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What's Happening in WordPress this Week (19 March) Read Here → wpmore.net/wordpress-7-0-…

Woo’s Brian Coords will host a March 31 panel on building ecommerce communities, featuring Equalize Digital's Amber Hinds, WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard, and PressConf's Raquel Manriquez → developer.woocommerce.com/2026/03/10/joi… (h/t: @therepositorywp)

WP Engine customers Ryan Keller and Sharon Schanzer have again urged a federal judge to reject Automattic's motion to dismiss their amended class action, → courtlistener.com/docket/6966365… (h/t: @therepositorywp)

🤖 Joost de Valk argues the AI content boom is replaying the early days of SEO → joost.blog/ai-optimizatio… (h/t: @therepositorywp)

🎣 Matt Mullenweg shared a close call with an almost-convincing Apple-themed phishing scam → ma.tt/2026/03/gone-a… (h/t: @therepositorywp)

💻 Andrija Vucinic shared a behind-the-scenes look at upgrading nearly 1,800 database servers to MariaDB 11.8 → automattic.com/2026/03/06/mar… (h/t: @therepositorywp)

📊 Derek Hanson says AI finally helped him ship Tufte Blocks, a typography-driven theme he’d struggled to build for years → derekhanson.blog/tufte-blocks/ (h/t: @therepositorywp)

💸 Dries Buytaert says running Drupal's infrastructure costs roughly $3 million a year, or $10 per site, with a funding gap that’s turning into technical debt → dri.es/what-it-costs-… (h/t: @therepositorywp)

How to Generate a WordPress Theme with Telex → wordpress.com/blog/2026/03/1…

Fear of voicing the unpopular opinion within the WordPress ecosystem → coenjacobs.com/blog/fear-voic…

WordPress 7 AI Revealed | Here's What Actually Works → youtube.com/watch?v=jTywTr…

WooCommerce 10.6 has been released with performance improvements that reduce SQL queries across checkout, product pages, and the admin dashboard, → developer.woocommerce.com/2026/03/10/woo… (h/t: @therepositorywp)

What’s new for developers? (March 2026): Key updates include progress toward the WordPress 7.0 release, with features such as real-time collaborative editing, AI provider connector packages, and visual in-editor revision tracking. →developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/03/w… (h/t:@wpcontent_co)

Clarifying some things I’ve seen about WP Composer/Roots this week: – We started working on a WPackagist replacement last August, long before any recent attention – RTs/posts by dot org are unrelated to our motivations, but we do appreciate the extra visibility – Roots has been an independent open source org in the WordPress ecosystem since 2011, with one goal: improve the WP developer experience – We’ve never been an agency or owned by a hosting company, just a team and community focused on open source – I do sell one product, Radicle, to help fund that work, along with past products like screencasts and the Sage book – WP dot com has been a sponsor since 2021, and others, including Pantheon, have supported Roots over the years, with no influence on our roadmap – WP Engine hasn’t been involved with Roots, no sponsorship or collaboration to date, including support and documentation for Sage 11 – When critical ecosystem infrastructure ends up controlled by a private equity-owned company, especially when that platform still has gaps in Composer support, we think the community deserves an open alternative

WordPress VIP Launches Advanced Professional WordPress Developer Certification → therepository.email/wordpress-vip-… (h/t: @therepositorywp)

From Experimental Tool to AI Infrastructure: Adam Zieliński’s Vision for WordPress Playground in 2026 → therepository.email/from-experimen… (h/t: @therepositorywp)

How CloudFest Is Becoming the Most Important WordPress Business Event Nobody’s Talking About → therepository.email/how-cloudfest-… (h/t: @therepositorywp)

✨ We built WP Composer — an independent, open source Composer repository for WordPress plugins and themes, with 17x faster cold resolves than WPackagist wp-composer.com

WordPress 6.9.4 Arrives as Security Team Discovers Incomplete Fixes From Tuesday’s Releases → therepository.email/wordpress-6-9-… (h/t: @therepositorywp)