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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SSO for Makeing WP Slack
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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.
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Additional action to secure WP.org plugin directory
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.
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More detail on recent supply chain attack
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.
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It’s photo time!
The official WCEU flickr album dropped just in time for you spending your whole Sunday looking at the >3k photos 🥰
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WCEU25 – Apply now!
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.
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Welcome to Basel
Missed Basels Welcome Message for WordCamp Europe? Here you go 🙂
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Some stats
Let’s take a look back at WCEU through some numbers.
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Talk: Practical Techniques for Sustainable Web Development with WordPress
Bjarne Oldrup (@oldrup) will take the stage and talk about all things sustainable web. Don’t miss this talk! 🪴10:15, Track 2
