Agencies struggle to find junior devs who understand open-source contribution. WordPress Credits is a new internship that brings university students into the WordPress project with mentors, real projects, and support from the WordPress Foundation.
Getting to WordCamp US is not cheap. The Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship covers the trip for women who are active WordPress contributors, have not attended before, and can show financial need. Applications for 2025 close July 25.
WordPress 6.8.2 landed with 20 Core and 15 Block Editor fixes, and it confirmed that security updates for the 4.1 through 4.6 branches have stopped. If your site is on an old 4.x version, here is why you need an upgrade plan now.
A round of WordPress maintenance releases backported updated root certificates to version 4.7, so older sites can keep making secure API calls to payment gateways, email services, and update servers.
I got a frantic call last Tuesday. A client, running a decent e-commerce setup, had just pushed an update. Classic story, right? Suddenly, their entire…