Monthly Roundup – February 2025

We’re back from WordCamp Asia 2025 in Manila. We met the lovely folks from Asian and global WordPress community, and shared a bunch of products, and some experiments from the skunkworks.

We finally made SnapWP public, our framework to make WordPress headless a truly decoupled, developer friendly and editor friendly experience. Take a look at the public repo and get involved.  

GoDAM, our new Digital Asset Management tool, brings advanced video commerce features to WordPress. We also launched WebAuditor, which takes web performance audits to the next level by simulating the effect of removing JavaScript, 3rd party scripts and more. AI led summarization chalks out changes which should be prioritized. WebAuditor is all action and no talk. Do try both GoDAM and WebAuditor today and share what you think. 

We also teased Obo, our latest tool to automate gravity forms testing, envisioned to be a full stack testing suite. 

On the CMS and DXP side of things, those on Sitecore are bracing for massive spike in costs with Sitecore’s XM Cloud move. To aid migration decisions, we have published a guide on Sitecore alternatives. It should help you find ways to free up your precious marketing dollars on mounting campaigns, while getting a great publishing experience at a fraction of cost.

Expanding our open source practice, we formally launched our ERPNext and Frappe services, also formalizing our Frappe partnership. With this announcement, we are now officially open to building powerful WordPress products, SaaS products, mobile/web apps, and full scale enterprise resource management solutions. 

More resources: Comprehensive Strapi vs WordPress Guide | WordPress hosting migration services

WordPress news snippets

• WordPress VIP now features a live dashboard graph that tracks plugin vulnerabilities over time, improving security management. The graph is live in the Vulnerability Statistics tab.
• WordPress.com offers 100-year domain registrations for a one-time fee of $2,000, covering .com, .org, .net, and .blog domains.
• Upcoming WordPress 6.8 will boost security by switching from phpass portable hashing to bcrypt for password hashing, with old passwords rehashed on login.

From around the web

• Forrester projects global tech spending will reach $4.9 trillion in 2025—a 5.6% increase driven by software, IT services, and AI, with North America and Asia Pacific leading growth.
• Zyphra unveiled Zonos-v0.1, an open-source TTS model with voice cloning that uses 5–30 seconds of audio to generate realistic speech, available under the Apache 2.0 license.
• Guidde secured funding and launched its Broadcast platform, which automates software training within applications, delivering targeted training content precisely when needed.

Upcoming events

WordCamp Europe 2025, taking place June 5–7 in Basel, is now seeking volunteers to help make the event a success. Applications are open until March 31, 2025—apply now to be a part of this exciting experience!

Blogs by rtCampers

Why Material Design is Always Better by @Abhijit

Water cooler

Popular on our #watercooler Slack channel.

• Linux running in PDF file via RISC-V emulator
• ChitChatly
• Running Doom on an Apple Lightning to HDMI adapter
• Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip

Links

• SnapWP
• GoDAM
• Obo