Today is the WordPress 21st birthday. Matt shares some general opinions about things that helped WordPress to be successful in the early days that we should hang onto today.

The Greyd WP theme was added to the WP theme directory. Funny, sad, or clever, the theme patterns that are included in the theme all advertise Greyd. The list of patterns are at the bottom of the listing.

Joost on the fear marketing of WordPress security.

Anne-Mieke Bovelett writes about why she moved from Elementor to using the Full Site Editor. One reason was because it was easier to make sites built with the Site Editor accessible.

Kevin Powell noticed a couple of big sites are already using CSS layers. He muses on this and when you pull the trigger on a new CSS feature — how much support is enough? (note this is audio only as it is from his podcast).

Here is an excellent and very insightful analysis of the WordPress market and where WordPress currently stands. If you are interested in the future of WordPress then you’ll want to take a look at this article.

A year ago we were all urged to jump on the passkeys train because it was superior security. In this article the author describes two problems – vendor lock-in and uneven implementation.

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.