Kinsta shares some insights from monitoring the Black Friday and Cyber Monday traffic on their platform. There are several take-aways, one is that people come to buy on Black Friday, but there is a lot more window shopping on Cyber Monday.

Every year WPFusion does a retrospective on the business for the year. There are a lot of insights shared in the report about running a business, sales, and the WordPress ecosystem.

The Elementor team has created a new product which is a marketing solution for WooCommerce called Send for email and SMS. It will be available for early adopter testing. It enables contact management, designing emails, and creating email campaigns. It integrates with WooCommerce and Elementor.

This Do the Woo podcast looks at the State of Enterprise 2024 report.

Here is a thoughtful video from Jonathan Jerrigan responding to Jamie Marsland’s video about whether WordPress needs a rethink in 2025. His conclusion is that the marketing message and target audience are not clear enough.

While some companies are moving away from lifetime packages it is interesting to see some adding them. The Droip team announced that they will be adding a lifetime option later this month. I haven’t tried Droip because as far as I know it does support dynamic data.

Congratulations to the top 5 winners of the WP Awards: ACF, WooCommerce, Elementor, WordFence, and The Admin Bar.

Also congratulations to the winners in their categories.

Joost shares what he sees as the drivers of platform adoption and what he would prioritize for the WordPress roadmap. One conclusion of his is that if it wasn’t for Elementor and WooCommerce then WordPress would have been losing market share.

ACF released the results of their annual survey. There are some interesting results. For example, hybrid theme use has caught up to classic themes and Bricks is the #2 most popular builder among the respondents.