it.
\n\n\n\n[00:33:47] Milan Petrovi─ç: Thank you. It was really great, and I appreciate your invitation for the interview.
\n\n\n\n[00:33:52] Nathan Wrigley: You are so welcome. Thank you.
\n\n\n\n[00:33:53] Milan Petrovi─ç: Thank you.
\nOn the podcast today we have Milan Petrovi─ç.
\n\n\n\nMilan has been deeply immersed in the WordPress ecosystem since 2007, developing an array of plugins, especially for expanding bbPress forums, and running his own company creating plugins before joining the Freemius team as a full stack developer. With nearly two decades of hands-on experience, Milan has witnessed firsthand the evolution of both the WordPress and PHP landscapes.
\n\n\n\nMany WordPress users may be only partially aware of PHP, perhaps theyΓÇÖve noticed version numbers in their hosting panels, but few of the millions of WordPress users understand the real impact that PHP versions have on the security and performance of their websites. Milan is here to shine a light on why embracing newer versions, like PHP 8.x, isnΓÇÖt just good practice but a crucial step for security and efficiency.
\n\n\n\nMilan begins by recounting his journey through WordPress development. The conversation gets into the heart of his recent WordCamp Europe presentation, which tackles how legacy PHP code exposes sites to thousands of open bugs and vulnerabilities, and why relying on old versions is, as he describes, ΓÇ£an active invitation for automated exploitation.ΓÇ¥ The discussion explores the contrast between running legacy code and using the ΓÇ£native shieldsΓÇ¥ of modern PHP, and highlights how PHP 8.x not only closes security holes but also delivers major performance boosts, reducing memory usage and accelerating speed.
\n\n\n\nIf youΓÇÖre wondering why you should care about the PHP version your site is running on, or youΓÇÖre a developer interested in practical ways to harden your code, Milan unpacks both the existential risks of outdated PHP and the step-by-step benefits for hosts, agencies, and plugin developers alike.
\n\n\n\nHe introduces his Vulnerability Lab plugin, designed for developers to see first-hand how code exploits play out differently across PHP versions, and makes the case that modernising can happen gradually, one update, one plugin at a time.
\n\n\n\nIf youΓÇÖve ever questioned how your hosting choice or plugin stack could affect your siteΓÇÖs future, or youΓÇÖre ready to take the first steps towards building more secure and future-proof WordPress products, this episode is for you.
\n\n\n\nUseful links
\n\n\n\nSecure-by-design: hardening plugins with PHP 8.x – Milan’s presentation at WordCamp Europe 2026
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nΓÇèVulnerability Lab plugin on GitHub
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoenix itself rewards anyone who adds a day or two to their trip. The capital of Arizona sits in the Sonoran Desert and pairs a lively downtown with a rich arts and food scene. The Roosevelt Row arts district is known for its galleries, murals, and independent restaurants. It is also home to one of the largest art walks in the region. Nearby, Chase Field and the Footprint Center host professional baseball and live shows, and the surrounding desert offers striking scenery at places like Papago Park and the Desert Botanical Garden.
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\n\n\n\nPlan Your Trip to Phoenix
\n\n\n\nGetting to Phoenix is straightforward. The Phoenix Convention Center sits in the heart of downtown, less than five miles from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) and about 15 minutes away on the Valley Metro light rail. WordCamp US has a room block at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, close to the convention center, so book your hotel before the block fills, and reserve your ticket if you have not already. The full event lineup and details live on the WordCamp US 2026 site, and the conference closes with an evening social before everyone heads home.
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\n\n\n\nThese include “Core Abilities” for AI agent integration, the new “Knowledge” post type for managing site standards and guidelines, and “Design System Theming” to enhance consistency and accessibility via CSS custom properties. The hosts also discuss the shift toward mandatory iframing for the post editor in block-based themes, a critical architectural change designed to improve content rendering.Beyond core architecture, the episode highlights user-focused improvements such as enhanced responsive editing controls, which now allow for granular canvas resizing without preset limits. They also touch on media-related updates, including aspect ratio controls in the media editor, and improvements to the Icon block.
\n\n\n\nWith WordPress 7.1ΓÇÖs Beta 1 approaching, Birgit and Ellen emphasize the importance of community involvement, encouraging developers and site owners to participate in ongoing “Call for Testing” efforts. Whether discussing React 19 status or new grid layout properties, the episode serves as a comprehensive briefing for anyone looking to stay current with the rapidly changing landscape of the block editor and WordPress core development.
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- Production: Birgit Pauli-Haack \n
Show Notes
\n\n\n\nSpecial Guest: Ellen Bauer
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- On X (former Twitter) @ellenbauer \n\n\n\n
- WordPress.org Ellen Bauer \n\n\n\n
- Bluesky \n\n\n\n
- ElmaStudio \n\n\n\n
- Previews appearances on the show\n
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- Gutenberg Changelog #124 ΓÇô Gutenberg 22.0 and WordPress 6.9 \n\n\n\n
- Gutenberg Changelog 117 ΓÇô WooCommerce Starter Theme and Blocks, WordCamp Europe, and Gutenberg 20.7 and 20.8 \n\n\n\n
- Gutenberg Changelog #105 ΓÇô Gutenberg 18.9, Block Themes and WooCommerce \n\n\n\n
- Gutenberg Changelog #88 ΓÇô WordPress 6.4 and Gutenberg 16.4 and 16.5. \n
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Announcements
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- Call for Testing: Responsive Styling \n\n\n\n
- Modal Media Editor \n\n\n\n
- Client media processing and the \n\n\n\n
- Real-time collaboration outreach effort \n\n\n\n
- Call for Testing: Unicode email addresses \n
Community Contributions
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- Merge Proposal: Expanding WordPress Core Abilities \n\n\n\n
- Merge Proposal: Guidelines built on Knowledge \n\n\n\n
- Merge Proposal: Design System Theming \n
What’s released
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- WordPress 7.0.1 \n\n\n\n
- WordPress 7.0.1 RC1 \n\n\n\n
- WordPress 7.0.1 Fixes Registration Spam, wp_kses() CSS Corruption, and 7.0 Admin Design Glitches \n\n\n\n
- Roadmap to 7.1 \n
Post Editor iframed
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- Post editor: always iframe #74042 \n\n\n\n
- iframed Editor Changes in WordPress 7.0 (February 2026) \n\n\n\n
- Preparing the Post Editor for Full iframe Integration (November 2025) \n\n\n\n
- Blocks in an iframed (template) editor (June 2021) \n
Punted from 7.1
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- The Classic block stays in the inserter for WordPress 7.1 \n\n\n\n
- React 19 upgrade temporarily reverted in Gutenberg \n
Gutenberg releases
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- WhatΓÇÖs new in Gutenberg 23.4? (June 17, 2026)\n
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- Docs: Auto-generate per-block API reference pages from block.json. (77612) \n\n\n\n
- Proposal: Auto-generate Block Editor Handbook docs from block.json \n\n\n\n
- Documentation pages: Core Blocks Reference \n
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Transcript
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Welcome to our 132nd episode of the Gutenberg Changelog podcast. In today’s episode, we will talk about proposals for core, calls for testing Gutenberg 23.4, Gutenberg 23.5, and whatever side ideas we have about 7.1, which is in the works. I’m your host, Birgit Pauli-Haack, curator at the Gutenberg Times and a full time core contributor for the WordPress open source project sponsored by Automattic. With me today on the show, and I’m very delighted to tell you that is Ellen Bauer, product manager at WordPress.com and early adopter of block themes. Thank you for joining me, Ellen. How are you today?
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Thank you very much. Always happy to be here. I’m great. I just landed back in Bangkok this week where we are. I’m staying here a little bit longer with my family this year from Germany, visiting family and attending a meetup. And yeah, it’s good to kind of do that travel because it always inspires me to get out of a routine. And yeah, I’m really glad I’m here now and motivated.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: To get back into working, improving WordPress.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: That’s a great time to spend in Germany. And I hope you had luck with the weather.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Well, there was this heat wave in the second week. It completely knocked me out, to be honest.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, that was really hard. And a lot of people say that.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: It was great and went on the last day I went to Legoland for the first time, which was also an experience and exhausting, but great.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: ThatΓÇÖs here between Munich and Augsburg.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Yeah, I think it’s close. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, between my first time. Oh, nice. Yeah, maybe I should go there too. But it is fun.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: It is fun. Maybe not. I don’t recommend to go in the summer on a Sunday, which we did, but. Oh yeah, that’s actually really fun.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Family day. Yeah. So you mentioned you attended the meetup in Porto. What was your takeaway from the meetup with digital?
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: So it was actually the main reason I came to Europe for it was the first time all products meetup from Automattic in beautiful Portugal for me, also the first time I’ve been to Portugal, which shouldn’t happen to not visit before. But it was really cool. I love Portugal. Really lovely people, beautiful vibe, nice weather. Yeah, it was really relaxing, really a treat. And then very inspiring and motivating to be in the product group for the first time all together in a nice setting and we had amazing conversations. For me, I also got to know my team a little bit better because I just sort of recently switched into dot com, so that was helpful. But yeah, also a lot of meaningful, deep conversations and I’m really, really motivated after that meetup.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Oh yeah. So when you said meetup, I’m still in the community brain, so I thought it might have been a WordPress meetup because I spent some time. And that’s probably also the reason why my brain went there instead of the internal. Because I spent some time with meetups, local WordPress meetups in Salzburg and in Erfurt and also in Munich. I restarted the meetup here in Munich with a few of the original founders and some other people and. And it’s a totally different vibe than a WordPress conference.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: That is true. I love meetups.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: You meet 15 maximum 20 people and then you learn more about how they use WordPress, what they really move a normal user. So it kind of grounds you much better than kind of always being in the contributor section, kind of.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: So that is true. Well, there was WordCamp Europe, which I didn’t attend because it was just so much. I attended WordCamp Asia, which I also loved this year. That was such an amazing experience and very motivating. And I talked to a lot of people who are meetup organizers in India and I really now want to visit one of their meetups. It sounds fun. I also visited the meetup here in Bangkok before and I love the people there, the really tight community. And I’m also. I have been thinking for many years now that I should actually start a meetup in our town in New Zealand. I haven’t committed, but I’m always coming back thinking about it. So maybe I should just commit and do that because it would be cool to have like a local.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: In New Zealand. There aren’t many around, but it would be cool.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Well, the first thing that you need is a co-organizer. So don’t start until you have a second person to do that because we travel a lot. Well, I travel a lot and I cannot be at every meetup, so I need somebody else to do that. So that was kind of back of mind.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: That’s a good advice.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And the meetups in India, they’re really big. They’re 40, 50 people.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: I talked to someone and. And they have 200 people every month on Surat. I was like, I want to come. Yeah, it’s amazing. Like, I want to visit.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: It’s a small word camp for an evening kind of thing.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: That is so true.
\n\n\n\nCalls for Testing
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: All right. Yeah. So work for 7.1 is progressing and there are calls for testing out, and this is the first time that there are so many out there. There are five of them. And if you want to learn what’s really in 7.1, there’s no better way to take a deep dive and heed the call for testing.
\n\n\n\nSo there’s a call for testing for the responsive styling and yes, it’s coming to WordPress now. And then there’s a call for testing for the new modal media editor that opens up when you click on the crop icon in the toolbar of an image block or a cover block. And then there is the call for testing for the client media processing. That’s a feature that comes to 7.1 where the client, the browser is actually doing a lot of work in uploading the upload side of the image uploads and the resizing and then dumps it into the WordPress media library.
\n\n\n\nThere’s also a real time collaboration outreach effort that is also a call for testing. And then there’s a call for testing for getting Unicode into email addresses. And that’s kind of fun too. So the testing has done an amazing job putting those calls for testing together because you get instructions on how to use it and videos to show you how to use it and then the instructions also for the testing. So your mental work on how do I test this is already done. You’re just going to follow the script and, and then have room in your mental room to observe your feelings for whatever you’re doing and kind of try to, to verbalize them and share your feedback. So it’s really interesting and I hope you dear listeners are going to heed those calls. One or two of them. You don’t have to do all of them. Yeah, I don’t grade you, but there will be a test. Yeah.
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\n\n\n\nThen there are also two. Well, I said two, but there are actually three merge proposals from the contributors. There’s new things coming to WordPress Core. One is expanding the WordPress Core abilities. It’s a merge proposal to add three read-only abilities to cover the settings, content and users for AI. And it gives AI clients real tools to call so the agents can understand what your site’s configuration, post and people are doing. There’s a discussion should this be in core, should this be a plugin and all that you can read up on the post. And the second one is also for AI is the guidelines to build knowledge on your website. Yeah, what’s your tone about what’s the tone of voice, the expression, what the topic is about and what the members are, what the standards are and all the notes for revision and capabilities. So an AI agent could follow those instructions as well.
\n\n\n\nAnd for people who manage multiple sites with one AI they can actually it’s different for every site. So it’s really important to have that on the site to give that that’s a new content type and new settings pages for these things. So you can even use your AI to update those guidelines. There’s one thing and then of course the last one is the bigger one and that’s a merge proposal for the design systems theming Andrew Duthie published a merge proposal bringing design tokens and new theme components to WordPress built by the Gutenberg Components team. But it turns the hard coded admin styles into CSS custom properties so your plugins and screens stay consistent and accessible.
\n\n\n\nThen a color ramp tool generates harmonious accessible scales from just two seed colors and the user color scheme reaches the site editor which will come into I think 7.1. So with a dark mode on the horizon. So it’s a good time to get involved in the discussion now, dear listeners, and to make your point of view listen to and converse with others on the impact for you and your business and for your clients because that’s where the decisions are made. Some of them are already made but they are loosely held, so to speak.
\n\n\n\nThere’s a whole aspect of WordPress is we have strong opinions but they’re loosely held. If you have a good argument and you have a good use case or a different point of view, you are listened to. Of course if aired respectfully and even if it’s not respectful it should be because we all want to do the same thing. So the links to all the merge proposals and calls for testing will be in the show notes. You get to pick what you are interested in and so that’s a whole thing that happened in the last three weeks when we didn’t have a Gutenberg change log. So I wanted to catch you up. Any thoughts on that Ellen, that you want to share with our listeners?
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: I think on the merge proposals but I think for the calls for testing the responsive styling of course sticks out to me because we have been calling for that for so long and the user the feedback was always there like what is that without responsive styling? So now here it is. So yeah go ahead and test it and I will do the same and kind of contribute to make it better or improve what. What we can. But here we go. We finally have. I think the number one ask always this is missing in Gutenberg.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. I think the number one ask is not the responsive design because Gutenberg is responsive in certain areas. It’s a viewpoint. It’s a media kind of thing. Yeah. So what is a tablet? What is a mobile. And to change things for those screen sizes. And there was a big hesitation and there’s. On the developer blog, there’s an article about intrinsic design that’s built into Gutenberg. And I think the thinking was, okay, intrinsic design is what comes after media queries. Comes after. So because we need to also talk to what is component in the container queries in CSS and all that. And at the start of Gutenberg people wanted to push the envelope of intrinsic design and then see what’s missing. And. And now we know where it all goes and how to. To change it. And there is a. Yeah, we talk about it a little later when we come to that. Yeah, but so that’s kind of. That part why it took so long, I think was the reason why I kind of went on the drain there.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: That is true. I’m glad that we didn’t do like earlier versions of it. It seems late, but yeah, there’s. There’s a reason.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: But I think, yeah, a lot of plugin companies actually filled that gap quite nicely. I also saw a few implementations where you didn’t have three viewports or breakpoints, you had six, so. And I kind of couldn’t imagine that a normal user can keep in their head six different sizes to control the styling and when something needs to be changed to find it again where that actually was changed. I get the hesitation. So yeah, yeah..
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: You quickly go a little overboard with that. And I’m also glad that we didn’t do that on the core level.
\n\n\n\nWhatΓÇÖs Released – WordPress 7.0.1
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. So that brings us to what’s released and it’s release week kind of thing. So on Wednesday and we’re recording this on Friday, July 10, Thursday, July 9, WordPress 7.0.1 was released with bug fixes from the major release. And the release candidate announcement has a list of all the fixes in track and from the Gutenberg repo,
\n\n\n\nI’m preparing an article for the Gutenberg Times. I will probably put in the show notes about what the fixes actually did is the WPKSS or however say that CSS corruption on some of the admin design glitches and some more. So you can have a summary of that. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nOn Wednesday, just the day before 7.0.1, a user ask in the core channel, what is. I see all the communication. Yeah. What is the latest version actually, and at that time it was still 7.0, but we say but tomorrow it’s going to be 7.0.1. 7.0.1. Yes. Yeah, yeah.
\n\n\n\nSo 7.1 last month Anne McCarthy posted the roadmap 7.1. It was aspirational and also very concise with an outline and links to the tracking issue for the many features contributors have been working towards. Beta 1 of 7.1 is scheduled for next week. That’s July 15th. And by then we will know the full picture of what made it and didn’t make it into the release features from the Gutenberg plugin releases 22.6 through 23.6 will come to 7.1 unless they’re behind an experiment flag or plugin or plugin only as guardrail 23.6 release candidate. And that’s what’s getting into the beta version is on July 14, so one day before the beta version, because that’s where all the NPM packages are created and all the things get into the branches. Right feature branch.
\n\n\n\nThe final release of 23.6 is moved to July 22nd. That was kind of decided by the release tech leads to get it all just in time for beta and organize that. So the deadline for enhancement into the plugin on 7.1 is July 14, the day before beta. So if you’re a contributor and you want to get the feature that you were working on in this weekend is probably crucial because it also needs to be reviewed and approved. So give people time to get in there.
\n\n\n\nSo yeah, what should be on your radar for 7.1 is the mandatory iframe of the post editor. We mentioned it before. It actually has also a lead time to come to this point is the post editor runs inside or the block editor should run inside an iframe because it isolates the content from your admin styles and makes the viewport units and media queries work correctly against the editing canvas rather than the browser window. And in 7.1, iframing becomes more enforced for block based themes or for all themes because it ensures that canvas behaves predictably and the blocks render accurately for both the post editor and the site editor, template editor and pattern editor and plugin developers.
\n\n\n\nSo plugin developers who have not updated their Block collections from version 2Block JSON version 2 to 3 should actually upgrade to make this all work. If you want to catch up on the newest discussion, there’s a Gutenberg PR that’s called Always the post editor for book theme. And that’s the 79819. And if you put that in your playground, you can actually add some of the plugins or your staging site, or add it to the staging site, then you can test your things. I think the biggest problems are sites that are maintained by people that do not read the make blog or do not listen to podcasts or read blog posts about their site or the software. And those are sites that haven’t been maintained for a while, otherwise they would have already upgraded things. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: So block themes need to do anything too. They haven’t. No. Right.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: I havenΓÇÖt looked into that.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: It’s a problem for blocks. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: That are in the block plugin collections.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. That only. They were only meant for post editor and have never been used inside editor or something like that. Because those would have broken already. Because the site editor since 2020 kind of uses an iframe version. So if you use the block in a template or use the pages thing from the site editor, the pages administration from the site editor, you will know when the block breaks. And in the post editor, if you go into the console, you see the notification that it’s going to be deprecated. But if you’re only in the post editor and never look at anything else and those blocks might break if they’re not updated.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: What should they do if this happened to them?
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: There are some guardrails in place and there were two PRs. That one is the hard kind of, okay, we do all the iframe insight and that’s going to be in beta. And in beta, listening to the feedback will decide if there will be a switch to the other less hard choice there in terms of saying, okay, if it’s a block theme, it’s going to be an iframe post editor. But if it’s not a block theme and. Or if there are blocks on the page that are on the old version, like the version 2, then it will not be iframed, but that is subject to change. It’s kind of. There’s a trial and error kind of process here to figure out what is the best way move forward. Because the first post blog post about that was actually published in June ΓÇÿ21, so five years. And then there was another one in November 2025, and there was another one in February ΓÇÿ26. So there is a lot of leeway or runway for agency developers and plugin developers to kind of update, but sooner or later there will be a push to make it final and then deal with the consequences. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nAnne McCarthy’s roadmap included two updates that we already know have been already punted. So that’s the update to React 19 and the deprecation of the classic block. Those things have been punted. And there are blog posts on the make blog for the reasons and next steps for that. It’s pretty much the classic blog where there was a lot of communication around it that said, okay, maybe it’s not a good time yet. And for the RAC 19 there were too many backwards compatibility issues, but it’s going to come. So it just needs a little bit more runway to get final to that point. All right. Any thoughts about that?
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Not really. I’m excited for 7.1. I think we haven’t mentioned the release time. Is that still planned for WordCamp US and like August 19th.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yes, the planning is July 15th being beta and then August 5th being release candidate and August 19th final release on the last day of WordCamp US.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Okay, cool. I’m excited.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, I’m excited too. There are nice features in there and there are nice updates to the site editor there and I’m very excited about that.
\n\n\n\nGutenberg 23.4
\n\n\n\nAnd now that brings us to Gutenberg 23.4. Let’s go and talk about things.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: So that was released June 17th. We’re also going to talk about the next release 23.5 right after. So let’s start with this one first.
\n\n\n\nSo I think the most exciting things in there are related to media. And the first thing that is pretty exciting is if you load media into the post editor, you now get like a little notification snack bar that kind of tells you the progress of your uploads. Like if you load dump, just dump in like 20 images you’re going to see. And you also I think timed first image, second image, third image. We are used to it, I don’t know from apps and stuff. So I think that is really, really helpful to see the progress of the loading there.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And Adam Silverstein did an amazing job to get this all done. There’s a second one that also that the upload process is now enabled. So when it’s interrupted because you’re offline or something, it also resumes automatically the upload on the when the connection returns. So this would save quite a few hurry up and wait kind of thing. When you’re maybe on a train or in a country where you don’t have stable Internet connections to upload your media.
\n\n\n\nRight now, I only highlighted that because it’s in the same thing that the client side media processing is now geared towards 7.1. So the pluginΓÇÖs only guardrail has been removed and it can be merged into WordPress.
\n\n\n\nEnhancements
\n\n\n\nThe next one is the playlist block. It now has a visualization style selector so it has the playlist lock. When you try and test it, you’ll see there is a visualization kind of where the music builds some animation on top of the track and you can select the styles now for that. And also it now has a track length setting so you can set up the settings for that as well.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Another thing I kind of liked because I’ve built that before is if you have, I don’t know, on a WooCommerce theme or something, if you want to have the log out log in or for any other kind of purpose, you can now get that into an inner block of the navigation submenu. The lockout lock in. That wasn’t possible before. It’s a small thing but very helpful for whenever you want to have that in a drop down or sub menu.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. If you have a membership site or subscribers only content and you. You offer them a nice accessible way to log in and log out. There’s a very minimal change, but you might need. You will notice it. It’s the time to read icon has been renamed to time. So it’s not. Might be getting rid of redundancy, but I’m not sure it’s even clearer. It’s clear enough. So yeah, that’s the change.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Yeah, I think that’s mainly kind of to reuse it, to be able to reuse it for more things. Right.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Another thing that I think is a little bit bigger and quite helpful is that now it’s possible that columns and gallery blocks can be transformed into grid variations for layout styling. I think that’s kind of cool. I think I wanted to do that many, many times.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, me too. Because I forgot that I have a grid block and I tried to do things with the columns block.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Yeah, yeah. So often you kind of start out in a column and then you realize no, that should be a grid.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: And then again for the media. But this time it’s out of the block editor. The media editing modal has changed and it has some new features, better features, new libraries. And we talked about it before on this podcast. But now you can reorder the details field has been reordered and then now you have aspect ratio controls for the mobile toolbar and they refactored a little bit the modal layout in total. But this is a great, great tool. So these are all just the usability issues. The main feature was already in 23.2 or 3 and there are editable attachment fields. And the mobile tool. The mobile toolbar has been updated to include the aspect ratio controls. Also uses the zoom uses now plus and minus buttons. Yeah. Instead of the spyglass.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Oh yeah. That is actually very helpful an update on the dashboard. And you maybe have to help me out if I’m not 100% sure if I understand that correctly. So we always had the grid columns and now they are opinionated. So pre designed responsive. Is that correct if I say that like in your dashboard, like the two columns, I think it’s maximum four columns. It doesn’t go more than four and then it reduces like it nicely responsive by default, right?
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. It goes from 960 desktop width, so four columns to two columns between a tablet kind of size, between if it’s smaller than 960 to 600 and if, if it’s smaller than 600 or 600 and smaller, it’s going to one column and has a mobile kind of view there. So it’s definitely responsive. But that’s the dashboard. It’s about the admin dashboard. It’s not in the block editor. So that grid has nothing to do with a grid block in the block editor. So we have a little issue there with using the same words for different things. But that’s because it’s all grid based. But it’s a good thing.
\n\n\n\nAnd contributors have an experiment on redesigning the dashboard and also let blocks going in there and all that. So it’s. It’s quite interesting to see that there are more additional features in there like this day before. Right. So if you’re in a block, you can. They’re figuring out how to put the previous day and previous years. So if you have a blog for 30 years or 10 years, you. You get. Or even five years. Yeah. You get a notification, what you published about this time of year, last year or something like that.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Yeah, I like that.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: And that was actually kind of nice.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: It kind of embraces your blogging history.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, exactly.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: One actually kind of cool little change that I really like is in the site editor now. The admin color scheme, if you select another one, get translated into the site editor. So I know a lot of people always say, oh, you go into the site editor and it’s this black different looking user interface. And yeah it’s. Why is it so dark? So now it kind of adopts the color scheme you have selected. And I think this like part of bigger work going into kind of making the interfaces more be like one thing instead of.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. The unification of the admin interface is also a long time coming and I think that’s a, that’s a fantastic step. Yeah. To kind of just make it sure that if you have a green sidebar that it’s also green in the site editor.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Yeah. Because why, why wouldn’t it be?
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. So on the client media side again, the ultra HDR JPEGs that are detected by upload and then the originals are kept unmodified and the sizes subsizes. They preserve their ICO standards. So you have a better quality of the Ultra HD but it also handles the bigger sizes. So it’s a nice addition to the media upload feature that we talked about before.
\n\n\n\nAPIs
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: And then we also have an update on APIs. Oh, God. You have to help me with this one. I read it, but now I’m kind of like what was that about again? The future it will help.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: So it tracks per entity, the view configuration for pages. And then so it’s about the pages of pages, posts, patterns, template parts, templates and have their default layout in the grids being the, the layout grid in the admin. So when you’re in the site editor you have a choice when you look at templates, what kind of layout. You have a grid layout, a list layout and these kinds of things. And now there is actually an API that you can extract that view configuration for several other things. If you’re plugin developers, you can then replicate what the, what the priority is or what the preference is for your user. And you see that in the rest API when you pull out the information and display it again, that you get the configuration with it. I don’t know.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: So you can practically kind of unlock whatever the configuration was in default and then use that in a plugin or something, right?
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Exactly. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: The same screen.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: So when you. One use case could be if you are using WordPress as your content container, but have another application that displays things as a headless or in another. In another admin content management system that only talks to WordPress with all and pulls out the things that are in WordPress and measures it up with other data that’s also in the system, then you are able to display the same what the user sees in the WordPress admin, you can display that also in your system at the same time. So that kind of would be one of the use cases that I just made up.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Yeah, that makes sense and very good to explain in that way. What else do we have next?
\n\n\n\nExperiments
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: So the dashboard we talked about that now has also an events widget that can be filled.
\n\n\n\nDocumentation
\n\n\n\nI wanted to point out one documentation thing that is really a big deal that Juan Margarido has taken on in April or May and push that through a merge now with 23.4 and that is the auto generation of the per block API reference from the block JSON files.
\n\n\n\nSo, until now it was really hard to figure out, okay, what’s the block markup and are there all the supports in there? Because the documentation was handmade. So if somebody updated a block’s configuration and block JSON and added support to it for other things, it would not show in the documentation until someone touches the documentation page. And for 90 blocks or so that are in core right now, that’s a moving target and fast moving target. So he proposed to go in and auto generate that documentation page for humans and AI to map multiple things.
\n\n\n\nSo one is the parent relationship with other blocks like think accordion block and the sub blocks there, the attributions in the table, in a table that what the block supports and with links to explain those features. So if you don’t know what the alignment or support of a block is, you can look it up right from there and then what block styles come with core so you don’t have to figure that out from the interface. So like the button comes with two styles, one is the default, the other one is the outline style. Then which CSS selectors are automatically created and then an example of the block markup. And last but not least, also the links to the source of the information and the packages. So you have a full 36-degree view on the block. And because the documentation is auto updated, it comes right there when the new features are kind of added to the block and it will be shown in the documentation.
\n\n\n\nThis not only helps the developers and theme developers to have a better handle on or one lookup page or section in the documentation, it also helps AI agents to form a comprehensive space to learn about WordPress blocks. Because I have found that AI sometimes just does a custom HTML block and puts it all there instead of using a column block or cover block or something like that.
\n\n\n\nSo this is a very big deal because that’s something where AI elevates human capabilities because he used AI to run the code that parses the block JSON and puts it into the documentation page and then also has that documentation page from the GitHub repo into the developers.wordpress.org document block editor documentation automatically merged there. So this is a big deal. And kudos to Juan Margarido. He also spent some time getting some community input from the documentation team from the Gutenberg leadership. We had a hallway hangout with a Q and A and it finally was merged now. So kudos.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Yeah, that’s pretty cool.
\n\n\n\nGutenberg 23.5
\n\n\n\nI think now we’re moving to the latest release, 23.5, released July 1.
\n\n\n\nEnhancements
\n\n\n\nI think the first thing we wanted to highlight was that the design system token defaults now with out a runtime which practically, as far as I understand it correctly, helps that all the styling from the design system is just there by default. There’s nothing that got missed. Is that correct? Yeah, because it happened before that some design elements were in style.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Exactly. Yeah. It’s now available as public export. That’s pretty much so you can use it in your own apps that you put into apps. I say it’s also called plugin, so you can use it without having to import it into your plugin via NPM and these kinds of things via the build process. So you can just import it into your app here.
\n\n\n\nBut I also want to point out again the match proposal for the design system. Everything there is kind of in a holistic way explained and also what it’s supposed to come to. And these are all plenty of the component work that’s done for 23.5 and released or merged is actually in support of the design system and the UI revamp of the components.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: I think about the block library. And we have a few other updates in the release. The first one is that the viewport states and the controls are now support for they supporting aspect ratio and all the related controls with that.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: So I think yeah, it’s part of the styling system. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: For image blocks featured image block media library also no, no background images. A background cover image and cover block, yeah.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Also yeah, okay, that’s the viewport states is the name that they give the responsive editing screens. So those controls are now also available.
\n\n\n\nThere’s also a line item in the block library section of the changelog about the classic block to hide it from the inserter that has been reverted. That’s part of the blog post that I mentioned earlier that was published after the release of 23.4, so I wanted to point that out.
\n\n\n\nThe next one is that the media editor modal is now available also for the cover block that comes with that. I think I mentioned that already. But now when you have a cover block with an image, you can also use the media editor modal to crop it, to rotate it, to tilt it and all that kind of things.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: That’s a nice add on small but also visually really nice to have is that the icon block now has controls for flip and rotate the icons, which is very nice to have like a. One of the things you like kind of expect to be able to do and then it’s super difficult. So now you can do that. And then it also. What is the second one about?
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Oh, it just adds a default placeholder instead of to the blockchain.
\n\n\n\nYeah. So there was also a big push to have text alignment support for some of the text blocks. And now the block quote. I think there were seven or eight blocks that have that again. This time there was missing text align support and that has been rectified. So now you have also text align support for the block quote.
\n\n\n\nYeah, that was one thing that threw me quite a bit and quite often I always went back to the quotes block. But a quote block and a pull quote have different use cases and a pull plot is an excerpt from the article and you couldn’t make it not centered. It was kind of odd that you couldn’t left align it. Which is my favorite. Yeah. Centered when you have more than one word in the center, you hardly can read it. Or more than one line. Yeah. So I always wanted to be left aligned and I can’t quote just a sentence. Yeah. So I’m really great that they have a text aligned support now that makes sense.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: It’s these little things that kind of throw you, throw you off if you don’t have them and you’re like, why can’t I then? I think one of the biggest things in this release is that the resizable editor now it’s like fully resizable. You can drag it along. It’s not just mobile, tablet, desktop, you can get your own size and preview it. I think this is one of the biggest releases in this. In this update 23.5. So can you do anything else? You can resize it.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, yeah. It has a handle though. You can resize it. So you have a handle to make it smaller but not as small as mobile. So you can see if. If somebody uses a tablet whatever and odd width you can kind of test it if, if your settings actually work there or your. If the. The layout is there. But you cannot change the viewports themselves. Yeah. They are not customizable. It’s just so you can see the preview there. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Which is very helpful like visually.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. Especially when you get a call and you don’t have that device on hand. Yeah. That a client sees or a client has a complaint from their clients that something is wrong on the view. You can just kind of tested in the block editor without having the device on hand.
\n\n\n\nBut there is a long standing request to be able to change the viewport numbers and because right now they are hard coded to I think 768 is the desktop and then 467. Yeah. 468 is the tablet and or between there is tablet and then below is the mobile. But there is good news. There is coming with 23.6. It’s already merged is in PR where you can change that via the theme JSON. So theme developers are now able to change viewport numbers for their sites. There is no UI yet for it. But that’s typical. That theme JSON is first. So theme developers can test it out and can actually use it. But for the UI you need a little bit more information how things are going and how users would work with it.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: And there’s also been a smaller change on. If you add a note that just. It’s simplified how the show more or less collapse works. If you have a long note you want to collapse it and show more or less. I think that just has been reworked or simplified.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Right.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: I don’t think it’s anything we see on the user side. Right. It’s more in the background. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: It’s just faster. Yeah. It’s kind of that. Okay. Mostly performance issue. Yeah. You’ll see a slight change there.
\n\n\n\nThere is the experiment of the omnipresent toolbar which is pretty much the admin bar. In the editors you see the admin bar, the black admin bar on top of the screen when you’re logged in and you look at your website from that perspective and you also in the post editor you see the black toolbar but you couldn’t in the site editor or in the other editors. So now the experiment is to show it but then also unify the interface because the design view or the site editor has its own W to go back to the other admin. And when it’s in the admin bar you just click where you normally click to get to the site. So it’s all unification of the interface pretty much. And now you can see the site icon instead of the dash icon if you select it as well in the toolbar. So there has been an ongoing effort and some of it might come to 7.1. It’s on the roadmap for the admin bar everywhere, so to speak.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: I think one thing that I remember I struggled with quite a lot is the flex behavior of children. So now there has been.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: You mean your child? Well, it’s not the flexibility of toddlers.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: The Flex elements. I love flexbox CSS always have. But I think we always had a problem that they weren’t behaving like exactly like CSS. Flexbox should behave. So now one of the changes has been that so flex children that had a fixed width, this is now like truly fixed. I think it was squishable before. Can you say that? Is that correct? And now it’s like a truly fixed width to zero. So I think that’s one of the things visually that helps a lot. And then the other one was grid layouts now have fill available space, toggle. Is that correct? I think it’s just a toggle in the settings. Right. That you can toggle on and off and then you have auto fill and auto fit behavior. Okay. And this behaves exactly like CSS grid behavior.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, you would expect. Yeah, that’s pretty nice. There was some. Some quirkiness to the grid block and the grid layouts and I’m glad that Isabella is working on that constantly to improve it and to get back to it.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Yeah, she’s doing great work. I met her live at WordCamp Asia this year and it was really pleasant because I love flexbox Grid. I always love these blocks and CSS settings and they never quite worked. How I or like went into that depth, I wish they had. And yeah, she’s. I think, like, she has the same opinions, so it was a good chat.
\n\n\n\nAnother thing that is kind of cool and fun to have is that now global styles allow text shadow settings. So, yeah, there’s these options of text shadow, if you ever want to use that in like a cool, fun design or. So now you can set it in global styles, which is really cool. That wasn’t possible before at all, I believe. Right?
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Right.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: It’s a new style support.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: I really like that.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, I tested it and it’s really nice. There are some presets in there that come from core, and I still need to figure out or find out how you can switch off some of the styles and how you can add your own styles like you can do with the shadow box. The shadow box has a feature that you can switch out the core styles with your own styles or just switch them off, but you definitely would need that for the texture as well.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Maybe we will add that.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, it’s not there. It’s the first version and the first version is pretty much a minimal viable kind of setup. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nThe next thing is again Media Editor modal. It now has some error states. You can magnify the crop to fill the canvas and the current post always includes the initial options. There are also minor fixes, but that is because it gets ready for 7.1 release. So every aspect of it is actually and comes from feedback from the call for testing. The call for testing was actually already issued in I think in May. So it’s already a month in or two months in. So there is already some feedback coming back.
\n\n\n\nThe data layer has a feature for the real time collaboration or many features, but one of them stands out is that you can disable collaboration per post. So if you have maybe a recipe or a book post type and you don’t want anybody to collaborate with you on that, you can switch that off. It’s probably best for very visual post types or it’s also necessary for template parts or for navigation. Those are also post types. You can control that now.
\n\n\n\nSo there was a for a while in the text controls there was a prop to have the next 40px default size and there was underscore. Underscore was an experimental property and that now has been made the default. So if you had a 36 before or 32 on the default size for the text box, then if you wanted to be in the same realm as WordPress itself, you had to use the underscore next 40px default size prop to have the same sizes of the controls and now those are default now. So you don’t have to do this experimental prop to use but it will change how things work. So you might want to, as a theme developer or a plugin developer, you probably want to check your plugins, your text control components, how they change behavior or at least the default layout. So that’s why I’m calling that out here in the episode.
\n\n\n\nAnd also a similar thing is known that 23.6 Gutenberg 23.5 bumps. The minimum required version to install the Gutenberg plugin is now 6.94 versions 23.5 and newer. So if you are on 6.7 or 6.8, you are not getting the newest version of the Gutenberg plugin. So I think. Oh, there’s one more. Did I overlook something?
\n\n\n\nPerformance
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: No, I think on performance you highlighted that blocks migrate markdown converter from showdown to marked. And what does that do?
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: It actually is just performed faster. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Oh, yeah. Okay.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: And it also has a different parser, so it might have a say. It’s G. What’s it called? GTM. There is a standard for markdown that comes from GitHub and it now adheres to that standard. Yeah. So that’s updated. It’s a minimum change most people wouldn’t even need to do. But if you copy paste something from GitHub or from other Markdown editors or from your AI agent, it’s a different parsing process.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: I just researched that and it said that the previous one was like from 2018 or so and this is just like a faster newer version that we updated to. Okay, that makes sense.
\n\n\n\nExperiments
\n\n\n\nAnd then there was one last highlighted thing on the block library unwrapping. Classic block migration notice experiment.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, that’s part of the effort to the classic logic. But that has also been reverted so it will not announce that this is deprecated. So it’s important to know that that line item in the change log has been overwritten already with a newer version that comes to 23.6 on July 22.
\n\n\n\nVarious
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: And there was another small update on icons to self declare icons color on the icons block.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Oh, nice. Yeah, I overlooked that. I got lost in the changelog already. So.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: I mean there were a lot of these smaller things.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Oh yeah. So if you have an icon, it can say I’m. I’m only in blue or something like that. What does it mean, the current color?
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Oh, current color. Yeah, of course. Duh. Yeah. I was still stuck on tab sync finally second the tab sync because it’s the. For stabilizing it to come into 7.1. The tabs block is still under active development until July 14, so don’t start building on it yet because there’s API cleanup and refactoring going on where the contributors try to nail down the final version before it gets into core. Yeah, that’s the end of it.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Wow.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, we still had a lot to talk about, Ellen. Yeah. So apart from the responsive styling, are you excited about some things that come to 7.1 in the near future?
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: I think for me, being like a Visual X thing builder or and working on blocks, I think responsiveness is a big one and I’m excited to see how. Yeah. How we just kind of improve things. Also, I like that we are looking more into the dashboard and finding ways to unify the experience. I think this is one of the things that always come up that it looks kind of like two different versions, partly outdated. And I think we need to move along and kind of come to maybe not make everyone happy, of course, but come to a compromise that we can all live with and then move forward. I think this would really help WordPress to kind of shine in a way that it doesn’t look outdated or not like one product. I think if we can come together and do that and push for that change, that would be really, really helpful for all of us and for everyone and for WordPress. So I’m excited to contribute and help to make this happen.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Awesome. Awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I like the new blocks that are coming. Of course. I have been a fan of blocks since the beginning of the block editor, so I like that the playlist block and the TAMS block. And finally. The table of content. There is an effort to actually have the table of content come to WordPress. Right now. It’s only available for years in the Gutenberg plugin.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: I didn’t even know. I thought it would be in.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Even small things like rotating icons and stuff like that or having them be the current color and all these grid and Flexbox things. They. We need these things. I think it’s still very, very important to have professional settings like that available.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And this is a visual person. You’re probably also happy that you now can have in the group block. Background gradients. Gradients. We all love gradients. I love gradients. I love gradients. Yeah. And there’s these kinds of things.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: They’re like, why aren’t they there? And so responsiveness. And I think just of kind of growing up Gutenberg and the editing experience.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Seems. And even like with AI helping on a lot of things and being able to patch CSS and stuff on onto things to make things better that we don’t have. I think it’s still important that we aim for a really high quality experience in manual editing so people find what they’re looking for and are not frustrated or get lost. I think that’s just the quality we want to stand for and have in WordPress no matter what.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: I think the standard should like, should be. We aim. Should aim for that as being just there for people, for users.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: I think we. We develop, as I say. Yeah. Are kind of really immersed in this AI grace and hype and also the possibilities and the usefulness of AI in our work. There is a danger that we forget that WordPress users that are writers or publishers actually are not using AI to do their work on WordPress. So we definitely need a delightful interface and all these small changes, quality of life changes and the big changes like the responsive editing and the dynamic galleries and whatever is going to come. The modal editor, the media editor needs to be delightful and useful for humans that are kind of having fun and producing more content for the Internet that is kind of. Yeah. Eating it whole, so to speak, with AI.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Yeah, yeah, I love that too. Delightful is a beautiful word to use. Yeah. We want to delight people using WordPress and this should be our aim. AI or not, like in whatever. We have to meet users wherever they are, however they want to use the tool. It shouldn’t be, oh, we can leave this stuff now because everyone uses AI. I think if we have a user interface, it would be delightful. If it’s not yet delightful, we have to make it delightful. And AI can only help us to do that because we can contribute faster, we can move things faster. So let’s use AI for that, to delight users to meet them wherever they are for everything we offer, and we do offer a user interface. So here we are with some work to do.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: I think that’s a good end of the show today. Thank you so much, Ellen, to be on the show and walk with me through those changes that are coming and if people want to reach you, how is a good way to reach out to you.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: So I am in the community Slack WordPress community Slack. I’m also on social media, not that active to be fair, but reachable anytime. I think for WordPress community, the community Slack is the best place to reach me. But if you look at my name, Ellen Bauer, you can find me online on all kinds of platforms and I’m oh, I’m actually revamping my Manu and my Little Elmo Studio blog. So there’s going to be a new design and I’m really excited to get blogging again. Also doing a lot more like a few more YouTube videos. I have some ideas for that over the summer month now. So, so wonderful. Yeah, I will share if I have some news on that. Look out for Ellen or Elmer Studio and just reach out anywhere.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Excellent.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Yes, I’m always excited to hear from you.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Wonderful. Thank you so much, Ellen.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Thank you for having me. Birget, you’re welcome to be on the show.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: It’s delightful to have you to overuse that word.
\n\n\n\nNow, dear listeners, the show notes will be published on GutenbergTimes.com podcast this is number 132, 132. And if you have questions and suggestions or news you want us to include, send them to changelog@gutenbergtimes.com that’s changelog@gutenbergtimes.com thank you all for listening. And until the next time, goodbye.
\n\n\n\nEllen Bauer: Bye.
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\n\n\n\nAfter a four-week break ΓÇö courtesy of a sciatic nerve with strong opinions ΓÇö I’m happy to be back in by office chair and in your inbox. There is plenty to catch up on.
\n\n\n\nBeyond the updates on the new WordPress and Gutenberg versions, you’ll find stories below from WordPress veterans on migrating to and working with block themes on client sites and dive into more complex theme solutions or
\n\n\n\nDon’t let me keep you from your light summer reading.
\n\n\n\nHave a splendid weekend ahead!
\n\n\n\nYours,
Birgit
Developing Gutenberg and WordPress
\n\n\n\nThe team around release lead Aaron Jorbin pushed WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance release out the door to update millions of WordPress sites. The update covers 17 Trac tickets and 14 Gutenberg PRs. The full list is available in the RC 1 announcement post from last week.
\n\n\n\nIn WordPress 7.0.1 Fixes Registration Spam, wp_kses() CSS Corruption, and 7.0 Admin Design Glitches, I cover the most important fixes for end users and developers of this release. You’ll learn how the registration-spam loophole got closed, which admin design glitches were sanded off, and why developers can finally remove their wp_kses() CSS workarounds. Update your sites soon if auto-updates aren’t enabled.
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Ryan Welcher compiled What’s new for developers (July 2026), and it’s all about the 7.1 cycle getting real: Beta 1 lands July 15, final release August 19 at WordCamp US. You’ll want to test responsive styling, the React 19 runtime flag, and Unicode email addresses now. Also on your radar: merge proposals for Core Abilities and Guidelines, the 40px component default, icons inheriting color, and Playground’s MCP support.
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The latest episode is Gutenberg Changelog #132 ΓÇô Proposals for Core, Calls for Testing, WordPress 7.1 and Gutenberg 23.4 and 23.5
Berislav “Bero” Grgi─ìak announced what’s new in Gutenberg 23.5, released July 1. The headliner: you can now drag the editor canvas to any width, with the device preview dropdown and resize handles working together for responsive editing. The experimental Media editor gains a magnified crop canvas, pixel-snapping handles, and Cover block support. Also notable: text shadows in Global Styles, flip and rotate controls for the Icon block, and a minimum WordPress version bump to 6.9.
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For the next episode of the Gutenberg Changelog, I sat down with Ellen Bauer to chat about what’s coming next for WordPress. We dug into the latest Gutenberg plugin releases (23.4 and 23.5) and the recent WordPress 7.1 update. Plus, we walked through some big merge proposal, like the Design System Theming. our excitement around responsive styling coming to WordPress. ItΓÇÖs a packed episode full of news you won’t want to miss! The episode will land in your favorite podcast app over the weekend.
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WordPress 7.1 roadmap and more calls for testing
\n\n\n\nAnne McCarthy published Roadmap to WordPress 7.1., scheduled for August 19, 2026. Longstanding styling gaps are being tackled: responsive styling and interactive-state styling let you adjust blocks per viewport or on hover ΓÇö no custom CSS required. You’ll also find new Playlist, Table of Contents, and Tabs blocks, a smarter command palette, a Design ΓåÆ Identity screen, the admin bar inside the editors, a media editor modal, and expanded Unicode support for email addresses.
\n\n\n\nAlso mentioned Real-time collaboration, Knowledge Guidelines, React 19 upgrade, Classic block deprecation have been punted since the posts came out. Beta 1 arrives July 15 and will settle which of the other Roadmap features are in and which will be punted to a future release.
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The latest Weekend Edition listed three calls for testing. Meanwhile, two more came online:
\n\n\n\nNikunj Hatkar, this year’s team rep of the Core Test team, posted a call for testing responsive styling. You’ll be able to style blocks differently for tablet and mobile right in the editor ΓÇö no custom CSS or media queries needed. The underlying PR unifies the resizable canvas with the device-preview switcher. Fire up the linked WordPress Playground instance, walk through the four test scenarios, and share what feels intuitive or broken. Plugin and theme developers should test their canvas integrations, too.
\n\n\n\nDennis Snell published a call for testing Unicode email addresses. With initial support merged, is_email() and sanitize_email() now accepting non-ASCII addresses like gr├Ñ@gr├Ñ.org, and validation aligns with the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) spec. You’ll want to check your plugins and themes: the new WP_Email_Address class gives you structured access to local and domain parts, and a snippet lets you disable Unicode support until third-party integrations catch up.
Three Merge Proposals
\n\n\n\nCore contributors put together three merge proposal for new features to be added to Core for public comment.
\n\n\n\nJorge Costa published a merge proposal to expand WordPress Core Abilities in WordPress, adding three read-only abilities covering settings, content, and users. Building on the Abilities API from 6.9, they give the AI Client real tools to call, so agents can understand your site’s configuration, posts, and people. Settings and post types opt in through a dedicated flag, and management abilities are planned for a later WordPress version.
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Greg Zi├│┼ékowski published a merge proposal for Guidelines built on Knowledge, a new custom post type headed for WordPress 7.1. Knowledge gives your site one shared home for standards, memories, and notes ΓÇö with revisions, capabilities, and REST access built in. Guidelines is the first feature on top, letting you capture voice, tone, and per-block rules right where writing happens. Although, originally aimed at WordPress 7.1, in their latest comment, Anne McCarthy indicated that it needs to simmer some more before it’s considered for inclusion in WordPress Core.
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Andrew Duthie published a merge proposal for Design System Theming, bringing design tokens and a new theme component to WordPress. Built by the Gutenberg Components Team, it turns hard-coded admin styles into CSS custom properties, so your plugins and screens stay consistent and accessible. A color ramp tool generates harmonious, accessible scales from just two seed colors, and the user color scheme reaches the Site Editor ΓÇö with dark mode on the horizon.
\n\n\n\nPlugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners
\n\n\n\nAnne Katzeff published a tutorial exploring the WordPress Cover Block for parallax scrolls. You’ll learn how the Fixed Background setting turns a Cover block into a layered parallax effect ΓÇö background, middle ground, and foreground text moving at different speeds. The post steps through nesting a second Cover block, switching which layer scrolls, and improving text readability with grouped backgrounds. A video tutorial rounds it out. She also demos her process in this YouTube video.
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Carrie Dils shared a case study, One Header, Two Themes, on phasing a legacy Elementor site toward Full Site Editing without a rebuild or content freeze. Using ThemeSwitcher Pro to run two themes side-by-side, she built one shared header in a plugin that both themes render. You’ll learn from five real-world snags ΓÇö WooCommerce’s hooked blocks, cascade conflicts, routing gaps, query-string bypasses ΓÇö and why shipping the shared layer first de-risks everything after.
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Gina Lucia compared WordPress block themes vs page builders on the Ollie blog. You’ll get a clear-eyed walkthrough of what classic themes, page builders, and block themes each handle ΓÇö scope, design control, performance, lock-in, and maintenance ΓÇö with side-by-side tables. Her conclusion: block themes combine sitewide design control with visual editing natively, so you rarely need a page builder anymore, though migration costs and team habits can justify keeping one.
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Elliott Richmond explained why he spent 16 months turning 400+ holiday cottages into WordPress blocks. The kate & tom’s site moved from ACF flexible content to a native block theme, freeing the marketing team from waiting on custom widgets. You’ll appreciate his candor: 10,590 widgets migrated via a purpose-built plugin, re-run against fresh production snapshots, with flaky conversions fixed by hand. Even untuned, PageSpeed jumped from 22 to 67.
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Wes Theron published a video tutorial, How to Create and Edit Navigation Menus in WordPress, for anyone getting comfortable with block themes. In under ten minutes, you’ll learn how to edit your menu with the Navigation block, add pages, posts, categories, and custom links, and build dropdown menus. Timestamps let you jump straight to the part you need ΓÇö handy if dropdowns are the only thing standing between you and a finished header.
\n\n\n\n\n\nTheme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks
\n\n\n\nHenrique Iamarino shared how the Automattic Design team built a WordPress theme without ever opening Figma. You’ll follow the making of Crafted, a production-ready theme created almost entirely in the WordPress Editor: Global Styles for typography and spacing, Create Block Theme to save edits to theme files, WordPress Studio for local review, and an AI assistant for finishing-touch hover CSS. His takeaway: the Editor is now a professional design surface.
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Justin Tadlock explained how to dynamically load template parts in block themes on the Developer Blog. Instead of maintaining a pile of near-identical templates, you can hook into the render_block_data filter and swap a template part’s slug on the fly ΓÇö say, a different sidebar per post category. His walkthrough covers early returns, fallback behavior, and file setup, and the technique works for headers, footers, and banners, too.
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“Keeping up with Gutenberg – Index 2026”
A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test, and Meta team from Jan. 2024 on. Updated by yours truly.ΓÇé
AI and WordPress
\n\n\n\nJeff Paul announced what’s new in AI 1.1.0, the latest release of the canonical AI plugin. Two experiments headline, type-ahead text suggests inline ghost text as you write in the block editor, and key encryption secures your AI Connector API keys in the database. You’ll also find smarter content readiness checks with locale-aware counting, more control over guest comment moderation, a new core/read-settings Ability, and a peek at 1.2.0 plans.
Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg’s master branch?
Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review.
Now also available via WordPress Playground. There is no need for a test site locally or on a server. Have you been using it? Email me with your experience.
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Questions? Suggestions? Ideas?
Don’t hesitate to send them via email or
send me a message on WordPress Slack or Twitter @bph.
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For questions to be answered on the Gutenberg Changelog,
send them to changelog@gutenbergtimes.com
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HTML and XML are markup languages based on plaintext files. This means that any given character could be part of a syntax form (a tag, a comment, a character reference, etc…) or it could be representing itself the way it reads in the file literally.
\n\n\n\n<tag>· Text node</tag>\n Whenever a character might be ambiguous, both languages require explicit indication of the intent of the character. In HTML this occurs via escaping, while XML allows escaping or wrapping the content in a marked section, specifically a CDATA section.
\n<tag><![CDATA[<tag>┬╖ Text node</tag>]]>\n These terms confuse me at times, especially since CDATA and CDATA sections are distinct forms of the same content, and itΓÇÖs easy to conflate each term. This post is here to disambiguate the terms, their meanings, and why they exist.
The punchline comes at the end, but the story is hopefully worth the read.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarkup and mixed content
\n\n\n\nOne of the first jobs of a parser for any plaintext-oriented format is to determine if the next input character represents real text or is part of a syntax form that carries special meaning. If itΓÇÖs a syntax form we would call it markup, but if the characters are part of real text meant for display or rendering or reading then we call it data.
\n\n\n\nAnything that is not syntax is data.
\n\n\n\nThe interpretation of the next character depends on the region of the document in which itΓÇÖs parsed. While the rules for syntax forms are complicated1, this post will focus on the data forms.
\n\n\n\nPCDATA ΓÇö ΓÇ£parsed character dataΓÇ¥
\n\n\n\nMay form: tags, comments, sections, character references, literal text.
\n\n\n\nCharacters in this region could be data or could form the start of a new markup element. ItΓÇÖs ΓÇ£parsedΓÇ¥ because it needs parsing before determining what it represents.
\n\n\n\nThe HTML specification renames this to Data, which is simpler and a bit harder to search for. In XML, however, itΓÇÖs used in a document-type definition (DTD). When an element may contain content ΓÇö text ΓÇö its data model must include #PCDATA. Otherwise the only characters allowable within that element are other elements, comments, and whitespace. XML documents are required to be valid SGML documents, so its own specification adopts the terminology from SGMLΓÇÖs.
Those who have worked with DTDs might note that elements in XML may contain #PCDATA while attributes contain CDATA instead. First of all, the # is there only to make it explicit that PCDATA is referring to the reserved keyword, rather than a <pcdata> element. Secondly, thereΓÇÖs a good reason for this, which is that attributes can only contain text ΓÇö they canΓÇÖt contain other elements of markup. If an attribute value could contain a <span> element, for example, then the attribute value would need to be #PCDATA instead, but this is prevented by design.
PCDATA actually contains more than just literal text and elements. In addition to comments, processing instructions, and other node-like syntax, one important feature of PCDATA is the character reference. These make it possible to represent characters that would conflate with syntax (such as ΓÇÿ<ΓÇÖ ΓÇö <) or which might be cumbersome to enter on a keyboard (such as ΓÇÿ┬ºΓÇÖ ΓÇö §). When parsing, each character in these sequences neither creates an element nor displays as the text itself; rather, the entire sequence is parsed and translates into the character it refers to.
HTML pre-specifies a fixed set of named character references, but any Unicode code point may be referenced by its decimal or hexadecimal numeric index. While XML also allows referencing code points by their index2, it only pre-specifies the five named characters which correspond to its main markup introducers: <, >, &, \', and \". In XML, any additional named character references are created through the DTD by defining entities.
CDATA ΓÇö ΓÇ£character dataΓÇ¥
\n\n\n\nMay form: [character references], literal text.
\n\n\n\nIf a character isnΓÇÖt markup, then itΓÇÖs character data, which means that itΓÇÖs representing its literal self or itΓÇÖs part of a character reference. Once the parser has entered this region it will not create markup elements.
\n\n\n\nCDATA is the most confusable kind of character data; this is because there are many kinds of CDATA that share the same name:
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- XML attributes may contain CDATA, where character references are decoded. \n\n\n\n
- XML CDATA sections only contain CDATA, but character references are not decoded. \n\n\n\n
- HTML kind of has the same CDATA sections, but only in foreign elements (inlined SVG and MathML elements). \n\n\n\n
- SGML elements may be declared to have a CDATA content model, in which case all content until the appropriate closing tag is to be parsed as character data, where character references are not decoded. \n
CDATA sections contain only literal text
\n\n\n\nMany people are familiar with CDATA sections, but it took me far longer to understand them than my intuition led on. They are the vestige of SGML ΓÇ£marked regionsΓÇ¥ which tell the parser to handle a specific range of bytes in a special way. The CDATA section is one of those, which tells the parser to completely turn off until it reaches ]]>.
\n<![CDATA[literal characters only in here]]>\n It had other marked sections, however, which served different purposes.
\n\n\n\n<![IGNORE[everything in here is ignored; it doesnΓÇÖt exist.]]><![INCLUDE[in here things <em>do</em> exist as normal.]]><![RCDATA[read on to learn about RCDATA!]]>\n The IGNORE and INCLUDE sections may seem strange, since SGML already has comments, and INCLUDE effectively does nothing, but the sections can be marked by replaced entities, making for conditional inclusion which can be overwritten via command-line arguments when invoking the SGML parser.
\n<!ENTITY % review-only "IGNORE">...<![%review-only;[<aside>Add `-Dreview-only=INCLUDE` when building drafts.This note wonΓÇÖt appear otherwise.</aside>]]>\n XML only retained CDATA sections from SGML, while HTML never included them. They are useful because they are so easy to parse. All characters inside of them are to be treated as literal text, up until the first occurrence of the terminating ]]>. Unlike elements, the marked sections do not nest.
There are no CDATA sections in HTML
\n\n\n\nThe Internet is full of discussions about the use of CDATA sections in HTML, but there are no such things, mostly. HTML itself is an amalgam of pure HTML and embedded SVG and MathML. Content inside of those embedded SVG and MathML elements is parsed differently, and within this ΓÇ£foreign contentΓÇ¥ there are CDATA section nodes.
When something which look like a CDATA section appears in an HTML document, itΓÇÖs transformed into a ΓÇ£bogusΓÇ¥ HTML comment and considered a snippet of malformed markup. To make things more confusing, the parsing rules differ inside an HTML document for these regions depending on whether they are found within HTML elements or foreign elements.
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- When a real CDATA section appears within SVG and MathML, it parses as in XML or SGML ΓÇö everything is literal text until the nearest
]]>. \n\n\n\n - When a malformed CDATA look-alike appears in an HTML element, it gets special treatment ΓÇö the parser only turns off until the nearest
>. This means that these sections end even without a closing]]>, and when they do, all of their contained content disappears from the page. \n
That small difference confuses naïve parsers and is a regular source of bugs.
\n\n\n\n<div><![CDATA[There are no tags in here.]]></div><svg><text><![CDATA[<none> here either.]]></text></svg><div><![CDATA[But there <em>are</em> tags in here]]></div> the section ends here Γò» Γò░ start of a real end tagThe following is the equivalent markup to the third line.<div><!--But there <em-->are</em> tags in here]]></div>\n SGML contains CDATA regions outside of marked CDATA sections
\n\n\n\nSGML made it possible to define more kinds of content than XML does for a given element. For example, an element in SGML can be declared to have a CDATA content model, in which case the element itself behaves like a CDATA section. All characters after the opening tag are treated as literal text until the parser finds the nearest appropriate end tag3. XML rejected this ability because it increases the complexity of the parser and requires that every document also contains a full DTD when parsing. For example, if an element were declared to have CDATA content, then a <at> b would represent that literal string; on the other hand, if it were declared like any other normal element, it would have three children: ΓÇ£a ΓÇ¥, the <at> opening tag, and ΓÇ£ bΓÇ¥.
\n<!ELEMENT verbatim - - CDATA>...<verbatim>There are <no> tags in here, because this is CDATA,but you wouldnΓÇÖt know without reading the DTD,overcomplicating the demands on the parser.</verbatim>\n These kinds of elements do exist in HTML, though a few were modified when HTML5 was standardized in 2008. Inside of the elements, the parser essentially turns off, which makes them easy to parse and can help avoid the need to extensively escape content. These elements are, of course, <script> and <style>4.
Were it not for the CDATA declared content model, every angle bracket and ampersand would have to be escaped in included JavaScript and CSS. In XHTML this was required, because it had no CDATA declared content model (since it was XML)5.
\n\n\n\nAll text in XML is CDATA
\n\n\n\nHerein lies the most-confusing aspect of discussing CDATA ΓÇö XML contains CDATA sections as well as CDATA as normal text. After parsing there is no distinction between <tag> and <![CDATA[<tag>]]> in the parsed content.
Many XML generators (or serializers) provide two mechanisms for creating text content: one wraps text in a CDATA section and leaves the text as it came (apart from avoiding including the terminating sequence); the other escapes syntax characters instead. While there are times where it would be appropriate to intentionally pick one over the other, a good library design would at least offer a third mechanism (if not only providing this third mechanism) which simply produces CDATA, itself determining when to wrap and when to escape6, and whether or not to produce chunks of wrapped text interspersed with chunks of escaped text.
The real difference between these two kinds of CDATA is purely presentational in the source document, as the XML snippet below only contains one text node, not two. Creating CDATA does not imply creating a CDATA section!
\n<rule><![CDATA[#X13<d&r>]]> (&pp;4 &ss;3.11)</rule>\n RCDATA ΓÇö ΓÇ£replaceable character dataΓÇ¥
\n\n\n\nMay form: character references, literal text.
\n\n\n\nThereΓÇÖs one more confusing designation for characters in the HTML and XML input streams: RCDATA. RCDATA is almost identical to CDATA, except that in contexts where CDATA does not decode character references and entities, RCDATA will decode them into CDATA. This is confusing, because in the context of an XML attribute, the CDATA designation in a DTD automatically implies that character references are decoded, unlike the CDATA sections in content.
To this end there are no RCDATA attributes, since character references are always decoded inside attribute values. The RCDATA declaration is like the SGML CDATA content declaration: all characters following the opening tag for this element will be treated as text until the nearest matching closing tag (the difference being only that character references are recognized and decoded).
\n\n\n\nItΓÇÖs worth remembering that XML rejected the CDATA content type because of how it complicates parsing, and it also rejected the RCDATA type. On the other hand, RCDATA was incorporated into HTML, but statically so. HTML has no configurable DTD, but in its specification two elements contain RCDATA content:
\n\n\n\n- \n
TITLE\n\n\n\nTEXTAREA\n
While itΓÇÖs easy to comprehend the way that <textarea> works, and thatΓÇÖs probably because we are used to entering text into one on a web page, the behavior of <title> is consistently confused in all manner of programming languages, platforms, and HTML-parsing code.
The TITLE element only contains character data ΓÇö it cannot contain other markup. The parsing is among the easiest sections of an HTML document to parse: once the <title> opening tag is detected, the parser can capture everything until the nearest </title> closing tag. Everything it captured is literal text, after decoding character references.
\n<!-- the title is "<title>" --><title><title></title><!-- equivalent HTML --><title><title></title>\n This complicates content management systems like WordPress which allow posts to have HTML in their post titles, because a page can show richly-formatted article titles which cannot be represented in the browser tabΓÇÖs label, and care must be taken to extract the plaintext content from that HTML before display in those contexts.
\n\n\n\nCoda
\n\n\n\nHTML and XML both speak about different kinds of characters in their source documents and content models, which traces from the complicated ways that SGML documents could be constructed. SGMLΓÇÖs complexity almost always stems from the central idea that computers should do extra work to remove the hassle for humans to enter structured content in plaintext documents.
\n\n\n\nHTML, inspired by SGML, adopted some of the names and mechanisms for parsing those regions of text in distinct ways, but codified a single parsing standard independent of SGML. When XML was later developed, it was meant to form a simplified subset of SGML. This subset flipped the tradeoffs, leaning on humans performing extra work to remove the hassle for computers to parse structure in plaintext documents. For these text forms, this meant rejecting a few of the constructs while retaining others.
\n\n\n\nThis is also another demonstration of how balanced tags are not enough to have well-behaved HTML with a naïve parser. A well-formed XML document may be parsed with a terse PERL script and regular expression, but HTML relies heavily on the context in which characters are found. Any HTML parser must know the special rules for each kind of element’s content model.
\n\n\n\nIn summary
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- When itΓÇÖs unclear whether a character forms text or markup, that is PCDATA. Once parsed, there is no PCDATA anymore; itΓÇÖs either a form of DATA or MARKUP. \n\n\n\n
- All text nodes in HTML are ΓÇ£DATA.ΓÇ¥ \n\n\n\n
- ΓÇ£CDATAΓÇ¥ just means ΓÇ£character dataΓÇ¥ and means that after parsing, the content is text. It does not indicate whether character references are to be decoded or not; that comes from the region in the document, based on its context. \n\n\n\n
- There are no CDATA sections in HTML7. \n\n\n\n
- All text nodes in XML are CDATA, but only after being parsed. \n\n\n\n
- CDATA sections offer a convenient way to avoid escaping, but are indistinguishable from the equivalent escaped text. \n\n\n\n
- HTML contains two special RCDATA elements which only and always contain a single text node child:
<title>and<textarea>. Everything until the closing tag will be parsed as text, even if it looks like markup. \n
This post is already long and still over-simplifies the picture. SGML is a rich and robust specification and includes NDATA and SDATA, HTML includes a latching PLAINTEXT parsing mode in which the rest of the entire document is parsed as literal character data, and there are other surprising goodies in how entities interact with the character mode.
Thanks for making it through to the end, or jumping directly here if you couldnΓÇÖt wait.
\n\n\n- As an example, each part of a tag ΓÇö its name, attribute names, attribute values ΓÇö carries its own parsing rules. The same is true for comments, DOCTYPE declarations, and every other syntax form.
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︎ - XML only allows character references to the characters in its “character set,” which is almost all Unicode code points, but excludes some control characters and U+FFFE and U+FFFF. ︎
- Because SGML was designed to minimize the amount of necessary syntax, it’s not necessary to have a full end tag for an open element, but that’s a simple-enough model to understand the concept. ︎
- The
<style>element is straightforward, but the<script>element has its own complicated modification of the CDATA content model. It’s mostly CDATA, but makes it possible to escape the closing tag so that very old pages won’t break. HTML also applies this parsing mode for the<iframe>,<noembed>,<noframes>, and<noscript>elements (as well as for the deprecated<xmp>element), but these nominally should have no content inside of them (or shouldn’t be used); applying the CDATA content model prevents creating other elements as their children.︎ - Frustratingly, in XHTML one must escape JavaScript and CSS in the page to avoid parsing failure, while in HTML one must not. This alone makes for a complicated stage in any reliable HTML/XHTML converter. ︎
- Wrapping a language like HTML inside a CDATA section is a convenient way to represent the HTML visually and retain the ability to easily modify it, but entities present a problem. The serializer must either pre-translate the entity into its resolved character content, losing the macro-like behavior and its name; or leave the entity in place, thus nullifying it because it will not be recognized as an entity on parse. However, in such a situation, a serializer is free to terminate the CDATA section, append the entity, and open a new one to continue. ︎
- As mentioned in the discussion about CDATA, embedded SVG and MathML elements can contain CDATA sections, but these are not technically HTML elements. ︎
WordPress 7.0.1 is now available. As the first maintenance release of the 7.0 cycle, it’s strictly a bug-fix release: every included ticket addresses either a regression introduced during 7.0 development or an issue intentionally deferred at the end of the cycle.
\n\n\n\nThe release ships fixes for 17 core Trac tickets and 14 Gutenberg PRs. Because this is a maintenance release, sites with automatic background updates enabled will update to 7.0.1 automatically ΓÇö everyone else should update as soon as possible. Here’s what stands out for each audience.
\n\n\n\nKudos to release lead Aaron Jorbin and his team for pushing this release over the finish line and getting it into hands of WordPress users quickly.
\n\n\n\nThe most important fixes for end users
\n\n\n\nRegistration page spam is shut down (#63085). The account registration page could be abused to send “Login details” spam emails from your site. This is arguably the most impactful fix in the release for anyone running a site with open registration ΓÇö it protects both your users’ inboxes and your domain’s email reputation.
\n\n\n\nThe 7.0 admin reskin gets its rough edges sanded off. WordPress 7.0’s refreshed admin design shipped with a handful of visual glitches that this release cleans up:
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- Form elements are now standardized in the mobile viewport (#64999) \n\n\n\n
- The image editor’s scale and crop inputs no longer mismatch in size, and the info icon uses the new color scheme (#64937, #65428) \n\n\n\n
- The publish settings panel no longer crowds its primary action buttons together (#65286) \n\n\n\n
- The Media Library’s loading spinner is properly aligned in the modal filter toolbar, and the search bar no longer jumps position after a search (#65275, #65296) \n\n\n\n
- A “black flash” that briefly appeared on wp-admin pages before the interface finished loading is gone (Gutenberg #78493) \n
Emoji behave correctly again. Two related fixes: the emoji detection script is once more printed in the admin (#65310), and certain characters are no longer incorrectly replaced by Twemoji images (#64318).
\n\n\n\nAccessibility improvements to the new revisions experience. The Visual History / Revisions feature introduced in 7.0 receives several accessibility fixes: focus now moves to the revisions slider when entering revisions mode, and changed blocks are marked with a CSS outline as a secondary, non-color indicator ΓÇö important for users with low vision or color blindness (#65122, Gutenberg #77530, #78393, #79691).
\n\n\n\nThe most important fixes for developers
\n\n\n\nwp_kses() no longer corrupts valid CSS (#65270). Since 7.0 RC4, wp_kses() could mangle legitimate background-image: url(…) declarations into a broken style=\")\" attribute. If your theme or plugin outputs inline background images through KSES-filtered content, 7.0.1 restores expected behavior — any workarounds you shipped can now be removed.
global-styles-inline-css can be dequeued again (#65336). Since 7.0, developers were unable to remove the global styles inline stylesheet. If your build pipeline or performance optimization strips this and re-serves it another way, that control is back.
PHP 8.5 compatibility fix in wp_get_attachment_image_src() (#64742). An incorrect array access triggered issues under PHP 8.5. If you’re testing sites on newer PHP versions, this removes one blocker.
A removed Navigation function returns as a deprecated shim (Gutenberg #78484). block_core_navigation_submenu_render_submenu_icon() was removed in 7.0, breaking themes and plugins that called it directly. It’s restored as a deprecated shim ΓÇö but treat this as your migration notice, not a reprieve. Update any code that references it.
Editor state management fixes reduce false “unsaved changes” warnings. Two Gutenberg fixes matter here:
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- controlled/mode block changes are now marked non-persistent (#79350), and \n\n\n\n
- related navigation entities are no longer dirtied during passive renders (#79000). \n
Together these should mean fewer spurious dirty states and a cleaner undo history ΓÇö a quality-of-life improvement if you build with template parts and navigation blocks.
\n\n\n\nBlock Visibility: “hide everywhere” keeps working after a block opts out of visibility support (#65389). If you register blocks that disable visibility support, previously hidden instances now stay hidden as expected.
\n\n\n\nHow to update
\n\n\n\nYou can update directly from Dashboard ΓåÆ Updates in your site’s admin, run wp core update with WP-CLI, or download WordPress 7.0.1 from WordPress.org and install it manually. Sites that support automatic background updates for minor releases will begin updating on their own shortly.
The full ticket list is available in the release candidate announcement, Trac report 4, and the 7.0.x editor tasks board on GitHub.
\n\n\n\nWhat’s next: WordPress 7.1
\n\n\n\nWith 7.0.1 out the door, attention turns to the next major release: WordPress 7.1 is scheduled for August 19, 2026. To see what’s planned for the release, check out the Roadmap to 7.1 on the Make WordPress Core blog.
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\n\n\n\nThis minor release includes fixes for 31 bugs throughout Core and the Block Editor, addressing issues affecting multiple areas of WordPress including the block editor, admin ui, and media. For a full list of bug fixes, please refer to the release candidate announcement.
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.0.1 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major version of WordPress will be 7.1; it is scheduled for release on 19 August 2026 at WordCamp US.
\n\n\n\nIf you have sites that support automatic background updates, the update process will begin automatically.
\n\n\n\nYou can download WordPress 7.0.1 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click ΓÇ£UpdatesΓÇ¥, and then click ΓÇ£Update NowΓÇ¥. For more information on this release, please visit the HelpHub site.
\n\n\n\nThank you to these WordPress contributors
\n\n\n\nThis release was led by Aaron Jorbin, Brian Haas, Carlos Bravo and Estela Rueda.
\n\n\n\nWordPress 7.0.1 would not have been possible without the contributions of the following people. Their asynchronous coordination to deliver maintenance fixes into a stable release is a testament to the power and capability of the WordPress community.
\n\n\n\nAaron Jorbin, Abdur Rahman Emon, Abhishek Kumar, Adam Silverstein, Adam Zieliński, Aditya Singh, Aki Hamano, Andrea Fercia, Andrei Draganescu, Andrew Serong, annezazu, Ben Dwyer, Brian Coords, Brian Haas, Carlos Bravo, cogdesign, Dan Luu, Daniel Richards, Darshit Rajyaguru, David Baumwald, Dennis Snell, Dhruvang21, Ella Van Durpe, Erick Wambua, Esteban, Estela Rueda, George Mamadashvili, Greg Ziółkowski, Himanshu Pathak, Hit Bhalodia, Huzaifa Al Mesbah, iflairwebtechnologies, James, Jarda Snajdr, Jb Audras, Joe Dolson, Joen Asmussen, Jon Surrell, Jonathan Desrosiers, Karthikeya Bethu, Khokan Sardar, Lucian R., luismulinari, Mahammad Darvishov, Manhar Barot, Marco Ciampini, Marin Atanasov, Maryam Sultana, Masum, Miguel Fonseca, Miroku, Mohammed Noumaan Ahamed, Mukesh Panchal, Mustafa Bharmal, Nik Tsekouras, Noruzzaman, Ozgur Sar, Peter Wilson, Presskopp, Rahul Kumar, ramonopoly, Riad Benguella, Rishabh Gupta, Roshni Ahuja, Sainath Poojary, Saksham Sharma, SAndrew, Scott Reilly, Sergey Biryukov, siliconforks, Stephen Bernhardt, Swanand M, Takashi Kitajima, Terence Eden, threadi, Tushar Patel, Umesh Nevase, WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas, Weston Ruter, Yogesh Bhutkar, Yusuf Mudagal
\n\n\n\nHow to contribute
\n\n\n\nTo get involved in WordPress core development, head over to Trac, choose a ticket, and join the conversation in the #core channel. Need help? Check out the Core Contributor Handbook.
\n\n\n\nProps to @jorbin for proofreading.
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\n\n\n\nWhat is a “prop”?
\n\n\n\nIn the WordPress open source project, community participants receive credit for contributing to a given change or deliverable by receiving ΓÇ£props.ΓÇ¥
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProps should be given to all those who contributed to the final commit, whether through patches, refreshed patches, code suggested otherwise, design, writing, user testing, or other significant investments of time and effort. Usernames are parsed for the credits list and WordPress.org profiles.
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The names of all the contributors who helped make a specific release possible are collected in the weeks leading up and added to the Credits API, which powers the Credits page in the WordPress dashboard.
\n\n\n\nTo date, I have been listed on the Credits page for 24 consecutive releases starting with 4.7, and 29 of the 35 releases overall since my first credited contribution in WordPress 3.6 ΓÇ£OscarΓÇ¥, alongside 224 other contributors.
\n\n\n\nEvery year is a bit different than the last, but I can confidently say that this past year has been significantly different. What it means to develop software or contribute to open source is changing rapidly with advanced AI innovations seemingly every day combined with these tools being accessible to more people than ever before. But throughout all this, one truth holds strong: open source software is more important than ever.
\n\n\n\nLooking Back
\n\n\n\nIt seemed only fitting for me to instruct AI to analyze my contribution activity over the last 365 days to try and find anything interesting!
\n\n\n\nPrompt
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToday is the 13th Anniversary of my first credited contribution to the WordPress project. I try to write a blog post each year to mark the occasion.
\n\n\n\nIΓÇÖm looking for ideas for this years edition. Please go and read all of my past posts (accessible here at this category feed https://jonathandesrosiers.com/category/contributing-anniversaries/feed) and give me 10-12 ideas for what to focus on this year. You can also look through the other content on my site for other ideas.
\n\n\n\nAfter you do that, I want you to look at the git history for the
\n\n\n\nwordpress-developandgutenbergrepositories between July 8, 2025 and yesterday (July 7, 2026). I want you to parse the logs to summarize my activity and find some particular ways to analyze the data that are interesting.Be creative! These posts are the most fun when I am able to find some unique insight into a year’s worth of contributions.
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Results
\n\n\n\nYour year 13 in numbers (Jul 8 2025 → Jul 7 2026)
\n\n\n\n| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Core commits authored & committed | 119 (~7% of all 1,707 core commits this cycle) |
| Additional commits crediting you (props received) | 97 → ~216 credited touch points in core alone |
| Lines changed | +41,746 / −21,940 across 656 file-changes |
| Unique Trac tickets | 69 |
| Gutenberg PRs authored | 24 (+108 co-authored/credited) |
| Reverts you committed | 6 |
The headline: 80 of your 119 core commits (67%) are “Build/Test Tools.” Add Tests + General and it’s ~80%. You spent year 13 as the plumber of WordPress ΓÇö CI, build pipeline, dependency stewardship, release infrastructure.
\n\n\n\nThe most interesting angles the data surfaced
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- The nocturnal committer. ~50 of your commits land between midnight and 4am. Tuesday (37) and Thursday (31) are your peak days; Saturday is nearly dead (3). \n\n\n\n
- The month that didn’t exist. January 2026: zero commits. March 2026: 40. Your cadence is a heartbeat synced to the 6.9 and 7.0 release cycles, not the calendar. \n\n\n\n
- The June 30th ritual. You bumped Gutenberg’s pinned hash seven times in a single day (v22.8.0 ΓåÆ v23.4.0) ΓÇö a whole quarter of catching-up compressed into one sitting. \n\n\n\n
- Supply-chain quiet work. Pinning full-length action SHAs, replacing abandoned third-party actions, migrating release logic to a GitHub App, ca-bundle updates ΓÇö you spent the year hardening the software supply chain nobody thanks you for. \n\n\n\n
- Keeping the ancient libraries breathing. lodash, underscore, backbone, getID3, Twemoji ΓÇö you’re the caretaker of WordPress’s legacy vendored code. \n\n\n\n
- Future-proofing the matrix. MySQL 9.5/9.6/9.7, MariaDB 12.1, PHP 8.5 (HEIF/HEIC) ΓÇö you test tomorrow’s platforms today. \n\n\n\n
- A first, quietly historic commit: “Include example for disclosing AI usage” ΓÇö you helped write core’s early AI-disclosure norms. \n
10ΓÇô12 ideas for the year-13 post
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- “The Plumber’s Year: 67% of My Commits Were Infrastructure.” Own the unglamorous. A love letter to build/test/CI work ΓÇö the contributions that never show up in a release announcement but without which nothing ships. This is your strongest, most authentic angle. \n\n\n\n
- “Confessions of a Nocturnal Committer.” Fun, human, data-driven: your midnight-to-4am commit cluster, Tuesday/Thursday peaks, the dead January. Chart your year as a heartbeat and reflect on what it says about maintainer rhythms (and sustainability/burnout). \n\n\n\n
- “216 Times.” Companion to your 2024 props post, flipped: this year you received credit ~216 times in core (119 committed + 97 propped). Explore the two halves of a committer’s fingerprint ΓÇö the work you land yourself vs. the work you shepherd for others. \n\n\n\n
- “The Boring Commits That Keep 40% of the Web Safe.” The supply-chain security angle: pinned SHAs, abandoned-action replacement, the GitHub App migration, ca-bundle. Frame maintenance-as-security ΓÇö timely and underappreciated. \n\n\n\n
- “I Test the Future So You Don’t Break in It.” MySQL 9.7, MariaDB 12.1, PHP 8.5 ΓÇö a piece on being the person who runs tomorrow’s platforms against today’s code, and why the test matrix is a form of care. \n\n\n\n
- “The Commit I’m Proudest Of Was One Line About AI.” Use “Include example for disclosing AI usage” as a springboard into how WordPress (and you) navigated AI’s arrival in the contribution workflow in 2025ΓÇô26. Very of-the-moment. \n\n\n\n
- “Anatomy of a Revert.” Six times this year you reverted your own or others’ work. A candid, senior-contributor essay on why reverting is a feature not a failure ΓÇö iteration, humility, and trunk stability. \n\n\n\n
- “A Year in Dependencies.” The stewardship story ΓÇö lodash/underscore/backbone/getID3/Twemoji. What it means to be the caretaker of code written a decade ago that you can’t just delete. Legacy as responsibility. \n\n\n\n
- “Who I Built With.” Refresh your collaborator lens for year 13: westonruter (24), jorbin (22), johnbillion (15), peterwilsoncc (14), wildworks (13)ΓǪ Name the people behind the props lines and tell a story or two about the work you shared. \n\n\n\n
- “The Shape of a Release Cycle, Drawn in Commits.” Overlay your monthly commit counts on the 6.9 and 7.0 timelines ΓÇö the March spike, the December bundled-themes push, the quiet stretches. Show readers what a maintainer’s year looks like mapped to what shipped. \n\n\n\n
- “Same Job, New Tools: Automating Myself Out of the Loop.” Your Gutenberg PRs are almost all release automation ΓÇö GitHub App auth, GHCR publishing, reproducible builds, Dependabot. A reflective piece on spending your labor building the machine that does the labor, and what that means for the next generation of contributors. \n
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I haven’t validated any of these numbers, but they do seem relatively accurate at first glance. I had ChatGPT create an embroidered patch that reflects the summary above.
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And some of those writing suggestions are pretty good ideas! I’m out of time for today, so I’ll file these in the backlog for another day. But here’s to another year of helping the world find their voice to share their stories using WordPress. ![\"≡ƒì╗\"](\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f37b.png\")
Past Milestones
\n\n\n\n“Props” Anniversaries: Ten, Eleven, Twelve (archive).
\n\n\n\nCommit-iversaries: Two, Five, Six, Seven (archive).
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Featured image credit: CC0 licensed photo by Mark Westguard from the WordPress Photo Directory.
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Lights! Camera! Action!
\n\n\n\nTodd Spangler at Variety writes: AutomatticΓÇÖs ΓÇÿCode for the PeopleΓÇÖ Documentary Is a Rallying Cry for Users to Fight for the Open Internet, from the NYC premiere last week.
\n\n\n\nI’m looking forward to the San Francisco premiere of the documentary, and then tomorrow everyone can stream it for free on codeforthepeople.com! Appearances by Anne McCarthy, Beau Lebens, Eric Binnion, Ian Stewart, Marjorie Asturias, Mary Hubbard, Mat├¡as Ventura, Matthew Miller, Paolo Belcastro, and Paul Maiorana.
\n\n\n\nWe need to tell the story of Open Source in as many ways and places as possible. It’s never been more critical.
\n\n\n\nFilm is new to us, and it’s funny how quickly things change: There’s a segment with a few “OpenAI not open” sound bites, but to their credit, they have been releasing open-weight models (Safeguard is particularly interesting). That said, the top open-weight models are all from China, save for Nvidia’s Nemotron, in ~12th place.
\n\n\n\nWhen I went to the first WordCamps in Beijing and Shanghai in 2009, it was a very different time. They were the biggest in the world at the time! I don’t think you could take photos in Tiananmen Square as freely as I did then; now to visit I think you need an appointment, ID checks, and security checks.
\n\n\n\nEven during WordCamp, it felt like the freedom of Open Source was in high demand, but it also created a lot of fear. I found out later that one of the student volunteers who helped their professor organize everything had been taken in for hours of questioning following the event.
\n\n\n\nOn that trip, I saw how fine-grained the Great Firewall could be when individual posts (IIRC, about bad milk from a factory harming babies) wouldn’t load, but the rest of the site would. WordPress.com had been totally blocked, taking about a quarter of our traffic at the time, but behind the Firewall, Open Source continued to thrive and grow, and now the frontier open models are being driven by China in a way I never would have predicted!
\n\n\n\nOnce you’ve had a taste of freedom, it’s hard to go back.
\n\n\n\nUpdate: You can now watch the entire thing online:
\n\n\n\n[00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley.
\n\n\n\nJukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, building trust and collaboration in the hosting industry with the Secure Hosting Alliance.
\n\n\n\nIf you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players.
\n\n\n\nIf you have a topic that you’d like us to feature on the podcast, I’m keen to hear from you, and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to wptavern.com/contact/jukebox, and use the form there.
\n\n\n\nSo on the podcast today, we have David Snead. David has been involved in the hosting industry since 1999, starting out as legal counsel for one of the earliest shared hosting companies, and going on to work with over 50 others. He helped found the i2Coalition, serve as in-house counsel for cPanel and WebPros, and now leads the Secure Hosting Alliance.
\n\n\n\nIf you’re listening to this podcast, I’m sure that many of you will have worked closely with hosting companies. Perhaps you run an agency, or business, that depends on the reliability, ethics, and security of hosting providers. David is here to talk about cross-industry collaboration in the hosting world, specifically around improving security, professionalism, and communication between hosts.
\n\n\n\nThe conversation focused on why, and how, the Internet Infrastructure Forum, or IIF, is building a framework for real-time intelligence sharing and abuse reporting, aiming to help the entire ecosystem detect and prevent attacks faster than adversaries can adapt.
\n\n\n\nDavid talks about the challenges hosting companies face, especially smaller ones, in keeping up with security, and how this evolving project hopes to ease this by sharing actionable, non-proprietary abuse information across registrars, hosting providers, DNS services, and more.
\n\n\n\nHe discusses the growth of both the Secure Hosting Alliance and the IIF, the business case for collaboration, and the nuances of legal and technical information sharing across borders.
\n\n\n\nIf you’re in hosting, run a web agency, or just want to know how the backbone of the web is working to stay more secure and connected, this episode is for you.
\n\n\n\nIf you’re interested in finding out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading to wptavern.com/podcast, where you’ll find all the other episodes as well.
\n\n\n\nAnd so, without further delay, I bring you David Snead.
\n\n\n\nI am joined on the podcast by David Snead. Hello David.
\n\n\n\n[00:03:20] David Snead: Hello.
\n\n\n\n[00:03:21] Nathan Wrigley: Very nice to have you with us. David’s got a really interesting background, and a really interesting, I’m going to use the word project. I don’t know if that’s the right word. It feels like it’s got more solidity and it’s got a lot more history than that. It’s something which is, I think going, but we’ll find out a little bit more about it. It’s all about the hosting industry and trying to get hosts to, I guess communicate with each other in ways going forwards.
\n\n\n\n[00:03:44] David Snead: That is a part of it. There are really two goals and one is to level up the ethics and professionalism in the hosting industry. And the second is to facilitate more comradery and interaction among hosts. Something that folks felt occurred in the early 2000s, and with all the consolidation that occurred went away. And so that’s something that we’re also trying to facilitate.
\n\n\n\n[00:04:16] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. So given that we’re going to be talking about hosting, I guess it’s a good idea to paint your credentials and find out a little bit more about you. So a short opportunity to just tell us a little about you and your background in WordPress and hosting specifically, I suppose.
\n\n\n\n[00:04:29] David Snead: Sure. So I have been working in the hosting industry since 1999. As I often say, I was working in the hosting industry when hosting was cool. It is not so cool anymore. In fact most people don’t really pay attention to it.
\n\n\n\nYou know, and I started as a lawyer for a hosting company, and I was in-house counsel for a company that actually owned a hosting company and was one of the earliest hosting companies that specialised in shared hosting. And so I was their general counsel. And for some reason it stuck, and I’ve just kind of turned it into a career.
\n\n\n\nSo after that I had a private practise as a lawyer and I worked with probably 50 different hosting companies, mostly writing policies that nobody ever reads, which makes me super fun at parties.
\n\n\n\nAnd then from there, my friend Christian Dawson and I formed the i2Coalition as a response to some legislation in the US that would’ve been kind of the death nail for internet providers. So we started the i2Coalition. I then went in-house for cPanel and worked at cPanel and WebPros for 10 years, and then started the Secure Hosting Alliance.
\n\n\n\n[00:05:52] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. So you’ve got all all the history. That’s pretty good. You know, if we’re going to talk about hosting.
\n\n\n\n[00:05:57] David Snead: All the hosting history in one person. That’s kind of a very scary idea, no?
\n\n\n\n[00:06:02] Nathan Wrigley: But that’s excellent. So do you still offer counsel? Is that still, so you haven’t sort of sidestepped and do half of the week on a sort of more technical basis? It’s still the legal side that you’re involved in.
\n\n\n\n[00:06:13] David Snead: I do. Right now I’m doing mostly M&A work for, it’s weird. So I don’t know if anybody has ever said this to you before, but web hosting is kind of like the Hotel California. It’s like, once you start in the web hosting industry, you never leave. And so I have all these clients from 15 years ago who are now running like little baby hosts, and they’re talking to bigger hosts and they want to get acquired. So I’m doing some of that now. I am not writing any of the policies that nobody ever reads because that was just, I did that for too long.
\n\n\n\n[00:06:51] Nathan Wrigley: There were too many moments parties.
\n\n\n\n[00:06:53] David Snead: Yes, exactly. Yeah.
\n\n\n\n[00:06:55] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, so I’m going to read into the record the title and the blurb that went with the presentation that you are doing or done.
\n\n\n\n[00:07:02] David Snead: I did it yesterday.
\n\n\n\n[00:07:03] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, we’ll get into that in a moment. So the title is coordinating the fight, cross industry collaboration, and the blurb goes as follows. WordPress hosting threats cross company lines. When one provider falls victim, the entire ecosystem suffers. This session explores how the Internet Infrastructure Forum, or IFF, enables hosting providers, registrars and registries to coordinate abuse response through real time intelligence sharing. Learn how operational collaboration helps responsible operators detect and stop attacks faster than adversaries can adapt. And why working together produces results no single provider could achieve alone.
\n\n\n\nWhen I read that, immediately was, yeah, that’s a really sensible idea. Why are we separately, as hosting companies, I say we, I mean the hosting companies. Why are they all trying to do the same work over and over again, separately? When presumably this aspect of the work, the security bit is something they all have in common.
\n\n\n\n[00:08:05] David Snead: Right? So that’s the fundamental question, right? So the IIF is a voluntary organisation that is made up of everyone in the infrastructure stack. So from registrars, registries, DNS providers, hosting providers, cloud providers, everyone in the stack. So it is facilitated by the Internet and Jurisdiction Foundation. They’re based in Paris, and they’re the actually the secretariat for it.
\n\n\n\nAnd what it’s designed to do is create a common way for everyone who’s in the infrastructure stack to share information about abuse and abuse issues. And it’s one of the fundamental problems that you referred to is everybody is operating in a silo, right? And that’s mostly because that’s the way the internet is architected, right?
\n\n\n\nSo the internet is architected, so it’s distributed, right? Registrars and registries basically do their own thing with domain names. They might have a small hosting component or maybe a cloud component, but by and large, all they do is domain names.
\n\n\n\nHosting providers probably resell domain names, but they’re not part of that industry. And so how do they all coordinate? And that’s what the IIF is trying to facilitate, is more information sharing among the participants.
\n\n\n\n[00:09:39] Nathan Wrigley: Well I imagine some of the hosting companies are probably fairly good. You know, they’ve got a giant customer base. Let’s imagine hosting company X over there, they’ve got millions of customers. They’ve got a huge budget that they can put over to, let’s say, security things. Well that’s all well and good, brilliant. But then there are other companies who are much scrappier. You know, they maybe have only a few thousand customers. And so their budget for the exact same work is going to be reduced.
\n\n\n\nHow will this work? Is it going to be like a subscription service basically? Will you have a membership, which is in some way equal to the number of clients that you’ve got? Will there be some expectation that, okay, we’ll look at your revenue, your membership will be equivalent to a percentage of your revenue? How will that all work?
\n\n\n\n[00:10:20] David Snead: We don’t know. This is a very early stage project. Right now we are in a prototype phase where we have just figured out what information folks should submit to the secretariat.
\n\n\n\nSo the way it works is, you submit the information that you collect for a particular abuse issue to the secretariat, who then enriches it with all the other information that’s been submitted and sends it to the right person.
\n\n\n\nSo a great example is, let’s say a registrar reported a phishing domain. They turn off the phishing domain and they have maybe a timestamp, an IP address where it was submitted from. They submit that to the secretariat, who then finds the hosting company who is providing the services for the hosting and says, this came in about this particular site. Can you take action on that? So that’s the way it works.
\n\n\n\nRight now it’s very early stage. It’s in the first phase of a test, and we’re going to look at whether the way we’ve architected it, or the way the group has architected it, actually makes sense.
\n\n\n\n[00:11:39] Nathan Wrigley: Is this going to be then a sort of slow on ramp whereby you bring a few companies in at the beginning, hopefully. And then one or two more and iron out the wrinkles, and then some more and some more? Because I imagine, if you just threw the switch, everybody’s in, a lot could go wrong at that point. And I’m guessing there’s going to be more of a slow on ramp.
\n\n\n\n[00:12:00] David Snead: So you’ve pointed out my particular frustration with the IIF, and the reason that the secretariat is moving slowly, right? So fortunately, or unfortunately, based on my cultural background, I’m just sitting here going, this needs to move faster. We need to have everybody involved, we need to have all the hosts involved, we need to have all the registrars and registries. And other folks who are a little bit more skilled in this type of work say, no, we need to figure out what we’re doing and that requires a small number of people.
\n\n\n\nThe phase that we’re in right now is looking for more folks who are interested in sitting at the table and being part of the discussion. Particularly in the hosting industry and in the web design and marketing industry. Those are folks who don’t generally participate in these kind of industry led collaboration exercises. And that’s the reason that I’m at WordCamp, is to talk to web designers, marketing agencies about why they should participate in something like this.
\n\n\n\n[00:13:13] Nathan Wrigley: So this really isn’t bound in any way to WordPress, is it? It just so happens that WordPress has a significant chunk of the internet, so this is a good place to start. But if you happen to be a, I don’t know, Drupal user, or you’re just into writing PHP code or whatever it may be, this is still applicable. There’s no real WordPress layer to this. This is just a good place for you to come because, well, there’s probably, what, 30 hosts, 100 yards away from us out there.
\n\n\n\n[00:13:37] David Snead: I know. And I haven’t seen all of them yet.
\n\n\n\n[00:13:39] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, there’s work to do. But agnostic to any platform, basically.
\n\n\n\n[00:13:42] David Snead: It is completely platform agnostic, yeah.
\n\n\n\n[00:13:43] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. Okay, that’s interesting. But WordPress is a, is certainly a good place to start.
\n\n\n\nNow, I’m imagining, if I was a hosting company and I was the chief executive, I definitely have some questions for you in terms of, okay, we’re going to share our valuable intel with you, what are you going to do with that? How can we trust you? How do we know that the sharing is going to be done effectively and what have you?
\n\n\n\nSo I guess really what I’m getting to is, what is the assurances or checks and balances that you, in the end, will hope to offer the host? That you can assure them that, look, if you hand us this body of work, you don’t need to think about it again. You can trust us to do it honourably, effectively, collaboratively. You get where going.
\n\n\n\n[00:14:26] David Snead: Yeah, yeah. And I suspect that you wanted to be a lawyer at some time, because that’s one of the issues that we’re facing. Information that can be shared freely, as an example, in the United States, might not be capable of being shared so freely in the European Union, or in Brazil, or in India or someplace like that.
\n\n\n\nSo one of the things that’s being done, not by me, but by another group, another working group that’s part of this, is analysing the legal issues around information sharing.
\n\n\n\nThe information that’s being shared, to answer the proprietary and confidentiality question, is not proprietary or confidential information. So it’s things like timestamps, domain names, IP addresses for the initial abuse submission. Things like that that really don’t indicate some sort of company confidential information. And it’s further abstracted into xarf, which is a language that’s used for abuse reporting, that we all can share. And so I think that the only thing that would be of concern is whether that information is personal information that’s subject to jurisdictional restrictions around the world.
\n\n\n\n[00:15:48] Nathan Wrigley: Would the idea be that this organisation would do the remedial work? So is there any notion that, let’s say for example, some sort of security problem was discovered by hosting company A over there, and they share that intel with you. Maybe the question is kind of asking, will you then appoint people to figure out what the patch is for that? Or is your idea just to, oh, red flag, we’ve got this problem, now you all know about it. Is it just information sharing as opposed to fixes?
\n\n\n\n[00:16:17] David Snead: Yeah, it’s the latter. So the thing that we’re solving for right now, so there’s just one issue that, one abuse issue, that we’re testing out and it’s issues related to fake shops. And so the fake shop issue is the test abuse issue for the project, and where folks are sharing information. It’s a particular problem right now with credentials harvesting. And so that’s what we’re trying to look at.
\n\n\n\n[00:16:43] Nathan Wrigley: And how has the conversations that you’ve had thus far, how have they gone? Has this been warmly received or are you facing a little bit of pushback?
\n\n\n\n[00:16:50] David Snead: So, look, I’ll be very direct with you. If something isn’t just an immediate threat to them, it’s very difficult to conceptualise why you should participate. And I am pretty used to answering that question simply based on the political work that I do with the i2Coalition. But once you talk about, so let’s use fake shops as an example. Fake shops, and you’re providing services to fake shops, actually has an impact on your bottom line.
\n\n\n\nSo if you are providing, let’s say, payment processing to an entity that is running a fake shop, it very easily can make your credit card processing charges higher. It ends up eating bandwidth. It will tax your abuse resources.
\n\n\n\nOne of the things that you referred to initially is, you know, larger hosts have a lot of money. I wouldn’t say they have a lot of money, but they have more bandwidth to handle a vast fire hose of abuse issues. Most smaller hosting companies might only get five or six abuse issues in a month. But if you have a fake shop, that’s going to generate a huge amount of abuse, and it’s taking away resources that you can use to actually grow your business. So that argument actually is relatively persuasive in getting folks to pay attention.
\n\n\n\nI find that the business argument around abuse is a much more compelling discussion than kind of moral persuasion. I don’t think moral persuasion works in the context of a community that is trying very hard just to keep their heads above water.
\n\n\n\n[00:18:42] Nathan Wrigley: It feels to me from what you’ve just said, and I could be reading too much between the lines, but it feels to me as if a good target audience would be smaller hosts to begin with, simply because they’re probably going to be more receptive because they have less bandwidth themselves. And so would welcome anything that can make the burden of sharing this information easier. So 10 of the small hosts combined is, well, it’s much bigger than each of them individually would be, whereas I suppose you’ll have to get a critical mass of them on board until maybe some of the bigger hosts start to look at you with favourable eyes, let’s say that.
\n\n\n\n[00:19:15] David Snead: Well, so we have some pretty large hosting companies who are participating. So as an example, both GoDaddy and Newfold are participating. But we also have smaller hosts. But I agree with you, the information that’s being provided, particularly since it is actionable, realistic information that can be adapted for bespoke systems, is invaluable, right?
\n\n\n\nSo if you only get five or six abuse complaints and you get an abuse complaint, and you can go to the secretariat and say, we got a complaint about this domain, and the secretariat says, here’s what the registrar did. Here’s what Cloudflare did. Here’s the information they provided us. And you can use that to make a decision on how to address that problem. It saved you hours and hours and hours of research time.
\n\n\n\n[00:20:09] Nathan Wrigley: Technically speaking, what would the conduit of information both toward you and away from you look like? So if I’m hosting company X, how are you imagining that I will supply you with that information? But also, if I’m just looking for information from you on a daily, weekly basis, whatever it may be, how do I receive that? Is this like a, I don’t know, a website or an API or?
\n\n\n\n[00:20:33] David Snead: It’s an API. So it’s a file. It’s just a general file download.
\n\n\n\n[00:20:37] Nathan Wrigley: Right, okay. So it’s readily available 24/7?
\n\n\n\n[00:20:40] David Snead: Right. That’s the goal. Right now it’s not, but the goal is to kind of figure out a way to make something like that possible.
\n\n\n\n[00:20:47] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, okay. I also suppose that the hosting companies, whilst this is good for their business if they can minimise costs and hand a lot of this work over to you, there’s a part of them which would also probably like to put some sort of badge on their website to say, this is what we’re doing. We’re part of this alliance, for want of a better word. Is that something that you are looking to develop as well, you know, some sort of credentialing system to demonstrate that you’re in this?
\n\n\n\n[00:21:12] David Snead: So that’s not something that the IIF is working on. It’s something that the Secure Hosting Alliance does. The Secure Hosting Alliance has a trust seal that we give to hosts who fulfil our Trust Seal Certification provisions. But that’s not something that the IIF does.
\n\n\n\nTalking about like why, other than business reasons, folks should participate in this, one of the things that is going on that I would suggest that most hosts know about, is there’s a little bit of a moral panic going on in the world about what contents you have. And regulation is actually a very real thing for the hosting industry, who has not ever been regulated. This is the time where you can say, hey, this is what we’re doing, right? We’re dealing with issues. This way a trust seal is the same thing, right? It’s something that you can say, we are actually taking steps to make the internet a better place.
\n\n\n\n[00:22:18] Nathan Wrigley: I think if you are a general agency owner or, I don’t know, just a freelancer, hosting is one of those things that you, once you’ve done it once, you’re in it for the long haul until something goes wrong. But you’re also browsing around for any tiny indication of why is this host slightly different? You know, what is it that they’re doing that, I don’t know, is faster? What is it that they’re doing that’s more secure? So it feels to me if you had a credentialing system and I began to hear about it and see it pop up again and again, it would be one of the metrics which I would weigh up when looking at hosting.
\n\n\n\n[00:22:51] David Snead: I would think so. One of the things that a trust seal does is it indicates that there’s been some vetting of the host. That someone has determined the things that are important to the hosting industry and are important to the web design industry. The agency industry are also important to the host.
\n\n\n\nGreat example of that is one of the provisions of the Secure Hosting Alliances’ Trust Seal Certification is that a contract is presented to the customer before they sign up, which is super customer friendly.
\n\n\n\nOne of the things as a lawyer that you hear about all the time when people are dissatisfied with their services is, yeah, well, I never saw that contract. Or it was just a hyperlink in an email that I got. That’s one of the differentiators for a Trust Seal certified host is that the contract is actually presented to them, to the customer beforehand.
\n\n\n\n[00:23:57] Nathan Wrigley: So in terms of the WordPress crowd, is this a thing that you are pitching only to hosts? Like when you step out of here, are you trying to have conversations only with hosts? Or is there some bit of the WordPress community, the freelance, the agency owners? Are you trying to communicate with them just to scope out what they need?
\n\n\n\n[00:24:15] David Snead: So for both the Secure Hosting Alliance and for the IIF, it is that. I really enjoy talking to agencies and developers about whether this is important to them, or why it might be important to them.
\n\n\n\n[00:24:31] Nathan Wrigley: In terms of how long this project’s been going, I’ve only heard of it because of your participation here, but I don’t know if you’ve been banging this gong for a decade or, I mean you’ve been in the industry for long enough to have been banging it for decades. Is this a new initiative or is this something which has a long and storied history?
\n\n\n\n[00:24:49] David Snead: So the Secure Hosting Alliance has only been active for a year, a little bit over a year. I’ve been talking about abuse for a long time, but the Secure Hosting Alliance has only been around for a year.
\n\n\n\n[00:25:01] Nathan Wrigley: And have you, in that year, got any intuitions that you’ll be here for another year? Is it basically going in the right direction?
\n\n\n\n[00:25:09] David Snead: It is going in the right direction. So we started out with two or three charter members. We now have 25 hosting members. We have three security vendors who are members as well. We have, I think, 17 Trust Seal Certified members, and we’re launching in 2027 a trust seal for security vendors who provide services to hosting companies.
\n\n\n\n[00:25:40] Nathan Wrigley: I know that several owners of hosting companies listen to this podcast. They may very well be the people that you’ve spoken to already, but if they are not, and they are people who would like to investigate this further, I suppose the thing that’s going to be in their head is, okay, Nathan and David, you’ve explained what I’ll get out of it, what do I need to put into it? So is this an annual financial commitment? How does it all work from that point of view?
\n\n\n\n[00:26:02] David Snead: Yeah, so you become a member of the i2Coalition. And so the Secure Hosting Alliance is a working group of the i2Coalition. So you would be a general member and you would participate in the Secure Hosting Alliances’ working groups. You also have the ability to participate in the i2Coalition as a whole, which is a much larger trade association that represents almost everyone in the internet infrastructure vertical. Mostly doing policy work, primarily in the US and the EU. Although there’s, we’re doing some work in India right now as well.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:40] Nathan Wrigley: And does membership allow you to steer the future of the project? I know that lots of chefs in the kitchen results in terrible food, but that, I fear, is something that could happen. You’ve got 87 members, 260 members. And then the 260 members all start to bicker and, you know, we want this, no. You see how it goes.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:59] David Snead: I do.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:59] Nathan Wrigley: What’s the position there? You know, is there sort of gated levels of membership? How are you organising all of that?
\n\n\n\n[00:27:04] David Snead: There are not. The membership is based on self-reported revenue. The membership is not horrifically expensive from my perspective. And I think that that, most of our members would say that it is, it’s actually relatively affordable, particularly for the small to medium sized hosts. And registrars or design agencies, anyone who’s participating.
\n\n\n\nThe question about, who’s running the show, comes up quite a bit. We haven’t really faced that issue, particularly in the Secure Hosting Alliance. Folks seem to get along. But the organisation runs on the idea of rough consensus. And so decisions end up not being controlled by one member or not. Some of the i2Coalition has some very large companies who everybody knows about, who get along with startups, and folks against whom they compete directly. And policies still get made. The organisation still moves forward.
\n\n\n\n[00:28:11] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I guess you’re in a space where, obviously all of these hosting companies commercially are vying for everybody else’s business. But in this particular situation, that is not the case. Nobody’s vying for their websites to be less secure. They all want the same level of security. So at least in that sense, you would hope that consensus could be maintained even if, commercially, the two companies that are in the room, the 10 companies that are in the room might be commercially at loggerheads with each other. At least on this they could agree. That would be the hope, I suppose, anyway.
\n\n\n\n[00:28:47] David Snead: It seems to be, not only the hope, but the actual way that things work. You ask about how compromise is reached. What comes to mind is I have a much different concept of privacy than, particularly when I was at WebPros, than other folks in the i2Coalition had. And another company just called me up and we worked through our disagreements about how privacy should be handled within the i2Coalition and were able to move forward.
\n\n\n\nThe industry I’ve found to be hugely collaborative, particularly the hosting industry. Everybody knows what their competitor is doing. But when it comes to addressing an issue like, how are we going to deal with abuse as a community? Folks come together. CEOs of hosting companies while they compete tend to be relatively good friends.
\n\n\n\nAs I said at the very beginning, it really is like the Hotel California, right? You come in as a CEO of a hosting company, you grow it and you sell it to another company. All of a sudden you’re at the bottom again with a server in your grandma’s basement, you know, trying to start again.
\n\n\n\n[00:30:08] Nathan Wrigley: It’s a really curious effort. I suppose really at the bottom of this entire podcast is your endeavour to be heard and to reach out and get some conversations going. So with that in mind, where do people find the information about this? So maybe there’s a website that we could mention. But also, is there a specific place where you hang out? Is there a place where you would like to be contacted most?
\n\n\n\n[00:30:33] David Snead: Sure. So our website is hostingsecurity.net. I’m not too afraid of getting too much spam. So folks can email me at snead@i2coalition.com And the two is the numeral two. So it’s snead@i2coalition.com. And I’m happy to answer questions.
\n\n\n\nIn terms of hanging out, I am at most industry conferences in the hosting industry. In the WordPress industry, I’ll be at WordCamp US. We also participate very heavily in ICANN. So there is an i2Coalition member at every single ICANN meeting.
\n\n\n\n[00:31:12] Nathan Wrigley: So if you go to wptavern.com and you search for the episode with David Snead, S-N-E-A-D, you’ll be able to find those details. I’ll put everything into the show notes. So anything that I missed? Was there a particular focus that we didn’t touch?
\n\n\n\n[00:31:26] David Snead: No, this is actually one of the most thorough podcasts I’ve been on recently.
\n\n\n\n[00:31:31] Nathan Wrigley: That’s love to hear it. Well, David Snead, thank you very much for joining me today.
\n\n\n\n[00:31:35] David Snead: Glad to be here. Thanks for having me.
\nOn the podcast today we have David Snead.
\n\n\n\nDavid has been involved in the hosting industry since 1999, starting out as legal counsel for one of the earliest shared hosting companies and going on to work with over 50 others. He helped found the i2Coalition, serve as in-house counsel for cPanel and WebPros, and now leads the Secure Hosting Alliance.
\n\n\n\nIf youΓÇÖre listening to this podcast, IΓÇÖm sure that many of you will have worked closely with hosting companies. Perhaps you run an agency or business that depends on the reliability, ethics, and security of hosting providers. David is here to talk about cross-industry collaboration in the hosting world, specifically around improving security, professionalism, and communication between hosts.
\n\n\n\nThe conversation focused on why and how the Internet Infrastructure Forum (IIF) is building a framework for real-time intelligence sharing and abuse reporting, aiming to help the entire ecosystem detect and prevent attacks faster than adversaries can adapt.
\n\n\n\nDavid talks about the challenges hosting companies face, especially smaller ones, in keeping up with security, and how this evolving project hopes to ease this by sharing actionable, non-proprietary abuse information across registrars, hosting providers, DNS services, and more. He discusses the growth of both the Secure Hosting Alliance and the IIF, the business case for collaboration, and the nuances of legal and technical information sharing across borders.
\n\n\n\nIf youΓÇÖre in hosting, run a web agency, or just want to know how the backbone of the web is working to stay more secure and connected, this episode is for you.
\n\n\n\nUseful links
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSecure Hosting Alliance website
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Це есе також доступно українською.
\n\n\n\n“Listen… the birds are already singing,” said Danylo ΓÇö a Ukrainian I’d met at a previous WordCamp ΓÇö as we were wrapping up the last hour of the WCEU afterparty in Krakow. “It’s time for us to go.” He started singing “Hei! Hei! Hei, sokoly! Omynaite hory, lisy, doly.” I started singing with him. The Polish guys next to us continued singing in Polish “Dzwo┼ä, dzwo┼ä, dzwo┼ä dzwoneczku, M├│j stepowy skowroneczku.” Some people behind us joined the choir. That was “Hey Sokoly” ΓÇö a Ukrainian-Polish folk song ΓÇö carrying us out of Bastion III, a 19th-century Austrian fortress on the edge of Krakow’s Old Town, as the night turned to morning.
\n\n\n\nBut to explain how I ended up there, I need to go back to where it all began.
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Mykolaiv
\n\n\n\nIt all started in Mykolaiv, the city of shipbuilders and brides, where I spent my childhood. I graduated from two universities I had been attending simultaneously and started looking for a job during a gap year. I planned to find work to earn some money for further education while preparing for the entrance exams to one of the Finnish universities. Mykolaiv didn’t provide good opportunities for graduates unless you had very good connections, but I managed to find a job at an “IT” company. In 2011, the term “IT” didn’t mean much to me, but they required English, which was my major, so I thought ΓÇö why not. The work wasn’t particularly difficult: I had to pretend to be “Bob” from the United States, helping customers who had purchased physical products by tracking their orders and walking them through setup instructions. I was fired after a month and a half. Maybe I underperformed, or maybe somebody just didn’t like me ΓÇö either way, it’s water under the bridge.
The first job I’d gotten entirely on my own, the first paycheck that proved I could be independent, and the first time being fired ΓÇö all of it hit me at once. The last part was devastating, made worse by comments like “it was too good to be true,” “we told you they’d trick you,” and “look at so-and-so, doing such-and-such and earning properly.” It was hard to sit with feeling like a failure. But somewhere in that difficulty, I got tougher ΓÇö and more determined to prove everyone wrong.
TemplateMonster
\n\n\n\nThe first job was a failure, but it gave me one clear answer: I needed to stay in IT. The next job was TemplateMonster.com ΓÇö well known in certain circles. It was the complete opposite of what I’d experienced before. In 2012 they were selling templates for the most popular CMS platforms of the time: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and various e-commerce solutions. The onboarding alone took two months, which tells you something about how seriously they took their people ΓÇö staff rarely left, and when they did, it was for personal reasons, not because they were pushed out.
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My job was to help customers with their templates: installation, editing, customization. Difficult, but genuinely interesting ΓÇö I liked it. This was the first time I encountered WordPress. I worked six nights a week, and Sundays were the strangest ΓÇö your day off, but your body had adjusted to night shifts and refused to cooperate. None of that bothered me much. Being able to build sites and make things look exactly right was addictive. I overworked, learned constantly, pestered developers with questions, all just to quench my thirst for knowledge. It ended quickly: I got accepted into three master’s programs in Finland, chose one, and left for Central Finland.
Helsinki
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Studying in Finland was genuinely different from anything I’d known in Ukraine ΓÇö in the best possible way. Once the mandatory courses were done, I started looking for work. It was harder than I expected: a year of passive searching, then six months of applying every day. Eventually, I landed at a Helsinki-based agency building WordPress websites ΓÇö which is still what I do today. A friendly team, around ten people ΓÇö I’m still close with many of them. We built sites of varying complexity during the day and spent evenings playing board games, swapping stories, and throwing the occasional party.
\n\n\n\nThat’s also where I attended my first WordPress event: WordCamp Helsinki 2017, a two-day conference. It didn’t blow me away, but it opened something. When you work in a small agency, you live inside your own bubble ΓÇö and then suddenly a whole other world appears. You see the other side of WordPress: the community, the people pushing it forward, the people wrestling with the same problems you are and finding creative ways through.
That first local WordCamp was enough to make us want to go further. In 2019 the team went to Berlin for WCEU ΓÇö my first trip abroad outside of the Finland-Ukraine route I knew well. We spent a few days exploring the city and attending the event. WordCamp Europe is a different scale entirely: thousands of attendees, hundreds of volunteers making it happen. Standing in that crowd, I knew I wanted to be part of it ΓÇö not just as a visitor. And then corona happened.
Porto
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WCEU 2020 and 2021 were online, and I felt they were missing the whole point ΓÇö thousands of people in one place, feeding off each other’s energy. So when Porto was announced for 2022, I started packing. This time, I joined as a volunteer, to see WordCamp from the inside. It was the right call. It was also a difficult time for Ukrainians ΓÇö the full-scale invasion was by then well into its second year, and everyone was finding their own way to cope. For me, this event became a source of strength. I connected with the Ukrainian community, had real conversations with speakers, and came away feeling like I’d experienced what WCEU is actually for.
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That trip also clarified something I’d been circling around for a while. I’ve always loved traveling, but there was a barrier that had nothing to do with visas or money ΓÇö though those were factors too. It was a justification problem. Coming from a culture where time should be spent purposefully, traveling for its own sake felt hard to defend. A work conference, though? Completely justifiable. Nobody asks how much fun you had. I’ve been to Germany, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, and Poland this way. Spain is next.
Attending WordCamps is one thing. Building a similar event is another.
\n\n\n\nWP Suomi
\n\n\n\nIn 2025 I became the lead organizer of WP Suomi ΓÇö the first independent Finnish WordPress event, held in Helsinki. The months before October 10th were intensive in ways I hadn’t anticipated: budgets, logistics, gifts, merch, catering, venue coordination, a hundred small details that needed to be right simultaneously. I remember waking up at midnight worrying that I hadn’t ordered something in time and it wouldn’t arrive before the event. Most of the work that goes into an event like this is invisible to the people attending. They see the schedule, the food, the afterparty. They don’t see the half a year of pieces being polished before the puzzle comes together.
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On the day of the event, there was nothing left to worry about. Whatever needed doing had been done ΓÇö if something had been missed in the preparation, it would show up now and there would be little we could do about it. So why worry? The time for that was the preparation, not the day itself. The team ΓÇö experienced, reliable, no hand-holding required ΓÇö knew exactly what they were there for.
Around 300 people attended WP Suomi. Forty filled out our feedback form afterward, giving an overall score of 4.47 out of 5. But the number mattered less than what people wrote: networking, atmosphere, meeting old friends and new ones, a community that welcomes everyone openly. Reading that, I recognized the same feeling I’d had at WordCamp Helsinki 2017 ΓÇö something new, interesting, and full of possibility.
Organizing WP Suomi gave me a clearer understanding of what goes into making these events happen. Having been a volunteer at WCEU and then a lead organizer at WP Suomi, I arrived in Krakow with a slightly different perspective ΓÇö a better sense of what the people around me were going through. This year I’m back on the WP Suomi organizing team as speakers coordinator ΓÇö a different role, another angle.
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Krakow
\n\n\n\nWordCamps have changed for me over the years ΓÇö less about the sessions on stage, more about what happens between them. As an organizer, you miss most of the talks anyway, pulled in ten directions at once. But real life happens in the corridors, and at the parties in the evenings.
\n\n\n\nThis matters especially for the Ukrainian community. The war has scattered us across Europe ΓÇö different countries, different companies, different lives. WordCamp Europe has become one of the few places where we reassemble in person: to share what the year brought, to meet people we only knew online, to see the community still growing despite everything. Many couldn’t make it to Krakow, some would not be able to visit these events anymore. For those of us who could, the room carried extra weight.
\n\n\n\nThat’s what Danylo and I were singing about at dawn outside Bastion III, even if neither of us said it out loud. I hope to do that someday in the afterparties in Helsinki and Kyiv ΓÇö whenever that becomes possible again.
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Volodymyr’s Work Environment
\n\n\n\nWe asked Volodymyr for a view into his development life and this is what he sent!
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\n“Послухай… пташки заспівали”
\n\n\n\n«Послухай… пташки заспівали», — сказав Данило, українець, з яким я познайомився на попередньому WordCamp — ми якраз протеревенили останню годину afterparty WCEU у Кракові. «Значить нам теж час іти». І тут він від душі почав співати «Гей, гей, гей, соколи, оминайте гори, ліси, доли». Я підхопив пісню разом із ним. Поляки, що ішли поруч продовжили польською: «Dzwoń, dzwoń, dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy skowroneczku». Хтось позаду теж приєднався до хору. Це була «Гей, соколи» — українсько-польська народна пісня — під акомпанемент якої нас виносив натовп із Бастіону III, австрійської фортеці XIX століття на околиці краківського Старого міста, саме тоді, коли вже ніч переходила у ранок.
Щоб пояснити, як я там опинився, доведеться повернутися до самого початку цієї історії.
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\n\n\n\n╨ª╤Å ╤û╤ü╤é╨╛╤Ç╤û╤Å ╨▒╨╡╤Ç╨╡ ╤ü╨▓╤û╨╣ ╨┐╨╛╤ç╨░╤é╨╛╨║ ╤â ╨£╨╕╨║╨╛╨╗╨░╤ö╨▓╤û ΓÇô ╨╝╤û╤ü╤é╤û ╤ü╤â╨┤╨╜╨╛╨▒╤â╨┤╤û╨▓╨╡╨╗╤î╨╜╨╕╨║╤û╨▓ ╤û ╨╜╨░╤Ç╨╡╤ç╨╡╨╜╨╕╤à, ╨┤╨╡ ╤Å ╨▓╨╕╤Ç╤û╤ü. ╨ù╨┤╨╛╨▒╤â╨▓ ╨╛╤ü╨▓╤û╤é╤â ╤â ╨┤╨▓╨╛╤à ╤â╨╜╤û╨▓╨╡╤Ç╤ü╨╕╤é╨╡╤é╨░╤à, ╨┤╨╡ ╨╜╨░╨▓╤ç╨░╨▓╤ü╤Å ╨╛╨┤╨╜╨╛╤ç╨░╤ü╨╜╨╛ ╤û ╨┐╨╛╤ç╨░╨▓ ╤ê╤â╨║╨░╤é╨╕ ╤Ç╨╛╨▒╨╛╤é╤â ╨┐╤û╨┤ ╤ç╨░╤ü ╤Ç╨╛╨║╤â ╨┐╨╡╤Ç╨╡╤Ç╨▓╨╕ ╨┐╨╡╤Ç╨╡╨┤ ╨┐╤Ç╨╛╨┤╨╛╨▓╨╢╨╡╨╜╨╜╤Å╨╝ ╨╜╨░╨▓╤ç╨░╨╜╨╜╤Å. ╨» ╨┐╨╗╨░╨╜╤â╨▓╨░╨▓ ╨╖╨╜╨░╨╣╤é╨╕ ╤ü╨╛╨▒╤û ╤Ç╨╛╨▒╨╛╤é╤â, ╤ë╨╛╨▒ ╨╖╨░╤Ç╨╛╨▒╨╕╤é╨╕ ╨│╤Ç╨╛╤ê╨╡╨╜╤Å╤é ╨┤╨╗╤Å ╨┐╤Ç╨╛╨┤╨╛╨▓╨╢╨╡╨╜╨╜╤Å ╨╜╨░╨▓╤ç╨░╨╜╨╜╤Å, ╨│╨╛╤é╤â╤Ä╤ç╨╕╤ü╤î ╨┤╨╛ ╨▓╤ü╤é╤â╨┐╤â ╨▓ ╨╛╨┤╨╕╨╜ ╤û╨╖ ╤ä╤û╨╜╤ü╤î╨║╨╕╤à ╤â╨╜╤û╨▓╨╡╤Ç╤ü╨╕╤é╨╡╤é╤û╨▓. ╨ú ╨£╨╕╨║╨╛╨╗╨░╤ö╨▓╤û ╨▒╤â╨╗╨╛ ╨▓╨░╨╢╨║╨╛ ╨╖╨╜╨░╨╣╤é╨╕ ╤Å╨║╤û╤ü╤î ╤ü╨╡╤Ç╨╣╨╛╨╖╨╜╤û ╨┐╨╡╤Ç╤ü╨┐╨╡╨║╤é╨╕╨▓╨╕ ╨┤╨╗╤Å ╨▓╨╕╨┐╤â╤ü╨║╨╜╨╕╨║╨░, ╤à╤û╨▒╨░ ╤ë╨╛ ╨▓ ╤é╨╡╨▒╨╡ ╤ö ╨╖╨▓’╤Å╨╖╨║╨╕, ╨░╨╗╨╡ ╤Å ╨┐╤Ç╨╕╨╝╤â╨┤╤Ç╨╕╨▓╤ü╤Å ╨╖╨╜╨░╨╣╤é╨╕ ╤Ç╨╛╨▒╨╛╤é╤â ╨▓ “IT” ╨║╨╛╨╝╨┐╨░╨╜╤û╤ù. ╨ú 2011 ╤é╨╡╤Ç╨╝╤û╨╜ “╨É╨╣╨ó╤ûΓÇ¥ ╨╜╤û╤ç╨╛╨│╨╛ ╨╝╨╡╨╜╤û ╨╜╨╡ ╨│╨╛╨▓╨╛╤Ç╨╕╨▓, ╨░╨╗╨╡ ╤é╨░╨╝ ╨┐╨╛╤é╤Ç╤û╨▒╨╜╨░ ╨▒╤â╨╗╨░ ╨░╨╜╨│╨╗╤û╨╣╤ü╤î╨║╨░, ╤Å╨║╨░ ╨▒╤â╨╗╨░ ╨╝╨╛╤ù╨╝ ╨╛╤ü╨╜╨╛╨▓╨╜╨╕╨╝ ╨┐╤Ç╨╡╨┤╨╝╨╡╤é╨╛╨╝ ╨▓ ╤â╨╜╤û╨▓╨╡╤Ç╤ü╨╕╤é╨╡╤é╤û, ╤é╨╛╨╝╤â ╤Å ╨┐╨╛╨┤╤â╨╝╨░╨▓, ╨░ ╤ç╨╛╨╝ ╨▒╨╕ ╨╣ ╨╜╤û? ╨á╨╛╨▒╨╛╤é╨░ ╨╜╨╡ ╨▒╤â╨╗╨░ ╨▓╨░╨╢╨║╨╛╤Ä: ╤é╤Ç╨╡╨▒╨░ ╨▒╤â╨╗╨╛ ╨║╨░╨╖╨░╤é╨╕, ╤ë╨╛ ╤Å ΓÇ£╨æ╨╛╨▒ΓÇ¥ ╤û╨╖ ╨í╨¿╨É ╤û ╨┤╨╛╨┐╨╛╨╝╨░╨│╨░╤é╨╕ ╨║╨╗╤û╤ö╨╜╤é╨░╨╝, ╤Å╨║╤û ╨║╤â╨┐╤â╨▓╨░╨╗╨╕ ╤ä╤û╨╖╨╕╤ç╨╜╤û ╨┐╤Ç╨╛╨┤╤â╨║╤é╨╕, ╨▓╤û╨┤╤ü╨╗╤û╨┤╨║╨╛╨▓╤â╨▓╨░╤é╨╕ ╤ù╤à ╨╖╨░╨╝╨╛╨▓╨╗╨╡╨╜╨╜╤Å ╤û ╨┤╨░╨▓╨░╤é╨╕ ╤û╨╜╤ü╤é╤Ç╤â╨║╤å╤û╤ù, ╤Å╨║ ╨▓╨╕╨║╨╛╤Ç╨╕╤ü╤é╨╛╨▓╤â╨▓╨░╤é╨╕ ╨╛╤é╨╡, ╤ë╨╛ ╨▓╨╛╨╜╨╕ ╨┐╨╛╨╜╨░╨╖╨░╨╝╨╛╨▓╨╗╤Å╨╗╨╕. ╨£╨╡╨╜╨╡ ╨╖╨▓╤û╨╗╤î╨╜╨╕╨╗╨╕ ╤ç╨╡╤Ç╨╡╨╖ ╨┐╤û╨▓╤é╨╛╤Ç╨░ ╨╝╤û╤ü╤Å╤å╤û. ╨£╨╛╨╢╨╗╨╕╨▓╨╛, ╤Å ╤ë╨╛╤ü╤î ╨╜╨╡ ╤é╨░╨║ ╤Ç╨╛╨▒╨╕╨▓, ╨╝╨╛╨╢╨╗╨╕╨▓╨╛, ╨┐╤Ç╨╛╤ü╤é╨╛ ╨╜╨╡ ╨▓╨┤╨░╨▓╤ü╤Å ╨╛╨▒╨╗╨╕╤ç╤ç╤Å╨╝ ΓÇö ╤â ╨▒╤â╨┤╤î-╤Å╨║╨╛╨╝╤â ╨▓╨╕╨┐╨░╨┤╨║╤â, ╤ë╨╛ ╨▒╤â╨╗╨╛, ╤é╨╛ ╨╖╨░╨│╤â╨╗╨╛.
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На цю роботу я влаштувався самостійно, без будь-якої підтримки, перша заробітна плата була символом моєї незалежності, і перше звільнення — це був бурхливий вир емоцій. Але остання частина просто вибила землю з-під моїх ніг, гірше тільки зробили коментарі на кшталт: “це було занадто добре, щоб бути правдою”, “та ми тобі казали, що там надурять”, і “подивись на нього — він робить те та й се, ще й добре заробляє”. Дуже важко було бути вдома і відчувати себе невдахою. Але це відчуття зробило набагато більше ніж будь-яка ефемерна підтримка — воно мене загартувало і пробудило палке бажання довести, що всі помилялися щодо мене.
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\n\n\n\nХоч перша робота виявилась провалом, вона дала мені чітке розуміння, що треба продовжувати шукати роботу в IT. Наступну роботу я знайшов у TemplateMonster.com — добре відому у певних колах. Вона була повною протилежністю моєму минулому досвіду. У 2012 році вони продавали шаблони для більшості популярних CMS-ок того часу: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, і для різних рішень електронної комерції. Лише ознайомлення з роботою і навчання зайняло два місяці, що промовисто свідчить про те, наскільки серйозно компанія сприймала своїх людей — майже ніколи не звільняли, а якщо люди й ішли з роботи, то з власних причин.
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Моїм завданням було допомагати клієнтам із шаблонами, які вони придбали: встановлення, налаштування, редагування. Було доволі складно, але дуже цікаво — мені подобалося. Тоді я вперше познайомився із WordPress. Я працював шість ночей на тиждень, а неділі були найважчими, бо тіло звикало до активності вночі і відмовлялося спати. Хоча такий графік мене не дуже турбував. Можливість створювати будь-які сайти і кастомізувати їх саме під себе — оце було до дідька захопливо. Я багато перепрацьовував, вивчав щось нове, заколупував розробників питаннями, щоб хоч трохи вгамувати жагу до знань. Але усе закінчилося несподівано швидко: я отримав три листи про зарахування на магістратуру у Фінляндії, вибрав один університет і поїхав до Центральної Фінляндії.
Гельсінкі
\n\n\n\nСистема навчання у Фінляндії побудована зовсім по-іншому — і, на мою думку, на краще. Коли я закінчив основні курси моєї спеціальності, я почав шукати роботу. Завдання було не з легких: рік я шукав пасивно, де-не-де подаючи заявки на роботу, і ще пів року я зайнявся цим активно, відгукуючись на декілька вакансій щодня. Зрештою, доля занесла мене у Гельсінське агентство, що розробляло сайти на WordPress — цим я займаюся і сьогодні. У нас була дуже дружня команда, приблизно з десяти людей, з більшістю з них я досі дружу. Ми будували сайти дуже різного рівня складності, удень, вечорами грали в настолки, ділились історіями зі свого життя і влаштовували грандіозні вечірки.
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З цією командою я вперше відвідав подію WordPress: WordCamp Helsinki 2017 — дводенну конференцію. Я не був вражений наповал, але вона відкрила мої очі на дещо. Коли ти працюєш у маленькому агентстві, і живеш у своїй бульбашці, а тут неочікувано відкривається цілий всесвіт. Ти бачиш іншу сторону WordPress — спільноту, людей, які рухають увесь проект вперед, людей, які стикаються з тими самими проблемами, які знаходять творчі способи ці проблеми вирішити.
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Того першого місцевого WordCamp’у було достатньо, щоб нам захотілося рухатися далі. У 2019 році наша команда поїхала до Берліна на WordCamp Europe — це була моя перша закордонна поїздка за межі звичного для мене маршруту між Фінляндією та Україною. Ми провели кілька днів, досліджуючи місто й відвідуючи конференцію. Масштаб відчувався зовсім по-іншому: тисячі учасників і сотні волонтерів, які усе організовують. Стоячи серед цього натовпу, я зрозумів, що хочу бути частиною цього, і не просто як відвідувач.
А потім почалася пандемія коронавірусу.
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WordCamp Europe 2020 і 2021 років проходили онлайн, і мені здавалося, що вони втратили найголовніше — тисячі людей, зібраних в одному місці, які заряджають одне одного своєю енергією. Тож коли оголосили, що WCEU 2022 відбудеться в Порту, я почав збирати валізу. Цього разу я приєднався до команди волонтерів, щоб побачити WordCamp зсередини. І це було правильне рішення. Для українців це був непростий час — повномасштабне вторгнення вже тривало, і кожен шукав свій спосіб впоратися з новою реальністю. Для мене цей захід став джерелом сили. Я ближче познайомився з українською спільнотою, жваво дискутував зі спікерами й повернувся з відчуттям, що нарешті зрозумів, нашо той WordCamp.
\n\n\n\n╨ó╨░ ╨┐╨╛╤ù╨╖╨┤╨║╨░ ╤é╨░╨║╨╛╨╢ ╨┤╨╛╨┐╨╛╨╝╨╛╨│╨╗╨░ ╨╝╨╡╨╜╤û ╤â╤ü╨▓╤û╨┤╨╛╨╝╨╕╤é╨╕ ╨┤╨╡╤ë╨╛, ╨╜╨░╨┤ ╤ç╨╕╨╝ ╤Å ╨┤╨░╨▓╨╜╨╛ ╤Ç╨╛╨╖╨╝╤û╤Ç╨║╨╛╨▓╤â╨▓╨░╨▓. ╨» ╨╖╨░╨▓╨╢╨┤╨╕ ╨╗╤Ä╨▒╨╕╨▓ ╨┐╨╛╨┤╨╛╤Ç╨╛╨╢╤â╨▓╨░╤é╨╕, ╨░╨╗╨╡ ╤û╤ü╨╜╤â╨▓╨░╨▓ ╨▒╨░╤Ç’╤ö╤Ç, ╤Å╨║╨╕╨╣ ╨╜╨╡ ╨╝╨░╨▓ ╤ü╤é╨╛╤ü╤â╨╜╨║╤â ╨╜╤û ╨┤╨╛ ╨▓╤û╨╖, ╨╜╤û ╨┤╨╛ ╨│╤Ç╨╛╤ê╨╡╨╣ ΓÇö ╤à╨╛╤ç╨░ ╨╣ ╨▓╨╛╨╜╨╕ ╤é╨╡╨╢ ╨▓╤û╨┤╤û╨│╤Ç╨░╨▓╨░╨╗╨╕ ╤ü╨▓╨╛╤Ä ╤Ç╨╛╨╗╤î. ╨ƒ╤Ç╨╛╨▒╨╗╨╡╨╝╨░ ╨▒╤â╨╗╨░ ╨▓ ╤é╨╛╨╝╤â, ╤Å╨║ ╨▓╨╕╨┐╤Ç╨░╨▓╨┤╨░╤é╨╕ ╤ü╨░╨╝╤â ╨┐╨╛╨┤╨╛╤Ç╨╛╨╢. ╨» ╨▓╨╕╤Ç╤û╤ü ╤â ╨║╤â╨╗╤î╤é╤â╤Ç╤û, ╨┤╨╡ ╤ç╨░╤ü ╨┐╨╛╤é╤Ç╤û╨▒╨╜╨╛ ╨▓╨╕╤é╤Ç╨░╤ç╨░╤é╨╕ ╨╖ ╨║╨╛╤Ç╨╕╤ü╤é╤Ä, ╤é╨╛╨╝╤â ╨┐╨╛╨┤╨╛╤Ç╨╛╨╢╤â╨▓╨░╤é╨╕ ╨┐╤Ç╨╛╤ü╤é╨╛ ╨╖╨░╤Ç╨░╨┤╨╕ ╨┐╨╛╨┤╨╛╤Ç╨╛╨╢╤û ╨╖╨┤╨░╨▓╨░╨╗╨╛╤ü╤Å ╤ç╨╕╨╝╨╛╤ü╤î, ╤ë╨╛ ╨▓╨░╨╢╨║╨╛ ╨┐╨╛╤Å╤ü╨╜╨╕╤é╨╕. ╨É ╨╛╤ü╤î ╤Ç╨╛╨▒╨╛╤ç╨░ ╨║╨╛╨╜╤ä╨╡╤Ç╨╡╨╜╤å╤û╤Å ΓÇö ╨╖╨╛╨▓╤ü╤û╨╝ ╤û╨╜╤ê╨░ ╤ü╨┐╤Ç╨░╨▓╨░. ╨ª╨╡ ╤å╤û╨╗╨║╨╛╨╝ ╨▓╨╕╨┐╤Ç╨░╨▓╨┤╨░╨╜╨░ ╨┐╤Ç╨╕╤ç╨╕╨╜╨░. ╨¥╤û╤à╤é╨╛ ╨╜╨╡ ╨┐╨╕╤é╨░╤ö, ╤ü╨║╤û╨╗╤î╨║╨╕ ╨╖╨░╨┤╨╛╨▓╨╛╨╗╨╡╨╜╨╜╤Å ╤é╨╕ ╨╜╨░ ╨╜╤û╨╣ ╨╛╤é╤Ç╨╕╨╝╨░╨▓. ╨í╨░╨╝╨╡ ╤é╨░╨║ ╤Å ╨┐╨╛╨▒╤â╨▓╨░╨▓ ╤â ╨¥╤û╨╝╨╡╤ç╤ç╨╕╨╜╤û, ╨ƒ╨╛╤Ç╤é╤â╨│╨░╨╗╤û╤ù, ╨å╤é╨░╨╗╤û╤ù, ╨¿╨▓╨╡╨╣╤å╨░╤Ç╤û╤ù ╤é╨░ ╨ƒ╨╛╨╗╤î╤ë╤û. ╨¥╨░╤ü╤é╤â╨┐╨╜╨░ ΓÇö ╨å╤ü╨┐╨░╨╜╤û╤Å.
\n\n\n\nВідвідувати WordCamp — це одне. Створювати подібний захід — зовсім інше.
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\n\n\n\n╨ú 2025 ╤Ç╨╛╤å╤û ╤Å ╤ü╤é╨░╨▓ ╨│╨╛╨╗╨╛╨▓╨╜╨╕╨╝ ╨╛╤Ç╨│╨░╨╜╤û╨╖╨░╤é╨╛╤Ç╨╛╨╝ WP Suomi ΓÇö ╨┐╨╡╤Ç╤ê╨╛╨│╨╛ ╨╜╨╡╨╖╨░╨╗╨╡╨╢╨╜╨╛╨│╨╛ ╤ä╤û╨╜╤ü╤î╨║╨╛╨│╨╛ ╨╖╨░╤à╨╛╨┤╤â, ╨┐╤Ç╨╕╤ü╨▓╤Å╤ç╨╡╨╜╨╛╨│╨╛ WordPress, ╤ë╨╛ ╨▓╤û╨┤╨▒╤â╨▓╤ü╤Å ╨▓ ╨ô╨╡╨╗╤î╤ü╤û╨╜╨║╤û. ╨£╤û╤ü╤Å╤å╤û, ╤Å╨║╤û ╨┐╨╡╤Ç╨╡╨┤╤â╨▓╨░╨╗╨╕ 10 ╨╢╨╛╨▓╤é╨╜╤Å, ╨▓╨╕╤Å╨▓╨╕╨╗╨╕╤ü╤Å ╨╜╨░╨▒╨░╨│╨░╤é╨╛ ╨╜╨░╨┐╤Ç╤â╨╢╨╡╨╜╤û╤ê╨╕╨╝╨╕, ╨╜╤û╨╢ ╤Å ╨╛╤ç╤û╨║╤â╨▓╨░╨▓. ╨æ╤Ä╨┤╨╢╨╡╤é, ╨╗╨╛╨│╤û╤ü╤é╨╕╨║╨░, ╨┐╨╛╨┤╨░╤Ç╤â╨╜╨║╨╕, ╨╝╨╡╤Ç╤ç, ╨║╨╡╨╣╤é╨╡╤Ç╨╕╨╜╨│, ╨║╨╛╨╛╤Ç╨┤╨╕╨╜╨░╤å╤û╤Å ╨╗╨╛╨║╨░╤å╤û╤ù ΓÇö ╤û ╤ü╨╛╤é╨╜╤û ╨┤╤Ç╤û╨▒╨╜╨╕╤å╤î, ╤Å╨║╤û ╨╝╨░╨╗╨╕ ╨╖╤û╨╣╤é╨╕╤ü╤Å ╨▓ ╨┐╨╛╤é╤Ç╤û╨▒╨╜╨╕╨╣ ╨╝╨╛╨╝╨╡╨╜╤é. ╨ƒ╨░╨╝’╤Å╤é╨░╤Ä, ╤Å╨║ ╨┐╤Ç╨╛╨║╨╕╨┤╨░╨▓╤ü╤Å ╨┐╨╛╤ü╨╡╤Ç╨╡╨┤ ╨╜╨╛╤ç╤û ╨╖ ╨┤╤â╨╝╨║╨╛╤Ä, ╤ë╨╛ ╨╜╨╡ ╨▓╤ü╤é╨╕╨│ ╨╖╨░╨╝╨╛╨▓╨╕╤é╨╕ ╤ë╨╛╤ü╤î ╨▓╤ç╨░╤ü╨╜╨╛ ╤û ╨▓╨╛╨╜╨╛ ╨╜╨╡ ╨┐╤Ç╨╕╤ù╨┤╨╡ ╨┤╨╛ ╨┐╨╛╤ç╨░╤é╨║╤â ╨┐╨╛╨┤╤û╤ù. ╨æ╤û╨╗╤î╤ê╤û╤ü╤é╤î ╤Ç╨╛╨▒╨╛╤é╨╕, ╤Å╨║╨░ ╤ü╤é╨╛╤ù╤é╤î ╨╖╨░ ╤é╨░╨║╨╕╨╝╨╕ ╨╖╨░╤à╨╛╨┤╨░╨╝╨╕, ╨╖╨░╨╗╨╕╤ê╨░╤ö╤é╤î╤ü╤Å ╨╜╨╡╨┐╨╛╨╝╤û╤é╨╜╨╛╤Ä ╨┤╨╗╤Å ╤â╤ç╨░╤ü╨╜╨╕╨║╤û╨▓. ╨Æ╨╛╨╜╨╕ ╨▒╨░╤ç╨░╤é╤î ╨┐╤Ç╨╛╨│╤Ç╨░╨╝╤â, ╤ù╨╢╤â, ╨░╤ä╤é╨╡╨┐╨░╤é╤û. ╨É╨╗╨╡ ╨╜╨╡ ╨▒╨░╤ç╨░╤é╤î ╤é╨╕╤à ╨┐╤û╨▓ ╤Ç╨╛╨║╤â, ╨┐╤Ç╨╛╤é╤Å╨│╨╛╨╝ ╤Å╨║╨╕╤à ╨╛╨║╤Ç╨╡╨╝╤û ╨┤╨╡╤é╨░╨╗╤û ╨┐╨╛╤ü╤é╤â╨┐╨╛╨▓╨╛ ╤ü╨║╨╗╨░╨┤╨░╤Ä╤é╤î╤ü╤Å ╨▓ ╤ö╨┤╨╕╨╜╤â ╨║╨░╤Ç╤é╨╕╨╜╤â.
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WP Suomi ╨▓╤û╨┤╨▓╤û╨┤╨░╨╗╨╕ ╨▒╨╗╨╕╨╖╤î╨║╨╛ 300 ╨╗╤Ä╨┤╨╡╨╣. ╨ƒ╤û╤ü╨╗╤Å ╨╖╨░╤à╨╛╨┤╤â ╤ü╨╛╤Ç╨╛╨║ ╤â╤ç╨░╤ü╨╜╨╕╨║╤û╨▓ ╨╖╨░╨┐╨╛╨▓╨╜╨╕╨╗╨╕ ╤ä╨╛╤Ç╨╝╤â ╨╖╨▓╨╛╤Ç╨╛╤é╨╜╨╛╨│╨╛ ╨╖╨▓’╤Å╨╖╨║╤â, ╨╛╤å╤û╨╜╨╕╨▓╤ê╨╕ ╨╣╨╛╨│╨╛ ╨▓ ╤ü╨╡╤Ç╨╡╨┤╨╜╤î╨╛╨╝╤â ╨╜╨░ 4,47 ╤û╨╖ 5. ╨É╨╗╨╡ ╨┤╨╗╤Å ╨╝╨╡╨╜╨╡ ╨▓╨░╨╢╨╗╨╕╨▓╤û╤ê╨╛╤Ä ╨▒╤â╨╗╨░ ╨╜╨╡ ╤ü╨░╨╝╨░ ╨╛╤å╤û╨╜╨║╨░, ╨░ ╤é╨╡, ╤ë╨╛ ╨╗╤Ä╨┤╨╕ ╨┐╨╕╤ü╨░╨╗╨╕: ╨╜╨╡╤é╨▓╨╛╤Ç╨║╤û╨╜╨│, ╨░╤é╨╝╨╛╤ü╤ä╨╡╤Ç╨░, ╨╖╤â╤ü╤é╤Ç╤û╤ç╤û ╨╖╤û ╤ü╤é╨░╤Ç╨╕╨╝╨╕ ╨┤╤Ç╤â╨╖╤Å╨╝╨╕ ╨╣ ╨╜╨╛╨▓╤û ╨╖╨╜╨░╨╣╨╛╨╝╤ü╤é╨▓╨░, ╤ü╨┐╤û╨╗╤î╨╜╨╛╤é╨░, ╤Å╨║╨░ ╨▓╤û╨┤╨║╤Ç╨╕╤é╨╛ ╨┐╤Ç╨╕╨╣╨╝╨░╤ö ╨║╨╛╨╢╨╜╨╛╨│╨╛. ╨º╨╕╤é╨░╤Ä╤ç╨╕ ╤å╤û ╨▓╤û╨┤╨│╤â╨║╨╕, ╤Å ╨╖╨│╨░╨┤╨░╨▓ ╤ü╨╡╨▒╨╡ ╤û ╤é╨╡ ╤ü╨░╨╝╨╡ ╨▓╤û╨┤╤ç╤â╤é╤é╤Å, ╤Å╨║╨╡ ╨┐╨╡╤Ç╨╡╨╢╨╕╨▓ ╨╜╨░ WordCamp Helsinki 2017, ΓÇö ╤å╨╡ ╤ë╨╛╤ü╤î ╨╜╨╛╨▓╨╡, ╨╖╨░╤à╨╛╨┐╨╗╨╕╨▓╨╡ ╨╣ ╤ü╨┐╨╛╨▓╨╜╨╡╨╜╨╡ ╨╝╨╛╨╢╨╗╨╕╨▓╨╛╤ü╤é╨╡╨╣.
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Організація WP Suomi допомогла мені значно краще зрозуміти, що стоїть за проведенням таких заходів. Після досвіду волонтера на WCEU, а згодом і головного організатора WP Suomi, я приїхав до Кракова вже з іншим поглядом — набагато краще розуміючи, через що проходять люди, які працюють поруч. Цього року я знову в команді організаторів WP Suomi, але вже в ролі координатора спікерів. Інша відповідальність, інший погляд.
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Краків
\n\n\n\nЗа ці роки WordCamp для мене змінився. Тепер він менше про доповіді на сцені й більше про те, що відбувається між ними. Як організатор, ти все одно пропускаєш більшість виступів, адже тебе одночасно тягнуть у десять різних боків. Але справжнє життя вирує в коридорах і на вечірках після завершення основних сесій.
\n\n\n\nОсобливо важливо це для української спільноти. Війна розкидала нас по всій Європі — різні країни, різні компанії, різні життя. WordCamp Europe став одним із небагатьох місць, де ми можемо знову зустрітися наживо: поділитися тим, що приніс цей рік, побачитися з людьми, яких досі знали лише онлайн, і переконатися, що наша спільнота продовжує зростати попри все. Багато хто не зміг приїхати до Кракова, на жаль дехто вже ніколи не зможе побувати на цих заходах. Для тих із нас, кому це вдалося, ці зустрічі мають особливе значення.
\n\n\n\nСаме про це ми з Данилом співали на світанку біля Bastion III, хоча ніхто з нас не сказав цього вголос. Сподіваюся, колись мені ще доведеться робити це на афтепаті в Гельсінкі та Києві — щойно це знову стане можливим.
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\n\n\n\nJukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress, the people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case how WordPress Credits bridges education and industry in the WordPress ecosystem.
\n\n\n\nIf you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players.
\n\n\n\nIf you have a topic that you’d like us to feature on the podcast, I’m keen to hear from you and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to wptavern.com/contact/jukebox and use the form there.
\n\n\n\nSo on the podcast today we have Ivana ─åirkovi─ç. Ivana is a digital marketer with 18 years of experience working both in and out of the tech industry, and currently leads marketing at WPBakery. She’s an active participant in WordPress events, having attended, and spoken at, numerous local and international word camps over the years.
\n\n\n\nIn this episode, our focus is on the WordPress Credits initiative. We learn how this program, launched by the WordPress Foundation, connects students with real world opportunities to contribute to the WordPress ecosystem, earn certifications, and increase their competitiveness in the job market.
\n\n\n\nIvana discusses her own experience as a WP Credits mentor, working with students as they learn about digital marketing, remote work, and other open source contributions. We explore, how universities can modernise their curriculums, and real world value for students by participating in the initiative, and how businesses can get involved, not just to support the community, but to help shape and discover future talent.
\n\n\n\nThe program’s evolving structure also gets attention, and we learn how students are guided through hands-on activities such as translation or documentation, and how their progress is tracked publicly via profiles on wordpress.org. Ivana shares the opportunities and challenges for both educators and businesses with thoughts on accountability, mentorship, and the need to bring new faces into the WordPress community.
\n\n\n\nIf you’re interested in the future of WordPress, education, or bridging the gap between academia and industry, this episode is for you.
\n\n\n\nIf you’d like to find out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading to wptavern.com/podcast, where you’ll find all the other episodes as well.
\n\n\n\nAnd so without further delay, I bring you Ivana ─åirkovi─ç.
\n\n\n\nI am joined on the podcast by Ivana ─åirkovi─ç. Did I get that right?
\n\n\n\n[00:03:14] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yes. Excellent.
\n\n\n\n[00:03:16] Nathan Wrigley: Thank you. This is my first interview at WordCamp Europe 2026. I’m guessing because we’re on the first day of the event and it’s quite early in the morning, it’s 10 in the morning, I’m guessing you cannot have done your presentation yet?
\n\n\n\n[00:03:30] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Not yet. Tomorrow.
\n\n\n\n[00:03:32] Nathan Wrigley: Do you get nervous with these kind of things?
\n\n\n\n[00:03:34] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: I get nervous all the time. I’ve been doing this for 12 years, it never gets easier. It is what it is.
\n\n\n\n[00:03:39] Nathan Wrigley: Well, the presentation that you are doing is going to be the focus of what we’re talking about today. So do you just want to tell us a little bit about the topic that you’re talking about, but also just give us a bit of a general bio about who you are and what you do. So just tell us about you and about your presentation basically.
\n\n\n\n[00:03:56] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Okay. First thing first, I would like to introduce my presentation, or the talk, that is build up around WordPress Credits initiative, which is something that WordPress has rolled out late last year in December. And I applied to be a mentor to support students into their entering into WordPress. Got accepted, did my courses, passed them and started working with students on their, first entering the WordPress society, how everything works, contributing.
\n\n\n\nAnd out of all of this, I came up with the idea of sharing the story about WordPress Credits. What it is, why it is important, not just for the WordPress community, but also for universities all around the world for businesses to support, because there is an angle and huge opportunity for them too. And hopefully inspire people to join and become part of it more.
\n\n\n\nAs far as I’m concerned, my name is ΓÇèIvana ─åirkovi─ç and I am a digital marketer for 18 years. I’ve been working inside tech organisations, tech industry, but also outside of it. So I’m the multiverse. And lately, for past couple of years, I’ve been working in WPBakery, in marketing their product, and talking to people, sharing knowledge of what we do, how we do it, and so on. In the meantime I am attending many, many WordCamps, local and international ones, giving lectures, giving talks about digital marketing and all things related.
\n\n\n\n[00:05:39] Nathan Wrigley: So are you here at this event, not just to give your presentation, are you also here on behalf of WPBakery to represent them and the products that they have as well?
\n\n\n\n[00:05:47] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yes, we are sponsors. I am speaker, I was table lead for marketing on Contributors Day. So we are wide into the ecosystem.
\n\n\n\n[00:05:56] Nathan Wrigley: I have to say, having only been in this event space for about an hour, I’m actually deeply impressed by this particular event. It really is a gigantic venue. It’s so pleasurable as well to see the WordPress community in such large numbers here. And so we’re looking forward to a really good event.
\n\n\n\nOkay, let’s kick off with the topic at hand then. So it occurs to me that many people listening, whilst they’re using WordPress and they’re kind of, I don’t know, they’re building websites for people, and they’ve got products and plugins and they’re just general users. It may be that the community piece, and the educational piece, is nothing that they’ve heard of before. So would you just tell us a little bit about what WP Credits is as far as you’re concerned, just to give us that broad background of what it is?
\n\n\n\n[00:06:40] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Okay. So WP Credits program is initially made to bring new young people into the WordPress, to broaden the ecosystem with the new fresh blood, new contributors. And to do so, WordPress Foundation initiated this program to connect with universities all across the world. To connect students to some programs, to learn about WordPress through contribution. For that, they will get graded and get certification, which in the end will help them be more marketable, and have more modern knowledge of what is needed in today’s job market, and to be more competitive and more appealing to potential employers.
\n\n\n\nSo by doing so, WordPress Credits aims to broaden the ecosystem, to strengthen the WordPress community, and WordPress itself. But also to put new generations in more marketable place, and to help them get more profitable jobs.
\n\n\n\n[00:07:45] Nathan Wrigley: Thank you. That was a really nice summary. In terms of your personal commitment to it and what have you, how did you fall into it as a thing that you were doing? And is this something that you get sponsored for from WPBakery, or is it personal and simply a sort of philanthropic thing that you are doing on the side?
\n\n\n\n[00:08:01] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yeah, so basically, I’ve been doing education my whole professional life. So it’s something that comes natural to me. In my local country, in Serbia, I do informal education for high schoolers and primary school’s children about digital marketing, digital literacy. This is like very natural to me. I’m being sponsored by WPBakery to do so.
\n\n\n\nAnd the program works like, initiative needs people, needs more mentors to get involved. More than it needs like product and businesses to support with their products. So if there are businesses who are maybe interested in support through their product, know that you need to put your people first to actually get involved and contribute, and then you can offer products as the side piece, so to say.
\n\n\n\n[00:08:52] Nathan Wrigley: So yeah, it seems that you’ve got a lifelong interest in education as well. Okay, that gives me some sort of hook there.
\n\n\n\nOkay, if I was to say WP Credits to the people outside, the people who already knew about it, I think would probably peg it as entirely educational in nature, just an education initiative. But curiously, your presentation, the notes that went with that and the blurb that went on the WordCamp Europe website, you kind of make the point that it’s much bigger than that, and you get into businesses and the students themselves and universities.
\n\n\n\nSo the students in universities bit, well, that’s the education piece. But the business bit, what’s going on there? Because I definitely hadn’t drawn that intuition. I thought education from top to bottom. But business, okay, where does that fit in?
\n\n\n\n[00:09:37] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: I will get the hot insights from the talk. So basically, there is more than what meets the eye, so to speak. Businesses have unique opportunity to shape people they want to employ by getting involved as mentors. They also get the chance to see firsthand how those young minds work in real environments, in real contribution. And they get the chance to pick and choose who they want to employ by seeing them work on some real things. Whether it’s documentation, whether it’s translation or programming, developing something, AI.
\n\n\n\nWe need more people who know what they do, although they are young. By having students in this program, they are working on not fictional things, but actual things that really contribute to community and businesses as a whole. By supporting this initiative, businesses then in relations to that can get more insights into who they want to employ. So on top of that, they are building the better market for themselves as well.
\n\n\n\n[00:10:42] Nathan Wrigley: I guess the student university piece is fairly obvious. You know, WP Credits and the people working on that project communicate with universities, they’re probably easy to find. You know, if you go to a phone directory for example, they’ll all be there. And it’s an easy thing to do. You phone up the university and see if there’s interest. And I know that some universities have taken up the WP Credits program. And it seems to be, as far as I can work out, it seems to be working very successfully.
\n\n\n\nHow are you going to make the connection with businesses? Because that seems like a much more scattered, I don’t know if you’re going to be working with big businesses, you know, huge companies or if it’s going to be kind of more the businesses on the street, the smaller businesses, that kind of thing. So, I’ll just sort of hand it over at that point.
\n\n\n\n[00:11:23] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: So basically, web agencies, businesses around WordPress, we know they have an issue with new employees onboarding last, let’s say three to six months. That cost time and money and other people who are teaching them what needs to be done and how.
\n\n\n\nThen we have WordPress Credit students who are already doing that junior type of work within contribution. They’re already onboarded through using Slack, knowing how to do remote work, what needs to be done. So businesses supporting WordPress Credits initiative can choose those students and spend less time and money and energy in onboarding them because they already went through that by doing WordPress Credits program.
\n\n\n\n[00:12:10] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I guess if you are a small web agency, it’s highly likely that you won’t necessarily have an induction program finely tuned, so that the young people that are coming through have this sort of specialised system where they can get some accreditation. It’s probably more, okay, I’m going to assign you to John this week and then next week you’re going to go over to Susan and follow what they’re doing.
\n\n\n\nSo is there a sort of structured program that, let’s say a web agency based in London could drop into and receive documentation about? Where are we at with that whole process for the busineses?
\n\n\n\n[00:12:44] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yeah, so since this initiative is still fairly new and we already have just one generation of students that are passed the program, this is something in development. So at the moment, we still don’t have like a specific structure that is based just for agencies and businesses in general, but it is something that we are considering and working towards too. So definitely.
\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, the upper management organisational team might not be aware to the fullest what am I about to talk. So it might come as a surprise to them, but also it is something in the works as well. So give us some time and we will come up with something.
\n\n\n\n[00:13:26] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, it feels like that would be something really credible. Because if you’re a small business owner, the last thing you want to be doing is kind of wasting time. And onboarding somebody might be something that you’d have to divert weeks into, you know, syphoning employees off, writing documentation, SOPs, those kind of things. And if you could just pick something up off the shelf that was tried and tested over many years, that would actually be really handy. So good luck. I hope that that initiative comes off.
\n\n\n\nIn terms of students, if you were a student, let’s say you are at a university, or you are looking for work, what would you say would be some of the top line items that you would mention as to why WP Credits is worth looking at? Because, you know, if I’m at a university, there’s probably a thousand different things that I could be doing. WP Credits would be in competition with all of those. Why do you think it’s something that young people should be taking care of to look at?
\n\n\n\n[00:14:17] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yeah, I would think differently, in that sense. Universities curriculums are outdated comparing to the industry that we are living and working in. So WordPress Credits gives something that is in trend. That is happening now that people are using and working now. So students who choose to go to this program are gaining the most efficient and not outdated curriculum, and things that are being worked on in this moment.
\n\n\n\nAnd this is bigger than WordPress. It is initially for WordPress, but the knowledge students get, nobody can take that away. They learn to be outspoken. They learn to use all the necessary remote work tools that is applicable in all the industry.
\n\n\n\nSo we are really encouraging them to be very marketable employees and people who have portfolios, whether they choose that category that brings them portfolio. That is very transparent throughout whatever they do. Because on wordpress.org, every contribution is noted. So they’re building their own business brand by doing WordPress Credits. And in that way they are more marketable and can get more business opportunities.
\n\n\n\n[00:15:42] Nathan Wrigley: I didn’t realise that the wordpress.org profile, is it the profile that you mean?
\n\n\n\n[00:15:47] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yes.
\n\n\n\n[00:15:47] Nathan Wrigley: Each time you participate in one of these credit programs, that will be a badge, for want of a better word, that you can display and it will be freely available for the public. And presumably that will be difficult to acquire. That’s the wrong word. What I mean is, it won’t be simple to acquire. You will genuinely have had to.
\n\n\n\n[00:16:07] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yes, you need to do the work. Let’s say students are interested in translation. So they go to Polyglots team and they get assigned to a mentor who is on weekly basis working with them on onboarding, helping them how to navigate through wordpress.org website, translation, what needs to be done. And basically, for that student, they need to translate to have approved translation, 150 strings approved.
\n\n\n\nSo that doesn’t mean, okay, I will translate 150 words. No, no. You might need to translate 500 words out of which 150 is approved. And this is the bare minimum you need to do in order to get that badge that you contributed. Because that contribution, each contribution needs to be something very specific and tailored to help other people. That is very open and helpful.
\n\n\n\n[00:17:00] Nathan Wrigley: So you mentioned translations there, which obviously is just one of multiple things that you could do, and we could list them all out, but we won’t. How is that curriculum, I’m doing air quotes, how is that curriculum decided upon? In other words, how do you decide, okay, I’m going to do a bit of translation, I’m going to do a bit of work on Core, I’m going to work for the Plugin Review Team? How is that decided? And, how is it decided by the institution, I guess that that’s going to equal something which our university will stamp as part of your degree, let’s say?
\n\n\n\n[00:17:33] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yeah. So basically, that is all arranged between the foundation and universities. You won’t get IT students doing marketing if that’s not their preferable choice. So students opt in. They’re given the whole like curriculum, categories of things they can contribute to. And the one they choose, this is the one they stick to throughout all the programs.
\n\n\n\nSo you cannot switch in between like translation and documentation, or plugins, or WP-CLI whatever. The whole program stick to one chosen category. And that is all aligned with the, let’s say, topic of university. So IT is preferable for IT related contributions. Communications are also more favourable towards translation community, marketing. So it’s aligned that way.
\n\n\n\n[00:18:23] Nathan Wrigley: So flipping that round, so we’ve been talking about it from the point of view of the students. Now let’s just flip it around to the point of view of the university. I guess the same thing applies. They would have to communicate with the Foundation and say, okay, these are the kind of things that we wish our students to do. These particular strands, we will, you know, if they do 500 translation strings, that will count as something. I guess there’s got to be some interface between the Foundation and each university to establish what a credit equals.
\n\n\n\n[00:18:50] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yeah, common ground as to how WordPress Credits adds to the official curriculum of the university. And the thing that university get out of it, they are in position to offer modern, in trend, teachings, and that makes them more appealing to next generation of students. Because the more their existing students who are in the WordPress Credits program are succeeding, the more desirable the university gets to newer generations because they don’t teach outdated curriculums. They’re aligning to what is now efficient and needed in the job market.
\n\n\n\n[00:19:30] Nathan Wrigley: I suppose also as well, when I was at university, there was a choice of about, I don’t know, four things to do each year. Something like that. You could do this or this or this. And you had to pick one of them and that was your pathway. This feels much more wide open because knowing the WordPress ecosystem, I know that there’s dozens, maybe multiple dozens of different things that you could be involved in.
\n\n\n\nSo that’s quite appealing as well, isn’t it? You know, you can just take a little nibble of this one thing, and another nibble of this. And so there’s potentially multiple dozens of different pathways that you could pick. And whilst you say that, once you’ve decided you’ve got to stick to that, well, that’s fair enough, but the fact that you’ve got so many different ways that you could choose. That to me as a university student would’ve been really appealing. The fact that there’s so many different things that you could do.
\n\n\n\n[00:20:15] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yeah. And once they got in, the overall input that we get from students that, first they don’t know that something like this exists. And once they go deep and start work, it’s like, wow. The whole mind just shifts, and they are amazed by all the possibilities that they can do within WordPress that isn’t talked about.
\n\n\n\n[00:20:36] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. And I presume they get to do it in the way that the WordPress community works, which is remotely distributed and when you wish to do it. So long as I, you make the end of the university period of whatever a semester is or something, so long as you make the deadline, you can do it at night or in the early morning or.
\n\n\n\n[00:20:57] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Exactly. So they are training to be like workers as we all are today, that are not restrained with some deadlines or by official university rules. They’re accountable for the final output. How will they come to that output? It’s entirely up to them because, yes, they are young but they’re not so young that they cannot be held accountable for their actions. So they need to do the work. We got weekly mentorships and assessments. So it’s a fun ride.
\n\n\n\n[00:21:31] Nathan Wrigley: So just touching on that, the sort of ongoing support that every student needs, because with the best rule in the world, there’s a proportion of students who will leave everything to the last minute. I’m looking at myself in the mirror when I say that. So that ongoing support, it’s a weekly sort of huddle. And is that like a one-to-one thing or is it a one to many thing?
\n\n\n\n[00:21:50] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yeah, so depending on the number of students, if a mentor has a one or two students, it can be one-to-one. If there are more like five or six, it’s better to have a group meeting on a weekly basis, and then Slack chats in between if anything is more needed than that.
\n\n\n\nSo basically we go through what they did last week, are there any setbacks or they need additional help, or do they need information from other parts of the team? Are they interested in something else? So we are really trying to get them involved in a way that matters to them.
\n\n\n\nOne of the things that each student needs to do, no matter section they chose, is to create a blog and to have weekly blog posts. So we discuss about that. What interests them. Whether they want to be something personal like, or professional like. So it’s very interesting to see how they think and how they express themself and how they build their online persona.
\n\n\n\n[00:22:55] Nathan Wrigley: Do those huddles take place on a, let’s say university by university basis? So for example, when you join and you mentor students, are they from the entire WP Campus project, or are you doing it from the university of this town and the university of that town?
\n\n\n\n[00:23:13] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: No, it’s mixed and matched.
\n\n\n\n[00:23:14] Nathan Wrigley: So, okay, well that’s a real strength as well it feels, because presumably then you’re on a call with people potentially from all over the world. Certainly people that you may not have encountered before. And those sort of serendipitous chance encounters can sometimes be some of the more meaningful ones. You know, work comes out of those things, and meetups come out of those things, and unexpected things come out of those things. So that must be really nice as well, watching those kind of things happen.
\n\n\n\n[00:23:42] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yeah, it’s like nothing I experienced before. And just to have the privilege to talk and work with those people, you never know what can come up out of them, and out of our connections. And I get inspired every time we have chats and they make me want to be a better educator.
\n\n\n\n[00:24:03] Nathan Wrigley: Oh, that’s interesting.
\n\n\n\n[00:24:04] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: So, yeah, that’s my take out of all this.
\n\n\n\n[00:24:06] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. Okay, so there’s actually some psychological benefit for you as well. You get a real nice feeling of it. Okay, that’s really good.
\n\n\n\nSo with the best will in the world, a university, every year there’s a cohort of children, young adults, whatever it may be, whichever institution it is, and a proportion of them will work diligently and hard and they will succeed. And some others maybe not so much.
\n\n\n\nHow does that work? How do you ensure that everybody gets through it? And I don’t know if there’s enough data to answer this question. Again, I’m doing air quotes, how is the pass rate? Do most people that embark on this get through the necessary things? Or is there a fair bit of, I don’t know, discipline, for want of a better word, that needs to be applied and cajoling people to get through it?
\n\n\n\n[00:24:46] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yeah, so I touched base on the accountability. So we have not strict rules, but recommendations. Weekly mentor chats, async communication through Slack. They all have weekly tasks that needed to be done. So if a student don’t answer the message or come to weekly mentor call three times, they are no longer WordPress Credit students. And that is the accountability.
\n\n\n\nYou need to show yourself that you are willing to do the work. So if you don’t care, we won’t force you to do that if you don’t want to. We will set reminders, we will call back, we will reach out. But if you are no show, no tell anything for three times, then evidently you are not for that. You don’t wish to be there, and we won’t force you to be there.
\n\n\n\n[00:25:40] Nathan Wrigley: And then in some way, are you required then to report that back to the institution and sort of say, okay, we’ve reached the end of the road here, and then it’s for them to figure out how that impacts. And presumably the students can.
\n\n\n\n[00:25:53] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Their grades, yeah.
\n\n\n\n[00:25:53] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, their grades what have you, okay. Touching back on the sort of business side, because we’ve dwelled a lot with students and universities and we’re going to stay with students, because that’s really the underpinning of the whole thing. How has the business side of things, is it taking off? You were describing that it’s kind of like a new thing. Have you got any sort of success stories or anecdotal evidence that people do in fact want this?
\n\n\n\n[00:26:15] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yeah, so it’s still fairly new, so we don’t have those anecdotes yet. One of the reasons why I’m here at the WordCamp Europe is to find out and to get new perspective from businesses to like reach out to them to see what they think about the program. Would they want to be evolved. And how to give tips, maybe how we can improve. So stay tuned for more.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:38] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. And it is interesting, when you walk around an event like this, I don’t have the exact numbers, but the demographic is definitely skewing older. There’s not so many 18 year olds. And if this community wishes to carry on, at some point the age demographic will get to retirement age.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:57] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Yeah. Just last night we were talking. I’ve been in the community for 11 years. And for 11 years all the same faces are here. And we really need new faces. But to get new faces, WordPress Credits is one part of the solution. But then again, we need to meet young people where they are. And they are not on the conferences, they are not on websites, they don’t use websites, they don’t care about websites. They are on very specific social media channels. And if we want to get fresh, new, young blood, we need to go there and to present what we do in a way that matters to those kids.
\n\n\n\n[00:27:35] Nathan Wrigley: In terms of success, if you were to, I don’t know, let’s imagine that we could cast our minds forwards five years, let’s go for that. What would you like to have happened with WP Credits? Would you like, for example, to see a bunch of 20 somethings wandering around in an event like this? Does it matter that they’re involved in the community and doing WordPress events and contributing to Core and those kind of things? Or is success just more broadly, people are using WordPress? You know, it’s still a project. What’s your take on, what does success look like in five years?
\n\n\n\n[00:28:08] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: For me, I would like to see more young people involved. Yes, we will always have users because in its core, WordPress is a very useful tool. And I’m happy to stumble upon that tool many, many years ago to use it both personally and professionally. But I really want to see young people involved in a way that we were involved 10, 15 years ago, and to see what can happen with WordPress.
\n\n\n\nI strongly believe it’ll be transformed, not with AI or all other flashy trends. WordPress has always been about people. And we need new people, we need young people to get it where it needs to be.
\n\n\n\nWe are getting older and don’t have strengths or stamina to do so for how many long years. By having new kids, fresh perspectives, I’m really excited to see what they can come up with next.
\n\n\n\n[00:29:08] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, it’s kind of handing over the baton in a way, isn’t it? Seeing what the future holds. Yeah, I definitely have concerns that the age demographic is skewing. And no matter what has happened in the past, I don’t see it being backfilled with younger people moment.
\n\n\n\nBut I think that’s largely because we just assumed that that age demographic would fill itself, because we were excited about it, so the younger generation will be excited about it. Well it turns out the world moved on. And TikTok came along, and YouTube became a massive thing and mobile phones and all the different platforms became a thing. And so the attention was put elsewhere by many young people.
\n\n\n\nAnd so I suppose we needed to come up with a system where we are, in a sense, just putting it in front of their face and saying, look, it’s here. You know, you’re a university student, you are somebody looking for work in a small business. Here’s a credible way of getting involved in something which potentially could change your life. That seems like the most credible way of doing it at the moment. And I guess we’ll just have to see what the next five years brings.
\n\n\n\nIn which case, is there anything that you felt you wanted to touch on that you wanted to get out of this chat before we finished?
\n\n\n\n[00:30:15] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: No, I think you did it masterfully. And we touched base on everything that needed to be said.
\n\n\n\n[00:30:20] Nathan Wrigley: Perfect. In that case, I will say Ivana, thank you for chatting to me today. Fingers crossed that your presentation goes well tomorrow, and that you pack the place out, and that by this time next week, you are extremely busy with the WP Credits program. Thanks for chatting to me.
\n\n\n\n[00:30:34] Ivana ─åirkovi─ç: Thank you. Thank you for inviting me.
\nSo on the podcast today we have Ivana ─åirkovi─ç.
\n\n\n\nIvana is a digital marketer with 18 years of experience working both in and out of the tech industry, and currently leads marketing at WPBakery. SheΓÇÖs an active participant in WordPress events, having attended and spoken at numerous local and international WordCamps over the years.
\n\n\n\nIn this episode, our focus is on the WordPress Credits initiative. We learn how this program, launched by the WordPress Foundation, connects students with real-world opportunities to contribute to the WordPress ecosystem, earn certifications, and increase their competitiveness on the job market.
\n\n\n\nIvana discusses her own experience as a WP Credits mentor, working with students as they learn about digital marketing, remote work, and open source contributions. We explore how universities can modernise their curriculums and add real-world value for students by participating in the initiative, and how businesses can get involved, not just to support the community, but to help shape and discover future talent.
\n\n\n\nThe programΓÇÖs evolving structure also gets attention, and we learn how students are guided through hands-on activities such as translation or documentation, and how their progress is tracked publicly via profiles on WordPress.org. Ivana shares the opportunities and challenges for both educators and businesses, with thoughts on accountability, mentorship, and the need to bring new faces into the WordPress community.
\n\n\n\nIf youΓÇÖre interested in the future of WordPress, education, or bridging the gap between academia and industry, this episode is for you.
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\n\n\n\nExplore the project portfolios built by this yearΓÇÖs AI Leaders
\n\n\n\nWhen the pilot launched, the goal was to test whether open source learning could connect directly to job pathways rather than stopping at a certificate. What makes this program distinct is that it is built on open source from the ground up: students learn on WordPress, contribute to it, and use generative AI the way the WordPress ecosystem uses it every day, leaving with a credential that employers can verify and a community that continues long after the course ends.
\n\n\n\nThe pilot reflects a shared belief that AI and open source skills should be within reach regardless of where someone lives or what they can afford.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWordPress was built to expand access to publishing and participation on the open web.
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The program is a collaboration with distinct roles for each partner. It is funded through the UIC Tech Solutions Open Source Fund, with support from the University of Illinois Chicago and Automattic, while the WordPress project and the WordPress Foundation contribute to the development of the curriculum itself.
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\n\n\n\nThe first cohort was just the beginning. The gathering in Chicago brought this group together with employers and agencies, and further job placements are already in motion.
\n\n\n\nThe next round of AI Leaders is on the horizon. Subscribe for updates to be the first to hear when the next cohort opens and how to take part.
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s truly a testament to how Om lived life to see the outpouring of remembrances in comments on the post and around the web on Techmeme.
\n\n\n\nI do wish he had been more public earlier in his health journey. You never know what you’ll learn. I’ll take that as a lesson for myself if I’m ever in a similar situation.
\n\n\n\nThere have been some great long-form writings about Om:
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- John Gruber ties together Apple, the Yankees, and luggage. “He not busy being born is busy dying, wrote Dylan. Om Malik wasnΓÇÖt busy dying even when he was dying.” \n\n\n\n
- Brian Sirgutz, Curiosity and the Art of Being Seen. On Professor Om & the Malik School for Gifted Omies, Derek Jeter and Truth in Legacy. \n\n\n\n
- Ben Clymer on Hodinkee. “Om changed my life. He did it in many ways, often slowly and with subtlety, always with kindness and eminent belief in me.” \n\n\n\n
- Stacey Higginbotham from the original GigaOM. \n\n\n\n
- Mathew Ingram. \n\n\n\n
- The New York Times did an obituary. \n\n\n\n
- Ryan Merket on RuntimeWire. \n\n\n\n
- Om introduced Krutal Desai as his son. “He had a rare gift of seeing 20 steps ahead while explaining things with remarkable simplicity. He gave wisdom freely, never seeking credit, only wanting to help others succeed.” \n\n\n\n
- Susan Hobbs. “He was a teddy bear to those fortunate enough to know him. […] Om created gravity. He was someone you wanted to be around.” \n\n\n\n
- Helena Price shares her thoughts and an old interview of Om. “If you believe and you canΓÇÖt seem to do anything other than think about something, youΓÇÖve just got to keep doing it. I think the universe has to follow. WhatΓÇÖs the point of living if you donΓÇÖt chase whatΓÇÖs important to you?” \n\n\n\n
- Pradeep Elankumaran. \n\n\n\n
- Naveen Selvadurai. \n\n\n\n
- Christopher Michel. \n\n\n\n
- Jonathan Gheller. \n\n\n\n
- Mamoon Hamid. \n\n\n\n
- Rob Beschizza on Boing Boing. \n\n\n\n
- Brian Sugar. \n\n\n\n
- Hugo Barra on how Om got him to write. \n\n\n\n
- Ian Kennedy, also with some great quotes. \n\n\n\n
- Toni Schneider. “Om was a wonderful person, artistic soul, and original thinker. He was always curious, generous, and warm-hearted.” \n\n\n\n
- Sean Bonner. “[H]is feedback and criticism could be sharp ΓÇô but it was always with the hope that things could be better.” \n\n\n\n
- John Battelle. “Om quickly decided his integrity was more important than the ad dollars he was making with Federated” \n\n\n\n
- Winnie Lim. “Om was one of the very few people in this world I can have an intense conversation about form and content with.” \n\n\n\n
- Glass.photo. “ItΓÇÖs not lost on us that OmΓÇÖs photography, often taken in frozen lands in or around the arctic circle, was the polar opposite of his personality.” \n\n\n\n
- M.G. Siegler. “The true natural born blogger.” \n\n\n\n
- Rod Clark, The Path of the One. \n\n\n\n
- Dina Kaplan, “Om – I say as tears come to my eyes – wanted nothing but to be kind. To be supportive. And to be a friend.” \n
I know I’m missing a ton, I’ll update the above. I also added a few more vignettes and pictures to the last post.
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Yesterday, my best friend and brother from another mother, Om Malik, passed away.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThey say that blood is thicker than water, and what we had was way thicker than blood. ΓÇö Bob Weir
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Om’s request was for a small family prayer ceremony. In mourning, that will be all there is. In celebration and tribute, I love that everyone is sharing their Om stories online, like the writing and photography Christopher Michel shared, which very much embody the OG spirit of blogging that Om pioneered.
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A Renaissance Man
\n\n\n\nI knew Om contained multitudes, but sitting by his side these last few weeks, I’ve been amazed to learn how many deep and completely separate communities he was part of. He meant so much to so many, in so many different ways.
\n\n\n\nOm loved putting on a good conference, and I’d like to celebrate his life with an awesome event on September 29, 2026 (his 60th) in San Francisco, like an OmFest. (Update: Sign up here!) I’ll find a space where every community from the many facets of Om can come together. In the spirit of Open Source and co-creation, we can have some booths, flash talks, a gallery of his photography, pen showcase, and whatever other fun ideas people want to contribute. I can’t wait for the beautiful collision of his tech / journalism / Indian party planner / pen / coffee / shoes / photography circles, and probably some niches I couldn’t even imagine.
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A Few Vignettes
\n\n\n\nI have so much to say about Om, but right now I’m working on moderating comments and keeping his website tip-top, so here are a few snippets:
\n\n\n\nFundamentally, Om was a lover of humanity. He became a fast “regular” everywhere he went. He wouldn’t just buy coffee, he would also learn the name and story of every barista, the dogs and people in South Park. His deep curiosity and respect weren’t just for the fine and famous. It extended to every soul that crossed his path. His encyclopedic knowledge and photographic memory created connections not just in San Francisco, but all around the world wherever we traveled. (I need to pull the stats, but we went to five continents together, including Antarctica.)
\n\n\n\nHe loved people and their stories.
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Om and I were an odd couple. We met online through forums and email because Om was one of the earliest adopters of WordPress. We finally met in person in 2004 when I was 20 and he was 38. He connected me to the first investors I ever spoke to, Phil Black, who formed True Ventures, and Tony Conrad, and introduced me to Toni Schneider, my business soul mate, who became like a co-founder as the CEO of Automattic in our first 8 years.
\n\n\n\nAnd of course on the internet. I don’t know how we would count, but I would guess Om read at least 1 or 2% of the whole thing.
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Om was a voracious learner. I was there when he first used chopsticks, and only a few months later, he knew every sushi restaurant in San Francisco and exactly what he liked at each.
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Om is probably in the top ten in the world for finding things incredibly early. That’s why he has the best usernames! How does one guy get the @om username on WordPress.com in 2005 (user ID 719), Twitter in 2006, Instagram in 2010? The first WordPress meetup was at Chaat Cafe (now Corner) in 2005, 8 people showed up, and Om was one of them.
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One of the biggest lessons I learned from Om is the deep appreciation of craft. When he took an interest in photography or pens, he would somehow find his way to the most obscure, highest-quality expression of that form. “What Would Om Want?” is a question I will always ponder. I want to craft products that would make Om proud.
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Om’s last word was “love.”
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Nothing Gold Can Stay, by Robert Frost
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[00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley.
\n\n\n\nJukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, how WordPress education programs are growing.
\n\n\n\nIf you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players.
\n\n\n\nIf you have a topic that you’d like us to feature on the podcast, I’m keen to hear from you and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to wptavern.com/contact/jukebox, and use the form there.
\n\n\n\nSo on the podcast today, we are joined by three WordPress Education Initiative leaders, Destiny Kanno, Anand Upadhyay and Maciej Pilarski.
\n\n\n\nTogether, they have spent years at the heart of WordPress training and outreach, working in roles spanning community education management, plugin development, and credit program administration. Their efforts have helped shape student engagement and university partnerships across the globe, introducing thousands of learners to WordPress.
\n\n\n\nThe conversation focused on the current landscape of WordPress education with particular attention to three key initiatives, the WordPress Credits Program, Campus Connect, and Student Clubs.
\n\n\n\nEach initiative is designed to provide unique entry points for students of all ages and education levels. From high schoolers building their first site in a library to university students earning official credits for open source contributions.
\n\n\n\nWe discussed the different approaches these programmes take. WP Credits ties student work directly to academic credit and mentorship. Campus Connect provides flexible, community driven, events in diverse locations and Student Clubs foster sustainable, peer led, learning within schools and other institutions. We explore how these models feed into each other, building a sustainable ecosystem for ongoing growth in the WordPress community.
\n\n\n\nWe also get into the importance of repeat campus partnerships, the need for scalable facilitator training, and the role of recognition, certificates, badges, and public showcases in keeping students motivated and validated in their journey.
\n\n\n\nIf you’re curious about the growing movement to bring WordPress knowledge to the next generation, or are looking to get involved with education in your local community, this episode is for you.
\n\n\n\nIf you’re interested in finding out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading to wptavern.com/podcast, where you’ll find all the other episodes as well.
\n\n\n\nAnd so without further delay, I bring you Destiny Kanno, Anand Upadhyay and Maciej Pilarski.
\n\n\n\nI am joined on the podcast by Destiny Kanno, by Anand Upadhyay and Maciej Pilarski. Hello, one and all. Nice to have you with us.
\n\n\n\n[00:03:29] Destiny Kanno: Hello. Thank you.
\n\n\n\n[00:03:30] Anand Upadhyay: Hello.
\n\n\n\n[00:03:31] Maciej Pilarski: Hello.
\n\n\n\n[00:03:32] Nathan Wrigley: So a few months ago, back in, I think it was September 2025, I was joined by two of the three participants on the call today. I was joined by Destiny and I was joined by Anand. We were also joined at that point by Isotta, but she’s not on the call today. We’ve obviously got a wonderful replacement, Maciej who’s going to do a fabulous job explaining the bits and pieces here.
\n\n\n\nBut the intention of that episode, which you can find on the WP Tavern website, it’s episode number 183, was to find out about all of the overlapping education initiatives in the WordPress space. And it was born, I think, largely out of a sense of curiosity on my part, but also a somewhat sense of confusion, because there were lots of things which were going on. Some of them seemed to be slightly overlapping. There was a conflict of names in some cases. So that episode was laying out the groundworks of what has been happening in the WordPress space.
\n\n\n\nWhen that conversation finished and we’d click the stop record button, I said, that was absolutely fascinating. This seems to be moving at such a rate, wouldn’t it be good to revisit this whole subject in about six months time?
\n\n\n\nWell, we missed that target, but here we are, maybe eight months later. I think my intuition at that point was correct, because being a close observer of what’s going on in the WordPress community, I think it’s fair to say that the educational space has been somewhat turbocharged during the last eight months.
\n\n\n\nAnd so today’s episode, with the help of the three people I’ve just mentioned, is to describe what’s going on, what’s changed, maybe some things that have been mothballed, but certainly a lot of things that are new and interesting and have gained a lot of momentum.
\n\n\n\nBut I think, dear listener, the intention of this episode is to get you involved. Is to get to the end of this episode and for your curiosity to have been turned into action. To have gotten you out of your chair, written an email, turned up to an event, helped organise a thing.
\n\n\n\nSo please have that in the back of your mind. If you’re sitting listening to this in a car, at your desktop, there is actual action that could be taken at the end of this. I think the intention of all four of us on this panel would be dearly for that to happen.
\n\n\n\nOkay, let’s establish the credentials of the people that we’re going to be talking to today. So we’ll just do a little potted bio of you one at a time. So we’ll begin with Destiny, if you could just tell us a little bit about you, your relationship with education in the WordPress space, I suppose would be apropos.
\n\n\n\n[00:06:01] Destiny Kanno: Yeah, absolutely. So again, Destiny Kanno. I’m currently working as an education program manager sponsored by Automattic. And I work directly with the Make WordPress Community Team. And I also work adjacently with the training team as well, because education training materials, they go pretty hand in hand. And I’ve been doing this now for about four years and, yeah, it’s just evolved since my original time working on Learn WordPress, and that relaunch that happened, to now, yeah, these wonderful programs that are spreading like wildfire as you said.
\n\n\n\n[00:06:37] Nathan Wrigley: Fantastic. Thank you so much. Okay, we’ll move over to Anand for the same sort of introductory moment.
\n\n\n\n[00:06:43] Anand Upadhyay: Yes. So my name is Anand Upadhyay, and I run the WordPress plugin development company, WPVibes. Apart from that, I’m very much involved in the WordPress community and I contribute in multiple ways. It can be documentation, it can be Core, Polyglots. But I’m also keenly involved in the community part, and specifically I can say with the education initiatives, I started with WP Campus Connect in WordPress Campus Connect in 2024. And since then, after that we started joining hands with Destiny and we started evolving this program in a much bigger shape. So that’s it.
\n\n\n\n[00:07:16] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. Thank you so much. And last, but by no means least, Maciej.
\n\n\n\n[00:07:20] Maciej Pilarski: Yeah. Thanks for having me. My name is Maciej Pilarski. So I’ve been doing anything related to WordPress pretty much since 2007, so that’s been a while. But the biggest breakthrough for me was 2014 when I actually volunteered to WordCamp Europe in Sovia, Bulgaria. That opened my eyes to the whole community, everything that is happening around WordPress.
\n\n\n\nAnd since then, pretty much I’ve been working for multiple companies from the WordPress ecosystem. I joined Automattic in 2016. For many years I’ve been a Happiness Engineer, and since October last year, I’ve joined Isotta as one of the admins of the WordPress Credit program. And since that time, I will have been helping her out to grow that initiative.
\n\n\n\nAnd Destiny mentioned, it spreads like fire because at that time we had six universities onboarded, now we are at 21. The 21st, we got it after WordCamp Asia actually through a connection made there. And it’s our first institution from Africa, from Uganda. A huge shout out to Stephen Dumba, who I connected with during the event. And after that, pretty much a week after we signed our first partnership from Africa. So we’re actively growing and getting new institutions on board.
\n\n\n\n[00:08:42] Nathan Wrigley: Thank you so much. Gosh, there was an awful lot in there, wasn’t there? That was really interesting. We’ll try and unpack quite a lot of that.
\n\n\n\nFirstly, a sort of slightly personal message from me. I don’t usually reveal much about myself on this podcast. I take the position that I’m a, kind of like an interested party, but don’t really give much of my own thoughts. However, this is different because I cannot think of a more interesting, meaningful, moral, let’s go with that word as well, use of time than educating people. It simply is the most profoundly useful thing to do with your life.
\n\n\n\nNow, obviously people will have different opinions about that, but the juxtaposition of free open source software, in this case WordPress, and education is a real sweet spot for me. I just think that is such an amazing thing to be involved in, to have going on in the background.
\n\n\n\nIf you think about it, an open source project, like how many open source projects have this level of stuff going on in the education space, this real international footprint. Things going on which we’ll find out about in a minute. It’s really fascinating.
\n\n\n\nAnd I am sure that the listenership to this podcast, the vast majority of people listening will never have encountered much of this before. Maybe they’ve seen stuff on Learn because they want to technically learn about WordPress in an online capacity, but we’re going to be delving into real world events affecting real adults, real youngsters.
\n\n\n\nAnd so anyway, that’s my little bit at the beginning, just how curious it is that the project is so big that we’ve got this international footprint of education. And so I suppose what we should do right at the beginning is lay out the different initiatives and just name them, and try to figure out how they differ from each other. Just so that we’ve got some kind of awareness.
\n\n\n\nSo I don’t know which one of you wants to take that, but if maybe you take one each or something, I don’t know. If we just want to lay out the, just erect that tent basically so that we know what the initiatives are called, and how they differ from one another. So I’ll open that up. Whoever wants to step in.
\n\n\n\n[00:10:48] Maciej Pilarski: I can start with the Credits Program. So the Credits Program is based, it’s a contribution based program, internship, initiative by the WordPress Foundation that connects higher education students with the global open source community. So basically it’s an opportunity for the students as part of the educational curriculum to contribute to the WordPress community.
\n\n\n\nThere are two types of courses that the students can do. One of them is 50 hours, the second one is 150 hours. Usually the students do that during a full academic semester. And as part of that, students are first onboarded into the WordPress ecosystem and the wider open source ecosystem where they learn not only about WordPress, but open source as a whole, and how crucial it is for the internet.
\n\n\n\nThen the second phase is picking the contribution area to which they would like to contribute. All the contributions areas basically are the ones that are listed at make.wordpress.org. So any team that is listed there, students can pick from that area. During that phase, they work on a particular area that they have selected.
\n\n\n\nAnd finally, during phase three, they wrap up the whole achievements, the contribution, what they did, they publish a final post. And what is also very important as part of the credit scores, students have also assigned a mentor from the WordPress community that guides them through the whole process. We don’t leave them alone. We connect them with actual mentors from the WordPress community that are vetted by us, that guide them through the whole journey into the contribution and the whole WordPress ecosystem.
\n\n\n\nSo it works on multiple levels. For me, this connection is also special because it builds this bridge between the previous generation of WordPress contributors to the new one where they are introduced and can start working on any fields of contribution.
\n\n\n\nWhat is also important is that this is not limited to technical universities. Pretty much any type of university can participate in the program. The first university that we started with was University of Pisa, and it was the humanity studies. So the students from humanity field were the first group who started the Credits Program. There’s room for pretty much anyone from any field.
\n\n\n\n[00:13:18] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. There’s a lot there. Wow. I’ve just been taking notes and I’ve almost filled an entire A4 page. So WP Credits, the WordPress Credits Program, I guess the name sort of gives it away. The idea here is that you trade time for university or higher education credit. So credit being, I suppose if you were to atomise your three year degree, you might do, I don’t know, 12 modules or something like that. The idea is that one of those modules, perhaps it’s more, becomes something in the WordPress, but also curiously the free open source software space as well. I didn’t actually know that.
\n\n\n\nThe idea is that you link up with real world institutions. So the first one was Pisa, and maybe we can get into which other ones have come along. And in exchange for 50 hours or 150 hours, you will be given that credit, which can then go to the overall awarding of a degree or whatever it is that you are hoping to get.
\n\n\n\nYou’re then linked up with team members, WordPress community team members who will mentor you and shepherd you through this process. And the idea is that it culminates, I think you said in a final post, which I suppose in a sense is a bit like a dissertation or something like that, you sum up all the different bits and pieces. Yeah.
\n\n\n\n[00:14:29] Maciej Pilarski: Once that happens, the students also receives an official certificate from the WordPress Foundation, signed by Matt himself, that certifies that they completed the course. And what is also important to know, the whole progress through the course and what they did during the course, it’s also stored on the wordpress.org profile. So any contributions that they did, for example, photos that they’ve uploaded, this all will be visible on the wordpress.org profile. And they also receive a special badge dedicated to students who graduated from that program.
\n\n\n\nSo it really gets them started into the WordPress ecosystem, and at the same time creates something like a small portfolio for any future company that would like to, for example, hire them. Because they have a proven history of contributing to the ecosystem.
\n\n\n\n[00:15:20] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, so that’s an interesting quid pro quo, isn’t it? So the idea is you do all this work, which on the face of it, I suppose looks very philanthropic, you know, you’re giving up your time, but you get a real thing at the back end of it. You get a certificate. You can then presumably apply for jobs and indicate, okay, I’ve done this, I’ve contributed in this meaningful way.
\n\n\n\nWhat I think is really interesting there, and it kind of gets lost, I’ve worked in education in the past and I know the red tape that’s involved in doing anything in the education space. There is so much red tape. And I can only imagine what’s happened in the background to enable these kind of things. You know, the back and forth, the tennis of emails that go on and on and the proof that’s required to categorically show that this thing that we are doing is worth something. You know, it’s not just this Mickey Mouse. We use that expression, Mickey Mouse kind of qualification that really, it doesn’t actually require any hard work. It’s just there, nothing really in it, but you get an accreditation anyway.
\n\n\n\nI can only imagine the hard work that has gone in every single time you touch a new institution, trying to convince them that this is legitimate, that this is real. You’ve just kind of glossed over all of that by just describing what is in existence, not necessarily what has gone on to make it happen. I know that there’s probably more than the three of you involved in this, but my profound thanks for all of that hard work, which presumably is utterly and completely invisible. And I can only imagine what’s going on there. So yeah, thank you for all of that.
\n\n\n\n[00:16:54] Maciej Pilarski: Thank you for that.
\n\n\n\n[00:16:54] Nathan Wrigley: So that was WP Credits. So that was one wing of the things that we’re going to discuss today. Should we move on to another one and maybe somebody else wants to take the helm?
\n\n\n\n[00:17:03] Anand Upadhyay: I think Destiny can take Campus Connect and then I will take Student Clubs.
\n\n\n\n[00:17:06] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. Destiny, let’s move over to you and see what you can tell us about something different.
\n\n\n\n[00:17:11] Destiny Kanno: Yeah, so I’d love to tell you more about WordPress Campus Connect. And the way we ended with WordPress Credits, I think is also very critical to the story of Campus Connect because, you know, it started with Campus Connect first, and that’s how organisers such as Anand and Pooja like were able to get those connections with the universities through being boots on the ground, you know, having those relationships. Proving through action that these activities that we’re doing with the students are having real impact and are showing real results.
\n\n\n\nSlowly building up these kind of case studies in a way has helped open a lot of doors, especially with Campus Connect now, we’ve done a lot of events, especially since we last talked. Like I think this year alone, we’ve already had 22 Campus Connect events. So, like it’s not even half the year and it’s quickly becoming one of the biggest run events, WordPress official series.
\n\n\n\nBut these events are like a way of opening the door, right? Hey, here’s a free learning opportunity for your students. And as you said, like the red tape is there. A lot of institutions are like, wait, so what’s in it for you? Why is, there’s a little bit of dubiousness sometimes in the reaction, right? You’re going to give your time to educate our students, why? But once they see, it’s like, no, we really are just passionate about spreading WordPress, showing students what’s capable with their website, how it applies to different skillsets as well. Like it’s not just for coders, it is for marketers, it is for designers.
\n\n\n\nYou know, there’s so many career opportunities that once we just get the foot in the door and we’re able to showcase that, a lot of institutions are like, okay, now I get it. I do want to highlight in Anand’s case, like they’re going to have their third WordPress Campus Connect in Ajmer this year. You’ve got repeat institutions. I’ve heard you also have institutions that are like, when are you going to come to our place and teach WordPress? You know, once the fire is lit and people see how bright and shiny it is, like people want to get involved.
\n\n\n\nBut as you said, like getting it to click for people, that is like the most difficult part. And I’ll give an example of, right now in Japan, we had our first WordPress Campus Connect event on the 9th of May. So I’m like, woo hoo. Like it finally happened. But we have this community in Japan that is like very passionate, very active. So when I first was like introducing the concept of Campus Connect, people were like, okay, but like how do we do this? What’s it about? It takes like a lot of presentations, a lot of going to people in person and talking. Helping them even shape the conversation that they’re going to have with the institution to sell this amazing gift of WordPress on their campus.
\n\n\n\nAnd after this one on the ninth, like now we have a case study in Japan that others can now use to be a starting point for those conversations going forward. So I think, once you have that one step, the gate just slowly opens until it’s just, the doors bang open in each way. But yeah, we’ve seen really great success with Campus Connect and it’s just like honestly, it just keeps growing.
\n\n\n\n[00:20:30] Nathan Wrigley: Can I just ask a quick question? So I just want to draw a very clear line for everybody that’s listening to this, what the difference may be between Campus Connect and WP Credits. Because from the description that we’ve had so far, it may be that you’ve fallen into the trap of thinking, well, they sound like they might be the same thing. So could you just, Destiny, just tease out where Campus Connect differs? Maybe in the nature of the event, the timing of the event, the availability, the age group, those kind of things that separate WP Credits from the Campus Connect initiative.
\n\n\n\n[00:21:02] Destiny Kanno: Yeah. Thank you, that’s like a really great distinction to make. So whereas WordPress Credits is geared toward higher education, Campus Connect is geared toward, honestly any level of students as long as they’re able to browse the web safely, and enjoy and participate.
\n\n\n\nSo that means, Elementary school students now are pretty good at devices. High school students, college students, vocational students. We honestly kept the door pretty open in terms of what a campus means. We’ve even had a Campus Connect event in Uganda in a library, the Lira Public Library because students were able to go there right?
\n\n\n\nWe were trying to make it as barrier free for students wherever their campus is. And so that’s, I think, the main difference. It’s more wide ranging in terms of who can participate as a student. And then also the fact that it could be a one-off event, so a one day event. A lot nowadays are multiple day events, they’ll maybe go two times out of a month, or a couple days consecutively. And then after that it’s up to really the organisers in the institution whether or not we have another addition on their campus the same year, or the next year.
\n\n\n\n[00:22:15] Nathan Wrigley: I’m going to tease out a few things. I just want to point out to, me as an English person, that is to say, not an English speaker, but somebody from England, campus has a really defined definition, and it’s usually bound to a university. Whereas it sounds like the description here, campus literally means the place where education happens, not it’s 18 years old and older, you know, people doing degrees, bachelors and PhDs and that kind of thing. Basically, if there’s an institution somewhere, that’s what the campus is in this case. Okay.
\n\n\n\nSo the WP Credits program sounds like you forge your relationship with the university, and correct me if I’m wrong, it sounds like it takes place inside that institution, and it’s part of that program and what have you.
\n\n\n\nThe Campus Connect initiative is much more ad hoc. It could be a one-off, it could be monthly, it could be inside a library, it could be inside the school, it could be an inside an institution. It feels a bit more like, I don’t know, a WordPress Meetup, but geared towards a younger audience or something like that.
\n\n\n\nAnd the minimum age requirement is really driven by your capacity to type on a keyboard and hold a mouse and those kind of things. And that’s kind of curious to me because I think my educational experience was always younger children. It’s really interesting how patterns are laid down at a very, very early age. Patterns that go on into much later life get laid down, typically at incredibly young ages. So this is fascinating for digging into that.
\n\n\n\nAnd it’s not just about, say, the code, it sounds like code is on the menu, but it could be about marketing, it could be about design. Basically the gamut of anything online, CMSy, those kind of things. Okay, is there anything you want to add? Did I misunderstand anything there, or misstate anything there?
\n\n\n\n[00:24:02] Destiny Kanno: No, I think you’re completely right. We’re trying to convey that WordPress isn’t just a blogging software that I think is still a lot of people have a mentality of. Like there are many ways to utilise it that goes beyond that.
\n\n\n\nAnd one thing I did want to add are a couple numbers. So since WordPress Campus Connect became official in May of 2025, an official WordPress event series, I should say, we’ve had 42 completed events, with 71 participating institutions, and over 5,500 students have been reached.
\n\n\n\n[00:24:37] Nathan Wrigley: That’s something else. 42 events, 71 institutions, and I think you said five and a half thousand individuals. Good grief. I don’t know what the measure of success is for this, but that feels like success to me.
\n\n\n\nI mean, imagine turning up to a WordCamp, like a flagship WordCamp and five and a half thousand people descending on you. You’d feel slightly overwhelmed. That’s a lot, isn’t it? Gosh, that’s pretty remarkable. Wow. Congratulations.
\n\n\n\n[00:25:05] Destiny Kanno: And the majority, the outcome, the students make a website. So we could almost count those students as also new WordPress websites that are live now on the web. So within a year, organisers around the world have been able to make that happen.
\n\n\n\n[00:25:19] Nathan Wrigley: Could I just perhaps draw another distinction as well, just very quickly, because it sounds like the WordPress Credit system, because it’s binding itself to institutions, it sounds like there might be more paperwork going on there, and maybe more high level meetings that need to take place. Whereas Campus Connect feels much more community driven. It’s the kind of thing that, quite literally, anybody listening to this podcast with a fair wind could have one of those going in a handful of months. If they’ve got the right initiative and they can find the audience for that.
\n\n\n\nAgain, is that about right? There’s sort of more opportunity to become involved with the Campus Connect initiatives. You don’t need to have that academic background or have a point of contact at a university. You basically just need a building, some interest and a bunch of students.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:02] Destiny Kanno: Yeah, the key thing is, you know, having a real connection to the campus that you’re going to present at. But you’re exactly right. We tried really hard to lower the barrier to organise these events. Because I don’t know if you’ve organised a WordPress event before, there’s kind of a lot of hoops you have to jump through. And we’re like, okay, how can we think about this in a different way?
\n\n\n\nAnd I think that also has positive repercussions for how we organise other events too, that are, changes are being thought about too so that we can enable people and empower them to put these events, instead of bogging them down and process and a little bit of bureaucracy to say.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:38] Nathan Wrigley: So what’s really curious about that as well is we’re all in different parts of the world, aren’t we? People on the call today are in Japan and I’m in Europe and, Anand, are you in India? I think.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:47] Anand Upadhyay: Yeah.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:47] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. Each of those events, I guess would look quite different. The kind of nature of the attendees, the nature of the kind of building it might be in, the institution. And it really is, you just grab what’s around you I suppose, and work with that. If you’ve got a connection to an institution, you can go for it. Maciej, I feel like I crosstalked you. I think you wanted to say quite a few times and I’ve just interrupted. I’m very sorry.
\n\n\n\n[00:27:08] Maciej Pilarski: No worries about that. So I wanted to add that those initiatives set backgrounds for each other. Because in some uni institutions, the interest sparks with a Campus Connect event, and that gets the institution interested in those initiatives, which sets background for WordCamp Credit.
\n\n\n\nAnd it happens also the other way around, where we start with an institution that starts credits and then we get the students interested in WordPress in general, the community, which leads to a Campus Connect event during the Credits Program. What is important is that those initiatives don’t compete with each other. They support each other.
\n\n\n\n[00:27:51] Nathan Wrigley: Right, so there’s a lovely virtuous cycle there, isn’t there? Where the two things can be going on in harmony, one promoting the other and they’re definitely not in competition. Okay. That’s really interesting.
\n\n\n\nOne final question on Campus Connect, and I’ll direct this at Destiny, just because she’s been handling that. With the WP Credits thing, there is this moment where you hold the certificate in your hand and you go, yay, did it.
\n\n\n\nIs the same thing true of Campus Connect or is it more of a show up to the one event, you know that you did that, that was great, you can file that away in your own head as a thing? Or is there some sort of accreditation, or certificate giving, or badge giving, or profile updating that might go on on wordpress.org? Is there any sort of thing that the attendees receive, and I suppose that the people that are organising might receive as well?
\n\n\n\n[00:28:37] Destiny Kanno: Yes. So we do have a certificate of participation that students can receive signed by WordPress Foundation Executive Director, Mary Hubbard. And that just needs to be requested by the organisers ahead of time, because we need to get the signature and all that. So yes, they can come away with that. And we’ve heard really positive things about that, like it motivates them. They’re like, yeah, I did something, which they did.
\n\n\n\n[00:29:01] Nathan Wrigley: There we go. That was WP Credits and WP Campus Connect.
\n\n\n\nCan I just say at this point, dear listener, if at this point you’re thinking hang on a minute, there’s a lot going on here, don’t worry, there’ll be show notes. If you go to the WP Tavern website, there’ll be show notes. I’ll try to list out as many sensible links to get you to the root of each one of these initiatives, so that you can begin your journey and fan out from there.
\n\n\n\nI’m not sure what episode number this will be, but if you just go and search for, oh, I don’t know, Destiny or Anand or Maciej, you could probably find the episode that way. And all the show notes will contain all of the links.
\n\n\n\nRight, in which case, I think it might be Anand’s turn. What have you decided to take on Anand?
\n\n\n\n[00:29:39] Anand Upadhyay: So I will be sharing my thoughts on the third part of this whole education initiative ecosystem. So that is a Student Club. Just a few minutes before you were giving the analogue of meetup with this Campus Connect. So I would like to share the same analogue with us because we are more accustomed with like other terms of WordCamps and Meetups and contributer days.
\n\n\n\nWordPress Campus Connect is kind of like a WordCamp happening in the campus, because it’s like a big day event that holds everything happening, different kind of sessions, maybe workshops happening. So I would compare it with that thing.
\n\n\n\nAnd same way, credits thing, Credit Program is kind of like ongoing contribution series because more focused on the contribution part because the student devote 150 hours of their program. A lot of period goes to the contribution.
\n\n\n\nAnd now the same way we, if we talk about the Student club, it’s similar to like the Meetups that we have. But these are the in campus meetups for the students and by the students. How do things get started? Like the Campus Connect introduce the WordPress to those campuses and to those students, but since most of the campus, it’s a once in a year event. So once this event has sparked something about the WordPress in the students. So keeping that momentum going on, that’s where the Student Clubs come in.
\n\n\n\nSo with the Student Club, it’s kind of like, as I mentioned, it’s like an in campus meet program. So a student can gather themselves, they can form a club and a couple of students can be nominated as club organisers, student club organiser from their campus. And then they organise the in-campus events, maybe like once in a month or twice a month, depending on academic calendar. There are a lot of hurdles in doing those things continuously.
\n\n\n\nBut they usually do once or twice a month. They do a kind of a meetup in their campus. The students gathered together. They learn from variable resources available from WordPress. And from those resources, they share with the other students. It’s kind of a group learning, group study, that we use. Education live, we always do that. It’s kind of a group study. They’re learning from themselves. If someone has learned something, they are helping others to learn those things.
\n\n\n\nSo I would just like to give some of the examples from my city. There are multiple Student Clubs are going on. When we went to the campus, we just taught like a small group of students about the WordPress, because we’d have some limitations of the resources, of the setting arrangement. We cannot call all the students of the campus and, okay, come together and I have a amazing workshop. So we have given the WordPress walk through to the limited number of students.
\n\n\n\nAfter that, they form a Student Club in their campus because they got very much interested. Then the first session they did was like, they started teaching to their juniors, like the students who have just entered the campus. They took a session for them. So they told, whatever we have told them, they have taught the same thing to the juniors.
\n\n\n\nAfter that, in the next few session, they experimented different things. Like in some session they’re just doing a fun quiz around WordPress. And in some sessions they are doing a kind of like a, I would say like a hackathon kind of thing. So they are just picking up a website. Or you can, just similar to the speed build challenge that Jamie do. So they have just one website open on the screen and everybody’s like cloning that website.
\n\n\n\nSo there are different ways students are engaging through those student clubs. So it is helping to keep the momentum going on so that the student keep learning about WordPress and they are also connecting with the community members for the guidance about how they can learn more. What should they learn next if they are sharing their experience. Like we have covered these things and, what should we go next?
\n\n\n\nAnd in the recent WordCamp Asia, they’re also one of the Student Club lead from my city. She joined the event and there are conversation with the, like other community members who has offered them like, okay, we can come to your campus, or we can do, have a webinar for your campus where we can teach you particular subjects, particular topics. Maybe they can talk about SEO, maybe they can talk about plugin development.
\n\n\n\nSo this is also opening the horizon for them, to learn from people across the world. So that is how the Student Clubs are happening. The examples I’ve gave, again, from my own city because I’m closely mentoring them, but there’s similar things are happening across the world.
\n\n\n\nSo it is helping to create a kind of sustainable environment for the long-term sustainable environment in the campus. So the next time when we go to that campus, we are not going to teach like the basics of WordPress, because we want like, the ecosystem should be built within the campus, so every student know about the WordPress. Because last time when we went to the campus, we have to tell everything about WordPress because why you should learn WordPress.
\n\n\n\nSo the Student Clubs, my ambition is that, wherever the Student Club is from, next time a Campus Connect event is happening, next time we should not tell them about what is WordPress and why they should learn this thing. There should be already a sustainable ecosystem.
\n\n\n\nAnd I feel that all these three programs are like very much interconnected. And the real impact of these programs, we will be able to see in the next two or three years. And there will be a regular ongoing activities around WordPress in the campus.
\n\n\n\nAnd these are also kind of a balance program as well. Like the Campus Connect is introducing WordPress to the students, Credits Program is motivating them more towards like the contribution part. And I would say that Student Clubs is more inclined towards getting new users to the WordPress. Because if we keep on focusing on the contribution, contribution, but if we discard the like increasing the number of new users, so we are not going to win. We need a balanced state.
\n\n\n\nThe Student Club is trying to, learning how to build website, how to mastering the skills of the WordPress. And later on, many of them are going to join the contribution part as well.
\n\n\n\nSo this whole ecosystem is built around bringing more people to the contribution, bringing more people to use WordPress, build websites, as in, for the individuals as a business as well. So that’s how all these three programrs are very much interconnected, and growing together fast.
\n\n\n\n[00:35:16] Nathan Wrigley: It feels like, of the three things that we’ve talked about, so WP Credits, Campus Connect, the Student Club, this final one that you’ve just covered, it feels like that’s got a very flat hierarchy to it. In other words, there’s like this peer learning. So it feels like more or less anybody can show up and demonstrate anything, which might then lead to somebody else thinking, okay, that was interesting, I’ll take on next month’s one because I’ve now seen that’s doable. Less hierarchy, if you know what I mean? So a much more flat structure.
\n\n\n\n[00:35:45] Anand Upadhyay: Because when we started Campus Connect, we also get a lot of attraction in the local community as well. And people join our Meetup groups. But then it becomes difficult for us, how to plan about the topics for our meetup. We have some experienced professionals coming in. We have some students coming in, and we plan the topics that suits the professionals. The student will feel like, okay, what’s they’re talking, we are not getting anything in our mind. If we bring the topics, very basic topics and the professionals who are joining the community meetups, they’ll feel like, okay, these are very basic stuff, why am I coming here?
\n\n\n\nStudent Clubs giving them their own platform, giving them a own opportunity. Okay, these are all the familiar faces. It is also giving the opportunity to come on the stage, come onto the stage and get out of your fear as well. It is also generating leadership qualities in them. Okay, we have to keep this momentum going on and we have to keep the activities going on. So there are a lot of ways, apart from learning WordPress, there are a lot of other ways it is helping the students as well.
\n\n\n\n[00:36:40] Nathan Wrigley: When you have to stand up in front of a bunch of people and deliver something, obviously there’s a whole bunch of us that are just really confident at doing that, quite happy to stand up and do that kind of thing off the bat. But equally, there’s people for whom that is just the most terrifying experience possible. You know, standing up in front of two or three people, oh boy, you know, anything above that is just off the books.
\n\n\n\nAnd I was just wondering about that, whether or not there’s, in this particular style of event, the Student Club, whether there is a growing corpus of, I don’t know, previously done topics or topic suggestions or slide decks or anything like that, which might enable people to feel that level of confidence? I don’t know if that’s something which is being put together. Just resources which enable somebody who doesn’t have the confidence, let’s go with that word, who then may gain that confidence. And I’m going to pass this to Destiny because she’s waving her hand.
\n\n\n\n[00:37:30] Destiny Kanno: I was really hoping I could shamelessly plug this project. This is like, you’ve said the most opportune thing. So I’m actually developing right now what I’m like tentatively calling the Meetup Activity Library. It comes with like kits on certain topics. So for example, WordPress Playground was the first one I built. But it comes with the facilitation guide, which is a doc. So the facilitator can read through, understand the steps they’re going to go through in the activity, how to pace it. And then a presentation deck which they would display, if that’s available to them, to the folks that they’re presenting to. And it’s a hands-on activity only. So it’s not only presentation. The facilitator of course guides and talks them through things, but then people are getting hands-on experience with that topic along the way.
\n\n\n\n[00:38:16] Nathan Wrigley: That is a beautiful remover of barriers, because I think just having that little document, that little crutch, you don’t have to feel that you, okay, I’ve got to come up with a topic. Not only have I got to come up with a topic, but then I’ve got to research the topic, deliver the topic. If you can have it all on a thing that you can crib from, I don’t know, it just arms you with that confidence as you walk in. I think that’s such a brilliant topic. And, Maciej.
\n\n\n\n[00:38:40] Maciej Pilarski: Both Destiny and Anand mentioned two keywords, sustainability and facilitator. The goal of also getting all those educational initiatives going is also create in a sustainable way. We’re not pushing for numbers, but growing them in a smart way where we don’t get too many students so we get overwhelmed. We need to have enough mentors to accommodate those students, and also enough facilitators to be able to scale the program, to grow it in the future.
\n\n\n\nAnd it’s exactly what Destiny is now doing, the Facilitator Training Program, which gets more people from the educational sectors, community organisers, everyone on board, to jump on those educational initiatives and help us to grow. Because the number of every, all those students involved in participating in those programs is increasing and we need to be able to accommodate them. And through the Facilitator Training Program, this allows us to do that.
\n\n\n\n[00:39:42] Nathan Wrigley: It’s so interesting in open source software spaces as opposed to corporate spaces. I suppose the metric of success for anything like this in the corporate universe would be how many people showed up and gave us money in exchange for this knowledge or, you know, something akin to that. Basically a metric of humans in a room and money gained. And of course, the measurement of this is so not that.
\n\n\n\nI did wonder, Destiny obviously very proudly rattled off the statistics for Campus Connect, you know, the five and a half thousand attendees and all of that. I wondered if there were success criteria of some kind in the background, which guide you. You know, it’s not like, okay, well we didn’t meet that we’re going to abandon it all. But more, things like you would like to see happen, so aspirational goals. It sounds from what Maciej was saying that maybe the attendance growing slowly over time is some kind of measure of success. Maybe there is none of that, but I’ll just open that one up to see if you want to take that.
\n\n\n\n[00:40:38] Destiny Kanno: I think one definite measure of success is repeat events on certain campuses. So if the campus is saying, we love that, please come back, or please come again soon. I think that is a really great indicator that, not only did the students get something great out of it, but the school believes in it. And that’s what we want to do. We want to create these systems that, not only bring people into WordPress, but also continue this cycle of, you know, growth within the community, but also ownership by the institution.
\n\n\n\nAnother measurement of success is the institution is like, okay, great, how do we learn how to do that ourselves? So we have some folks now working in the institution that are organising WordPress Campus Connect events that are helping facilitate these Student Clubs. So the faculty and educators themselves, they’re directly getting involved. And that for us as community members too, whose volunteer time is quite limited, as Maciej was saying, like it is a great multiplier that makes everything much more sustainable.
\n\n\n\n[00:41:45] Maciej Pilarski: So from the WordPress Credits perspective, we don’t hope all the students to turn into contributors. That would be amazing but that might not happen. I can share with you some numbers. So currently we have 450 students globally enrolled. For the whole program so far, 75 graduates.
\n\n\n\nWe hope that some or as many as possible of those graduates who completed the program will stay and become active contributors to the WordPress community, stay engaged.
\n\n\n\nThat’s one of the goals we are aiming for the Credits Program, to not just get this done, but this is building the next generation of contributors. We know that like we are ageing, we’re getting older every year. We are not getting younger, unfortunately. Getting those students staying in the community allows us to build those next generations of WordPress contributors that will also have completely different perspectives to how the community functions, how it was built.
\n\n\n\nWhat brought us here might not move us forward. So these new students will bring us this new, fresh perspective of how they would like the community to function and move it to the future, to be current, to stay up to date with what’s happening globally.
\n\n\n\n[00:43:00] Anand Upadhyay: That’s why it’s very difficult to like measure the impact in numbers because how it is impacting in the longer term. But yeah, it’s going to impact. And I would say also, like Destiny mentioned, one of the metrics is like this campus is willing to have the Campus Connect again and again in the campus.
\n\n\n\nSo I just want to share one more. Like I just recently got a call from one of the faculty coordinators from one of the campus where we have a Student Club. And now they have like two months of vacations. And he called me like, okay, now the vacations are going on, students will not be here, so what can we do for the students to keep their involvement with the WordPress in those two months? So can we do something online? Can we do something like this?
\n\n\n\nWhen we get these calls, these kind of communications, that these are interactions that we have, this gives us a sense of like accomplishment. Okay, yeah, we were able to create some kind of interest in the students. Because we cannot expect that if we are going to like any campus and 100 or 200 students are participating in our Campus Connect, they are all going to jump into the WordPress. They are getting a lot of different kind of opportunities as well.
\n\n\n\nThere are other technologies as well, which are, some students are going into that, some students are going into that. But we are showcasing the WordPress as one of the career opportunities. And they have a choice of multiple options, so they will choose what they do. But yeah, the impact will be seen in the next few years. Just like Maciej said, mentioned that he went to the WordCamp as a volunteer and it’s bring him into the community.
\n\n\n\nAnd the same is with me. I attended the WordCamp and just after coming out of the WordCamp, I started the Meetup group in my city. So I got inspired from that. So that is a result of that WordCamp. And that cannot be measured in the numbers. That can only be sensed when we are doing this kind of conversation. Okay, that WordCamp helped me, that WordCamp helped me.
\n\n\n\nThe same way in future, these students who will join the community or the WordPress industry, they will be talking about, okay, I got first introduced about WordPress through a WordPress Campus Connect event or I got introduced to the contribution through WP Credits Program. So when these conversation will be happening in the future, then we will say that those are the real metrics that we are looking for.
\n\n\n\n[00:45:00] Nathan Wrigley: That’s really interesting, and I like that. It sounds like there’s not so much a focus on statistics, you know, literal, brutal numbers, more kind of playing it forwards and measuring the impact over many years, not, you know, a handful of months into the future.
\n\n\n\n[00:45:15] Destiny Kanno: So yes, we’re not like, okay, here’s our KPIs, you know, and here’s our hard metrics. But one thing I really noticed that our community is, it could be better at doing, is just talking about what happened. Because then you hear all these success stories and there are numbers in that. So like for example, Ajmer again, Women’s Day event this year. 50% of tickets sold were to students. And that’s directly because of the involvement in going to these campuses and teaching WordPress. And I’m like, that’s amazing, that’s direct injection of 50% youth into the WordPress community.
\n\n\n\n[00:45:52] Anand Upadhyay: And they sold out so fast.
\n\n\n\n[00:45:53] Destiny Kanno: And they sold out really fast, yeah.
\n\n\n\n[00:45:55] Anand Upadhyay: The organisers were hoping like, now we have to pitch out to sale our tickets. And they have planned a social media campaign around that. Okay, we will be periodically pitch a student on the social media to encourage the ticket purchase. And within one day, we sold out. And the whole social media campaign was like their whole planning was gone. We don’t have tickets.
\n\n\n\n[00:46:14] Nathan Wrigley: It’s really interesting that there’s all this success going on, and yet, as Destiny said, it is hard to get that discovered. Maybe it’s a case of shouting louder about the previous success. Maybe things like this podcast will help in some small way for things like that.
\n\n\n\nBut I know what you mean. There’s a lot of people talking about the code, and there’s a lot of people talking about the plugins and the themes and whether or not we’re going to get collaborative editing in version 7 or 7.1. All of that seems to suck up all of the oxygen in the room. And yet, without a throughput of, let’s go for young adults, coming into the WordPress space, there’s not really a great deal of hope for a project over decades unless we get people of a much younger age beginning now. And I’ll just hand the torch to Maciej because I think he’s got something to add.
\n\n\n\n[00:47:05] Maciej Pilarski: But this is also changing because at WordCamp Asia, we were able to introduce the educational table during the contributor day. And I’m also organiser of WordCamp Europe that’s going to happen really soon in two, three weeks, beginning of June. And during WordCamp Europe, we will also have a contributor table, dedicated to education, but for the first time also educational track.
\n\n\n\nDuring the second day, we will start the whole day with topics related to education. We will have a discussion panel rethinking learning in WordPress that Mary will be participating. And later in that afternoon, we will have actual students, who take part in the program. Sharing the experience, presenting the results. Not only students from universities, but I’m also leading a group of high school students who’ve been working for the whole past semester with a teacher on some projects related to WordPress building websites. So they are super eager and excited to show them.
\n\n\n\nWe will also showcase some students, teachers stories, how both of those sites motivated each other, learn from each other, and basically help us keep growing the community.
\n\n\n\nSo WordCamp Europe definitely will feature some of those things. And we’re slowly introducing more and more those things into those flagship events and into the broader community.
\n\n\n\n[00:48:28] Nathan Wrigley: Really nice. Yeah, that’s really nice to hear. I think it’s a difficult circle to square, the idea of making this stuff visible so that everybody’s aware of it. Even if they’re only interested in running their agency, or writing code or whatever it is. Maybe to realise that this is some version of the underpinnings of the WordPress community without which the software ultimately doesn’t exist.
\n\n\n\nAnd it is quite curious. I don’t know if I’m reading between the lines here, I think I’m not, but I get the impression that, I’m going to use the phrase like, I don’t know, from higher up, let’s put it that way. It feels like education is taking a more central place. It feels like for example, Mary Hubbard, it feels like you’ve got a real advocate there. Again, I could be reading between the lines, but it feels like the words coming out of her mouth, I hear the word education coming out of her mouth quite a lot when she’s on stage.
\n\n\n\nSo it feels like you’ve got some big hitters, let’s go with that. I don’t know if you’ve got anything you want to add to that, but it feels like the importance of this is more profound this year than it was a few years ago.
\n\n\n\n[00:49:33] Maciej Pilarski: You are correct. Mary is a big supporter of that and she also created this space for us to grow those initiatives that like allows us to grow that. Isotta started the first Credits Program at the Pisa University as an experiment. And from there it was proven that this actually works. It gets us universities and new contributors.
\n\n\n\nAnd then on the other side, there was those Campus Connect events that also organically grew up on their own. So basically there was a need. It feels like there was this hive mind somehow that worked also for all of us. All of us felt this need to introduce those things. It looks like we’ve reached a certain growth level for the community that we organically felt that that’s the direction that we should start heading.
\n\n\n\n[00:50:24] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. What’s interesting there as well is that it very much overlaps with maybe a concern. So we’ve touched on this at various points without saying it out loud quite. If you go to, and I’m going to exclude WordCamp Asia 2026 from what I’m about to say, because that event was very different. If you go to a typical WordCamp, the age skews, and I’m doing air quotes, older. You don’t typically look around and see a bunch of teenagers.
\n\n\n\nSo that’s a concern. There’s this, like a pyramid, like a reverse pyramid, and if we don’t get the younger people coming up, the edifice of this entire project kind of becomes a lot more shaky. And we’ve lived through 22 plus years of WordPress, and I think quite a lot of those people began, a lot of the people who’ve been involved in the community began their careers using WordPress and they’ve kind of moved through WordPress as it’s evolved over those 22 years.
\n\n\n\nAnd not to, I don’t know quite how to say this. At some point they’re going to stop contributing. Their age will become something, you know, they want to retire or they want to move on or do some other things. Unless we build the scaffolding and put things in place so that young people feel they’ve got a place here, feel that, I don’t know, some proprietary system is not the way they want to go, they want to support the ethic of open source.
\n\n\n\nUnless these building blocks, these educational building blocks are put in place, then that’s going to be a bit of a concern. So to your point, Maciej, it organically grew. And what a nice thing that it did kind of organically grow because it’s sorely needed at the same time. There isn’t really a question in there. But anyway, there’s my observation. Anand, did you have something to say? I think you did.
\n\n\n\n[00:52:04] Anand Upadhyay: Yeah. So just want to add that thing you have raised recently. So the way that we want to teach the students about the open source as well, because if you go to the WP Credit curriculum, so the initial lessons, they learn through the, given to them to learn from the learn.wordpress. So it’s all about like open source ethics, and how the WordPress community, WordPress project works.
\n\n\n\nSo this opens up their mind about the open source. Because in the education system, it is something that is not clearly mentioned. There are simple, just simple definitions around the open source. But open source is much more than those definitions.
\n\n\n\nAnd especially the open source community like WordPress. It’s more about the people. So the students also learn about how the community is working, how the people are working from the different time zones, people are joining hands for running the bigger events like WordCamp Asia or these Credits Programs. The students will learn all those things as well, and I’m sure when they will join as a contributor in the future, they will have lot of experience before joining as well.
\n\n\n\n[00:53:02] Nathan Wrigley: Thank you. I love that expression, by the way. You just dropped it in in the middle of a sentence there. You said people are joining hands. What a perfect summation of the entire enterprise being discussed today. Maciej, you raised your hand.
\n\n\n\n[00:53:14] Maciej Pilarski: Yeah, and besides the community goals and keeping it going, I have also a very personal goal that also is behind all of those things that I do. From my own experience, I had a pretty difficult and bumpy educational path, let’s call it. Unlocking those possibilities for those students, helping them out, making it easier for them, it’s one of my very personal goals, because I know it does not need to be very difficult or crazy when you study, especially when you are young. You’re not sure fully which direction you would like to go. So creating for them, one of those opportunities that might click for them is also something very personal and close to my heart. Because not everyone needs to struggle or have like difficulties, so.
\n\n\n\n[00:53:58] Nathan Wrigley: I am so glad you said that because that encapsulates all of it. That’s the entire point. It’s got to be that, right? So we’ve spent a long time talking about the minutiae of this, that, and the other thing. It all goes, like they’re spokes on a wheel. And the whole point is that little bit in the middle, which is the child, the adult, the human being somewhere who just wants to make use, wants to grow, wants to learn things, wants to figure things out.
\n\n\n\nWith open source, with this kind of learning, there is potentially zero impediment, or at least very few impediments to actually get that learning underway. And so I think maybe we lost sight of that in this conversation a little bit. So I’m glad that you grounded it there, Maciej, right towards the end. That’s perfect. Destiny, was there anything you wanted to say? I don’t know if you were indicating that you did.
\n\n\n\n[00:54:48] Destiny Kanno: I know we’re like probably over time, but there’s still so much to share. Like even thinking about keeping WordPress relevant, right? For us and then also for youth. I think about the new AI Leaders Credential that was announced and is being worked on. And how tying WordPress to AI is like really helping students engage more, and see like the relevancy of it in a different way. Not even for the students, like for me, that’s challenging me and I think other organisers and learners of WordPress to be adaptable and think about WordPress differently in a new way of this year as AI keeps advancing.
\n\n\n\nAnd then you were also talking about wins, right? How do we celebrate that? I did want to surface, we have the Education Buzz Report, which goes out every month, which aims to try to surface all of these educational wins that are happening in the community. And I just have received some further collaboration from marketing to hopefully also broadcast that on our socials going forward so that we do get the word out.
\n\n\n\nAnd lastly, like celebrating the students too. There was a post that went out about the Student Clubs and the success. And we just want to make sure that in this, that they feel seen, right? And that this feels like a space for them. And I know WordPress Credits, we’re working on something to showcase, no, something went out recently. A post went out recently to showcase some of the successes of the students. And we just want to keep highlighting that as well. Because their work and the way they operate, especially because they’re coming in with different lenses, is really important to showcase and highlight and make sure that they feel like they deserve that.
\n\n\n\n[00:56:26] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, there was a post, I’ll try and link to it. I think it was like a week ago about the Student Clubs. There were three or four images, three or four photos and there were so many smiling faces in those pictures. It was absolutely lovely. Lots of people gathered in classrooms. I couldn’t exactly tell where, but it was just so nice seeing people kind of enjoying WordPress, having a nice time, bit of camaraderie, hanging out with each other, learning things. It was absolutely wonderful.
\n\n\n\nUnfortunately, I think time might have got the better of us. Hopefully, dear listener, what you’ve gained is an understanding that there’s so many layers to this educational initiative. It doesn’t appear to be in any way standing still. It’s growing. It’s interesting. There’s a lot going on, and you can be involved.
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\n\n\n\nThis giant edifice that you maybe know nothing about, and maybe at the end of this episode, some parts of you is tuned in and thinking, I would like to be involved in that. And the truth is, you can be. It’s all available to you to get involved and you could start today.
\n\n\n\nSo there we go. With that said, I’m just going to say a great big thank you to Destiny, to Anand, and to Maciej. It kinds of feels like we need to come back. Let’s do it again in six months or so, and we’ll see where we’re at. Oh, I’ve got a lot of nodding faces. That’s nice. So maybe we’ll revisit this in a few months time.
\n\n\n\nBut seriously, from the bottom of my heart, Destiny, Anand and Maciej, profound respect to you and all of the different things that you are doing. Thank you so much for chatting to me today.
\n\n\n\n[00:58:13] Anand Upadhyay: Thank you.
\n\n\n\n[00:58:13] Maciej Pilarski: Thank you.
\n\n\n\n[00:58:14] Destiny Kanno: Thank you.
\nOn the podcast today weΓÇÖre joined by three WordPress education initiative leaders, Destiny Kanno, Anand Upadhyay and Maciej Pilarski.
\n\n\n\nTogether, they have spent years at the heart of WordPress training and outreach, working in roles spanning community education management, plugin development, and credit program administration. Their efforts have helped shape student engagement and university partnerships across the globe, introducing thousands of learners to WordPress. You can see their bios further down.
\n\n\n\nThe conversation focused on the current landscape of WordPress education, with particular attention to three key initiatives: the WordPress Credits Program, Campus Connect, and Student Clubs. Each initiative is designed to provide unique entry points for students of all ages and education levels, from high schoolers building their first site in a library, to university students earning official credits for open source contributions.
\n\n\n\nWe discussed the different approaches these programs take: WP Credits ties student work directly to academic credit and mentorship, Campus Connect provides flexible, community-driven events in diverse locations, and Student Clubs foster sustainable, peer-led learning within schools and other institutions. We explored how these models feed into each other, building a sustainable ecosystem for ongoing growth in the WordPress community.
\n\n\n\nWe also got into the importance of repeat campus partnerships, the need for scalable facilitator training, and the role of recognition: certificates, badges, and public showcases, in keeping students motivated and validated in their journey.
\n\n\n\nIf youΓÇÖre curious about the growing movement to bring WordPress knowledge to the next generation, or are looking to get involved with education in your local community, this episode is for you.
\n\n\n\nUseful links
\n\n\n\nPrevious episode of the podcast related to this episode:
#183 ΓÇô Destiny Kanno, Isotta Peira and Anand Upadhyay on how WordPress is shaping the future of education for students worldwide
Welcome to WordPress Campus Connect
\n\n\n\nStephen Dumba’s WordPress.org profile
\n\n\n\nWordPress Credits: Contribution Program for Students
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWordPress Campus Connect in Ajmer
\n\n\n\nPeer Review Needed: Hands-On WordPress Meetup Activity Library
\n\n\n\nIntroducing the WordPress Facilitator Training Program
\n\n\n\nPiloting the AI Leaders Micro-Credential
\n\n\n\nMonthly Education Buzz Report ΓÇô May 2026
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWordPress Student Clubs Build Momentum
\n\n\n\nLinks provided by the guests
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- WordPress.org Education page:
https://wordpress.org/education/ (and all subpages) \n\n\n\n - WordPress Credits Institution application form:
https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/wordpress-credits-contribution-internship-program/#get-involved \n\n\n\n - Call for WP Credits mentors and mentor application form:
https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/wordpress-credits-contribution-internship-program/a-guide-for-wp-credits-mentors/call-for-mentors/ \n\n\n\n - Any companies interested in supporting the Credits Program:
https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/wordpress-credits-contribution-internship-program/get-involved-company-guide/ \n\n\n\n - Student form to apply their institution for the Credits Program:
https://airtable.com/appIzQKfwTn5dyPVp/shr6Gf1mMMEAxevw4 \n\n\n\n - WordPress Facilitator Training Program \n\n\n\n
- Education buzz reports: https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/education-buzz/ \n\n\n\n
- Apply to organize a WPCC event: https://events.wordpress.org/campusconnect/organize \n\n\n\n
- Apply to create a student club: https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/education/student-clubs/request-the-creation-of-a-wordpress-student-club/ \n\n\n\n
- Ai credentials:
https://wordpress.org/news/2026/02/ai-leaders-credential/ \n
Guest bios:
\n\n\n\nDestiny Kanno
\n\n\n\nDestiny Fox Kanno, sponsored contributor acting as a Community Education Programs Manager at Automattic. Destiny works closely with the Community team and Training Team, with a focus on growing, enabling and amplifying WordPress Campus Connect, Student Club, WordPress Credits and other education initiatives.
\n\n\n\nAnand Upadhyay
\n\n\n\nAnand Upadhyay is a long-time WordPress contributor and community advocate based in Ajmer, India. Active in the ecosystem since 2010, he has contributed to several Make WordPress teams including Core, Docs, Community, and Polyglots, with a strong focus on empowering others to get involved. He is the founder of WPVibes, a WordPress plugin development company that builds performance-driven tools for WordPress and WooCommerce users.
\n\n\n\nAnand is also a regular WordCamp speaker, Meetup organiser, and someone deeply committed to bringing WordPress education to students. In 2024, he launched the first WordPress Campus Connect event, which went on to become a global program officially recognised by the WordPress Foundation. Anand continues to support and mentor student communities through events, workshops, and open-source advocacy.
\n\n\n\nMaciej Pilarski
\n\n\n\nMaciej Pilarski is a Community Wrangler at Automattic, where he works on WordPress.org with a focus on educational initiatives that connect the next generation of contributors to the global WordPress community.
\n\n\n\nAs one of the admins behind the WordPress Credits Program, Maciej works with universities across Central & Eastern Europe and Asia to bring students into open source contribution, pairing them with mentors, building institutional partnerships, and helping turn academic coursework into real-world impact on software used by 43% of the web.
\n\n\n\nOriginally from Poland and now based in Okinawa, Japan, Maciej brings a uniquely cross-cultural perspective to community building, bridging local ecosystems in places like Krak├│w, Riga, Tallinn, and Tokyo with the wider WordPress world. He’s passionate about making open source contribution more accessible and making sure the WordPress community reflects the full diversity of the people who use it.
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If you’d like to learn more about this, check out this part of the A Way with Words podcast, and apparently, it might have come from the musician John Gaar.
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Cupid in Flight
48ΓÇ¥ x 48ΓÇ¥ Giclee print on archival paper.
Cupid in Flight
48ΓÇ¥ x 48ΓÇ¥ Giclee print on archival paper.
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Location:
82 Main St. Brooklyn, NY
Date:
October 24, 2021
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Date:
October 24, 2021
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