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🌐 CERN moves the web's birthplace to WordPress
🇪🇺 WCEU draws 2,458 to Kraków
🛡️ WordPress .org launches 'Protect the Shire'
⚖️ Court finds Mullenweg "evasive," orders WP Engine to reveal sentence
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A six-month CMS evaluation, more than 183,000 items of content, and 580 websites later, CERN's years-long WordPress migration is entering its final phase.
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Every release across WordPress .org's 78,000 plugins and themes now faces AI-powered review before auto-updates roll out — and a Wapuu named Gandalf is on the job.
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A 43% jump in ticket sales, CERN's flagship site going live on WordPress, and an eight-hour afterparty. Kraków delivered the WCEU the community wanted.
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🇵🇱 WCEU 2026 gets underway in Kraków
📊 Review Signal's Hosting Benchmarks return after three-year gap
🔄 RTC gets a second shot at WordPress core
🧪 Gutenberg 23.3 ships experimental customizable dashboard
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It took Kevin Ohashi three years to build Orderly Ape, the tool that would let him run the benchmarks again. Here's what the results show.
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WordPress .org's long-dormant jobs board has been redesigned with profile integration and an "open to work" toggle in the first major overhaul of the site in over a decade.
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🏳️ Mullenweg to Silver Lake: "You've Won. I Submit."
🛠️ Five for the Future gets overhaul
🤖 SiteGround auto-installs AI plugin on sites, sparks pushback
⚖️ WP Engine & Automattic clash in discovery disputes
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SiteGround says WordPress 7.0's AI on-ramp was too steep for most users. Customers say that doesn't justify installing software on their sites without asking.
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The ROI of hacking WordPress just changed, according to Oliver Sild, who says the ecosystem needs to brace for what's coming.
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The WPCC's first-of-its-kind survey asks how the WordPress community is really feeling about the project, AI, open source, and what comes next.
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On the same day lawyers for both sides appeared in court over discovery disputes, Mullenweg published a public plea on WordPress .org asking Silver Lake and WP Engine to end the fight.
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