Year: 2026

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…

Awaken Realms vows “no AI art” for Concordia: Special Edition after BGG review bombing

Board game publisher Awaken Realms has responded to a wave of anti-AI art review bombing for its upcoming crowdfund, Concordia: Special Edition, by saying no AI-generated imagery will be used in the finished game. The title is the latest seminal…

WPTavern: #210 – Zach Stepek on the Interconnected WordPress Ecosystem, Partnerships and Trust

Transcript [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress, the people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in…