Ronald Huereca has had to make the difficult decision to close down his plugin business. The plugins will be shared license free on GitHub. I’m sorry to hear the news, but thank you for handling it responsibly.

Ovidiu Maghetiu created a cool “Astro Playground” where you can try Astro live. It is a good way to see how it works.

Kevin Powell shows how to use the Popover HTML attribute. Baseline support has been around for a while. CanIUse reports 87.54% support.

Paul Charlton takes a first look at this new visual builder from the Core Framework team.

Bill Erickson ran GPT 5.5 and a number of open source AI models against some WordPress task lists to compare cost and how well they performed. His results pretty much mirrored my experience with Kimi.

Elementor has cut 100 jobs, described as a reset due to the AI era.

This is an analysis of the complete theme directory – all themes from the beginning. Some things we’ve known, for example, that block theme adoption is low, but there are some other insights as well, such as where theme authors are putting their attention now.

There does seem to be the assumption that lots of active installs per theme is the sign of success. However, in a free directory lots of choice also counts.

The results largely align with the TAB survey: Most are 1 person or small teams, decide on the CMS and hosting for their clients, provide additional services for more revenue and find that updates and performance are the biggest time sync.

Jean Galea published a very insightful and balanced article about the current state of WordPress. It takes enterprise, agencies / freelancers, plugin developers, new users, and other groups into account. It will resonate with a number of conclusions we have drawn, but also brings in some new perspectives.