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First-time contributors were paired with seasoned table leads who guided them through their first steps into open source contribution. Longtime contributors reconnected with their teams and advanced ongoing initiatives, while new voices added fresh perspectives and momentum. The spirit of mentorship was woven throughout, ensuring that Contributor Day was productive and welcoming.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results spoke for themselves:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Polyglots</strong> translated more than 12,000 strings, expanding WordPress’s accessibility worldwide.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Community team</strong> celebrated the approval of two brand-new local meetups.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Training team</strong> achieved its objective of updating outdated course thumbnails.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Core team</strong> worked through a live bug scrub, with 9 committers and 16 contributors collaborating on improvements.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Documentation team</strong> completed numerous content updates to keep resources fresh and reliable.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Momentum carried through every table, with participants reporting measurable progress and a renewed sense of shared purpose. 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Drawing from their co-authored book with Afua Bruce, Amy highlighted the inequities embedded in today’s technologies — from dataset bias to accessibility gaps — and challenged attendees to rethink how tools are funded, built, and deployed. 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Her session <em>Modernizing at Scale</em> detailed how FSE is simplifying workflows, improving accessibility, and making the multilingual platform more sustainable for the long term. Attendees gained a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the world’s largest open knowledge platforms is leveraging WordPress innovation.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/F4NEPcwGRCI\">Josh Bryant</a> took the stage to explore what happens when Gutenberg leaves the WP-Admin dashboard. His talk, <em>Reimagining WordPress Editing</em>, walked through embedding the block editor into a standalone React application to support Dow Jones’s newsroom workflows. From decoupling Gutenberg to managing custom data stores, the session showcased advanced techniques for scaling editorial tools while maintaining the flexibility of the WordPress ecosystem.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hands-on learning was a hallmark of Showcase Day, with Jamie Marsland’s workshop leading participants through building and launching their own professional portfolio sites — no coding required. Attendees left with a fully functioning site, demonstrating WordPress’s continued ability to empower anyone, anywhere, to publish online.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the afternoon, Jeffrey Paul’s session <em>Scalable, Ethical AI</em> addressed one of the most pressing topics in today’s digital world: how to integrate AI without sacrificing ownership, privacy, or open standards. Walking participants through practical use cases with ClassifAI and local LLMs, Paul emphasized how WordPress can help content creators harness AI while maintaining autonomy over their data.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day closed with a forward-looking community highlight: <a href=\"https://events.wordpress.org/campusconnect/\">WordPress Campus Connect</a>. Panelists <a href=\"https://youtu.be/ARqM9U0ESvo\">Destiny Kanno, Andrés Parra, Javier Montes de Blas, Mauricio Barrantes, and Elineth Morera Campos</a> shared how this initiative brings WordPress into classrooms and universities worldwide. Student Andrés Parra received a scholarship to attend WordCamp. During the panel, Elineth also announced that Fidélitas University will begin offering its students a <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2025/07/introducing-wordpress-credits-a-new-contribution-internship-program-for-university-students/\">WordPress Credits</a> program starting in October 2025, making it a mandatory addition sometime in 2026, enabling them to contribute directly to WordPress as part of their studies.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>By connecting students and educators with the open web, Campus Connect is building the next generation of contributors and innovators, ensuring that WordPress remains both a learning tool and a pathway to opportunity.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taken together, Showcase Day affirmed that WordPress is more than just a CMS — it is a platform for equitable technology, global collaboration, cutting-edge enterprise solutions, and the future of digital education. WordPress has the power to be both a platform and a community tool for education, equity, and innovation.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presentation Days: Learning, Inspiration, and Connection</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first full day of sessions at WordCamp US 2025 opened with warm remarks from the organizing team, who reminded attendees: <em>“The most important thanks goes to all of you. The mix of new energy and veteran experience is what makes WordCamp so special, so thank you for being here.”</em> That spirit of gratitude and community carried throughout the event.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sponsor Hall became a hub of activity, complete with raffles, the return of Career Corner, and even a Voodoo Donut Truck parked outside. Attendees lined up to test their luck at a claw machine stuffed with plush Wapuus, while others sought guidance at the Happiness Bar — a hands-on help desk for WordPress questions big and small. 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His session gave attendees a deeper understanding of how search intersects with publishing today and sparked conversations about how WordPress can continue adapting in an era where AI shapes discovery and content.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, the schedule unfolded across multiple tracks. The Core AI panel — featuring <a href=\"https://youtu.be/v_0O6dQ4Q4E\">James LePage, Felix Arntz, and Jeffrey Paul</a> — offered a look into how AI tools are woven into WordPress core. 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At the same time, Adam Gazzaley’s keynote, <em>A New Era of Experiential Medicine – AI and the Brain</em>, invited attendees to consider the human side of technology, exploring how digital tools can advance health and well-being.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second day of presentations, Friday, August 29, opened with creativity and imagination. <a href=\"https://youtu.be/O7FPiFpRI3o\">John Maeda’s</a> keynote, <em>Cozy AI Cooking: WordCamp Edition</em>, used the metaphor of a kitchen to demystify AI, blending storytelling with technical insight to show how curiosity and care can guide builders in integrating AI into their work.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in the day, <a href=\"https://youtu.be/ORnJTpjA-4w\">Tammie Lister’s</a> <em>The System is the Strategy</em> illustrated how design systems provide structure and scalability for growing WordPress projects. 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The final notes of the keynote carried into a closing party in downtown Portland, where attendees capped off the week with music, conversation, and the unmistakable joy of a community coming together.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Closing</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>WordCamp US 2025 once again demonstrated what makes the WordPress ecosystem extraordinary: a community committed to building tools, resources, and opportunities that empower people everywhere.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year also marked the debut of the <a href=\"https://airtable.com/appWF6hdXuEOFQMvV/shrV5RZIv0aJjjU00\">Open Horizons Scholarship</a>, which funded six recipients — two organizers, three volunteers, and one speaker — from five countries. A total of $14,670 supported their journeys to WCUS. 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There are people who are using your code, but probably not speaking English.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:52] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> That&#8217;s definitely the case. So we have a free Slack, that&#8217;s the WooCommerce Community Slack, and it&#8217;s more than 30,000 people in there. It&#8217;s all over. You can definitely tell that people are coming from all over the world.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the weird things about e-commerce is it&#8217;s very geographically based because the currency matters. The payment provider that handles the payments matters. The shipping options matter. So there are certain places where you can only use WooCommerce because you want to use the custom bank payment provider that&#8217;s only in this one country, that sort of stuff.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So because of how diverse the types of integrations you would need, yeah, WooCommerce is very global. That was one of the things that really surprised me was finding out that, oh yeah, there&#8217;s payment providers you&#8217;ve never heard of, and banks you&#8217;ve never heard of, and shipping companies you&#8217;ve never heard of and they need to integrate.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:40] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> And tax. So much tax, I&#8217;m sure.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:43] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> Oh my, yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:45] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I&#8217;m sure it gets brutal. I don&#8217;t know exactly when the time was, but it feels like about, I&#8217;m going to say 18 months or something, when Woo underwent a fairly significant rebranding. So from a marketing point of view, the logo changed, the colour palette changed, the website changed.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really notice until that moment when it did change that it needed to have changed, if you know what I mean? It just always looked fine to me. But the moment it changed, I kind of got a sense that, oh, okay, this is real now. We&#8217;ve kind of identified that there are these SaaS players, so you know, we don&#8217;t need to name them, we all know who they are, where you pay your monthly fee and you get a shop and yada, yada, yada. But I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s a part of the roadmap.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And summing it up as more serious, obviously that&#8217;s trivial and a bit, really not the right term, but do you know what I mean? It feels like WooCommerce has, I don&#8217;t know, grown up a little bit over the last 18 months and realises the, I don&#8217;t want to use the word fight, but I&#8217;m going to, the fight that it&#8217;s in with the SaaS players.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:41] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> Yeah, I think that was the intention of that rebrand. So I think the goal was to go from saying, hey, we&#8217;re a WordPress plugin that lets you sell things. To saying, we&#8217;re an e-commerce solution, and we happen to run on WordPress. It&#8217;s kind of just a different framing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But one of the big things is a huge investment in marketing. And so the marketing team has gotten really big. We have a pretty killer CMO. There&#8217;s a ton of investment into different types of ads and demand generation and leads and all this stuff that I kind of don&#8217;t understand, a lot of like acronyms that are thrown around that I don&#8217;t fully track. But it&#8217;s a huge investment to basically reposition WooCommerce as something that feels a bit more modern and, not a SaaS, but kind of can sit there next to the SaaS. So when a company is looking at the options and they&#8217;re saying, oh, do we want to use Magento or BigCommerce or Shopify or WooCommerce, we look like we belong there, and it looks like it&#8217;s an option.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:36] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, it&#8217;s kind of curious that there&#8217;s, real money has to be spent on this endeavor because, I was in London just a few weeks ago and I walked onto the Tube, you know, the underground train network. And the platform that I was on, the first thing that I saw when I walked onto the platform was this huge ad for Shopify. And then I looked left and I looked right and it was Shopify ads all the way down. They&#8217;d obviously, I mean I can only imagine how expensive that real estate is.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the same thing would be true on radio, on TV, online, on print. These companies have gigantic, I mean truly eye watering budgets. And I don&#8217;t know if the WooCommerce side has to be a bit more guerrilla or if you also have a fairly gigantic budget. I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re able to peel any of that back. It sounds like marketing&#8217;s not really your thing, but maybe there&#8217;s bit of interest there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:18:25] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> Yeah, I mean since we&#8217;re in the team, we see a lot of it. We did an event earlier this year where our marketing team walked through some of this stuff, so I can maybe give you a link to put in the show notes. We kind of wrote it, did a write up about that very concept. Because we get asked that a lot, why am I seeing Squarespace and Shopify ads everywhere? And it&#8217;s, you know, obviously if you look at the size of the companies, it&#8217;s a fact, like a whole factor difference, like we&#8217;re not anywhere near the size of those companies.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And part of the issue is that you don&#8217;t just go to woocommerce.com and hand us money, you know? The Core plugin is free so the way we monetise is a lot different. You can run it anywhere. You can, a lot of people that run WooCommerce, they&#8217;re not paying us in any way because they&#8217;re using their own payment providers and those sorts of things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it is definitely more of a challenge. But this past year, that&#8217;s why the rebrand started, that&#8217;s why they&#8217;ve been investing in it. And it&#8217;s been kind of cool. There&#8217;s a lot of podcast ads that we&#8217;ve been running and LinkedIn ads and all these sorts of things. And part of the issue too is that our target market is just much more narrowly defined, and so WooCommerce is much more customisable. It&#8217;s extensible. You can do whatever you want with it. And that&#8217;s just a different value proposition then you would say to somebody who just wants the easy SaaS solution.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it&#8217;s a lot of things, but it&#8217;s kind of just knowing who we want and targeting directly to them. And so you probably won&#8217;t see ads on the Tube at any time, but for certain areas you&#8217;re going to start seeing really targeted ads for people at the places that would actually really benefit from having WooCommerce.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:51] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That was the thought that I had about seeing the Shopify, in this case, ad on the London underground was just how much the audience, the eyeballs that were actually staring at that had no interest in it at all. And so almost like the bottomless pit of money that they must have to throw at these things. And obviously it sounds like you are targeting people.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you kind of like riding on the coattails of WordPress in general? In other words, are you targeting existing WordPress users in the hope that they&#8217;ll think, okay, yeah, we&#8217;ve got a WordPress site, now it&#8217;s time to upgrade to WooCommerce, or is it a bit more scatter gone, you need a website, you need e-commerce, we&#8217;re your solution?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:26] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> Yeah, I mean that&#8217;s an interesting question because I think when WordPress was growing, it was a lot easier to target inside of WordPress, and I think now we&#8217;re seeing all the big companies reevaluate that. So I would say the ads that I see a lot are, you know, Hostinger, Elementor, wordpress.com. And I think a lot of them are realising now, you know, we need to target outside.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So for example, WooCommerce this year, we go to all the WordCamps, but we started going to e-commerce expos that are trade shows that are not anything to do with WordPress. It&#8217;s just for people in the commerce industry and partnering with companies that are in the marketing and commerce side. And so, yeah, it really is about branching out and finding those new areas.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think all WordPress companies are going to kind of have to start facing that as well because WordPress is 43% of the web. It&#8217;s like, how much bigger realistically can you get, once we pass 50%? I mean that&#8217;s, it&#8217;s pretty hard to grow at that point.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:19] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Did you attend any of those events? The sort of expos for e-commerce more generally?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:23] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> No.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:24] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I was going to follow up with a question about whether or not there was brand recognition. At those events, if you&#8217;ve got a WooCommerce stall, I was curious as to know what proportion of the public would walk past a WooCommerce sign and go, yeah, yeah, I know what that is, I&#8217;ve got complete familiarity with it. I feel like some of the SaaS ones, maybe they&#8217;ve done that job so well that that brand recognition is there, but maybe that work still needs to be done on the Woo side, I&#8217;m not sure.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:49] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> There&#8217;s definitely not going to be the same level of brand awareness. I think, like you said, like guerrilla marketing is definitely part of it. One of the things they do at these is they&#8217;ll find a local store that uses Woo and use them for swag. So they&#8217;ll get really good swag. They did like homemade, like embroidery things and all this sort of stuff. And so they end up getting very popular because of how cool the swag is, and how meaningful it is, and it supports a local merchant. But yeah, it&#8217;s a big battle, you know, to raise that brand awareness.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:22:18] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, let&#8217;s just turn a bit more to your Dev Rel stuff. And you were saying that, well, I don&#8217;t need to repeat what you said. You said a little while ago, who it is that you are interfacing with out in the real world.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>How does that work? Like, do you just sort of put content out there and tutorials out there and videos out there and change logs out there, and kind of hope that the people that need it get to see it somehow? Or is there more of an endeavor of, I don&#8217;t know, providing the bat phone, for want of a better word, to agencies and people so that they can communicate directly with you? How does that whole thing work?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:22:48] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> Yeah, so it&#8217;s interesting because there&#8217;s definitely different audiences that we have. So we have developers who are building extensions and are, you know, they&#8217;re selling WooCommerce plugins basically. And so we have them that we need to communicate with. And then we have the agencies and the agencies are building WooCommerce stores for people. So they&#8217;re setting up WooCommerce.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And those two audiences, they both need some of the same information, but they also need a lot of different information. And so we&#8217;ve kind of seen a lot of change over the last year.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Automattic has launched a program called Automattic for Agencies. I&#8217;m not sure if you&#8217;ve seen this. It&#8217;s kind of like an agency program where you sign up and you get access to extensions, you can get affiliate fees, you can get kickbacks on payments, volume, all that sort of stuff.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that side has really, sort of owned the agency space. And so what&#8217;s nice is we can go to them with any new information. We could say, hey, just pass this along to your audience in your next newsletter, that sort of thing. But really, if we want to have the conversations, I would say the Slack is the most common and we never lack for feedback. We get plenty of feedback. We do a monthly office hours in Slack or sometimes on Zoom, where developers will come and share their questions, that sort of thing. So we get tons of feedback. But yeah, it&#8217;s really just about being present there, being present on Twitter. We&#8217;re ramping up YouTube, because YouTube&#8217;s really important right now. And we&#8217;re just, like I said, small team and trying to hit all of those different content areas.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:13] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> My sort of follow up question there really was going to be something about shouting into the void and I wondered if that, it was in fact what was happening. But it sounds from what you are saying is if, no, there is an actual loop there. You put stuff out and you get feedback. I mean I&#8217;m guessing, from the sounds of it, there&#8217;s maybe more feedback than you can actually cope with, which is intriguing. I had an intuition that would be the other way around.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:32] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> Yeah, I mean it definitely depends on, sometimes you get feedback that&#8217;s kind of the same. We know what people want, and we&#8217;re trying to work as fast as we can to make the changes that developers and the community want. And sometimes you put out a feature and it doesn&#8217;t resonate.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But generally when we do calls for testing of a new feature we&#8217;ll post, all right, we have a new feature coming, it&#8217;s in experimental mode, here&#8217;s how to turn it on and then let us know if it&#8217;s working for you, if it&#8217;s working with your plugin and stuff. We definitely have a pretty healthy group that will take the time to contribute back, let us know if things are working. I mean it&#8217;s an open source project. We get community pull requests. We get people, they need a feature, they build it and submit it and, you know, hopefully we merge it. And so the feedback loop is definitely there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you&#8217;re, the thing that I&#8217;ve learned about WordPress is that I think it&#8217;s like an iceberg and like 90% of the WordPress community, they&#8217;re not really listening to WordPress content, and they&#8217;re not listening, they&#8217;re not even tracking WordPress in general. And so I think there&#8217;s probably a much broader community that we&#8217;re not getting access to, and they&#8217;re just living their daily lives and just building stores and stuff. And so I would love to find more of those groups. I think Facebook is probably a place that we haven&#8217;t even touched yet, and I&#8217;m sure a lot of them are there. There&#8217;s definitely work to be done there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:25:46] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I think that was maybe the piece that I was thinking. Is that Woo is the biggest solution out there. If memory serves, Woo is the biggest e-commerce platform out there. It kind of dwarfs all the others. I don&#8217;t even know if WooCommerce is bigger than the rest of them combined but, you know, it&#8217;s on that kind of level.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, if you were to have a, I don&#8217;t know, a Shopify store or something, there is probably like a little submit feedback button in the UI somewhere, and you can talk to the support representatives, and they&#8217;ll have the answer specifically because they know exactly what the platform does.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the jigsaw puzzle over on the Woo side is, yeah, it must be much more messy, much more kind of difficult to wrangle everything. You know, you&#8217;ve got people, end users who are using WooCommerce. You&#8217;ve got developers who are building plugins. You&#8217;ve got agencies who are building on behalf of clients. You&#8217;ve got people who are building rival things so you&#8217;re in direct competition with people in the plugin space who are building rivals to WooCommerce. It&#8217;s just, well, messy. But that&#8217;s open source, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:26:44] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> I mean that&#8217;s exactly what it is. You know, we have, you have WooCommerce support, right? And our support team is really great. Every time I go to a conference and one of our support engineers is there, I&#8217;m always pointing to them to answer all the questions because they know the product so deeply.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you imagine the, you know, most WooCommerce stores will come to us for support, but there&#8217;s no financial relationship. If they&#8217;re not using our hosting company or they&#8217;re not using Woo Payments, or they&#8217;re not using extensions that they bought in the marketplace, maybe they bought their extensions just off the internet or something, there&#8217;s a good chance they might not be paying us any money at all. And yet, you know, we&#8217;re going to support them and make sure that they&#8217;re having a good experience, because that&#8217;s kind of the goal of it. So it&#8217;s definitely a bit of the Wild West out there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:27:28] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> There must be some kind of strange tension there as well. I mean, you&#8217;ve described it very eloquently and I think you&#8217;ve stepped around that beautifully, but that is a peculiar thing, isn&#8217;t it, that you would not have to deal with elsewhere? The fact that you may very well be dealing with rivals. You may well be dealing with people who are using up your time, but like you said, they have no relationship with you financially at all, but they built something, third party thing on top of the WooCommerce ecosystem, and I guess that&#8217;s just the broader philanthropic goal of something like WooCommerce. You&#8217;ve just got to step up and be there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:28:00] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> Yeah, I mean I think wordpress.com probably has a lot of the same things because if you Google WordPress, you know, you&#8217;re probably going to end up on wordpress.com, even if you&#8217;re not their customer.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the flip side though, you know, the benefit of being open source is that, like I said, we get community contributions. We get a lot of eyes on the software. A lot of people, they give us feedback, they give us code, they give us all sorts of things. So it is a bit of a trade off.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I think it&#8217;s kind of worth it for the software to just exist freely and for everybody who runs on it, to always kind of know deep down that they own their store and they can do whatever they want with it, and they can put it wherever they want, and Automattic or WordPress or WooCommerce is never really going to take that away from them or take them down, you know?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:28:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I&#8217;d be curious to know what proportion of Woo kind of props up the broader WordPress project, if you know what I mean? I don&#8217;t think we need to go into that, and I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s any data out there anywhere, but there must be a lot of money sloshing around inside the WooCommerce ecosystem. It&#8217;d be interesting to know what proportion the broader WordPress ecosystem was was made up of just Woo stuff. That&#8217;d be an interesting thing to dig into.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:01] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> When I worked at an agency, the kind of rule was if you wanted to make money making websites, you did websites that made money. So e-commerce was a big part. People, you know, their website&#8217;s more critical to their business, so they&#8217;re going to be buying more plugins, they&#8217;re going to be paying more developers, they&#8217;re going to be using more tools. So I think that&#8217;s part of it. E-commerce isn&#8217;t the only way websites make money. There&#8217;s definitely a lot of other things, big publishers and that sort of stuff. But yeah, it&#8217;s definitely a big part of the community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:26] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Well, big and not going anywhere. Speaking of going places though, what&#8217;s coming up in the near future? So when we&#8217;re recording this, it&#8217;s kind of the middle of December. I imagine this episode will hit in the beginning of 2026 at some point. Roughly around that kind of time, what&#8217;s the thinking? What are the, some of the top level items that people may not know about? What&#8217;s the stuff that you&#8217;re working on? Roadmap stuff, I guess.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:46] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> Yeah, I would say the big things that I&#8217;ve seen that are really the big focus right now is, number one is really making WooCommerce closer to WordPress Core, which means making WordPress Core a little better. So WooCommerce has been pretty ahead of the curve of transitioning to blocks, using block templates and block based everything. So, I mean you can do your whole WooCommerce store in the block editor, which gives you a lot of kind of design freedom. But that means if we need something better in the block editor, we&#8217;ve got to commit that up to the block editor and make Gutenberg better. So there&#8217;s a lot of work to improve a lot of stuff inside of Gutenberg so that your WooCommerce experience is better.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that&#8217;s been a lot of the focus. And so we&#8217;re, there&#8217;s a lot of cool stuff coming around just new blocks, new block designs, patterns, things you can do to really customise the visual aspects of your store. And then the second big thing, I think that is taking up everybody&#8217;s mental space is AI. You can&#8217;t not talk about it. So it&#8217;s, that&#8217;s the other piece.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:30:42] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, despite the fact that it consumes all the air in the room, it is so fascinating. Do you have any insight into some of the things that may be on the agenda for a WooCommerce store owner in the near future? The kind of things that you are thinking of. Even if they&#8217;re just aspirational for a WooCommerce store owner. I&#8217;d be curious to hear your thoughts on that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:31:01] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> Yeah, I think there&#8217;s two different aspects of it that are really going to be important. One is managing your store. So we have right now in beta what&#8217;s called an MCP server in Woo. And what it basically lets you do is open up, you know, ChatGPT or Claude or something and say, log into my WooCommerce store and update all my products, put them on sale, change out the pictures, write better copy for them. It kind of lets AI log into your store and do things for you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so that&#8217;s in beta right now, and it&#8217;s pretty cool. I&#8217;ve been using it. It&#8217;s pretty neat. I&#8217;ve been setting up some demo stores for people, and I just go, all right, log in and make me, you know, 50 fake sweaters with a nice description in different colours. And it does it. It&#8217;s kind of mind blowing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:31:43] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Do you trust it at this point? And I don&#8217;t mean, you know, the broader kind of debate about AI and whether it&#8217;s trustworthy. I mean, in terms of the store, you know, do you trust it to update all of the particular product lines and what have you, or update the images? Do you feel that if you&#8217;ve given that prompt, you can sort of sit back and go, okay, that is definitely being done?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:32:02] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> I haven&#8217;t done it on a live site, I will say. The nice thing too is you can have it ask you for permission every single time, and you can kind of see what it&#8217;s going to do. That obviously kind of ruins the whole efficiency part of it, but it can do that. So I think it&#8217;s early days.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I do think, once you start interacting where you don&#8217;t have to actually log in and click a bunch of buttons, and you can just tell your computer what you want it to do, I think it&#8217;s going to be hard to come back from that. I think people are going to start expecting it. But I, yeah that&#8217;s, I mean we&#8217;re not doing that on the live, on any live sites, I hope not.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:32:32] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So that was half of it by the sounds of it. That was one of the threads. What was the other one?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:32:35] <strong>Brian Coords:</strong> The other one, I think is about how people are going to be shopping in the future. And I think showing up, obviously all these chat companies, they need to make money, and we know that they&#8217;re going to start showing ads and they&#8217;re going to start wanting to do the same thing when you go to Google, and you look up something and it gives you some shopping recommendations and shows you some products you might want to buy and some ads. You know, we&#8217;re going to start seeing that in our chat bots and stuff.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I think it&#8217;s going to be important for people that have WooCommerce stores, they want their products to show up there, and they want their ads to show up there, and they want to make sure that people who are using AI to get product recommendations, which my wife does all the time, that they&#8217;re going to show up there. So I think that&#8217;s the other half of it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:13] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. 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Which influencers should we work with? And when should I give them the beta version to test? I can give a beta version to like hundreds of peoples, who are willingly giving it a try. Tell us some beautiful insights, some valuable insights so that we can develop the product even more before going to the market. So that&#8217;s the thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In most cases, what developers are thinking, what mostly the founders who are mostly developers, they&#8217;re thinking like, well, I can develop the product like 80% and then for the rest 20%, we can start working with the marketing team. I can think of how to go to the market and how to have some early traction. Early traction is easy, but it&#8217;s not the kicker. Early traction is easy because if you have a freemium plan, you can definitely go for wp.org. There&#8217;s a free version so everyone can use it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a term, founder led marketing. So when you are a founder, yeah, you can just announce on your socials, like, yeah, I have a plugin. I developed it and I launched it on wp.org so you can try it. Everyone going to try it. No problem on that. But the thing is, there might be a hundred plus active installations on day one, but on day three it could go way below 10, 10 to 15.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So where are the rest of the people went? They just came here to try the product, you didn&#8217;t ask for anything. You didn&#8217;t know how to contact with them. You didn&#8217;t know how to collect the data, how to collect the information that you don&#8217;t have in your mind, in your head. What&#8217;s the fuss about? What&#8217;s the problem they&#8217;re having? So they didn&#8217;t even bother to share?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need to ask first. Be the first person to ask the questions like, what are the problems you are having using my product? I eagerly want to know. I want to solve your problem. 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And then they figured out, well, it might be your environment issues. It might be from your end because we are doing nothing. It&#8217;s working fine from our end. So let me see. Give me your backend credentials so that I can see what&#8217;s going on here. It&#8217;s a big no. It&#8217;s a big no for me. If you are talking about me, like it&#8217;s a big no. Why would I give my credentials to you? It&#8217;s your responsibility to take care of your product so that it&#8217;s working fine from my end.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the common things, and apart from that, when we are talking about feature first development, this leads to slower performance. The more the features, the slower the performance is, and it&#8217;s non-negotiable. The higher support workload and our roadmap, as I said, a roadmap that is reactive, not strategic. So strategic roadmap is important. Reactive roadmap means you are actually way far behind from your competitors. 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Every single human being in it, all of the messiness of that, trying to find them, trying to figure out how you&#8217;re going to talk with them, trying to figure out how you&#8217;re going to let them know that you exist. Trying to figure out how you&#8217;re going to let them know that your product is exactly what they need. Trying to figure out how to do the SEO piece, and we could go on and on.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There really are two very different universes colliding there. And I feel that in many cases, a really different personality type fits those things. Like, you know, the developer sitting in the chair concentrating on that code is a really different kind of personality type, if you know what I mean, than the person who can turn around, look at the world, cope with that messiness and figure all of that out. I&#8217;m not saying that they&#8217;re not possible by two people, I&#8217;m just saying they are very, very different things. 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So really when I was talking about, you know, the developer facing one way and then facing the other way, the computer and the world, you are introducing then, in the middle, the developer turns around and instead of talking to the world, talks to the marketer.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then the marketer absorbs those messages, whatever it is that the developer thinks, okay, it&#8217;s ready, it&#8217;s nearly ready, here&#8217;s the features. They communicate with the marketing people, the marketing people turn that into real world action. And then they themselves turn around and look at that bigger world and figure out how to do that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the curious thing is, in our community, there&#8217;s so many of the solo developers who, when that thing that you&#8217;ve just suggested, gets suggested. That some of the budget goes to a marketer, it&#8217;s like, no, no, no, no, no, no, I can do it all. I&#8217;ll be fine, because we know it can work in some rare cases. 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You have to provide him top-notch support for the rest of your lives, for the rest of products life. And then every year, fixed cost goes up. Teams, servers, your support team will go along. Your team will be bigger than the last year, along with your product. So your fixed cost will always go up. And lifetime buyers often create the highest support load while paying the least.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you have to have that in your mind that when I am working for a easy traction and I am giving them the lifetime deals, and I want to onboard thousands of customers, lifetime customers, you need to think that you need to give them support, you need to develop the product for these thousand customers who will not ever going to pay a single penny to you anymore. So this is a big burden for you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So real WordPress companies that scale, focus on renewals, annual plans, and clear upgrade perks. 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