Rae Morey
Rae Morey is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Repository. A journalist, marketer, and communications specialist, Rae brings two decades of experience spanning newsrooms, open source, creative tech, and government. Through The Repository, she leads reporting that uncovers the stories shaping WordPress, driven by a deep curiosity about business and community, a love of storytelling, and a commitment to sparking conversations that drive meaningful change.
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WordPress 7.0 Planning Kicks Off With a Big List — Including Real-Time Collaboration and an Admin Refresh
Gutenberg lead architect Matías Ventura has published an early scoping post for WordPress 7.0, outlining a wide-ranging set of ideas and in-progress projects while stressing that the list reflects coordination, not commitments.
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WooCommerce Named Launch Partner as Stripe Debuts Agentic Commerce Suite
WooCommerce merchants using Stripe will be among the first to test agent-driven discovery, checkout, and payments as the suite rolls out.
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WordPress Playground’s 2025 Review Highlights Advances in Compatibility, Performance, and Developer Tooling
Adam Zieliński’s recap highlights increased plugin support, faster performance, and new developer-focused features amid growing Playground adoption.
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WordPress AI Team Outlines Vision for AI as a “Fundamental” Part of WordPress
The AI Team has published a series of posts laying out a vision to make AI as fundamental to WordPress as the database, calling on developers and hosts to adopt new APIs and rethink how access to AI models works.
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WordPress Misconfiguration Blamed for UK Budget Leak as OBR Chair Resigns
A WordPress publishing misstep at the OBR triggered the UK Budget leak, and cost the watchdog’s chair his job.
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Enqueue Shows Why Australia Needed a Developer-Focused WordPress Event
The one-day Sydney conference delivered a tightly curated program for developers who rarely see this level of technical depth on home soil.
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State of the Word 2025: AI, Education, and a Community Holding Steady Through a “Rollercoaster” Year
The live release of WordPress 6.9, rapid advances in AI and education, and a candid look back at a “rollercoaster” year shaped this year’s State of the Word.
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WordPress 6.9 “Gene” Introduces Notes, Expanded Command Palette, Improved Editing Tools, and Abilities API
WordPress 6.9 lands during State of the Word with a release packed full of collaboration tools, performance gains, and the first pieces of the project’s AI-ready architecture.
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AI Experiments Plugin v0.1.0 Lands as WordPress’s AI Building Blocks Come Together for the First Time
The first public release of the WordPress AI Team’s canonical plugin introduces an early editorial experiment, a developer framework for future features, and the first Abilities integrations ahead of WordPress 6.9.
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WordPress Returns to Three Major Releases in 2026 as Planning Begins for 7.0
Core committers met with project leadership this week to discuss next year’s release cadence, timing and features for WordPress 7.0, the admin redesign, and how AI will factor into future development.
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WordPress 6.9 RC3 Arrives as Field Guide Drops and Final Release Nears
The last release candidate lands with dozens of fixes, a sprawling field guide, and a minute-by-minute plan for publishing WordPress 6.9 live during State of the Word.
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WordPress 6.9 to Introduce Notes, Bringing Asynchronous Collaboration to the Post Editor
The new block-level Notes feature lets users comment, reply, and resolve threaded notes in the post editor, enabling asynchronous collaboration and setting the stage for further Phase 3 improvements next year.
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