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🚧 WordPress 7.0 RC1 ships despite core committer concerns
📉 Market share dips below 43% as AI reshapes site building
🔌 WordPress.com adds "write" access for AI agents
🧠 Elementor launches Angie

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🚧 WP 7.0 RC1 delayed to March 24
🌱 Roots launches WP Packages alternative to WPackagist
🧑‍⚖️ Plugins Team seeks reviewers as submissions top 500/week
🚀 Featured plugins experiment drives 26k installs

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🧩 WP Engine acquires WPackagist. WordPress X account calls it a "parasite"
🧪 WordPress launches Playground-powered workspace
🚨 WordPress ships 3 releases in one week

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🧩 Features tab rotates "hidden gem" plugins
💡 CloudFest Hackathon's record year for projects
🧠 Yoast launches AI-ready schema map with Microsoft
🧪 Contributor dashboard pilot goes live

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🧭 Joost de Valk and Karim Marucchi leave FAIR
🧪 WordPress 7.0 Beta 2 ships with Connectors UI
🎤 PressConf returns to Tempe with a new mission

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🧪 WP 7.0 Beta 1 ships after delay, leadership realigns around AI
⚖️ Automattic, Mullenweg seek to keep hosting negotiations private
🧭 The WPCC expands board, Chris Reynolds named interim president

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🚨 WP Engine alleges Automattic plan to target 10 hosts
🧭 The WPCC president resigns
🌏 WordCamp Asia eyes 3,000+ attendees
🎤 Mullenweg: sponsors' products "fair game"
🖥️ Push for Markdown endpoints on .org

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🎓 Automattic backs paid WordPress AI training at UIC
🗞️ WP Engine launches Newsroom platform
🤖 The WordPress AI Team’s "absurd" progress
🛠️ Meetup revamp plans face organizer concerns

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🧭 WordPress’ 2026 priorities
🧩 FAIR’s 2026 roadmap
⚖️ WP Engine adds defendant
🤝 Meetups go hands-on

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⚡ Matías Ventura leading WordPress 7.0
🎤 WCEU 2026 Q&A
🔥 Mullenweg on Woo's existential threat
⚖️ Class action revival
🎓 New WordPress education hub

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