WordPress Podcast (English)

Without warning, Matt has decided to shut down the WordPress Sustainability team, which was created just two years ago.

With Automattic’s involvement decreasing to just 1% of what it was before, the open-source WordPress project is going to be negatively affected.

After the two-week technical break for WordPress.org, everything is back to normal operation following the holiday pause.

Influential voices in the WordPress community continue to make proposals on how WordPress.org should evolve from now on, while Matt continues to mock the project’s contributors.

For the first time in 21 years, WordPress.org has partially closed sections of its website, supposedly to give its contributors a break.

On December 16, 2024, from Tokyo, the State of the Word 2024 took place, the annual event where Matt Mullenweg summarizes everything that has happened in the WordPress world.

Since 2020, the implementation of an API to help with cookie consent and other privacy-related elements has been up in the air. Now, this open and pending issue is being revisited.

The Polyglots team has released an improvement to the GlotPress tool that enables bulk translations of strings.

Now that WordPress 6.7 is available, the roadmap for all WordPress releases throughout 2025 is being outlined.

The WPdrama of the legal battle between Automattic and WP Engine continues, just before the hearing for the preliminary injunction.

The new major version of WordPress has arrived, and it comes with some issues related to local edits and network congestion.

Before the final release of WordPress 6.7, two release candidates have been launched to fine-tune the details for the final release.

Finally, the Data Liberation project will be implemented on WordPress Playground and now has its base structure so that anyone can start developing on the tool.

The WordPress theme repository reaches an important milestone: its first 1000 available block themes.

Now that the time is approaching for the first release candidate of WordPress 6.7, we already have most of the new features that this version will include.

The departure of Josepha Haden as Executive Director of the WordPress project has paved the way for the arrival of Mary Hubbard, also from Automattic after her tenure at TikTok.

The expected release of WordPress 6.7, which will include the Twenty Twenty-Five theme, continues to be marred by the war between Automattic and WP Engine.

In recent days, a WPdrama has begun that is shaping up to be a historic moment for WordPress, involving Automattic and WP Engine.

The tool for creating WordPress sites on the fly, WordPress Playground, has launched a manager that allows managing multiple instances simultaneously.

What better than a plugin that reviews the quality of other plugins before they are published in the WordPress repository?

Knowing who, what, how, and when contributions are made to the WordPress project is one of the goals the Community has set to improve its health.

There are only 2 months left until the release of WordPress 6.7, and the roadmap is ready, focusing on what this version could bring.

With the release of Gutenberg 19.1, one of the most anticipated APIs is here: the ability to register a template from a plugin.

Jamie Marsland joins as the Head of WordPress YouTube to oversee content creation.

As the preparation for WordPress 6.7 approaches, so does the third edition of the Mentorship Program, which is now seeking new participants.