Open Channels News discusses Alibaba’s Qwen AI model’s commercial restrictions, Mozilla’s view of AI as community-driven infrastructure, a critical WordPress update, and highlights from the upcoming WordCamp US.
Transcript [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, testing secure WordPress hosting, does the marketing match the reality? If you’d like…
The main theme of this month’s WordPress news is measurement. Most of what shipped in July shows you something that your site was already doing without telling you. WPForms can now show which form field people abandon, and AIOSEO can tell you the day a plugin sets your homepage to noindex. On top of that,…
AI is becoming crucial for monitoring domain abuse, enabling automated analysis and real-time detection. However, careful oversight is essential to avoid errors, especially as domain registrations surge.
People think Open Source is just about having access to the source code. Actually, there’s a much longer history behind it. Open Source existed before the term Open Source was even coined, back in the late 60s. Universities started giving away software like Unix for free under small licenses like BSD or MIT, coincidentally named…
WordPress Student Clubs are beginning to take shape as a new way to carry the momentum of WordPress Campus Connect beyond one-time workshops. What starts as an introduction to WordPress and open source is now continuing on campus through student-led groups that create space for learning, peer support, and early community participation. That shift matters…
Since the early days of WordPress, Contact Form 7 has been helping website owners add simple forms to their sites. If you’ve trusted it on your own site, then you made a perfectly reasonable choice that millions of other site owners have made, too. But things have officially changed. At WordCamp Asia 2026, Contact Form…
