{"id":170,"date":"2025-12-02T05:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/matt-sotw-eve\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:24:13","slug":"matt-sotw-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/matt-sotw-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt: SoTW Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150732\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ma.tt\/files\/2025\/12\/sotw_2025_banner-landing_finalone-scaled-1-1024x333.png?resize=604%2C196&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"604\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/state-of-the-word\/\">State of the Word<\/a> is tomorrow, and it\u2019s so fun to see SF abuzz with WordPress open source energy. We\u2019re doing a lot of firsts tomorrow, including the first release timed to the State of the Word, and we\u2019ll have a good chunk of the release team there to push the button and bring WordPress 6.9 to the world. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll also be crossing streams with another community: in the last ten minutes, we\u2019ll join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbpn.com\/\">TBPN<\/a>, the new must-watch daily tech show.<\/p>\n<p>The art and activations are looking so good; it\u2019s fun to see how everything evolves. <a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.design\/2025\/03\/05\/designing-state-of-the-word-tokyo-heritage-meets-innovation\/\">Tokyo was so beautiful last year<\/a>; I wasn\u2019t sure how we\u2019d top it, but the creativity of everyone coming together has sparked something new this year that I think is quite cool. We\u2019re trying to honor our mission of democratizing publishing, making things that are powerful and capable, but also retain the flicker of art.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re also opening up <a href=\"https:\/\/tinkertendo.com\/\">TinkerTendo<\/a> to the community. I was just there with a few dozen of the crew, and the vibes are so fun. If you\u2019re in SF, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/wordpress-sf\/events\/312184138\/\">definitely swing by<\/a> and connect with the folks building the most open internet we can all enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/state-of-the-word\/\">Check out the livestream tomorrow<\/a>, it\u2019ll be a nice capstone to all we\u2019ve built together this year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State of the Word is tomorrow, and it\u2019s so fun to see SF abuzz with WordPress open source energy. We\u2019re doing a lot of firsts tomorrow, including the first release timed to the State of the Word, and we\u2019ll have a good chunk of the release team there to push the button and bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}