Autor: Birgit Pauli-Haack

Hi, There is good news for me and good news for you. The good news for me: with my five-year anniversary at Automattic, I get to go on a 3-month sabbatical, starting this week. It also means not only a break from Automattic but also from the WordPress community, a place that kept me engaged for the last 17 years. So that’s going to be a little weird for me. When I get back, I’ll let you know how it went. The good news for you: my colleague Justin Tadlock will keep publishing Weekend Editions on Gutenberg Times while I…

Learn how to gamify your online course in WordPress with points, badges, and ranks using free tools, plus the honest limits of when it works. The post How to Gamify an Online Course in WordPress (Points, Badges, Ranks) appeared first on Themeisle Blog.

A focus on guiding new contributors in open source, discussing AI’s impact, and adding insightful commentary.

An informal look at WordCamp US featuring hackathon day, community feedback, networking, and thoughts on the new event structure.

Bob Dunn discusses the move from highlighting builders to engaging with open source’s wider future.

Build a Udemy-style course marketplace on WordPress: instructor registration, revenue sharing, and payouts with Masteriyo, plus the honest workload involved. The post How to Create an Online Course Marketplace in WordPress (Multiple Instructors) appeared first on Themeisle Blog.

We’re proud to announce that WordPress has signed Open Weights and American AI Leadership, an open letter asking US policymakers to not place early restrictions on open weight AI models. These are artificial intelligence models that anyone can download, inspect, modify, and run on their own infrastructure. The letter was published on July 24, 2026, and more than 270 companies and organizations have added their names. Its argument will be familiar to anyone who works in open source: technology gets better and safer when more people can study it and build on it. That belief is the foundation WordPress is…

Hear about X and Nitter, how AI changes human roles with meat proxies, and the shift toward rapid online degree programs

Want students to finish your course? Learn how to drip feed lessons in WordPress with Masteriyo: unlock by date or days after enrollment, step by step. The post How to Drip Feed Course Content in WordPress With Masteriyo appeared first on Themeisle Blog.

Transcript [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress, the people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case a new way to keep up with WordPress news and updates. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players. If you have a topic that you’d like us…