Month: March 2026

GAMA unveils board of directors election winners, current president and secretary re-elected to board

Editor’s note: GAMA is one of the sponsors of the BoardGameWire newsletter Hobby games trade organisation GAMA has revealed the winning candidates in its latest board of directors election, with the organisation’s current president and secretary both retaining their board…

Open Channels FM: Shaping Data Sovereignty and Internet Resilience

In recent years, the concept of data sovereignty has become increasingly important. As more countries introduce or tighten regulations around where and how data must be stored and protected, companies serving the global internet community face a unique set of…

Stop Losing Sales: How to Add a WooCommerce Cart Reserved Timer

The most frustrating part of running a WooCommerce store is watching a customer add a product to their cart only to disappear at the final second. You did the hard work of getting them to your site, but you miss…

WordPress.org blog: WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 2

The second Release Candidate (“RC2”) for WordPress 7.0 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead,…

Open Channels FM: How AI and Cloud Tools Are Transforming WooCommerce Development and Testing

In this episode, Derek talks with WooCommerce’s Brian Coords about how AI is reshaping e-commerce, from automating tasks to enhancing flexibility for developers and merchants. Brian shares insights on using AI for better workflows and community engagement. Sorry, You're not…

Asmodee to pay up to €250m to buy French party, social game publisher ATM Gaming

Asmodee has sealed its second major acquisition in a week by agreeing to pay up to €250m for French social and party game publisher ATM Gaming. The board game giant said buying ATM, the publisher of titles including Speed Bac/Quickstop,…

Gary: Embed All The Things!

Over 10 years ago, we introduced the oEmbed API to WordPress, expanding how WordPress handled embedding to cover all WordPress sites. It was an intentional decision to focus on oEmbed at the time: we wanted to focus on the embedding…

Matt: Ari & X

I’m in NYC for the Stephan Wolfram dev/ai/nyc conversation tomorrow at the Automattic Noho space. While walking back from the Apple Store in Soho where I had picked up a new Studio Display XDR to try out, ran into one…

Shiny New Editions of Fan Favorites

by Steph Hodge I have been playing and hearing about a bunch of new editions for games getting reprinted with new artwork. This excites me because I love it when a game gets a boost, as it often means new…

WordPress.org blog: WP Packages is Working the Way Open Source Should

When WP Engine acquired WPackagist on March 12, the WordPress developer community faced a familiar question: what happens when critical open source infrastructure ends up under corporate control? The community already had an answer in progress. Four days later, WP…