We are in the middle of the year, and WordPress space is buzzing with all types of news. Automattic is restarting core contributions and donating $30K for a scholarship program. On the biz front, there is a new rebrand, acquisition, and a partnership. Plus, a slew of new plugin releases.
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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
- Sponsor Contributors… Michelle Frechette and Marcus Burnette have launched a new Sponsor Me WP project. It lists contributors who various companies and individuals can select and sponsor for their contribution to the core, community, and more.
- FlyingPress… v5 is a major upgrade with the all new user interface, promising a simpler and more intuitive experience. Also, now FlyingPress moves resource intensive optimization tasks from your server to its own cloud infrastructure, significantly reducing server load and enhancing performance.
- SEO Insights… GetGenie Ai has launched the SEO Insights feature, providing users with a full snapshot of SEO performance. It allows Keyword tracking, viewing top pages, detecting competing pages to avoid keyword cannibalization, and viewing real-time SEO reports with impressions, clicks, and CTR.
- Fluent Forms… 6.0.4v has added the Front End Entry View feature, which enables the form submitter or an admin to view a submission page using a unique hash-based URL without requiring a WordPress login, while admin(s) retain full access to manage submissions.
New Plugins: Admin AI, Anniversary Woo, DB Control
WPAdmin + AI… add AI powers to your WordPress dashboard with The AI Assistant for the WPadmin plugin by Baljinder Singh over at WPSpin. It promises troubleshooting insights to quickly resolve issues and provide responses to help you manage your WordPress site more effectively.
Anniversary for Woo… Sanjeev Aryal from Mini Plugins has released the Anniversary For WooCommerce plugin, which automatically send a personalized email to customers on the anniversary of the day they joined your site.
DB Version Control… Robert DeVore has released a free DB Version Control plugin, which exports your content to clean, readable JSON files that work seamlessly with Git and other version control systems.
More New Plugins: Gravity + Brevo, Page Duplicator
Gravity + Brevo… the team at Gravity Forms has released an addon for Brevo users (formerly known as Send in Blue). It enables automatic sending of user submitted data from Gravity Forms to your Brevo account.
Bulk Page Duplicator… Nazim Husain has released a free Bulk Page Duplicator plugin, which allows you to quickly create multiple pages by duplicating a template page and replacing a placeholder with a list of values.
Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
- Resuming Contributions… Automattic shared a welcome news of restarting contributions to the WordPress project. “We’ve learned a lot from this pause that we can bring back to the project, including a greater awareness of the many ways WordPress is used and how we can shape the future of the web alongside so many passionate contributors”.
- New WordPress AI Team… Mary Hubbard shared about the formation of the WordPress AI Team, which will focus on artificial intelligence projects across the WordPress ecosystem. This team includes: James LePage (Automattic), Felix Arntz (Google), Pascal Birchler (Google), and Jeff Paul (10up).
- Win for WP Accessibility… GAAD 2025 (Global Accessibility Awareness Day), the first virtual accessibility contributor day from Equalize Digital, ended on a productive note. Amber Hinds shared, “86 people pledged 382 hours to improve accessibility in WordPress on May 15th”.
- New Team Reps… David Perez (sponsored by Hostinger), and Francisco Torres (sponsored by SiteGround), are the new team reps for the WordPress org’s plugin review team. While Nidhi Jain (Awesome Motive) and Luis Rull (Mecus), are the new Polyglots team reps for 2025.
- WordCamp Europe… is happening this week on June 5, 2025, in Basel, Switzerland. The 2025 edition of WordCamp Europe has been granted the official Patronage of the European Parliament. Also, check various tables dedicated to core team at the Contributor Day of this event.
New Features: Academy LMS, Divi 5, & Charitable
Academy LMS… 3.0.0v has added AI powered course creation via ChatGPT, native payments integration, full customization with aBlocks, lesson data custom CPT compatibility, and WPML Integration.
Divi Search & Filtering… a small handy addition which allows you to search and filter the Divi 5 settings panel, thereby making it easy to work with Divi’s vast array of design options.
Charitable + Elementor… Charitable 1.8.6v has introduced Elementor Widgets, enabling quick building via Elementor builder. The four new widgets added are for campaigns, donate button, donation form, and campaigns (gallery style).
Quick Bits 👍
- 20i Hosting has given a major UI refresh to StackCache interface.
- Studio local dev tool, now with full sync for Pressable hosted sites.
- GatherPress for local events hosting ready for real world testing.
- Automattic donates $30,000 for new Open Horizons Scholarship.
- Team Omnisend in a cool video (Links X) for WordCamp Europe.
- Let’s Learn
- Check Vibe Code WordPress Plugin Masterclass, by Matt Medeiros.
- Stefan Pavlović course on building one page site using Elementor.
- Learn to structure theme .json for creating better block themes.
- People of WordPress
- Rémi Corson is looking for a new owner for StoreUI, SaaS for Woo.
- Rian Rietveld need your support to improve WP Docs Accessibility.
- Taco shared, you’re setting yourself up for failure & WordCamps!
Business of WP: Rebranding, Acquisition, Partnership
Company Rebranding… TMS Products, a brand behind popular WordPress products like WP Amelia and wpDataTables, has decided to rebrand into ‘Melograno Venture Studio’. The founder, Alexander Gilmanov, shared why (LinkedIn) this rebranding and what does ‘Melograno’ means.
Plugin Acquisition… the team at POSIMYTH Innovations has acquired Sticky Header Effects (SHe) for Elementor plugin, which enables smooth, scroll-friendly headers with effects like the shrink header effect, transparent header, background transitions, and logo color change.
Plugin + Hosting Partnership… WP Rocket, a caching and performance WordPress plugin, has announced a partnership with Hosting .com – enabling Hosting .com customers to leverage WP Rocket for better website performance, out of the box.
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