It appears that the economic downturn and the dispute with WP Engine may be impacting Automattic’s valuation.

I didn’t realize that 10up (now Fueled) helped to develop Google Site Kit. The plugin has more than 5 million active installs and is an easy way to setup Google Analytics and show basic stats inside your admin. This article outlines the stages of the development and suggests the next step in the plan for the plugin.

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 15), the team from Equalize Digital ran a contribution challenge. Lots of people contributed in all sorts of different ways. Here’s the recap.

WP-Cron is the WordPress method for managing scheduled tasks. It can be problematic for sites with few visits and also for high traffic sites. In this article Iain Poulson provides an overview of WP-Cron and options for managing automated task execution.

Figure your risk of an accessibility risk. A resource for US-based businesses.

Bricks 1.12.2 was released with some enhancements and fixes. There is a new query results summary element and results per page filter action, honeypot spam protection for forms, and component fixes, among the list. It was mentioned that early testing versions of Bricks 2.0 will start to be available next month.

Here is a WordPress fork from one of the former BuddyPress leads. I wonder if we will start seeing more of these personal forks.

Adam Lowe intelligently discusses alternatives to WordPress and shares a spreadsheet with this notes on them.

There is too much bad stuff going around about WordPress, but more keeps leaking out. Here is a thread on X that shows the data collected by WooCommerce … the extent of which is way over the top