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The WP Week by WP-CONTENT.CO - Weekly News from WordPress Ecosystem — 155 episodes · page 1 of 2
E172: WP Accessibility Day 2026, GoDaddy Receives Takeover Offer, Spacefast Opens to Community Creations
E171: Automattic Restructures Board, WP 7.1.2 Released, WC Asia 2027 Seeks Feedback, Surge in New Plugin Submissions
E170: Mullenweg Back as Automattic CEO, WP 7.1.1 Released, WP 7.2 Roadmap, WooCommerce’s First Block Theme Opens for Testing
E169: Mullenweg Ousted as Automattic CEO & Returns Two Days Later, Plugin Sold for $2.7 Million, Automated Plugin Security Reviews
E165: WPForms Backdoor Claims, WP 7.0.3 Security Release, Plugins Editing Add New Screen
E164: Backdoor Plugin Update Caught, WPManageNinja Updates Tampered, Premium Plugin Open Sourced
E 163: Matt Breaks Four-Year Silence, The WPCC Rebrands, WooCommerce Three-Month Initiative
E162: WP 7.0.2 Security Release, WP.org Cuts Cooldown Period, Popular Themes List Irregularities, Elementor Draws Criticism
E161: Low WC US Ticket Sale, Why WP Product Businesses Struggle to Grow, WordPress Foundation 2025 Report
E160: WP Engine Challenges Trademarks, Another Plugin Leaves WP.org, DLX Plugins to Close
E157: Five Awesome Motive Plugins Compromised, Sunsetting Wordfence Login Security Plugin..
E156: WP.org Adds 24-hour Cooldown for Plugin & Theme Auto-updates, 55k Plugins Benchmarked, WooCommerce Drops Block-based Product Editor
E155: Matt Mullenweg Issues Emotional Plea, SiteGround Faces Backlash, WP Market Share Dips
E154: WP 7.0 Released, State of WordPress Security 2026, Call for Volunteers
E153: WCUS 2026 Website Sparks Discussion, Branding Concerns Raised, and more
E152: Real Time Collaboration Dropped, Envato Ends Exclusive Model, Hosting Benchmarks
E151: Droip Merged into Kirki, Two More Plugin Backdoors, Open Letter to WooCommerce and Woo Community
E150: 80+ Plugins Temporarily Closed, WPFolks Launched, GoDaddy Domain Transfer Issue
E149: Woo Subscriptions Bugs Hit Revenue, Vulnerability Actively Exploited, WP Core Dev Environment Toolkit
E148: Backdoor in Plugins, Contact Form 7 Feature Freeze, WC India Announced
E146: WP 7.0 Release Delayed, WordPress Market Share Dips, Call for Testing
E144: WP Packagist Acquired by WP Engine, WP Composer Launched, Three WP Releases, Join the Plugins Team
E143: Featured Plugins Experiment, Contributor Dashboard Pilot, Call for Testers, Black Friday 2025 and WP Agency Surveys
E142: FAIR Co-Founders Steps Back, DIVI 5 Launched, New WP-Vanguard, Builderius Sense
E141: SudoWP Initiative, WP 7.0 Beta 1, Pressidium Edge Early Access
E140: WP Engine Amended Complaint, Bertha.ai Exits Repository, New AI Site Builder, Plugin Collaboration Opportunity
E139: Automattic Partners with UIC, WP Engine Newsroom, Plugins for Sale, BackupBliss Relaunched
E138: WP AI Guidelines, WC Asia 2026 Scholarships, WP 7.0 Call for Testing, Etch v1.0
E137: Elementor One, Content-Creators Slack Channel closed, Hackathon Live, WP 2026 Goals
E136: WP-Bench Released, Guildenberg Closure, Divi 5 Release, Web Agency Summit 2026
E135: WP.org Tweet Controversy, Promptless WP Launched, Plugin Jam Hackathon
E134: Test Team’s Plan for 2026, Community Scholarship for WC Kolhapur 2026
E133: Women-centric WP Events for Women’s Day, Reviving Outdated Plugin
E132: WP 2026 Release Schedule Proposal, Contributor Dashboard Pilot Project, WP Gives A Hand 2026
E131: New Visual Theme Builder, Community Grieves, Cloudflare Global Outage
E130: Monitoring Community Concerns, 2026 Global Partner Program, WP 6.9 RC1
E129: Gutenberg Phase 3 Updates, FAIR Software Security Assistant Proof of Concept
E128: Automattic Issues New Trademark Notice, StellarWP Layoffs, SOTW 2025
E127: Automattic Files Counterclaims, Mullenweg Completes Twenty Years at Automattic
E126: Matt Mullenweg’s WC Canada 2025 Talk, WP Abilities API
E124: WordPress 6.8.3, WordCamp Organizer Banned, Hosting Team Rep Nominations
E123: FAIR 1.0 Released, MCP Coming in WooCommerce
E122: Core Program Team, WP Credits Call for Mentors, IPV6 Support
E120: Content-Creators Slack Channel, WP Hosting Survey, _s Repo Archived By Automattic
E118: WordPress 6.9 Release Squad, Vulnerabilities Patched in LifterLMS, Dokan Pro, CF 7
E117: Proposal for New Blocks, Test Team Call for Nominations, WooCommerce 10.1 Released
E112: WordPress 6.9 Call for Volunteers, Phased Plugin Updates Proposal
E111: WordPress 6.9 Development Cycle Revisions, Block Theme from WooCommerce
E110: WP Accessibility Documentation Survey Results, Enqueue 2025, Archiving Updates
E109: WCUS 2025 Social Media Stir, Automattic Turns 20, WP to End Support for Old Versions
E108: WordPress Accessibility Improvement Project, Automattic Acquires Clay
E107: FAIR Initiative, Do the Woo Rebrand, View Transitions Plugin
E106: Automattic Resumes WordPress Contributions, WordPress AI Team, Open Horizons Scholarship
E105: Mary Hubbard on Restoring Trust and Safety, WordPress and WooCommerce Sites Targeted
E104: Build Tour 2025 by WP Bhopal, Modular DS Secures €615K
E103: Media Corps Closure, WP Campus Connect Now Official
E102: Review of Blocked Community Members, WordPress 6.8.1 Released
E101: WordPress 6.8.1 Release Scheduled for This Week, WooCommerce Phishing Campaign
E100: WordPress 6.8 Released, Matt Mullenweg to Lift WordPress.org and X Bans
E99: WordPress Foundation Obtains Trademarks in the European Union, AI Site Builder from WordPress.com
E98: WP Foundation's Trademark Attempt in EU Progresses, Key Vulnerabilities of 2025 Q1
E97: WP Engine and Automattic Trial Scheduled for 2027, Alt Ctrl Org Independent WordPress Event
E96: Newfold Digital Scales Back WP Contributions, State of WordPress Security 2025 Report
E95: Jetpack Tracking Search Query, WP Foundation Secures Trademarks for Managed & Hosted WordPress in the UK & Australia
E94: WP Engine Files New Court Documents, 50K+ Sites Migrate to Other Hosts from WP Engine
E92: WordPress Foundation’s Trademark Attempt, WP 6.8 Adopts bcrypt for Password Hashing
E91: Joost Removed From WCAsia Speaker Lineup, WordPress.com Domain Given to Matt for Free
E90: All WordCamp Sponsors to be Approved by Matt, LoopConf 2025
E88: GoDaddy Faces Action From FTC, GTMetrix Acquired by WP Rocket Team
E87: Matt Mullenweg Challenges Joost de Valk and Karim Marucchi, Automattic Slashes WordPress Contribution Hours
E86: Breaking the Status Quo, WP.org Services Reopened, Plugin Check Plugin Phase 2
E85: New Pineapple Pizza Checkbox, SOTW 2024, WP Engine got ACF Back
E84: Automattic and WPEngine Submits Dueling Proposals, Automattic Acquires WPAI, Vulnerability in WPForms
E83: WP Engine v. Automattic Preliminary Injunction Hearing, DreamHost Removed From WordPress.org’s Recommended Hosting Page
E82: ACF Pro Nulled by WP.org?, PeepSo Leaves the Repo, WordPress 6.7.1 Released
E81: WordPress 6.7 Released, WP Engine Updates Legal Complaint
E80: WP Engine Tracker, WordPress 6.7 Released
E79: Automattic and Matt Respond to WP Engine, WooCommerce New Logo Unveiled
E78: WordPress.org Property of Matt Mullenweg, WordPress 6.7 RC1 Released
E77: WP Engine Files Injunction, Multiple Contributors Pause Contribution
E76: WordPress.org Users must confirm non-affiliation with WPE, ACF Forked (or Hostile Takeover?)
E75: 159 Left Automattic Including WP Executive Director, ACF Ban & Security Update
E74: WP Engine Banned Again, WordPress 6.7 Beta 1 Released
E73: Matt's Spiciest WordCamp Presentation at WordCamp US, WP Engine Sends Cease & Desist Letter to Automattic
E72: WordPress 6.7 Roadmap, Mandatory 2FA, SVN Password
E71: Tumblr Migration, State of CSS 2024 Survey, New FundWP
E70: Jamie Marsland to Head WordPress YouTube, John Blackbourn Receives Record Bounty
E69: WordPress 6.7 Release Squad, Twenty Twenty-Five Theme Preview
E68: Proposal for WordCamp Advertising Funds, Reactivate Inactive Meetup Groups
E67: WordPress.com Partners With Perplexity, Learn WordPress Revamped
E66: WordPress 6.6.1 Released, Woo Express Discontinued
E65: WordPress 6.6 Released, Webflow Price Hike, CrowdStrike Outage
E64: WordPress 6.6 Released, Cwicly is Back
E63: WordPress 6.7 Call for Volunteers, Retiring the Faculty Program
E62: WordPress.org Supply Chain Attack Aftermath, Force Reset Passwords for Plugin Authors
E61: Themes Directory Revamped, Proposal for a Unified Sponsorship Initiative
E60: Matt Mullenweg's Keynote and Q&A at WCEU 2024, Contributor Mentorship Program
E59: WordPress 6.5.4 Restores Auto-redirect After Plugin Activation, Automattic for Agencies, WCEU 2024
E58: WP Tavern is dead?, WordPress 6.5.4 RC1 Now Available, Future of Plugin Review Team
E57: WordPress Turns 21, WP.Com Gets A Rare Victory in Turkey