WordPress 6.9 finally lets you style core form elements from theme.json, treating textInput and select like buttons and headings. It doesn’t cover focus states yet, so here’s the hybrid theme.json plus CSS setup that works today.
A non-profit asked how to keep its site online for a century. Standard backups and domain renewals only go so far, so here’s why an endowed model like the WordPress.com 100-Year Plan fits that kind of mission.
An agency owner drowning in a dozen client sites, manual billing, and mismatched hosting. Custom tooling only made it worse, so here’s how Automattic for Agencies pulled it into one dashboard.
A client’s food blog kept crawling despite great recipes. The fix wasn’t another plugin, it was rebuilding on custom post types and a cleaner WordPress setup.
The new Accordion block in WordPress 6.9 works but ships unstyled. Here is how to style it properly: set base styles in theme.json, then add a block stylesheet with wp_enqueue_block_style() for hover and open states instead of piling on custom CSS.
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.