ALTLoyal Pyczynski will give a WordCamp US 2026 keynote on August 18 at 16:15 UTC in Phoenix. Drawing on his work in robotics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality at Disney Imagineering and Meta Reality Labs, he will discuss how teams can make digital products more useful and distinctly human. https://wp.me/pgSBpQ-2aW
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ALTA simple hello can be the start of years of contribution. This reflection from WordCamp US looks at the invitations, volunteer work, and everyday kindness that sustain the WordPress community. https://wp.me/pgSBpQ-295
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WordPress 7.0.4 is now available. This security release addresses an authenticated Author+ remote code execution vulnerability involving malicious file uploads on sites that use Imagick and Ghostscript. Update your sites immediately. Fixes are also being backported through the 4.7 branch. https://wp.me/pZhYe-5yH
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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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