I don’t know about you, {name}, but I’ve always loved a good badge. Whether it was earning scout patches as a kid, collecting stickers in a passport, or just seeing the little “Complete!” checkmark in an app—it’s weirdly satisfying.

So as we launch into the second half of 2025, I wanted to bring a little more of that feeling to The WP World.

🏆 Introducing: Achievements

Starting today, you’ll start to see brand new achievements pop up on your profile! 🎉

These aren’t just digital trophies—they’re a fun way to recognize the awesome things you’re already doing in the WordPress community. Things like:

🕵️‍♂️ Completing your Presser profile
🧾 Rating an event or a host
🧵 Linking your socials
🗺️ Attending events in multiple countries
📸 Submitting a photo to the Photo Directory
💻 Contributing to a WordPress release
⏳ Or just sticking around long enough to hit your 1, 2, 3... year milestones

There are 15 achievements available right now, and more coming soon. And the best part? You don’t have to do anything fancy—just log in, fill out your profile, and poke around the site like usual. If you've earned something, you’ll see it. 🥳

As always, check out below for this week's updates ⬇️

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New Features and Updates

🏆 NEW Achievements: I mentioned that you'll be seeing achievement badges on your profile above, but if you want to see all the available achievements in one place, you can check out the Achievements page.

Ⓦ Release 6.8 (finally) added: A few of you have reminded me that you contributed to the WordPress 6.8 release, but it wasn't showing up on your profile. 🫠 That's on me. The releases are all added manually, but 6.8 is finally there!

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