December 3, 2025 — State of the Word is the annual keynote address celebrating the progress of the open source WordPress project and offering a glimpse into its future. This year’s event takes place on December 2, 2025, at 8:00 PM UTC from San Francisco. From local stories to global growth, WordPress leadership highlighted the platform’s strengths, roadmap milestones, and vibrant community.

Watch with us as WordPress enthusiasts and newcomers from around the world came together for this unforgettable annual celebration.

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November 13, 2025 — WordPress 6.9 is approaching, and we are in a crucial phase of shipping the last major version in 2025. I’m talking about the testing phase, and do you know that you can contribute to WordPress Core without any special setup?

In this video, I demonstrate how WordPress Playground enables you to access the latest beta or RC version via a direct link. You can test the new features scheduled for 6.9, and check if your Plugins and Themes are compatible with the next WordPress release.

You can apply the same process to future WordPress major releases

November 10, 2025 — Join WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg for a live Town Hall session at WordCamp Canada. This is your chance to connect directly with the person who helped start it all, as Matt takes questions from the community and shares his perspective on the future of WordPress, open source, and the evolving web.

Expect an open, wide-ranging conversation touching on topics like AI, Gutenberg, the power of the community, and what’s next for WordPress in a changing digital landscape.

Come curious, come ready to ask questions, and come be part of the dialogue that continues to shape the platform we all build on.

September 3, 2025

June 10, 2025 — An In-person Q&A with WordPress Co-Founder Matt Mullenweg

June 9, 2025 — Meet Mary Hubbard, the WordPress Executive Director, and Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of the WordPress project, discussing WordPress and its community, followed by an in-person Q&A.

May 1, 2025 — In this session Matías will be talking about how does WordPress move forwards while remaining true to its essence? In order to simplify the user experience, it is important to understand what are the core ideas and primitives that articulate the software. We’ll take a look through the Gutenberg roadmap and imagine a WordPress of the future that is both intuitive and powerful.

April 30, 2025 — Hari Shanker Isotta Peira February 22, 2025 10:00 AM Meeting Room 1 – Rizal (Room 1) Over 43% of the web runs on WordPress, yet there is no clear, transparent way to track contributions or identify areas needing the most help. Hari Shanker and Isotta Peira are full-time sponsored WordPress Contributors and Community Program Managers, have been acutely aware of this problem. They have been working on a host of community programs and have also been focusing on improving the contributor experience of WordPress. For a while, they have been thinking about the best way to guide WordPress contributors to projects that need help and how to make an impact with the help of clear data. Through this session, Isotta and Hari plan to advocate for a WordPress contribution dashboard that will solve these problems. Both Hari and Isotta experience the frustration of not having a transparent system to visualize contributions and identify gaps. Without this clarity, valuable contributions may go unnoticed, and critical areas in need of support might be overlooked. They believe that by implementing a system to track and display contributions across the WordPress project, the community could be better informed, more strategic, and more united in its efforts. This visibility would not only help direct resources and energy to where they are most needed but also recognize and celebrate the efforts of all contributors, fostering a stronger, more cohesive community committed to the growth and success of WordPress. Additionally, they advocate for collecting and analyzing metrics on how visitors use WordPress.org. Understanding user behavior on platforms like Learn.WordPress.org, WordPress.tv, and the documentation pages can provide insights into what resources are most valuable, where users struggle, and what areas need enhancement. This data would enable a more user-centric approach to improving WordPress.org, ensuring it serves the community’s needs more effectively and continues to support the growth and development of the WordPress ecosystem.

April 14, 2025 — In this video I will focus on recording meetups and WordCamps, but of course it can also be used to record any talk, course or lecture where there is a speaker talking with slides.

We are going to start with the requirements that a video must follow to be published in WordPressTV and from there we are going to move on to how to make a basic recording with very little budget.

Even if it is not required, we are also going to cover the basics of OBS, a free and open source tool that is very versatile for both video recording and streaming.

This will be more than enough to record a talk, but we are also going to look at other options to improve the quality of the final result.

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January 26, 2025 — Learn all about Contributor Day at WordCamp Asia 2025! Discover how this special day is where ideas come together, and contributions go far beyond just code. Whether you’re a developer, designer, or marketer, you’ll find a team that fits your skills—like Core, Documentation, or Marketing—ready to shape the future of WordPress. Get a sneak peek at what to expect, how you can get involved, and why Contributor Day is the perfect place to make a lasting impact on the WordPress community.

Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/manila-wordpress-meetup/events/305608602/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

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