Hello everyone, I’m incredibly excited to finally introduce my product Virfice, a self-hosted email marketing solution for WordPress. Over the years, email marketing has been a big part of my career, and while using different tools, I kept noticing a gap that I believed could be solved. That realization led me to build Virfice, a solution that gives WordPress users full control over their email marketing. A solution that stays inside your WordPress dashboard. Today, I’m happy to share that the first Pro version of Virfice is officially out. It has been an exciting journey bringing this idea to life, and I can’t wait to hear your feedback. Your thoughts and suggestions would mean a lot as I continue improving the product. Thank you for the support! 🔗 Link in the comments 👇

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It was great being a part of WordPress Campus Connect! I had a wonderful time meeting and talking with young WordPress enthusiasts at Southwest University. It was exciting to see their curiosity, energy, and interest in WordPress, career building, and the opportunities ahead in this age of AI. A big thank you to the organizers and everyone involved in making this event possible and creating a space where students can connect with people from the industry, exchange ideas, and learn beyond the classroom. I really enjoyed sharing some of my experiences and, more importantly, hearing from the students and answering their questions. Always a pleasure to connect with the next generation of professionals and WordPress enthusiasts. Thank you for having me! ❤️ #WordPress #WordPressCampusConnect #WordPressCommunity #Career #Networking

An awesome overview of @virfice by @wpgiz.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. Impressive. Keep rocking @ciorici! Fingers crossed!

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Kirki eCommerce Alpha 4 Is Live!

The core mission of WordPress has always been to democratize publishing. AI doesn’t make that mission less relevant. If anything, it expands what “publishing” can mean. WordPress started by democratizing the publishing of blog posts. Then it became a platform for publishing entire websites, eCommerce stores, learning platforms, communities, membership sites, and much more. Now AI is dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of building software. The question is shifting from “How do I build this?” to “Where do I publish, own, and operate what I’ve built?” That’s where WordPress has an enormous opportunity. Whether something is built by a developer, a no-code tool, or an AI agent matters less. If you need an open platform to publish, extend, own, and control what you create, WordPress remains deeply relevant. AI may change how we build. It doesn’t eliminate the need for an open web where we can publish what we build. That is exactly what WordPress was created for.

I’ve seen plenty of anti-Matt sentiment over the years. But after this recent attempt to remove him, one thing became very clear to me: Matt has a huge amount of support, both inside and outside Automattic. #WordPress

Welcome back, @photomatt! I know it is about Automattic but I got worried about the future of WordPress too. Feeling much relieved now!

WordPress wouldn’t have come this far without Matt Mullenweg. I don’t know what Automattic’s board hopes to achieve by placing him on leave. I want Matt to continue leading as he has from the beginning. He isn’t perfect, and nobody ever will be, but his commitment has helped keep WordPress open source.

The smartphone industry is flooded with foldable phones that mostly compete on specs. But in today’s presentation, Apple showcased some genuinely interesting ways a foldable phone can be useful enough to tempt even people who had never considered buying one. I really like the name iPhone Duo.

It is so lively!