We came back last week from WordCamp Europe in Kraków, energized by the city’s charm and the European WordPress community. With around 2400 attendees from 81 countries, the chatter around declining participation in WordCamps might be… a hallucination? 😀
The energy on the contributor day was phenomenal, with our fellow rtCamper David Levine leading the Core AI table. Unsurprisingly, the table with most contributors & overall interest.
The WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” release in May lays the foundation for AI across the entire WordPress experience. Keeping the tradition alive, 60 rtCampers contributed, taking our unbroken streak to 35th consecutive WordPress release. The release landed just ahead of WordPress turning 23.
With extensive work going in the AI space, we released our connectors for OpenRouter, LM Studio, and Universal OpenAI API, connecting your WordPress site with hundreds of AI models. And if you are planning ahead, we can assess your website across five dimensions and build your AI-ready architecture. Start with a free AI Readiness Quickscan. If you want to know more about activating AI capabilities, we have a new chapter laying out how to think about Abilities in WordPress.
Maitreyie Chavan, Director of Client Delivery at rtCamp, shared how our delivery team brings a strategic mindset to every engagement, from discovery and planning to agile delivery and long-term partnership.
If video commerce is on your mind, GoDAM 2.0 is now available for early access. The upcoming release turns video into a commerce channel, making videos shoppable inside WooCommerce stores.
WordPress news snippets
- WordPress has retired the “beta” PHP label. Versions 6.9 and 7.0 now fully support PHP 8.5, with the label removed retroactively.
- WordPress now has an official browser extension, moving admin shortcuts, host detection, and developer tools into your toolbar. Testers are wanted ahead of 1.0 release.
- Pressable, WordPress VIP, and WP Cloud have earned the Secure Hosting Alliance certification, validating shared security and infrastructure standards. Several WP Cloud partners have earned certification of their own through WP Cloud’s sponsorship of the SHA.
- Blueprints Gallery is now available in WordPress Studio, enabling developers to browse, preview, and launch reusable site setups locally in seconds.
- WordPress is expanding Unicode support for email addresses, usernames, and slugs, improving multilingual and international publishing workflows.
- WordPress Campus Connect team is automating application processing. An agent handles first-pass vetting, while approvals trigger emails and site creation automatically.
From around the web
- Figma has launched its design agent, built directly into the canvas. It can design, prototype, and iterate directly inside Figma workflows.
- At Google I/O 2026, Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, and Gemini Omni, which generates video from any input. Google also previewed WebMCP, exposing web tools to browser agents, alongside Modern Web Guidance skills and Chrome DevTools for agents.
- OpenAI and Anthropic both have launched standalone enterprise services companies. Each embeds engineers inside organizations to build AI systems into their core operations.
- Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo has released DS4, a highly optimized single-file C inference engine for running DeepSeek V4 Flash locally.
- Cloudflare has detailed how it built Town Lake, its unified analytics platform. An internal AI agent called Skipper runs on top to query company data.
Upcoming events
- Tickets are now available for WordCamp US 2026, taking place August 16–19 in Phoenix, Arizona. Early registration is recommended as availability is limited.
Blogs by rtCampers
How to Resize an AWS EBS Volume Without Downtime by @Immanuel Raj
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Abhijit Prabhudan
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Abhijit Prabhudan
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Works on content systems, publishing workflows, and knowledge management. Diverse experience spans editorial, marketing, ecommerce, and IT support. He operates across open source platforms, hand…
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Aviral Mittal is the Chief Marketing Officer at rtCamp, where he established and leads the marketing function, building and growing a team of 20+ specialists across content, SEO, design, and growth…
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