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WP Briefing: Episode 26: Matt Mullenweg on Ukraine, Community, and WordPress Matt Mullenweg speaks to WordPress contributors worldwide on this special edition of the WP Briefing podcast with Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Join us to hear Matt’s thoughts on Ukraine. Have a question you’d like answered? You can submit them to [email protected], either written or as a voice recording. Credits Hosts: Josepha Haden Chomphosy and Matt Mullenweg Editor: Dustin Hartzler Logo: Beatriz Fialho Production: Chloé Bringmann & Santana Inniss How You Can Help UNICEF Mécecins Sans Frontieres  International Committee of the Red Cross  International Rescue Committee UN Refugee Agency  World Central Kitchen Tech For Ukraine #WP4Ukraine Transcript Josepha Haden Chomphosy  00:00 Hello, everyone, and welcome to a special edition of the WordPress Briefing. I have Matt here with me today because we want to acknowledge that we are once again at the start of [ more… ]

People of WordPress: Tonya Mork In this series, we share some of the inspiring stories of how WordPress and its global network of contributors can change people’s lives for the better. This month we feature a website developer and engineer from the US, who found the software and its community provide the impetus to keep her going forward. WordPress gave Tonya Mork a new lease of energy after a health crisis from which she nearly died. She had spent two decades as an electrical and software engineer in high tech automated manufacturing. But when she discovered the WordPress software, teaching it to others became her new purpose. Through this discovery, she has gone on to help thousands of developers understand and build code in great depth. As part of her WordPress journey, she has shared her skills in the roles [ more… ]

WordPress 5.9.1 Maintenance Release WordPress 5.9.1 is now available! This maintenance release features 82 bug fixes in both Core and the block editor. WordPress 5.9.1 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major release will be version 6.0. You can download WordPress 5.9.1 from WordPress.org, or visit your Dashboard → Updates and click “Update Now”. If you have sites that support automatic background updates, they’ve already started the update process. For more information, browse the full list of both Trac and GitHub changes in the release candidate post, or check out the version 5.9.1 HelpHub documentation page. Thanks and props! The 5.9.1 release was led by Jb Audras and George Mamadashvili. Special props to @sergeybiryukov for running mission control. Thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 5.9.1 happen: Albert Juhé Lluveras, Alex Lende, alexstine, André, Anton Vlasenko, Ari Stathopoulos, ArteMa, Ben Dwyer, BlogAid, Carolina Nymark, Channing [ more… ]

WP Briefing: Episode 25: Five Cents on Five for the Future In this twenty-fifth episode of the WordPress Briefing, Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy discusses future-proofing the WordPress project with the Five for the Future pledge. Have a question you’d like answered? You can submit them to [email protected], either written or as a voice recording. Credits Editor: Dustin Hartzler Logo: Beatriz Fialho Production: Chloé Bringmann & Santana Inniss Song: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod References Five for the Future, on ma.tt circa 2014 Governing the Commons, Elinor Ostrom Five for the Future White Paper 6.0 Planning Roundup Part I: Full Site Editing Course Part II: Full Site Editing Course Part III: Full Site Eiditing Course Transcript Episode 25 Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:00:00]  Hello everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing. The podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the [ more… ]