Nathan Wrigley had me back on the WP Tavern Jukebox Podcast for another great conversation.
This time we discussed what it looks like to tie WordPress releases to flagship community events like WordCamps and State of the Word. The live release at State of the Word 2025 in San Francisco was a genuinely exciting moment, and the proposed 2026 release schedule tries to build on that. There’s a lot of nuance involved: international holidays, travel logistics, global coverage across time zones, and more. Nathan and I worked through a lot of it together.
From there, the conversation moved to the “long tail COVID effect” on Meetups and the project’s contributor pipelines, and why the resurgence of open web technologies such as RSS, the Fediverse, and personal websites combined with the empowering effects of AI, making me optimistic about the future.
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Featured image credit: CC0 licensed photo by Virendra Kumar Yadav from the WordPress Photo Directory.
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