A scholarship is supposed to do more than cover a flight. Here’s what the first round of Open Horizons recipients have done since they came home from WordCamp US 2025. When we launched the Open Horizons Scholarship in May 2025, the goal was simple: help WordPress contributors get to the events that would otherwise be…
For twenty years, Akismet has kept spam out of WordPress. But spammers don’t care what your site runs on and neither do we. Last month we launched the official Akismet Drupal module. Today we’re introducing the engine that powers it: the official Akismet PHP SDK, a first-party client that brings Akismet to any PHP application….
Transcript [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress, the people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, how to create affordable and accurate WordPress translations using AI. If you’d like…
Це есе також доступно українською. Listen to Volodymyr read his own story aloud. “Listen… the birds are already singing,” said Danylo — a Ukrainian I’d met at a previous WordCamp — as we were wrapping up the last hour of the WCEU afterparty in Krakow. “It’s time for us to go.” He started singing “Hei!…
In this episode of Open Web Conversations, Zach Stepek and Carl Alexander discuss with Alex Standiford the impact of AI on developers, highlighting productivity, burnout, workflow changes, and the necessity of setting boundaries in this rapidly evolving landscape.
On June 23, around 40 students from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), Louisiana Tech University, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette were celebrated in Chicago as the first cohort to receive the AI Leaders Micro-Credential through AI Leaders, the nation’s first workforce-focused AI literacy course tied to a recognized credential. Each of them…
If you’ve been publishing content on your WordPress site but your traffic still isn’t growing, then the missing piece often isn’t more content. It’s backlinks. Link building is the process of getting other websites to link to your content. These links help search engines see your site as trustworthy and valuable, which can improve your…
Lights! Camera! Action! Todd Spangler at Variety writes: Automattic’s ‘Code for the People’ Documentary Is a Rallying Cry for Users to Fight for the Open Internet, from the NYC premiere last week. I’m looking forward to the San Francisco premiere of the documentary, and then tomorrow everyone can stream it for free on codeforthepeople.com! Appearances…
Hostinger has gone from standard web host to web host with the works. In this Hostinger review, I’ll take an in-depth look at its traditional web hosting plans alongside its increasingly growing portfolio of business and developer tools.
Ever logged into WordPress to publish a post, only to end up spending hours on admin tasks? It happens more often than we probably want to admit. You meant to write, but then you noticed yesterday’s orders needed checking. A landing page needed updating before tomorrow’s promo. And your form needs to be integrated with…
