Host city applications for WordCamp India 2027, the project's fourth flagship event, close at the end of June, with an announcement expected in early August. The event is targeting an October–December 2027 window → make.wordpress.org/community/20... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Automattic is producing a documentary short about the open web, with flagship premieres in San Francisco and New York scheduled for July. → codeforthepeople.com (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Cheltenham WordPress meetup organizer Elliott Richmond says the post-pandemic speaker shortage at local meetups has created a self-reinforcing spiral → elliottrichmond.co.uk/where-have-a... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Casey Burridge, Strategic Growth and Operations Manager at GravityKit, argues the two pillars of WordPress plugin value — support and updates — are both being commoditized by AI, → caseyrb.com/blog/what-ar... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

The WordPress community is rallying around long-time Automattic engineer Eric Binnion, who has been given a six-month prognosis after his stage 4 esophageal cancer progressed through first-line treatment. → www.gofundme.com/f/standing-w... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

The WordPress Community Team has admitted it has no data on whether its $400-per-event WordCamp advertising grants actually drive attendance, and is asking organizers for help figuring out what works. → make.wordpress.org/community/20... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Local meetup groups, locale communities, and flagship event teams can now request dedicated channels in Make WordPress Slack as part of an ongoing migration consolidating community conversations into the project's main workspace. → make.wordpress.org/community/20... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Core committer Dennis Snell has published a post-mortem on a January build script change that severed version history for shared Gutenberg files, broke contributor workflows, → make.wordpress.org/core/2026/06... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

The Wapuu and Dragon mascots given to WordCamp Europe 2026 speakers and organizers in Kraków were handmade by workers with intellectual disabilities at a local occupational therapy workshop. → make.wordpress.org/community/20... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

WordPress 7.0.1 is scheduled for July 9, with an RC on July 1. → make.wordpress.org/core/2026/06... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Gutenberg 23.4 has shipped with an experimental flag that lets developers test plugins, themes, and editor integrations against the React 19 runtime before it becomes the default in WordPress 7.1. → make.wordpress.org/core/2026/06... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

WordPress.org Marketing Director Open Sources AI Agent Skills and Brand Writing Guide Powering Project’s Social Media → www.therepository.email/garofalo-det... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

WordPress Plugins Team Adds Three Reviewers, Re-Opens Applications as Submissions Hit New Records → www.therepository.email/wordpress-pl... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Developer Traces 13-Year Backdoor Campaign Across 44 WordPress.org Plugins to a Single Operator → www.therepository.email/developer-tr... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Awesome Motive Breach Widens as Uncanny Automator Confirms Customer Data Theft, MonsterInsights Users Hit With Phishing Campaign → www.therepository.email/awesome-moti... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

OptinMonster Plugin Hacked in CDN Supply-Chain Attack → www.therepository.email/awesome-moti... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

7.0 retro, AI Client streaming, a hall of shame for nagging plugins, and remembering WordPress’s own Om Malik. New issue of WP More is out. Read Here → wpmore.net/wp-7-0-wraps... #WordPress

WordPress 7.1 Roadmap Focuses on Collaboration, Guidelines, and Responsive Styling With RTC Still Unresolved → www.therepository.email/wordpress-7-... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Anne McCarthy Named WordPress 7.1 Release Lead → www.therepository.email/anne-mccarth... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Core Committers Float Chrome-Style Canary Approach for WordPress, Question Whether RTC Belongs in Core → www.therepository.email/core-committ... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Imokol Faith Ruth receives the Yoast Care fund for her contribution to the WordPress community: Imokol Faith Ruth, a valued member of the WordPress community, is the latest recipient of the Yoast Care fund. →https://yoast.com/community/care-fund/recipients/imokol-faith-ruth/ (h/t:@wpcontent_co)

Rodolfo Melogli says it is time for WordCamp organizers and speakers to be paid for their work: Drawing on his experience organizing Checkout Summit 2026 →https://checkoutsummit.com/its-time-to-pay-wordcamp-organizers-and-speakers/ (h/t:@wpcontent_co)

How AI and Automation Spotlight the Best of WordPress: Nicholas Garofalo explains how AI and automation are closing long-standing gaps between creation and distribution in the WordPress ecosystem →https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2026/06/13/find-the-best-of-wordpress/ (h/t:@wpcontent_co)

WordPress Studio desktop app is now available for Linux →https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/06/11/wordpress-studio-linux/ (h/t:@wpcontent_co)

WC Europe 2026 marked a milestone for WordPress educational initiatives with the debut of a dedicated Education Track and Contributor Day Education Table →https://make.wordpress.org/community/2026/06/11/wordpress-education-at-wceu-2026-more-than-learning-to-build-a-website/ (h/t:@wpcontent_co)

A call for testing of newly merged Unicode email address support in WordPress, →https://wp-content.co/uncanny-automator-breach-confirms-five-awesome-motive-products-compromised-in-security-incident/ (h/t:@wpcontent_co)

Automattic has filed a motion in U.S. District Court asking to push expert discovery deadlines in the WP Engine lawsuit back by roughly three months, citing incomplete fact discovery and unsettled pleadings. → www.courtlistener.com/docket/69221... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

WordPress Playground lead Adam Zieliński has argued that general, automated WordPress-to-WordPress site sync is fundamentally unsolvable. → adamadam.blog/2026/06/10/g... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

The WordPress Developer Blog's June roundup covers client-side media processing, collaborative editing outreach for 7.1, the React 19 revert, Abilities API refinements, and more → developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/06... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

The WordPress Mercantile swag store has relaunched with a refreshed design, selling official apparel, drinkware, and accessories with worldwide shipping → mercantile.wordpress.org (h/t: @therepositorywp)

The WordPress.org Plugin Directory has a new screenshots gallery, closing a nine-year-old Trac ticket with a masonry-style layout that preserves mixed image proportions and uses the standard WordPress lightbox → make.wordpress.org/meta/2026/06... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Core contributors have rolled back an upgrade to React 19 after widespread plugin compatibility issues. → make.wordpress.org/core/2026/06... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Core committter Aaron Jorbin is looking for volunteers to manage WordPress 7.0.x maintenance releases. 7.0.1 is tentatively due out later this month → make.wordpress.org/core/2026/06... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

WordPress. org Launches ‘Protect the Shire’ Initiative, Adds 24-Hour Cooldown for Plugin and Theme Auto-Updates → www.therepository.email/wordpress-or... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

CERN Moves the Birthplace of the Web to WordPress → www.therepository.email/cern-moves-t... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

U.S. Court Orders WP Engine to Reveal Strategy Deck Sentence, Finds Mullenweg Was “Evasive” in Deposition → www.therepository.email/us-court-ord... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

WordCamp Europe 2026 Recap: Kraków Showed WordPress Still Knows How to Gather thewp.world/wordcamp-eur...

What's happening in WordPress this week (21 June), Checkout my new issue of WP More! Read Here → wpmore.net/cern-goes-wo... #WordPress

WP Suomi returns on October 16 in Oulu, Finland, with a call for sponsors now open. → wpsuomi.fi (h/t: @therepositorywp)

The WP Minute founder Matt Medeiros says the community's grief over the StellarWP rebrand is misdirected → thewpminute.com/should-hosti... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Gravity Forms CEO Carl Hancock says private equity's treatment of acquired WordPress businesses isn't a betrayal, it's a documented playbook. → x.com/carlhancock/... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

The State of WordPress Security 2026 guardingwp.com/research/sta...

WordPress explores expanded Unicode email support: This will allow people to use names and characters beyond the traditional A–Z range. →https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/05/22/extending-unicode-support-in-email-addresses-usernames-and-slugs/ (h/t:@wpcontent_co)

GravityKit has followed up with its own analysis using HTTP Archive data, which puts WordPress at 33.21%, down from a 35.76% peak in July 2022. → www.gravitykit.com/wordpress-ma... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Automattic Joins the Tech Coalition automattic.com/2026/06/01/a...

AI Team rep Jason Adams told this week's contributor meeting that the team needs to re-survey the broader AI landscape ahead of WordPress 7.1 → make.wordpress.org/ai/2026/05/2... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Playground creator Adam Zieliński used Claude and Codex to generate more than 400 UI redesign mockups for Playground. → adamadam.blog/2026/05/22/a... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Core contributors are seeking feedback on an experimental Media Editor Modal in the Gutenberg plugin. → make.wordpress.org/core/2026/05... (h/t: @therepositorywp)

Danny van Kooten explained why he has moved his personal site back to WordPress after 12 years of experimenting with static site generators like Ghost, Jekyll, Hugo, and Astro. → www.dannyvankooten.com/blog/2026/ba... (h/t:@wpcontent_co)

🎂 Core committer Peter Wilson has marked 10 years since he woke up to a Slack message from WordPress Lead Developer Helen Hou-Sandi who wanted to "talk about something" → www.linkedin.com/posts/peterw... (h/t: @therepositorywp)