Monthly Roundup – August 2025

In August, we attended WordCamp US in Portland, Oregon, where anticipation was high for Matt Mullenweg’s keynote. He outlined WordPress’s near, and long-term roadmap, with particular buzz around upcoming collaboration features, the redesigned admin experience, and, of course, new AI capabilities that captured everyone’s attention.

We saw significant interest for our OnePress framework that helps large organizations orchestrate multiple WordPress websites at scale. 

Building on this vision, we released OneDesign last month to share ready to use design patterns to an enthusiastic response by community and enterprise teams. 

And now, we are launching another important component of this framework—OneUpdate. 

Aligned with OnePress, the idea is simple—monitor, manage and update plugins for all your websites from one dashboard. This is specifically useful for enterprises struggling with fragmented plugin stacks, and rising governance costs across multiple websites, OneUpdate enables centralized plugin installs & updates with CI/CD workflows. 

Download the plugin from the OneUpdate repo, and test, contribute, or share your ideas.

GoDAM, our advanced video and all-in-one media management plugin has been making steady progress. With smart transcoding, Gravity forms integration, ads integration, and interactive video layers, GoDAM is an advanced video experience that feels native to WordPress. 

WordPress news snippets

• Fresh WordPress development updates: new core blocks, enhanced theme.json controls, block binding improvements, AI-powered building blocks, updated coding standards, new calendar components, and refinements to Playground, plugins, and themes.
• Matt Mullenweg unveiled Telex at WordCamp US, an experimental AI tool for creating WordPress blocks through prompts. Currently, it is only available on desktop.
• Gutenberg 21.5 debuts with a new experimental Accordion block, featuring separate trigger and panel styling capabilities. Accordions help organize content on web pages, improving the user experience.
• WordPress VIP has introduced Security Controls in the Dashboard. Manage settings, monitor status, and enhance site protection. It will be enabled by default from October.

From around the web

• Cloudflare has introduced NLWeb and AutoRAG to make websites conversational for users and AI agents. It aims to turn websites into AI-ready platforms with one-click deployment.
• Apple researchers have developed UICoder, an LLM model to generate SwiftUI interface code through automated feedback loops. It could be extended to other UI frameworks.
• The State of CSS 2025 survey results are out, highlighting CSS’s evolution into a powerful, expressive toolset with growing adoption of native features like :has, container queries, and subgrid. Next up, the State of HTML 2025 survey results (expect them soon).

Upcoming events

We are sponsoring the CMO Leadership Summit in Orlando this fall. Sign up by September 19 using the referral code RTCAMP-VIP for an opportunity to attend this event. Don’t miss insights from top marketing leaders. As an attendee, you are invited to CONNECT’s Universal CityWalk Block Party at Universal Orlando Resort.

Blogs by rtCampers

• Object Cache | Page Cache | OP Cache – Caching for WordPress by @Immanuel Raj
• A Developer’s Guide to Accidental Design Principles by @Yash Jawale

Water cooler

Popular on our #watercooler Slack channel.

• Historical Tech Tree
• Write Notes at the speed of touch
• Nano Banana (of course! 😉)

Links

• OnePress: Smarter multisite thinking for multibrand enterprises