The State of the Word 2025 recording is now available. It seems that WordPress is doing well.

Here is Matt’s Town Hall presentation and question and answer session from WordCamp Canada.

There was a discussion and test of the sync protocol for collaborative editing, indicating progress on concurrent multi-user editing. The discussion notes indicate some of the possible issues.

The State of the Word Tokyo – a very professional presentation. Matias Ventura’s portion presenting the progress of Gutenberg is very good. They will be adding mobile responsive capabilities.

Stellar Spark is going on now. You don’t need to register. Here is the schedule page and there are links in it to the two streams, so you can drop in on the current presentations.

During Matt Mullenweg’s Summer Update at WordCamp EU he listed eleven principles for guiding the future of WordPress. In this article James Giroux reviews the list and provides his take on them.

Matt Mullenweg’s keynote presentation from WordCamp Europe has been released. It has some interesting topics. The WordPress Playground got a number of mentions. Overall, one of the main take-aways is that he wants to open WordPress for more innovation and creativity.

An interesting question and answer session with WordCamp EU attendees. An interesting reveal in the Q&A is that there are some attempts to manipulate the statistics at the top, for the most popular plugins.

This was interesting. Ben Ritner from Kadence used Kadence Theme and Kadence Blocks to create the home page of the Rolling Stone website. Justin Tadlock used Gutenberg for the challenge. They had 30 minutes to see how far they could get. It seemed like Ben was going a little faster and smoother. I was surprised that Justin didn’t work in the Site Editor, but in a page. He brought his own custom theme.