This is a great interview of Matias Ventura by Jamie Marsland. It is a very in-depth on the history of Gutenberg, approach and philosophy, ecosystem, and direction. A must listen for those interested in Gutenberg.

On the follow up question and answer page Matt Mullenweg answered the question about the WordPress user experience being split between page builder users and Gutenberg users. Here is his answer.

Here is the 2023 State of the Word. Some interesting topics. It was helpful seeing the plan for the custom field implementation. I hadn’t been clear on that. It was also nice to see the performance improvements. It seemed like a lot of things were touched on briefly but not too much covered in depth.

This is a great discussion between Jonathan Jernigan and Jamie Marsland. Topics include the Site Editor, block themes and classic themes, page builders, planning for the future, and more.

A very frank and interesting discussion between Syed Balkhi and Spencer Forman about Awesome Motive and how WordPress org is run.

This is a very interesting discussion about WordPress pricing and how to maximize profits.

Pippin Willianson created Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, and other notable plugins. A few years ago he sold them off and has not been active in the WordPress community. Here is an interview where he talks about why he left WordPress and what he has been doing since.

This article has a bit of a behind the scenes look at the creation of the Twenty Twenty-Four theme.

This is an interesting discussion between Matt Mullenweg and Spencer Forman discussing Matt’s role and the future of WordPress. It is an interesting back and forth. They seem to have shared values but different perspectives on things. In some cases it seemed like they were talking past each other. Unlike some interviews with Matt, Spence was asking some tough questions and Matt was giving his view on them.