Starting Tuesday, March 4, the first beta version of WordPress 6.8 will be available, revealing the initial details of the upcoming major release. 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 February 24th to March 2nd, 2025. On Tuesday, March 4, WordPress 6.8 beta 1 will be released, marking the beginning of the 8-week cycle leading up to the final release. Although no major…

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The strategy of the Core team up to WordPress 7.0 will focus on maintaining the platform with few changes in new features, while continuing to advance the editor. 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 February 17th to 23th, 2025. At WordCamp Asia 2025, the Core table met to emphasize the need to reorient WordPress development toward smaller, more concrete projects, with a…

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The WordPress photo directory has reached 20,000 reviewed and freely available images under a Creative Commons license. 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 February 10th to 16th, 2025. The last two versions of the experimental plugin for the WordPress editor, Gutenberg 20.1 and 20.2, continue preparing improvements in DataViews, as well as some enhancements such as showing the menu name in…

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The legal battle for control of WordPress continues, and this time, hosting companies are the ones receiving the notices. 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 February 2nd to 9th, 2025. The WordPress 6.8 version, which will be released on April 15, 2025, will focus on improving core features, especially those related to the block editor and user interaction. The update will introduce…

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The legal battle for control of WordPress continues, and this time, hosting companies are the ones receiving the notices. 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 January 27th to February 2nd, 2025. The official community event sponsor review process receives a new notice, which began in November when the battle between Automattic and WP Engine was at its peak. Automattic is using…

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The next minor version of WordPress will be released on February 11 with some small changes to fix 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 January 20th to 26th, 2025. The next minor version of WordPress now has a date: WordPress 6.7.2 will be released on February 11, with a release candidate available the week before, on the 4th. The task list…

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Without warning, Matt has decided to shut down the WordPress Sustainability team, which was created just two years ago. 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 January 13th to 19th, 2025. It was in June 2022 when, during the Q&A session after Matt Mullenweg’s presentation, the later Team Rep, Nora Ferreirós, asked about the possibility of creating a channel or platform…

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With Automattic’s involvement decreasing to just 1% of what it was before, the open-source WordPress project is going to be negatively affected. 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 January 6th to 12th, 2025. WordPress 6.8 is already on track to move forward. The team that will lead this next major version of WordPress has already been announced, with marketing and version…

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After the two-week technical break for WordPress.org, everything is back to normal operation following the holiday pause. 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 December 30th 2024 to January 5th 2025. Following the holiday break announced by Matt on December 20, during which certain services like user registrations, new plugin, theme, or photo submissions were paused, all services were restored just before January…

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