Following the launch of WordPress 7.0, the largest WordPress event on the planet took place, bringing together 2,500 people from the ecosystem to review the state of WordPress and the upcoming WordPress 7.1 version.

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Program transcript

Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community.

In this episode, you’ll find the information from June 1 to 7, 2026.

WordCamp Europe 2026 took place June 4-6 in Krakow, Poland, with 2,458 attendees from 81 countries, nearly a quarter of whom were attending their first WordCamp Europe.

The event kicked off with Contributor Day, where all teams worked in parallel, with special focus on bringing new contributors on board through mentors and welcome tables.

The opening keynote was delivered by the CERN team, the European laboratory where the World Wide Web was born, which announced that home.cern is now running on WordPress, automatically migrated to production that same day, with a custom platform that provisions new sites in Kubernetes in roughly a minute and plans to release as open source.

WordPress 7.0 was the thread running through much of the program. A panel with launch contributors walked through how a version of this magnitude is coordinated, and several sessions explored in detail the possibilities opened by nati...