Cleaning up Slack channels, GitHub repositories, database versions, and establishing AI development foundations are among the proposals from a week dedicated to tidying up the WordPress project. Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from June 23rd to 29th, 2025. Doing a bit of general housekeeping, and following criteria for repositories under the official WordPress GitHub organization, all repositories were cataloged and evaluated…

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Since December 2022, security updates were provided from version 4.1 onwards, but now only version 4.7 and above will receive security updates. Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from June 16th to 22nd, 2025. It was back in December 2022 when WordPress announced it would cease providing retroactive security support for versions 3.7 through 4.0. Two and a half years later, the minimum…

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The ticketing and organization tool for WordCamps has become outdated after several years without changes, prompting a proposal for its update. Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from June 9th to 15th, 2025. One of the pillars supporting the organization of WordCamp events throughout the years has been CampTix, the ticketing management system that has enabled organizers around the world to…

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WordPress has defined a set of clear principles and steps to determine if a project should be hosted or migrated under its official GitHub organization. Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from June 1st to 8th, 2025. WordPress has defined a set of clear principles and steps to decide whether a project deserves to be hosted or migrated under its official GitHub organization.…

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Introducing a new team within WordPress: Make Core AI. Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from May 25th to June 1st, 2025. WordPress has announced the creation of a new team dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) within its ecosystem. This team aims to accelerate and coordinate AI projects across the entire platform, ensuring innovation aligns with community values and core WordPress standards. Forming…

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In the past year, there has been an 80% increase in new plugin submissions for approval, many of them related to artificial intelligence. Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from May 19th to 25th, 2025. In the past year, new plugin submissions to the WordPress directory grew by 87% compared to the previous year, practically doubling the rate observed since September 2024.…

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The WordPress website has added links to all its social media channels in its footer. Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from May 12th to 18th, 2025. WordPress.org has updated the footer of its website to include icons for all its active social platforms: X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, and Tumblr. This was achieved thanks to several contributors…

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It’s been just over a year since the creation of the Media Corps working group, and though it had already been inactive for several months, it now officially comes to an end. Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from May 5th to 11th, 2025. The Media Corps experiment, launched in March 2024, was intended to help independent WordPress media professionals produce high-quality content…

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The minor-update phase for WordPress 6.8 has begun, starting with a first release addressing several bugs. Remember that you can listen to this program from Pocket Casts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts or subscribe to the feed directly. Program transcript Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community. In this episode, you’ll find the information from April 28th to May 4th, 2025. And, as planned, it happened. Last Monday, April 28th, the Release Candidate for WordPress 6.8.1 was launched, followed 48 hours later by the final version of this branch, which ultimately fixes 15 bugs, five of…

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