I’m still buzzing from an incredible WordCamp US this week, from contributor day to the closing party the vibes were right and it was amazing to connect with fellow travelers in the journey towards creating a more free and open source internet.

Before our open town hall Q&A I was able to make some fun announcements:

• Traffic to WordPress.org is up, and we’ve brought the plugin queue from months to basically a few days.
• Previewed Block Comments and the upcoming Command Palette feature in 6.9.
• Shared some fun AI experiments, including Felix’s AI chatbot demo, Automattic’s new Telex block creator, and more.
• Got to announce details for the next two flagships:
  • WordCamp Asia 2026: Mumbai, India, from April 9^th to 11^th.
  • WordCamp Europe 2026: Kraków, Poland. June 4^th to 6^th 2026.
  • WordCamp US 2026: Phoenix, Arizona, from August 16^th to 19^th. 😅

Give it a watch!