Monthly Roundup – April 2025
GoDAM, our advanced digital asset management solution, debuted on WordPress.org—free to try and built for scale. It transforms video workflows with automatic transcoding, adaptive bitrate streaming and interactive layers, making it a game-changer for creators, and marketers. Take a spin, explore its repo, and stay in the loop with the GoDAM newsletter.
In the fast-evolving world of online media, publishers are rewriting their story. Our guide on publishing industry unpacks how to tackle traffic funnel, privacy laws, and monetization hurdles. Take a deep dive into strategies for building direct audience relationships, first-party data, and carefully integrating AI.
Taming the complexity of multi-brand setups for your site? Learn how to set up and smartly manage users across WordPress Multisite networks. These approaches complement our OnePress solution, helping you to standardize workflows and scale efficiently.
With economic uncertainty and rising costs from proprietary platforms like Sanity, now’s the time to switch to WordPress. Explore our Sanity vs WordPress handbook, follow how to migrate from Sanity to WordPress, and leverage done-for-you migration service.
WordPress 6.8 “Cecil” was released. This is the 33rd consecutive release, featuring contributions from 57 rtCampers. This release is also special because it made rtCamp second largest contributors to WordPress project, right behind Automattic.
We also published a few more resources you might find useful: Comprehensive Contentful vs WordPress Guide | Manual vs Automated vs Hybrid Migration to WordPress | WordPress Site Search with Elasticsearch
WordPress news snippets
- WordPress VIP achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization, offering US federal agencies a secure, compliant alternative to legacy tech. This enables faster deployments, reduced costs and modern digital experiences.
- WordPress.com launched a free AI website builder. Users describe their site idea; AI generates layout, text, and images instantly. The available plans include free domains, unlimited prompts and ability for flexible editing with WordPress tools.
- Peter Wilson notes how WordPress 6.8 optimizes WP_Query caching, enhancing performance for equivalent queries, impacting themes, plugins.
From around the web
- Gergely Orosz interviewed John Ousterhout on The Pragmatic Engineer to discuss “The Philosophy of Software Design”. Ousterhout explained how AI coding tools increase the need for strong design, not lessen it.
- OpenAI launched Flex processing which halves API costs for o3, o4-mini models, targeting non-critical tasks with slower responses. Applications can maintain scalability without manual intervention.
- Google previewed Firebase Studio, a browser-based platform enabling users to build full-stack AI applications rapidly. Developers can deploy directly to Firebase App Hosting and monitor usage.
Upcoming events
WordCamp Europe 2025 schedule is live. It features 45 sessions, 4 workshops, and 52 speakers from 23 countries. Topics include AI, accessibility and SEO. Shorter 30-minute talks encourage networking. The event runs June 5–7 in Basel, Switzerland, and you can expect to see some rtCampers there.
Water cooler
Popular on our #watercooler Slack channel.
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