ALTWordCamp US 2026 is coming to Phoenix from August 16-19, and student tickets are $25. You can attend 4 days of sessions, get lunch each day, visit Career Corner, and build a website in a half-day workshop with 1 year of hosting included. https://wp.me/pgSBpQ-28Z
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Jina Parekh spent her first 10 years in WordPress building a career. She hopes to spend the next 10 years strengthening her local community and helping others grow. Read her HeroPress story in English or Gujarati. https://heropress.com/?p=8775
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WordPress 7.1 will bring responsive block styles to Core on August 19. You can define tablet and mobile styles in Global Styles or theme.json, and themes can configure their own breakpoints. RC2 is available now, so there is still time to test your plugins and themes. https://developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=6352
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Planning your schedule for WordCamp US 2026 in Phoenix? The organizers have put together 4 preplanned routes based on attendee type: beginner, freelance practitioner, modern developer, and WordCamp veteran. You can pick the one that fits and adjust from there. https://wp.me/pgSBpQ-1ZJ
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Passing a typed event object to do_action() instead of loose arguments gives you named payloads, collision-free hook names via fully-qualified class names, and filter-like mutation without a return value to forget. https://developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=6338
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ALTPull up a chair for this one. 🪑 Where does open source go from here?
Robert Jacobi and WordPress Co-founder Matt Mullenweg will close WordCamp US 2026 with a fireside chat about AI, the evolving web, community, and the future of WordPress, followed by 30 minutes of audience Q&A. https://us.wordcamp.org/2026/pull-up-a-chair-for-the-state-of-open-source/
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ALTWordCamp US 2026 is 10 days away. If you are heading to Phoenix from August 16 to 19, you can now check the daily lunch menus, plan around the closing party on August 19, and stop by the WordPress Mercantile pop-up in the Sponsor Hall. Tickets are still available for $100. https://wp.me/pgSBpQ-23V
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WordPress 7.0.3 is out, and it is a security release. It fixes 12 issues, including a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the login screen that can be triggered before anyone signs in, a privilege escalation issue on multisite networks, and a server-side request forgery (SSRF) issue in URL validation. The fixes are being backported to older branches, and WordPress 7.1 RC2 includes them too. Update now. https://wp.me/pZhYe-5xZ
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ALTBo English-Wiczling will keynote WordCamp US 2026 in Phoenix on Monday, August 17. She leads Global Developer Relations at PayPal, and she has spent 28 years building developer platforms at companies including Oracle, Amazon, and Best Buy. Her talk looks at what AI means for the daily work of developers. https://wp.me/pgSBpQ-228
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The WordPress Developer Blog has a new tutorial that walks through building an AI-powered plugin from scratch. It covers how the Abilities API, the WordPress AI Client, and the MCP Adapter work together in a single project. If you’ve been curious how these Core AI features fit together in practice, this is a good place to start. https://developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=6323
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