Category: Announcements

This conference ended with two exciting announcements, but the real story is everything that had to happen first for those announcements to land the way they did. Months of planning turned into four days when strangers and friends built real websites, shipped real code, asked hard questions out loud, and found each other in hallways…

By the time you get to day 3 of a WordCamp, the mindset shifts from taking in new information to figuring out how you’re actually going to use it. It’s fitting that today’s keynote kicked us off with an hour talking about how exactly to do that. The keynote’s excitement bled into the sponsor hall…

Showcase Day is when imagination actually meets the platform. It’s the day WordCamp US hands the mic to the boldest, most creative work happening on WordPress right now. Real projects and real sites, showing what’s possible when people stop asking what WordPress can do and start building it anyway. This year, that question showed up…

Contributor Day looked different this year. Usually, we’re organized into teams based on WordPress contributor teams. Instead, we created teams centered around goals, with the intent of shipping something by the end of the day. Real Artist Ship. An idea is worth almost nothing until someone decides to finish it. Sketches don’t ship, good intentions…

Today, hundreds of people at WordCamp US will spend the day making WordPress better, and this year, we’re trying something new. Contributor Day is the part of WordCamp where the software gets built. A full day set aside for writing code, fixing bugs, improving documentation, translating WordPress into more languages, designing, testing, and supporting the…

A fireside chat on earning trust for technology that moves through the middle of our communities. Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 9:30am Amanda Ventura is joining WCUS 2026 for a fireside chat, sitting down with David Levine to talk about what it takes to build public trust in AI that shows up in the physical…