The Month in WordPress: October 2021 October 2021 brought a lot of new things to WordPress, from release updates to new versions of Gutenberg. More notably, in the latest episode of WP Briefing, Executive Director Josepha Haden reminded us about the importance of freedom in open source platforms like WordPress. Free speech has with it a lot of responsibility, just like being a part of a community. Governments or communities, or in our case, this software is built by the people who show up. For WordPress, at 42% of the web, every small choice we make can cause huge changes in the way that people experience the web today and tomorrow. Josepha Haden, Executive Director of the WordPress project Last month was yet another chapter in this journey. So keep reading to learn what’s new. WordPress 5.9: All proposed updates [ more… ]