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WordPress 6.0 Drops Tomorrow
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Contributors
- 5 Things I'd Want to See Improved in WordPress Core
Brian Coords
- Women in Tech: Zhou Qunfei
Sammi Sim
- Some great stuff I've learnt from WordSesh 2022
Leonardo Losoviz
- How We Hire WordPress Developers
Gavin Graham
- A pandemic pivot from SaaS to client work to startup
Roger Rosweide
- Squarespace: A Window Of Opportunity
Monét Davenport
- Is WordPress hurtling toward a closed-source future?
Spencer Forman
- Rebuttal: How Patchstack is improving WordPress security
Robert Rowley
- Multisite Is Dead, Long Live Multisite
Jonathan Bossenger
- The Elementor vs. Gutenberg Challenge
Ben Gillbanks
- The Journey to Better WordPress Diversity
Allie Nimmons