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Day two of WordCamp Europe in Kraków, Poland, is in the books. You really showed up and showed out. 🇵🇱 The opening keynote was a smash hit. Two engineers from CERN, the birthplace of the World Wide Web, explained how they're migrating more than 1,000 websites to a customized WordPress service. The title was perfectly fitting: “Two Worlds Collide.” The sessions were sensational. Our Developer Advocate, Ryan Welcher, led the brand-new 2.5-hour extended workshop covering the WordPress Interactivity API. Code Wrangler Dennis Snell led a workshop on the HTML API. The first post-7.0 WordCamp has lived up to the hype so far. And of course, our booth was bustling throughout, with demos of our latest products and the teams behind them, including WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and Pressable. And we’re far from finished. See you for day three tomorrow! 👉Browse the full #WCEU26 schedule: https://lnkd.in/e87DtAQs  👉Try planning with our WordCamp Agent: https://lnkd.in/evYYCU3y

Kraków, Poland. Contributor Day. WordCamp Europe 2026. 💙 Every WordCamp starts this way, and it never gets old. Hundreds of WordPress community members are coming together to build, design, code, document, translate, and keep pushing the open web forward. Leaders from WordPress.com, Jetpack, and WooCommerce are working alongside developers, designers, and first-time contributors — all at the same table. No hierarchy. Just people who care deeply about making the world’s largest CMS better for everyone. Swipe through for some of our favorite Contributor Day moments, and check out the full schedule here: https://lnkd.in/e87DtAQs More to come as #WordCampEurope continues. 💙 #WCEurope

Talk about a powerhouse panel. Mary Hubbard, Executive Director of WordPress, just took the SXSW London stage by storm with “Open Models, Open Future: Who Controls the World’s Most Powerful Technology?” Her panel featured speaker Joseph Spisak, VP of Product and Head of Open Source at Reflection, and moderator Niall Firth, Executive Editor, Newsroom at MIT Technology Review. Plus, it also featured a packed house; just look at these snaps! 🌎Did you catch Mary’s panel? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. 🌎And stay tuned because we’ll share ways to watch soon.

We built Automattic on the belief that publishing should be open and accessible to everyone. But that mission only matters if the internet is also safe, especially for children. That's why we're proud to announce that we’ve joined the Tech Coalition—a global alliance of 60-plus companies (Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Snap Inc. and more) united in the fight against online child exploitation and abuse. Through the Tech Coalition, we join forces on detection technology, cross-platform threat intelligence, and industry-wide safety standards that no single company could achieve alone. An open web needs stewards who lead on safety. That starts with us. 🔗 Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gatpgqWG

Next stop: Kraków, Poland! 🇵🇱 Next week is WordCamp Europe 2026, the largest annual WordPress gathering in Europe. With its medieval architecture, vibrant culture, and incredible culinary scene, Kraków is both a new WordCamp destination and the perfect place to celebrate the all-new WordPress 7.0. From June 4–6, you can expect: 🔹Not one, but two Automattic booths 🔹Product demos and the teams behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Pressable, and more 🔹Sessions and panels from our leaders, builders, and innovators 🔹Locally sourced swag, giveaways, and surprises 🔹And a keynote from Matt Mullenweg to bring it all home WordCamp Europe kicks off with Contributor Day. From there, it’s two packed days of programming dedicated to the world’s largest CMS and the power of open source. WordCamp Europe is the first WordCamp since the release of 7.0, so this one’s particularly special. The world’s largest CMS is evolving fast to become AI-native, but one thing never changes: the incredible community that powers it. We can’t wait to see friends, old and new, across skill levels, brands, and backgrounds. 👉Snag a ticket and see the schedule:  https://lnkd.in/e87DtAQs  👉Plan your panels with our new WordCamp Agent: https://lnkd.in/evYYCU3y

Who should control the world’s most powerful technology?   Mary Hubbard, Executive Director of WordPress, heads to SXSW London next week to tackle one of the biggest questions facing the open web. She speaks on the panel, “Open Models, Open Future,” alongside Joe Spisak, VP of Product and Head of Open Source at Reflection.Ai, and moderator Niall Firth, Executive Editor, Newsroom at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review. Panel details: 🌎Tuesday, June 2 🌎4:15–4:45 PM BST 🌎Protein Studios (Stage 1) in Shoreditch, East London With 20 years in the industry and a deep commitment to open source, Mary brings a perspective that's equal parts practical and visionary. Whether you'll be at SXSW London or following along from home, this is a conversation worth tuning in for! 🎟️ Get your pass: https://lnkd.in/e_bk2Fms  🎟️ Mary’s Session details → https://lnkd.in/eQAQRidf We’ll keep our global audience posted on how to tune in virtually. 💙

23 years ago today, WordPress launched and changed what it meant to publish on the web. What started as a blogging tool became the infrastructure for nearly half of the internet. Happy birthday, WordPress!

"The ideas will always matter.” That was just one of many standout moments from digital art pioneer Robert Hodgin in conversation with our design co-lead, Pablo Honey, at last night’s dev/ai/nyc event at our NoHo Space in downtown Manhattan. 🗽 Robert's work has defined the field of generative art—from building the default iTunes visualizer for Apple, to pioneering flocking simulations and interactive installations, to co-founding Rare Volume. In their unfiltered conversation on art in the age of automation, he and Pablo traced their creative journeys from Flash and RISD to Houdini and Touch Designer. They also looked ahead to what AI means for artists, agencies, and the next generation of creatives. It was one of our most insightful applied AI events yet! 🍎Here are some of our favorite snaps 🍎Watch the full conversation:  https://lnkd.in/enwB8kZt  🍎And we’ll see you at the next one in June!

Heading to Kraków, Poland, for @WordCamp Europe? We’ve built something new to help you make the most of it. Say howdy to the WordCamp Agent. 🇵🇱 The full #WordCampEurope schedule has 60-plus sessions across tracks covering @WordPress, AI, and more. Planning your days in advance is worth the effort. To make that effort easier, one of our Automatticians—Artur Piszek —built WordCamp Agent: a Telegram Messenger bot designed to help attendees navigate the event, plan travel, discover sessions, and get personalized recommendations. The agent is tailored to you, including accessibility needs. And it was built entirely without code, just by publishing skills and instructions on a WordPress.com site. 🏰Swipe through the slideshow to learn more! 🏰 👉Try WordCamp Agent: https://lnkd.in/evYYCU3y 👉Browse the full #WCEU26 schedule: https://lnkd.in/e87DtAQs

Cue the jazz: WordPress 7.0 is officially here! A massive milestone for the open web ecosystem, and we are incredibly proud of the teams who made it happen. Shoutout to the 99 Automatticians who contributed across the board and drove 1027 changes in 7.0, helping shape the future of the platform.