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We are back with another roundup of all the latest WordPress news and gossip from the past month. Whereas the previous few months had been relatively quiet, the last month had two big happenings – the release of WordPress 6.3 in early August and WordCamp US 2023 in late August.

This post is a celebration of WordCamp Europe’s growth, as seen through the eyes of seasoned attendees (that’s us!). Join us as we delve into the data, uncovering what makes WordCamp Europe an essential stop in the WordPress calendar.

This is the August 2023 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” First off, we got a look at the betas and release candidates for WordPress 6.3, so you should have a good idea of what the next major release will look like when it lands in August.

This is the July 2023 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” This month, Jetpack added a new AI writing assistant that all WordPress users can access, WordPress.com made some of its monetization features available for free, and reusable blocks are getting a rebrand.

This is the June 2023 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” Howdy, WordPress fans. We are back with another dose of WordPress news and events from the past month.

WordCamp Europe 2023 is so close, we can practically taste the moussaka! Yes, this year’s WCEU is in Athens, Greece on the 8–10th of June. The whole event is gearing up to be one of the best ever, with a high level of attendance post-COVID-19. As such, you’ll find a lot of ways to mingle, connect, and network with every other WordPress attendee.

Hey, WordPress fans, we are back with the latest roundup of WordPress news and events from the past month. This is the May 2023 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.”

This is the April 2023 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” In the biggest news of the month, WordPress 6.2 went live, bringing a number of improvements to the Site Editor experience. It was, however, a day late – learn why below!

We are back with the latest round of WordPress news from the past month in our March 2023 WordPress news roundup. As has become the norm, last month saw some big acquisitions in the WordPress space – Awesome Motive acquired WP101, and MemberPress acquired its competitor plugin MemberMouse.

This is the February 2023 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” There were some big WordPress acquisitions, a new ad/promotion product from Automattic, a potential new design for the WordPress.org theme directory, WordCamp Europe 2023 tickets and speaker openings, and lots more.

As we embark on a new year and set our sights on achieving fresh goals, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past 12 months. Specifically, we wanted to highlight some of the standout WordPress articles that our community published throughout the year. As you gear up for the exciting possibilities that 2023 has in store, we hope that these best WordPress articles will provide some inspiration and guidance along the way.

This is the January 2023 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” As we move into 2023, we are back with another edition of our monthly WordPress news roundup, covering all the important WordPress news and events that happened over the past month.

Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with our latest roundup of WordPress news from the past month. November was a bit of a slow month in terms of WordPress news, perhaps because the US WordPress community was more focused on stuffing themselves with turkey than working on WordPress sites. But despite that, there were still a few tasty tidbits that are worth sharing.

The international day of discounts is nearly upon us! Of course, this is about Black Friday! And it so happens that Black Friday is just as popular in the WordPress and website building communities as it is everywhere else.

Black Friday / Cyber Monday (2022) is this rare, once-a-year opportunity to take advantage of some sweet discounts and grab yourself something nice for a fraction of the price. Or, in this case, grab your website something nice. After all, it’s WordPress Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals that we’re all about here!

We are back with all the latest WordPress news and updates that happened in the previous month. For the biggest story, WordPress.org removed a piece of data that a lot of plugin developers rely on, which kicked up a storm on Twitter, Trac, and elsewhere.

This is the October 2022 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” Hey, WordPress fans! We are back with you covering the latest WordPress news from the previous month.

Hey, WordPress fans. We are back with another batch of WordPress news, covering everything notable that happened in the last 30 days in the world of WordPress. This is the September 2022 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.”

This is the August 2022 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” Hey WordPress fans, we are back with the latest WordPress news from the last 30 days. This month, there were some big proposals in the WordPress space, including the ideas of not releasing a full default theme and rebranding Full Site Editing.

At the beginning of the pandemic, I reached out to a handful of people in the WordPress community to see how they were doing and how all that uncertainty was affecting their work. That was a scary time! People were generally afraid, and no one knew how long the pandemic would last and how it would impact their businesses, their jobs, and their families. Two years have gone by and I wanted to follow up with our interviewees and see if anything significant has happened in their lives in the meantime, plus hear any new lessons learned they might have.

Hey, WordPress fans. We are back with the latest WordPress news and events from the past month. While we’ve had a quiet few months before this, the previous month had a lot going on, primarily in the WordPress business space.

This is the June 2022 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” The biggest bit of news was the release of WordPress 6.0, which brings a number of enhancements to the Site Editor and full site editing experience, among other tweaks to the block editor and beyond.

This is the May 2022 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” In the biggest news story of the month, WordPress.com made huge changes to its pricing structure with very little fanfare.

This is the April 2022 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” Hey, WordPress fans. We are back with all the most important WordPress news from the last month. March was an eventful month, but primarily on the business side of WordPress.

This is the March 2022 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” Hey, WordPress fans. While you may have spent last month getting acquainted with the new WordPress full-site editing features that were released in WordPress 5.9, the WordPress train never stops chugging along and we’ve got more juicy tidbits from the last month.

Hey, WordPress folks. We are checking in with the first batch of WordPress news stories from 2022. Unlike last month, there was a lot going on. Most notably, a brand spankin’ new major WordPress release – WordPress 5.9 “Josephine.” Read about this and more.

This is the January 2022 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” Hey there, WordPress fans. We hope you all enjoyed the holidays and are ready for an awesome year of WordPress in 2022.

This is the December 2021 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” We are back with yet another dose of WordPress news and analysis. This month, GoDaddy found itself in the news quite a bit. They made a big splashy acquisition in the managed WordPress hosting space, but they also had a vulnerability in their own managed WordPress hosting that could put millions(!) of WordPress sites at risk.

It’s time for another round of news stories and interesting goings-on from the WordPress ecosystem. And there’s a lot to talk about! First off, there are some interesting developments from team Jetpack. In short, some of their services are going full standalone. Then we’ll talk about what’s happening with the upcoming WordPress 5.9 – there’s always something.