We see the full range of our work only when we write the case studies. In July, we published two of these:
The University of Findlay ran its public website on Microsoft SharePoint, a platform built for internal documents. In four months, we moved them to WordPress, cut 2,500+ pages down to 543, improved Core Web Vitals & delivered WCAG2.2 & ADA accessibility compliance. Read how one contrast bug in a cookie banner was lowering that score on every single page.
The second one covers a workforce nonprofit that runs a statewide contest where middle school students make mini-documentaries with local manufacturers. Training for it ran on emails, meetings, and calls. Read how we replaced that with a self-service LearnDash platform on WordPress, built and launched in a two-week sprint.
This is the kind of detailed work that is often not captured in website copy & social media, but gives you a true sense of how enterprise clients are winning with our solutioning & engineering depth.
Next in August, we are at WordCamp US 2026, happening August 16–19 at the Phoenix Convention Center. We have three talks across Showcase Day, and main conference days:
- Vivek Jain, our CBO: “The WordPress Agency Is Becoming Invisible: Why That Is a Good Thing.“
- Aviral Mittal, our CMO: “Agents Need Good Tools Too: Designing an Editorial Experience for Humans and AI Alike.“
- Jeremy Jones, our Director of Business Development: “You’re the Only One at Your Company Who Understands WordPress. Now What?“
In core contributions track, David Levine, our Director of Growth Engineering, will run the Core AI team booth and lead the Core AI Contributor Day table. Our large presence at WordCamp US is flanked by Founder & CEO Rahul Bansal, Chief Delivery Officer Mackenzie Hartung, Director of Design Kyle Huntzinger, and Account Executive Nicholas LaRose. If you are attending, say hi and we can grab an iced coffee.
After Phoenix, we go to Frappeverse Mumbai 2026. Rahul will be there with Chief Process Officer Nitun Lanjewar, Director of Client Delivery Kanchan Chauhan, and Senior Client Strategist Hrishikesh Biradar. Niraj Gautam, Ajay Jaiswal, Vishal Kumar, Deepak Kumar, and Riddhesh Sanghvi round out the group.
In product news, GoDAM 2.0 released with shoppable videos for WooCommerce—an e-commerce experience that turns videos into revenue.
WordPress news snippets
- Automattic’s design team built a production theme almost entirely inside the WordPress Editor, reducing reliance on tools like Figma.
- The WordPress AI plugin reached 1.1.0, adding Type-ahead Text and Key Encryption experiments. A new read-settings Ability exposes site settings to AI workflows.
- Upcoming WordPress 7.1 release enables Media Library infinite scrolling by default while allowing individual users to disable the feature through profile settings.
- WordPress has released a native Apple TV app, WordPress TV. It streams the full WordPress.tv catalog of talks, tutorials, and WordCamp recordings to the big screen.
Frappe & ERPNext updates
- Frappe marked its 18th Foundation Day on July 22 and opened a dedicated Pune office, marking another milestone in its open-source growth journey.
- Frappe Builder v1.31.0 is now MIT licensed, allowing unrestricted use, modification, embedding, and commercial distribution without open-sourcing derivative code.
- Frappe’s July product updates include Helpdesk’s redesigned ticket panel, Insights workbook templates, and end-to-end encrypted calls in Meet. Builder also gained canvas drag-to-reorder.
- Frappe launched India Payroll, an official Frappe HR extension for Indian statutory compliance. Previously community-driven, it now handles EPF, ESI, and Professional Tax.
From around the web
- Moonshot debuted Kimi K3, its most powerful open-weight model with 1M-token context. It also ranked high on the Arena Fullstack Code leaderboard, surpassing leading proprietary models.
- Canva made Canva Code 2.0 available to everyone. It lets anyone vibe code websites and apps, then edit them like a Canva design.
- Jack Dorsey’s Block has released Buzz, a free, open-source workspace where humans and AI agents collaborate. Built on Nostr, it is model-agnostic, with the code on GitHub.
- Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, claiming Fable 5’s intelligence at half the price. It also set a new ARC-AGI-3 high score of 30.2%.
Upcoming events
- WordCamp US 2026 includes a Made on WordPress Marketplace in the sponsor hall on August 18 and 19. It spotlights merchants and makers running businesses on WordPress. Sign-ups are open for a Creator Studio. Attendees can book the on-site recording space for podcasts and interviews.
- Frappeverse 2026 will be held on August 21 and 22 at the Nehru Centre Auditorium in Mumbai. Two hands-on bootcamps run beforehand, covering Frappe Framework + Apps for Non-devs and ERPNext Accounting.
Blogs from rtCampers
- Enterprise Gutenberg Blocks: A TypeScript-First Architecture for WordPress at Scale by @Deepak Kumar
- Adding Interactivity on Static WordPress sites by @Lakshyajeet Singh Goyal
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