The Admin Bar released the results of their 2026 survey of agency owners and freelancers. There are a number of interesting findings. For example, 58.3% are using page builders, 27.8% are using block collections, and 9.7% are using default Gutenberg FSE.

Joost makes the points that leadership is jumping around following trends while letting the technical debt pile up. WordPress doesn’t have an architect. EmDash isn’t the be all, end all, or the next thing, but that it is a signal.

I imagine most of us are using Lets Encrypt SSL certificates and so this might not apply, but to those managing SSL certs for clients this might be something to plan for.

In this article Roger Montti shares his assessment of the new CMS from Cloudflare.

Cloudflare is building a WordPress competitor. It is billed as “the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security.” EmDash is powered by Astro, which is a super fast web framework for content-driven websites. It’s also architected to be AI-first with Agent Skills, EmDash CLI, and a built-in MCP server.

Paul Charlton takes a look at Mosaic and highlights some of its features.

This tutorial shows how to use the new editor and elements.

With Divi 5 now officially in Public Launch, Crocoblock introduced an integration with JetEngine and JetSmartFilters. This should make it easier to create real estate listings, directories with filters, templates with dynamic content, and ecommerce catalogs.

The delay seems to be due to the real time collaboration issue and concerns about the database design. Real time collaboration will be off by default, but there is apparently no knowledge about how well it will work on shared hosting. Also mentioned that WordPress may go to 4 releases per year.