December 11th, 2025
As we approach the end of another year, it’s a good moment to pause and take stock, where we started and where we stand today. Maybe the business grew, maybe it didn’t, but progress isn’t always measured in revenue. Sometimes the real wins are quieter: a stronger mindset, better relationships, more clarity, or simply becoming a better version of ourselves. Look within, look around, appreciate the people in your life, and recharge your drive for what comes next.
~ Team WPfounders
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Read The Latest Updates!
- HostWP.io: New datacenter added, this time in UK with all the premium features like LiteSpeed Enterprise servers.
- EWWW.io: Version 8.3 released with major improvements to lazy loading.
- MailerPress: Founder of SEOPress Benjamin Denis had lauched a new plugin called MailerPress back in October of this year.
- WordPress.org: WordPress 6.9 “Gene” was released on 2nd December 2025, during State of the Word 2025 with a very good reception.
- EtchWP: Kevin Geary released Beta 4 of EtchWP version 1.0.
- DotCamp: A new block based poll plugin called OpinionCamp, released by Istiak Rayhan and his team.
- James LePage: James shares his thoughts about six-months since AI team was created and how this year WordPress became AI-Native.
- BricksBuilder: Version 2.2 (beta) has been released with massive design system updates.
- WPWeekly: Results and winners announced of the WP Awards 2025.
Podcasts
- The WP Minute: Eric Karkovack speaks with Brad Williams about adapting your agency to AI and modern WordPress workflows
- OpenChannels: Abha Thakor hosts a discussion with Akshaya Rane, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Krupa Nanda about “WordPress 6.9: From Streamlined Content Creation to Powerful Developer Tools”
- WP Builds: Nathan Wrigley talks to Dave Grey about innovative WordPress plugin marketing.
- SDM Show: Rob Cairns talks to Alfredo Borodowski about Positive Resiliency and the Human Upgrade.
- Seriously, Bud?: Bud talks to Tom Willmot who is a living his life on a butter farm in the Brittany countryside.
- WP Product Talk: Katie Keith,and Zack Katz talk to Melissa Love from thedesignspace.co about Lessons from Add-On Creators.
- WP Tavern: Nathan Wrigley talks to Saumya Majumder on How Cloudflare Outages Impact the Web and WordPress Performance Solutions.
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Happy rest of 2025!
