August 27th, 2025
WCUS brings together founders, teams, and key decision-makers all in one place. Make the most out of the event, strike partnerships, and pave the way to make the upcoming sales season a success. Also, be sure to welcome and engage with first-time event attendees, introduce them to others, and invite them to side events. You never know; the new attendee today may become a successful entrepreneur in the future.
~ Team WPfounders
Featured Stories
"Something I’ve learned over the years is the importance of timing. I launched Compete Themes in 2014... In 2025, it would be hard to open a successful theme shop.
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~ Ben Sibley of Independent Analytics
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"If you’re thinking of starting a business, Get to work, work hard and smart, and launch a minimum viable product as quickly as possible.
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~ Katie Keith of Barn2 Plugins
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"I followed the traditional university and then corporate career path, but always had a side hustle I was trying to grow.
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~ Justin Ferriman of Learndash
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"WordCamps have helped me to finally understand what “WP community” really means."
~ Thomas Koschwitz of GREYD.
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Read The Latest Updates!
- WordPress.org: WordPress 6.9 Release Squad announced with Matt Mullenweg as the release lead.
- WPWiki.org: Michelle Frechette and Corey Maass have launched WPWiki.org, a new community-led website with a goal of being a comprehensive source of information for the WordPress community.
- Rocket.net: Hosting.com has acquired Rocket.net, and Ben Gabler becomes the CPO at Hosting.com, while Jessica Frick will independently lead Rocket.net
- Convesio: AI website builder and AI Agent are now available at Convesio.
- PeepSo: Eric announced a new security plugin called WP Sentinel.
- WPManageNinja: The new website design is now live and utilizes FluentCart to manage customers and licenses.
- Elementor: – A New accessibility tool called the Ally Assistant is now available as of 12th August, 2025.
- SEOPress: New version 9.0 of SEOPress is now available, with DeepSeek AI integration and more.
- FlyingPress: Version 5.1 includes Cloudflare integration for full-page caching.
- WooCommerce.com: Version 10.1.1 has been released with better checkout UX, improved payment flows, and more.
- DigitalPlat: The non-profit organization announced free domains, it is backed by 1Password, The Hack Club, Twilio, GitHub, and Cloudflare.
- BigScoots: Memberful and BigScoots announce partnership to offer managed web hosting services to membership sites.
- PressConf: The event, scheduled for April 8th to 11th, 2026, is now offering Early Bird discounts on ticket sales, with a $100 discount.
- WordPress VIP: Steph Yiu becomes the new CEO of WordPress VIP, as Nick Gernert steps down.
- Patchstack: The web security professionals at Patchstack put web hosts to the test and found out that 87.8% of vulnerability exploits were able to bypass hosting security defences.
- Equalize Digital: The 2025 accessibility comparison was released by the team at Equalize Digital. Kadence was ranked the best among those tested.
Podcasts
- The WP Minute: Kurt and Toby discuss the Journey of Building an Agency.
- OpenChannes (Do the Woo): Hosts James Kemp and Katie Keith talk to Gary Pendergast about Maintaining Legacy Support in WooCommerce and WordPress.
- WP Builds: Nathan chats with Ross Morsali about unlocking faceted search in WordPress.
- SDM Show: Rob Cairns talks to Brian Gardner about Product Development in a Changing Ecosystem.
- Seriously, Bud?: Bud talks to Winstina Hughes, who is a world-class WordPress community builder.
- WP Tavern: Nathan talks to Karla Campos about organising WordCamp US.
Discounts By The Founders
- 80% off on BigScoots (Code: WPDiscounts80)
- 50% off on WP Umbrella (Code: WPDISCOUNTS)
- 35% off on Bit Apps (Code: WPDISCOUNTS35)
- 30% off on Dotstore (Code: WPDISCOUNTS)
- 25% off on Perfmatters (Code: WPdiscounts)
- 25% off on Modular DS (Code: WPFOUNDERS)
- 25% off on Peepso (Code: WPDISCOUNTS)
- 20% off on WSForm (Code: WPDISCOUNTS)
- 20% off on LifterLMS (Code: WPDISCOUNTS20)
- 20% off on InstaWP (Code: AFF20)
- 20% off on Unlimited Elements (Code: WPdiscounts)
- 20% off on WP Security Ninja (Code: WPDISCOUNTS20)
- 15% off on EWWW Image Optimizer (Code: FOUND15)
- 15% off on Spotlight (Code: FOUNDERS15)
- 15% off on UiPress (Code: Y87ZDHIRUG)
- 15% off on MelaPress (Code: WPFOUNDERS15)
- 15% off on ShopWP (Code: WPFOUNDERS)
- 12% off on CMinds (Code: WPDiscounts)
- 10% off on Independent Analytics (Code: WPDISCOUNTSIO)
- 10% off on Password Protected (Code: WPdiscounts)
- 10% off on Post SMTP (Code: WPdiscounts)
- 10% off on OmniSend (Code: WPDISCOUNTS10)
- 5% off on Nitropack (Code: WPDISCOUNTS)
Here’s to a more balanced life!
