Monthly Roundup – November 2025
With WordPress 6.9 “Gene“, we aren’t just seeing another version update; we are witnessing WordPress lay the foundation for a composable, AI-ready operating system for the web. WordPress 6.9 also ships Abilities API to standardize logic, boost composability, and to transform how plugins and workflows integrate. 50 rtCampers contributed to this release.
Scaling WordPress for the enterprise isn’t just about technology—it’s as much about choosing the right implementation partners. Learning from why hundreds of clients choose us, we have shared insights on evaluating an enterprise WordPress agency, while considering contribution, security, maturity and architectural foresight. Similarly, we published a quick guide on choosing the right migration service.
When hiring expert developers to augment your in-house team, we also published one more guide on our recommendations for when you should go with a staff aug agency vs in-house hiring.
GoDAM expands its capabilities with video transcoding, improved PDF handling, and smoother media workflows, alongside Developer SDK, GTM tracking, and camera input support. Also learn how to add interactive layers inside videos, capture leads and organize WooCommerce media libraries.
Here are a few more resources we published that you might want to check out: Why WordPress VIP is the platform of choice for highly regulated industries | Supercharge your Martech stack with HubSpot-WordPress integration | React project best practices guide
WordPress news snippets
- At State of the Word 2025, alongside releasing WordPress 6.9 “Gene”, Matt Mullenweg shared interesting insights about the platform. Interestingly, more than 56% WordPress websites globally are non-English, with Japanese being the second most used language after English. Also, WordPress powers 49.4% of the top 1000 websites in the world, an increase of 2.3% from last year.
- WordPress VIP has introduced support for storing logs and backups on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. This change expands flexibility beyond AWS S3.
- The Phase 3 update for Gutenberg highlights collaboration advances. Async Notes debut in WordPress 6.9 while real-time editing nears WordPress 7.0 integration.
- WordPress Importer can now migrate URLs embedded in content during import. It replaces old links automatically, avoiding broken URLs after a site move.
- The WordPress Documentation Team is rethinking its contributor recognition. It aims for fair, motivating paths for all levels with badges, career tracks and acknowledgment timing.
From around the web
- In an insightful conversation at the Open Source Summit in Seoul, Linus Torvalds supported vibe coding as a learning tool. However, he warned that it is unsuitable for production systems and predicted the current hype will fade as AI becomes routine.
- ChatGPT 5.2 introduced faster reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro topped the LMArena leaderboard, Grok 4.1 ensures fewer hallucinations, and Claude Opus 4.5 scored highest on SWE-bench Verified.
- Coinciding with the Gemini 3 release, Google launched its Antigravity IDE in public preview. It introduces an agentic platform for autonomous coding agents.
- GitHub has released an open-source Annotation Toolkit. It’s a Figma library for design-to-code handoffs and integrates accessibility standards upfront.
Upcoming events
WordCamp Asia 2026 has introduced a Pro Pass with exclusive benefits, including an invitation for the Social Night Dinner. The event will be held on April 9-11, 2026, in Mumbai, India.
Blogs by rtCampers
- Migrating from Frappe v15 to Frappe v16 Beta by @Immanuel Raj
- Turning an old desktop into a Home Server by @Yash Jawale
- Google Code Wiki Tutorial by @Hilay Trivedi
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