The organising team for WordCamp Europe 2025 in Basel has just opened early registration for workshops:
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WCEU Workshop registration now open
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Call for Volunteers
The twelfth WordCamp Europe currently is looking for volunteers to help out in June. The call will be open until March 31.
https://europe.wordcamp.org/2025/be-part-of-wordcamp-europe-2025-volunteer-in-basel/
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Changes at Post Status
Yesterday, @joost and Marieke van de Rakt bought the established #WordPress website and Slack community #PostStatus.
@simon had a quick chat with him to discuss their plans:
Post Status
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Call for Speakers
WordCamp Europe 2025 has opened the call for speakers and is looking for a diverse crowd of people.
https://europe.wordcamp.org/2025/diversity-makes-wordcamp-europe-stronger-we-need-your-voice/
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Open Letter
#WordPress Contributors and Community Leaders Call for Governance Reform in Rare Open Letter
via @therepository
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Koko Analytics
In yesterday’s post for our plugin advent calendar, we featured @dvk’s Plugin Koko Analytics. If you’re running a #WordPress site and are interested in GDPR-compliant usage tracking, this might be for you.
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Is WordPress still WordPress?
In an essay, our guest author, Hendrik Luehrsen, pondered whether WordPress’s current strategy of adding more and more features to WordPress core is sustainable.
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SSO for Makeing WP Slack
The Making WordPress Slack Workspace now requires SSO with your WordPress.org account. As of now, there is no official statement regarding this change. 🤔
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New Executive Director announced
After @josephahaden left Automattic last week, Matt Mullenweg now announced Mary Hubbard as the new Executive Director of the WordPress Project.
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Security changes for Plugin and theme Authors
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.