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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The WP Community Collective Rebrands as The WPOCC After WordPress Foundation Files Trademark Application for ‘WPCC’
New name, same mission. The WP Open Community Collective says it has rebranded to better reflect its intent to support open source contributors beyond WordPress.
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WordPress 7.1 Beta 3 Now Available, Punts Unicode Email Support Over Security Concerns
Unicode email address support was merged into core six weeks ago after 11 years of development. It’s been pulled from 7.1 and will move to a community plugin.
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WordPress Playground Team Calls for Testers as New Dock-Based UI Aims to Fix Feature Discoverability
Playground has supported persistent sites since March, but users keep telling the team they don’t know that. A new dock-based UI aims to fix the discoverability problem.
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Matt Mullenweg Responds to Active Install Growth Data Ticket for First Time in Four Years, Cites “Competing Interests”
Four years after WordPress.org pulled the active install growth data for plugins, Matt Mullenweg has responded with a new reason for not bringing them back.
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Security Researcher Used OpenAI’s Sol Ultra to Find WordPress’s Worst Vulnerability in Years
The full exploit chain abuses six internal WordPress mechanisms to go from anonymous visitor to admin in two HTTP requests.
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WordCamp US 2026 Publishes Schedule With Expanded AI Programming and New Beginner Track
The WCUS 2026 schedule is now live, with AI dominating the program as organizers look to attract attendees with a beginner track and a small business marketplace in Phoenix next month.
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WordPress 7.0.2 Patches Rare Pre-Authentication RCE as Hosts, CDNs Get 24-Hour Head Start
A private Slack channel, 24 hours’ notice, and strict information-sharing rules. How the WordPress project coordinated industry-wide defenses before going public with vulnerabilities.
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WordPress Security Team Details 18 Months of GitHub Actions Hardening, Plans Org-Wide Enforcement
The Security Team has been tightening CI/CD workflows across WordPress’s GitHub repos since January 2025. Here’s what they’ve done, and what’s next.
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WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 Ships With Responsive Styling, Media Overhaul, and Persistent Toolbar
The WordPress 7.1 roadmap promised collaboration as a throughline. What’s shipped in Beta 1 is a styling and media release — and it’s solid.
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WordCamp US 2026 Plays Catch-Up for Second Year Running as Ticket Sales Lag and Community Waits for Schedule
Is it the Phoenix heat, the yet-to-be published schedule and speaker lineup, or something deeper? The WordPress community has ideas — and opinions — about why WordCamp US 2026 has low ticket sales.
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Delaware Court Blocks CloudLinux From Launching AutopilotWP After Seahawk Alleges Competing Tool Was Built Using Its Trade Secrets
A Delaware court has halted CloudLinux’s planned launch of AutopilotWP after Seahawk accused the company of using confidential business information to build a competing WordPress maintenance platform. CloudLinux says the lawsuit is “meritless.”
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Matt Mullenweg Vetoes Plan to Merge Knowledge Post Type and Guidelines in Core, Says AI Features Need Real-World Adoption First
WordPress co-founder says features should have impressive week-to-week growth before they land in core. A proposal for a new Knowledge post type and Guidelines feature didn’t meet that bar.
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