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…
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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…
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💸 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-…
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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…
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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
✨ 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