Monthly Roundup – September 2025

When migrating from platforms like Adobe or Sitecore to WordPress, a common question is around DXP alternatives. To us, the answer is clear—but it’s still worth addressing for those exploring their options. The answer is to compose your own best-of-breed open DXP with WordPress. Integrate the marketing automation, analytics, CDP, CRM, A/B testing and personalization tools of your choice with mature REST & GraphQL APIs and you are ready to go. We are always around if you want to discuss how. 

Meanwhile, we hope you have checked out our OnePress framework to consolidate multiple sites like a centrally governed platform. We released OneUpdate for centralized plugin updates and OneDesign for centralized design management. More modules coming up in October. Keep an eye out for our socials. 

Our latest case study on Pasqal, a quantum computing pioneer, is out now. It covers how we migrated Pasqal’s website to WordPress VIP, and turned it into a smart marketing platform with high performing page load times. With a customized drag and drop publishing interface using WordPress’ site editing capabilities, the marketing team can now publish in no time, without ever going off-brand. 

GoDAM, our advanced video and media management plugin, now includes organization and team management with roles, permissions and multi-organization support. Alongside, GoDAM 1.4 release adds new integrations and features for likes, comments, video migration and custom thumbnails.

We recently launched a web-based control panel at EasyEngine with WP Cloud integration. If you are planning to offer WordPress hosting to your customers, get in touch, or directly meet our founder & CEO, Rahul Bansal at the upcoming CloudFest USA in November. 

To get a better sense of our thinking and direction, check out the two podcasts Rahul recently featured on. On WP Legends, he discussed our journey and why contributions outweigh competition. On This Week in WordPress, he shared insights on GoDAM, scaling our WordPress practice, and rtCamp’s people-first culture. 

WordPress news snippets

• Fresh WordPress development updates: New Composer package, Accordion blocks, and styling form elements. New Data Views features and a stable PHP AI Client are also available.
• Matt Mullenweg joined Joubin Mirzadegan in the Grit Podcast, reflecting on WordPress’ evolution, open-source model, market resilience and AI-powered futures.
• WordPress contributor Tammie Lister introduced Blocktober, an experiment to create one WordPress block daily in October, using Automattic’s Telex.
• WordPress VIP has added TollBit integration to monitor, block, monetize AI bot traffic. Publishers can enforce a bot paywall, view real-time analytics, and apply access rules.
• WordPress seeks mentors for the WordPress Credits Program. Mentors need to guide new contributors, commit 2+ hours weekly, and support up to five students.

From around the web

• OpenAI released GPT-5-Codex, which scores 74.5% on SWE-bench Verified, and boosts refactoring from 33.9% to 51.3%. It works in CLI, IDEs, GitHub, cloud, and mobile via ChatGPT plans.
• GitHub has launched the MCP Registry to streamline the discovery of Model Context Protocol servers. It features one-click install, sorting by GitHub stars and community activity.
• Perplexity announced the availability of its Search API for AI workloads. It delivers structured responses, featuring real-time updates and includes an SDK.
• AOMedia will release its next-gen video codec, AV2, by end-2025. Backed by Apple, Google and Netflix, AV2 features better compression, AR/VR support and split-screen streaming.
• Cloudflare has launched a private beta for its new Email Service. It allows developers to send transactional emails directly from Workers without API keys.

Upcoming events

• Meet our founder & CEO, Rahul Bansal at the upcoming CloudFest USA in November. Especially if you are planning to offer WordPress hosting services. 
• Meet Aviral, Director of Marketing, & Jeremy, Director of Business Development at the CMO Leadership Summit (12-14 Oct) and Dreamforce (14-16 Oct). 
• WordCamp Asia 2026 has invited speaker applications, to be submitted by October 31. Formats include lightning, regular, joint, workshops for the event to be held on April 9-11, 2026, in Mumbai, India.
• WordPress Accessibility Day is scheduled for October 15-16. Attendee registration is open with virtual swag available. The event will be livestreamed for free.

Blogs by rtCampers

• WTF: What The Frappe! by @Rahul
• When A Small Town Dreams Big… by @Ashutosh 
• A Primer to Rendering Patterns by @Yogesh

Watercooler

Popular on our #watercooler Slack channel.

• Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co.
• Reshaped is now open-source
• TanStack Start v1 Release Candidate

Links

• Enterprise Consolidation Playbook
• Empowering Pasqal’s next phase of innovation