July 25, 2025 — Uncover how artificial intelligence is reshaping WordPress site management across every stage—from user-friendly onboarding and swift setup to innovative content creation, continuous maintenance, insightful market research, top-notch customer support, and streamlined code builds.

The discussion explains how AI automates daily tasks, fine-tunes content strategies, and speeds up custom code generation. Attendees also learn about sandbox tools such as WP Playground, which enables safe testing and rapid prototyping, and a balanced look at the benefits and challenges of employing AI for custom plugin and extension development. With numerous hosting providers initiating agency partner programs, this talk provides practical insights for creating faster, more intelligent, and secure WordPress sites.

June 10, 2025 — As WordPress continues to power over 40% of the web, the ecosystem is evolving at an unprecedented pace. From enterprise adoption to the rise of AI, no-code solutions, and headless architectures, the landscape of WordPress in 2025 presents both opportunities and challenges for developers, businesses, and content creators alike. This panel brings together industry leaders to discuss the current state of WordPress and where it’s headed. We’ll explore: Technology Shifts: How WordPress is adapting to modern web technologies, including AI, automation, and performance enhancements. The Business of WordPress: The economic realities of agencies, plugin and theme developers, and hosting providers in a changing marketplace. Enterprise and Ecosystem Growth: How WordPress competes with closed-source CMSs and the increasing role of enterprise adoption. Open Source Sustainability: How the open-source community is addressing funding, maintainer burnout, and the long-term viability of volunteer-driven Challenges and Risks: From security concerns to competition from proprietary platforms, what threats does WordPress face in 2030? Whether you’re a developer, business owner, content creator, or part of the WordPress community, this discussion will provide key insights into the future of the platform and how you can thrive within it.

July 3, 2024 — Contributing to the WordPress project is something most of us love doing, but the financial opportunity to do so is only available to a select few. Financial stress is detrimental to contributors’ mental health and leads to suboptimal contributor churn rates. How can we foster a contribution culture that attracts sponsors to increase the number of sponsored contributor hours, thus improving the mental health and wellbeing of 5 for the Future participants?

May 30, 2024

May 30, 2024

May 28, 2024

October 2, 2023 — We’ve often been asked “why did ‘they’ make this change” or “when is WordPress going to do this?”. We are not mere spectators, but can find a place of belonging as WordPress contributors.
For WordPress to become a better project and meet its philosophies, it needs a more diverse set of backgrounds. Your life experiences are needed to move things forward!

During this session, you’ll learn about the teams that make WordPress, and ways to bring your unique background and influence.

What are the biggest changes you’d like to see? Come join the team: coding is optional.

June 13, 2023

May 22, 2023 — The open-source community thrives on collaboration and the sharing of knowledge. In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on inclusivity and accessibility in educational materials. The WordPress Training Team is at the forefront of this movement, continually striving to improve the quality and accessibility of their training resources. We invite researchers, educators, and open-source enthusiasts as contributors in creating inclusive education within the open-source community.

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August 16, 2022 — Hear from a panel of volunteers who contributed work to the WordPress. 5.6 release. Learn more about how to volunteer for WordPress.org projects and how to make new volunteers feel welcome.