When I was using Drupal years ago, one thing that stood out was how deeply rooted Drupal was in the higher education ecosystem. Is that still the case? I would imagine that WordPress has made in-roads and many colleges and universities have switched over. It looks like HumanMade is interested in this market.

There has been a lot of discussion about WordPress security and it seemed like the WordPress security posture hasn’t changed much over the years. David McCan discusses this and shares some ideas about how to bring WordPress security in line with current best practices.

Jamie Marsland shares his list of 10 WordPress influencers to follow in 2024.

Security vulnerabilities were reported for two WordPress page builders – Oxygen and Breakdance. In an unusual move the developers pushed back. This article has the details.

With events like Cwicly stopping new development, there is a tendency to not trust smaller development teams or the creative single developer. Paul Charlton discusses this in a short video.

In the latest issue of his CSS newsletter Kevin Powell shares his thoughts on Tailwind.

The other shoe just dropped – Automattic has been selling user data for years from .com and also from .org sites that use JetPack.

Following on the announcement that Automattic is in negotiations to sell user content from Tumblr and WordPress com, Morten Rand-Hendriksen asks 10 pointed questions about data ownership.