This April, we were at WordCamp Asia and four rtCampers took to the stage to share their insights. Our Founder and CEO, Rahul Bansal’s session, How to start an enterprise WordPress agency in 2026, is the one to watch if you’re building or running an agency right now. Drawing on nearly two decades of building rtCamp, he addresses the concerns that matter at the enterprise level.
Our CMO, Aviral Mittal, explored how to sell WordPress by understanding who you’re really building for.
Our CTO, Rahi Prajapati, talked about what enterprise WordPress really means from his engineering and technical leadership experience.
And our Director of Client Delivery, Maitreyie Chavan, spoke on what project delivery actually looks like when plans meet reality. All worth your time.
Enterprise teams still treating WordPress as a website are leaving real money on the table. We share the case for a shift in thinking: treating WordPress as a product, governed with composable architecture and OpEx planning, cuts TCO by up to 40%. If you’re stuck in a cycle of expensive refreshes, this is the read that reframes the conversation.
The upcoming WordPress 7.0 removes one of the most common friction points in block development. PHP-only Gutenberg blocks are now a first-class option, meaning developers can build and register blocks without touching JavaScript. Check out our resource to understand what changed, how it simplifies your workflows, and where it fits in a modern development stack.
Form integrations are one of those things that quietly accumulate technical debt across multi-brand environments. Our resource on how to standardize form integrations across brand sites using a shared form layer and governed workflows has the details.
Enterprise organizations moving away from niche CMS platforms often cite the same challenges like rising talent costs, editorial workflows that depend heavily on developers, and the overhead of managing major platform transitions. If your team is navigating any of these, our Craft CMS to WordPress migration guide covers the process to rebuild your stack if you’re currently using Craft CMS. Many of the steps will be similar for other CMS platforms.
Check out our migration service to ensure zero data loss or downtime while switching to WordPress.
GoDAM’s latest posts make the case for shoppable video in eCommerce. Read up on video commerce for WordPress, see how shoppable video stacks up against traditional product pages, and if you’re on WooCommerce, here’s how to add a Buy Now button inside video.
WordPress news snippets
- The WordPress project is calling on contributors to pitch in on open support and documentation tasks. Every contribution helps the millions who depend on WordPress daily.
- Automattic’s James Grierson makes the case that WordPress is the natural foundation for the agentic web. Its open ecosystem and full MCP write access give AI agents a ready platform.
- A new WordPress Core dev environment toolkit removes local setup friction from Contributor Days. Contributors can go from install to a working patch in minutes.
- WordPress.com launched a Telegram bot in alpha, letting users manage their sites from the messaging app. Studio Sync and complimentary paid newsletter access were also shipped in this cycle.
From around the web
- OpenAI has expanded Codex for cross-application tasks, while introducing GPT-5.5 with improved reasoning and execution, alongside ChatGPT Images 2.0 and workspace agents for automation.
- Canva launched AI 2.0 at Canva Create 2026, introducing conversational design and automated workflows that turn ideas into complete outputs, and made Cavalry animation software free for creators.
- Anthropic introduced Claude Design, enabling creative workflow with prompts, and expanded Claude for creative work with a set of connectors for a range of professional tools.
- The French government has accelerated its digital sovereignty efforts, directing ministries to reduce reliance on non-European tech, including migrating systems and adopting open source alternatives.
Upcoming events
The WordCamp Europe 2026 schedule is now live, featuring 49 talks and workshops in Kraków, Poland, June 4–6. Matt Mullenweg is scheduled to deliver the closing talk on June 6.
Blogs by rtCampers
- Porting Gutenberg to Frappe by @Lakshyajeet Singh Goyal
- OpenCode + Ollama Cloud: A Week as My Coding Partner by @Yogesh Bhutkar
- How Google Photos AI Uses Computer Vision to Search Your Images by @Immanuel Raj
- Your Hotel Room Has an API. It Probably Shouldn’t. by @Danish Shakeel
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