“Do you really want control for AI to be with three companies or three countries?”

At WordCamp Europe 2026, Mary Hubbard spoke about why the WordPress community should be part of the conversation about AI, open source, and the future of the web.

Revisit the full WCEU recap: https://wordpress.org/news/2026/06/wceu-2026-recap/

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WordCamp Europe 2027 is heading to Málaga, Spain, May 27–29. Lead Organisers Nilo Vélez, Emma Wager, and Lucas Radke are already planning the event, and the call for organisers is now open. https://wp.me/pgyJ7n-33D

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This is what WordCamp US feels like.

Conversations in the hallway. Ideas shared between sessions. Contributors, creators, builders, and friends coming together around WordPress.

WCUS 2025 gave us so many moments to remember, and we can’t wait to bring that energy to Phoenix in 2026.

Get your ticket: https://us.wordcamp.org/2026/tickets/

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From CERN’s keynote to WordPress 7.0, Contributor Day, AI conversations, education initiatives, and the road to Málaga, WordCamp Europe 2026 was packed with moments worth revisiting.

Catch up with the full recap from Kraków: https://wordpress.org/news/2026/06/wceu-2026-recap/

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Code is poetry. Merch is proof.

The WordPress Mercantile is ready, with official gear for contributors, builders, publishers, and Wapuu fans everywhere.

Apparel, drinkware, accessories, and more, shipped worldwide.

https://mercantile.wordpress.org/

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LIBRUS, a Polish education-technology company whose tools are used by schools across Poland, runs its public website on WordPress. The Showcase has more on how they use it. https://wp.me/smwwI-librus

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The June 2026 WordPress developer roundup covers WordPress 7.0, client-side media processing testing, collaborative editing outreach for 7.1, and the React 19 compatibility situation after its temporary revert in Gutenberg. https://developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=6195

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PollyPizza, a popular pizza restaurant in Warsaw, runs its website on WordPress. The site has a distinctive design that reflects the brand’s personality. See it in the Showcase. https://wp.me/pmwwI-3wv

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WordPress.org is adding a temporary 24-hour delay before plugin and theme updates are distributed through auto-updates. The pause creates a window for security review, including the use of AI-assisted tools that can operate continuously. You can read the full details on what this means for the 78,000+ plugins and themes in the directory. https://wp.me/sZhYe-pts

WordCamp Europe 2026 met in Kraków, Poland, with 2,458 attendees from 81 countries. The opening keynote was from CERN, where the World Wide Web was invented, announcing that home.cern now runs on WordPress. Three days of sessions, workshops, and contributor work followed. The full recap is worth a read. https://wp.me/pZhYe-5pn

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