This may be of interest to some. Results of the Front End tech survey. TypeScript is well established now. I was surprised at the percentage of MacOS users.

The Kadence team held their annual Amplify event yesterday. At the end Ben Ritner shared about a new plugin being developed called Kadence Insights. It is used in the Gutenberg editor for A/B testing. Of course it works with Kadence Blocks but is a separate plugin and works with any blocks. Much of the presentation is how to do an A/B test and a look at the UI. It reminds me of If-So.

There has been a growing movement for some WordPress product companies to collaborate on promoting WordPress through some joint, neutral, marketing initiatives. Miriam Schwab from Elementor has been one of the proponents of this idea. A meeting was held at WPUS to discuss this and move it forward.

The post on the Make blog is a great summary of the discussion and there are a number of good suggestions. I like the idea of focusing less on marketshare and more on community engagement. I also like the focus on promoting WordPress in education.

Here are some results from the WooCommerce holiday trends survey. It is interesting that for some stores it accounts for a huge % of revenue. Also, the preparedness time frame is interesting.

Watermarks for AI generated content. A California law will require watermarks in the metadata for AI content, as well as clear disclosure on large social media platforms.

Barbara and Mark Crowell are a husband and wife team who have been in the web design business for a number of years. In this live stream they talk about their journey and changes in the industry. Their discussion of the current state of the market and how they are adapting is pretty interesting. Leads from search have largely dried up and they are doing more white label work.

WordPress market share seems to be on the decline. Miriam Schwab of the Elementor team has suggested that large WordPress companies join together to form a consortium to help market WordPress.

Alex Denning from Ellipsis talks about Google’s monopoly and how Google is slowing down the rollout of AI.

Michelle Frechette and Corey Maass are starting up a new directory, an independent product alliance where WordPress product creators can work together to cross-promote each others work and hopefully get attention and sales.