January 2, 2026 — As AI-driven tools like vibe coding apps, AI-backed DIY web builders, and other one-click publishing tools reshape how websites are designed and built, what does this mean for WordPress?
In this thought-provoking panel, industry experts and community leaders come together to explore how WordPress can stay relevant and competitive in the era of automation. The discussion will cover how AI is transforming web design, content creation, and development workflows – and where human creativity, community, and open-source innovation still shine.
Join us as our panelists debate the challenges and opportunities ahead, share insights from real-world projects, and discuss how developers, designers, and business owners can adapt to this rapidly evolving landscape.
The discussion will focus on:
Leveraging AI: How agencies and developers can use AI tools to enhance, not replace, their WordPress services.
The Resilience of Open Source: What AI builders can’t deliver that WordPress can.
The New WordPress Professional: Redefining our roles as AI becomes a partner in the development workflow.
Don’t miss this essential, forward-looking discussion about adapting, thriving, and building a better web, together.
Panelists: Nathan Onn, Al-Hadee, Ahmed Kabir Chaion, Shahjahan Jewel & Tareq Hasan
Moderator: David Wang

December 24, 2025

December 24, 2025

December 12, 2025 — This video walks you through hosting a successful WordPress Campus Connect event and what to do afterward. It covers assembling your team, planning sessions and logistics, briefing facilitators, supporting participants on-site, sharing materials, and collecting feedback. You’ll also learn how to issue certificates of participation (including optional signing by the WordPress Executive Director), how to share your event highlights, ways to stay involved through Student Clubs, and how interested universities can explore the WP Credits program.

December 10, 2025 — This video explains how to confirm your venue, create your official WordPress Campus Connect event listing, and get your event scheduled.

December 9, 2025 — This video demonstrates a method used by the WordPress Playground team to streamline development reviews. This technique addresses the common pain point of needing complex local environments or relying on static screenshots to share work in progress. By leveraging the capabilities of WordPress Playground, developers can generate a unique URL that instantly spins up a temporary, live WordPress environment loaded with specific modifications from plugins, themes, or blueprints.
The video illustrates this process by taking the raw JSON link of a blueprint file—even one residing in an active GitHub Pull Request—and appending it to the WordPress Playground URL. This action automatically initializes WordPress in the browser, complete with the requested configurations and changes. The key benefit is that reviewers, teammates, or clients can test the functionality directly without needing any prior setup or configuration on their local machine, ensuring faster feedback cycles for code contributions related to themes, plugins, and site blueprints.

December 9, 2025 — WordPress has received a new landing page to explain the capabilities of the platform and what is possible with the WordPress Playground.

For whom the Playground is built, and how the users can benefit from it.

December 9, 2025 — In this video, I share how you can use the WordPress Playground to integrate with AI agents. This is an experiment with GitHub Copilot agents.

This flow can be used to execute small tasks for a WordPress Plugin, such as refactoring code or updating documentation. The playground can serve as a base to validate the AI agent’s code changes using E2E tests.

December 9, 2025 — This video covers key pre‑planning and budgeting steps for WordPress Campus Connect events: using the MOU template, submitting your budget, working with local sponsors, and getting guidance in the #campusconnect Slack channel or from a mentor. It also briefly shows how to create sponsor invoices, request reimbursements, and use CampTix to register and track attendees.

December 8, 2025 — “Introducing Notes: Seamless, Block-Level Collaboration” refers to a new native collaboration feature in WordPress 6.9. This functionality allows team members to leave comments directly on specific content blocks within the editor, streamlining feedback and reducing reliance on external tools like Google Docs.