Simon Kraft

The Making WordPress Slack Workspace now requires SSO with your WordPress.org account. As of now, there is no official statement regarding this change. 🤔

After @josephahaden left Automattic last week, Matt Mullenweg now announced Mary Hubbard as the new Executive Director of the WordPress Project.

See Matt’s post on WordPress.org

In a couple of weeks, starting on October 1, theme and plugin author accounts on WordPress.org will require two-factor authentication.
In addition, it’s now possible to add a separate SVN password.

– make.WordPress.org/plugins

Earlier today, the WordPress.org team reset the passwords for every WordPress.org user account with author or committer access to a plugin.

In addition, new plugin submissions to the directory are halted, and all commits have to be approved by the plugin team for the time being.

Announcement on WordPress.org

Earlier this week, the team of the security tool Wordfence reported a supply chain attack affecting five plugins in the WordPress.org directory. In a follow-up post, WordFence’s Chloe Chamberland explains the attack vector: reused WP.org user passwords.

WordPress.org security advisory

The official WCEU flickr album dropped just in time for you spending your whole Sunday looking at the >3k photos 🥰

While next years host city for WordCamp Europe 2025 was announced the Call for Organisers also opened up. If you’re interested in becoming one of the co-organisers: give it a shot and fill out the form.

Missed Basels Welcome Message for WordCamp Europe? Here you go 🙂

Let’s take a look back at WCEU through some numbers.

Bjarne Oldrup (@oldrup) will take the stage and talk about all things sustainable web. Don’t miss this talk! 🪴

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