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.
Notes
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Short updates from the WordPress community – links, stats, photos and quick thoughts. Every note is also a post on the Fediverse: reply, boost or like it from wherever you are.
December 2024
October 2024
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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Slack Singe Sign-on enabled Your Workspace Administrator at Making WordPress has enabled Single sign-ons (SSO for short!) for your workspace.
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.
September 2024
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.
June 2024
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.
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.
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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Photo of a camera on a WordCamp Europe 2024 name bade.
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.
Some stats
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Some stats – 2940 Tickets sold – 2584 People visited the event – From 96 countries – 756 visitors to the Contributor day – 20M social media reach – 52 Speakers – 8 workshops – 7 WC Connect discussions – 1 Wellness Track with yoga lessons and walking tours – 1 Youth and Teens Workshop
Let’s take a look back at WCEU through some numbers.