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WordPress News September
WordPress 7.1, available since August 19th, arrived after an unusually busy few months for core security and ships with all of those fixes in place, alongside a number of accessibility improvements. 7.2 is scheduled for December. WordPress 7.1 – What’s New The editor has now finally caught up in terms of responsive styling: Block appearance can […]
WordPress Needs a Business Reset
WordPress doesn’t have a technology problem. It has a business problem. As market growth slows, weak models are being exposed – and community, features, and good intentions won’t fix broken economics. This is the moment where structure starts to matter more than hype.
2025 Recap: A Year of Clarity, Focus, and Enterprise-Scale Ambition
Clarity in direction shaped every strategic decision, partnership, and product milestone at Greyd in 2025—confirming our role in a market moving toward structured, scalable, and governable WordPress ecosystems.
News from our Core Contributors in November
In November, Tammie Lister continued her contributions to the Core AI and Editor teams.
WordPress News in November
WordPress 6.9 brings some exciting changes to the editor. From new blocks to practical features, we’ll give you a glimpse of what’s coming without giving too much away.
News from our core contributors in October
In October, our contributors continued to focus on work in the Core AI and Editor teams, refining design and usability in WordPress.
Closing Phase One of the German Accelerator U.S. Program
Our CEO shares Greyd’s journey through phase one of the German Accelerator U.S. Market Access Program—from Palo Alto to New York—and how the experience refined their strategy, clarified their positioning, and set the stage for the next chapter of growth.
News from our core contributors in September
Our contributors focused on the Core AI and Editor teams, refining design and usability in WordPress. They advanced AI-assisted content creation, improved font preset usability, and strengthened editor consistency and user experience.
News from our core contributors in August
Tammie focused on curating design issues, refining triage labels in the core editor repo, preparing contributor resources for WordCamp US, and participating in Contributor Day.
WordPress News in August
Fresh insights into the WordPress core, the new major release 2025 and the latest information about events and contributions.
News from our Core Contributors in July
Tammie focused on reviewing design issues, improving editor extensibility, and helping shape priorities for WordPress 6.9 through feedback, triage, and new tickets.
Introducing the Greyd.Suite Content Creator Program
Forget one-way affiliate programs. We set you up with the real thing. Full sites, dynamic structures, and ongoing support to help you create something great.
Our first steps in the German Accelerator U.S. Market Access program
Greyd is one of only six companies from Germany selected to join the current cohort of the U.S. Market Access program by German Accelerator.
Backing brilliance: Tammie Lister
If you’ve spent any time in the WordPress ecosystem, chances are you’ve already used something Tammie Lister helped shape.
News from our Core Contributors in June
At Greyd, we don’t just build on top of WordPress. We actively invest in the future of the platform itself.
A powerhouse partnership: Greyd teams up with Remkus de Vries
When deep product thinking meets decades of real-world WordPress experience.
News from our WordPress core contributors in April and May
This month’s update from our core contributors. Here’s how Jessica and Tammie are helping shape the future of WordPress.
Wordpress News April
Fresh insights into the WordPress core, the new major release 2025 and the latest information about events and contributions.
Backing the Builders: Why Greyd is Sponsoring WP Core Contributors
Open-source thrives on contribution, but change needs more than goodwill. That’s why we’re sponsoring WordPress leaders Tammie Lister & Jessica Lyschik—investing in its future.
From 2024 to 2025: Strategy, Technology, and Product Evolution
In 2024, Greyd scaled globally, boosted FSE adoption, and forged key partnerships. In 2025, we’ll focus on innovation, efficiency, and collaboration to drive agency success.
WordPress News in January
We take a look back at State of the Word and provide some initial insights into the upcoming major WordPress release as well as the next industry events.
WordPress News November
A few days ago, “Rollins”, the latest major WordPress release, was published – with a new default theme and exciting features in which over 780 contributors worldwide have participated.
WordPress News October
We are very pleased to give you another short update today on what is currently happening in WordPress Core.
The resource-saving power of digital experience platforms
We interviewed Sandra Kurze, an expert at creating efficient company processes and executing marketing strategies for fast-growing businesses, about the benefits of a DXP, one of the many possibilities of building web projects with Greyd.Suite.
Meet with us at WordCamp US!
We’re excited that this edition of #WCUS has a stronger focus on the enterprise side of WordPress, especially for WordPress Product businesses.
WordPress News September
All you need to know about the new plugin template registration API and preparations for the upcoming WordPress major release.
WordPress Speed Build Challenge: Greyd.Suite vs Bricks Builder
Greyd participated in this famous challenge where a Gutenberg based way of building is pitted against a commercial page builder. Guess who won?
WordPress News July
Everything you need to know about the new WordPress Major Release 6.6 can be found here in our blog article.
Taking Greyd Theme to the WordPress repository
In this interview, Jakob Trost, CTO, speaks about the journey of taking the Greyd Block theme to the official WordPress theme directory.
The Greyd relaunch from the COO-CMO’s perspective
In this interview Sandra Kurze, COO-CMO at Greyd, shares both her organizational and marketing perspective on the relaunch of the Greyd website and Helpcenter.
The redesign of the Greyd website and the Helpcenter
In this interview, we look at the most important things that have been improved on the Greyd website and help center, both in the frontend and in the backend.
Improvements in customer service
Looking back at 2023, the optimization of customer support at Greyd led to a 30% reduction in response time.
Interview with Jessica Lyschik in the Within WordPress Podcast
Our newest team member Jessica, is a true veteran in contributing to WordPress. Recently she worked on the 2024 default Theme, and co-lead WordCamp Germany in 2023. Remkus de Vries invited our newest team member to his Podcast “Within WordPress”.
Greyd on the WP Builds Podcast about how we tackle website accessibility
Nathan Wrigley has a conversation with Jakob Trost and Anne Bovelett, exploring GREYD.SUITE, and our philosophy and commitment to digital accessibility.
Final testing rounds of our beta FSE (Full Site Editor) theme started!
The last round of beta testing has begun. A big thank you to all who tested and gave constructive feedback, we’re so grateful! We have processed bug reports and feature requests. So we are kindly asking you: will you help us one last time to test?
Multisite demystified – free webinar
Jakob Trost featured by GoDaddy
Latest in Greyd.Suite
Why We Use And Extend Core Blocks Instead of Building Our Own
The secret to building scalable WordPress solutions isn’t more code, it’s smarter architecture.
Teaching accessibility from the ground up
What happens when a seasoned WordPress educator stops following the trends and starts reshaping them?
When accessibility drives the build: Why RaLytics chose Greyd.Suite
What happens when a team of accessibility specialists stops settling for “good enough” and demands more from WordPress?
Customer Project in The Spotlight
How Bloom Web Agency used Greyd.Suite for a challenging client project. An interview.
How to create dynamic event booking forms
In this guide, we’ll explore how to create a reusable event booking form that automatically updates event-specific details without requiring WordPress expertise from your team.
Scalability with Greyd.Suite
Cutting costs, not corners: how WordPress and Greyd.Suite simplify complex websites for agencies and enterprises.
Latest in Learn
When a designer has to wait for a developer to test an idea
The ideas that don’t get tested don’t show up in a retrospective. They accumulate as lost creative ground.
A rebrand should not take a year
Long rebrand implementation timelines are a measurement of design token architecture.
When Every Location Runs Its Own Website, the Network Can’t Run a Campaign
A franchise network of independently operated sites pays for that arrangement twice, in agency hours for changes that should cost nothing and in campaigns that reach the market late.
Enterprise Clients Don’t Wait for Your Sprint Cycle
Agency delivery cadence and enterprise response expectations are structurally mismatched, and the client measures that gap every time.
When Every Team Has Its Own Version of Your Brand
Brand fragmentation across enterprise divisions is a predictable architecture output.
A Commercial Co-Founder Isn’t Something You Add Later
Technical founders are told to study something scientific, because the commercial side is something you can teach yourself along the way. That advice holds up right until the company has to sell something.
Latest Episodes
Conversations about WordPress & Digital Business
The Hidden Complexity of Global Websites
Episode 20 explores what going global really means for websites today – from the difference between translation and localization to multilingual SEO, GEO for AI search, and how agencies can move beyond translation to become real growth partners.
How Can Product Companies Grow in WordPress Right Now?
Episode 19 explores what it really takes for WordPress product companies to grow today, from what Elementor’s layoff signals to pricing maturity, ICP focus, and why chasing the customer matters more than staying loyal to a platform.
Beyond SEO: How AI Is Changing What Websites Need to Be
Episode 18 explores how AI search is reshaping what websites need to be, from why discovery no longer starts on Google to how brands stay visible when 85% of citations come from outside their own domain.
Reshaping Events in the WP Industry
Episode 17 explores what’s shifting in the WordPress event landscape – why WordCamps are losing sponsors and attendees, and what business-focused formats like PressConf and CloudFest are doing differently.
How to Scale an Agency Without Hiring More People
Episode 16 explores how agencies can scale without growing their headcount – from shifting mindset around client value and delivery structure to the role of tooling in closing the gap between design and implementation.
Building Sales That Actually Scale
Episode 15 explores how companies can build sales that actually scale – from defining real customer value and ICPs to creating structured sales processes and avoiding common pitfalls with AI.
Latest in Events
We Need Better Commercial Events
Most sponsorship decks answer every question except the one that matters. Who will actually be in the room?
We went to PressConf
For us, PressConf was more than an event. It was a turning point. We came back with more than new business opportunities and insights.
WordCamp US 2024: A recap
Attending WordCamp US turned out to be a monumental event for us. Partnerships were formed, new connections were made, and we presented our franchise showcase.
WordCamp Europe 2024 Recap
With the event fresh in mind, choosing which highlights to describe is a challenge this year! There were so many. It was a successful week with our team in Turin, Italy.
Thank you, WordCamp Vienna!
WordCamp Vienna has a special place in our heart. In 2022, it was the first WordCamp we attended and sponsored. It’s so great to see how much the event has grown since our first time!
Greyd at the CloudFest Hackathon 2024
As we recently announced on LinkedIn, we’re excited that we’re sponsoring the CloudFest Hackathon.
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