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WP Briefing: Episode 57: The Power of WordPress Mentorship Join WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy in the 57th episode of the WordPress Briefing as she discusses the Contributor Mentorship Program to help increase the success of new contributors over time. Have a question you’d like answered? You can submit them to [email protected], either written or as a voice recording. Credits Editor: Dustin HartzlerLogo: Javier ArceProduction: Brett McSherrySong: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod Show Notes WordCamp Europe 2023, Athens, Greece. This event includes a special Keynote from Matt Mullenweg, Josepha Haden Chomposy, and Matías Ventura.  WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program: Pilot Program Proposal  Make WordPress Community: Idea generation: Next Gen WordCamps! WordPress ‘Milestones’ volume two book Building Blocks: The Evolution of WordPress is available in several formats for download on GitHub. Transcript Read more: Episode 57: The Power of WordPress Mentorship [Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:00:00]  (Intro music) Hello [ more… ]

People of WordPress: Stefano Cassone With WordCamp Europe 2023 in June, we feature Stefano Cassone, a web designer, photographer and volunteer translator, who believes his life has been transformed through WordPress and its community. The People of WordPress series shares inspiring stories of how people’s lives can change for the better through WordPress and its global community of contributors. Stefano with a laptop covered in WordPress event stickers Stefano has always been fascinated by the internet. His initial learning in the 1990s was through joining friends at a local pub where they could explore how websites were structured and learn to use chat software. This led to Stefano creating websites for fun in 1998, and his first paid job was for the shop where he bought comics. He turned to content management systems (CMS) to speed up the creation process for sites, [ more… ]

Celebrating 20 Years of WordPress You did it and I think congratulations are in order! You, dear WordPress enthusiast, have helped WordPress thrive for the past 20 years. It’s an incredible accomplishment, and I couldn’t be more thankful. Did you know: WordPress is seven years older than TikTok (2016), came four years before Tumblr (2007) and the first iPhone (2007), beat Facebook to market by about a year (2004), and is about five weeks older than Tesla (July 2003). May 27, 2023, marks exactly 20 years since Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked b2/cafelog to create WordPress Version 0.70. Quite a bit has taken place in the past 20 years, and imagine how much more we can accomplish together in the next 20! You can read about the first 20 years of WordPress in two parts:Milestones: The Story of WordPress [ more… ]

WP Briefing: Episode 56: What to Know About WordPress Playground Join guest host Rich Tabor and WordPress Playground innovator Adam Zielinski as they discuss the capabilities and promise of WP Playground in episode 56 of the WordPress Briefing. Stay tuned for your small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. Have a question you’d like answered? You can submit them to [email protected], either written or as a voice recording. Credits Host: Josepha Haden ChomphosyGuests: Rich Tabor and Adam ZielinskiEditor: Dustin HartzlerLogo: Javier ArceProduction: Brett McSherry and Nicholas GarofaloSong: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod Show Notes WordPress Playground and the Playground Github repo WordCamp Gliwice WordCamp Europe 2023, Contributor Day, and WP Connect #meta-playground in the Making WordPress Slack ChatGPT WooCommerce CloudFest and Daniel Bachhuber The Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship for travel to WordCamp US 2023 Find your closest location for [ more… ]

WordPress 6.2.2 Security Release WordPress 6.2.2 is now available! The 6.2.2 minor release addresses 1 bug and 1 security issue. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 5.9 have also been updated. WordPress 6.2.2 is a rapid response release to address a regression in 6.2.1 and further patch a vulnerability addressed in 6.2.1. The next major release will be version 6.3 planned for August 2023. The update process will begin automatically if you have sites that support automatic background updates. You can download WordPress 6.2.2 from WordPress.org or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates,” and click “Update Now.” For more information on this release, please visit the HelpHub site. Security updates included in this release The security team would like to thank the following people for responsibly reporting [ more… ]