A lot goes into a WordPress release. Md Shahjahan shared a retrospective analysis of the WordPress 6.8 release showing contributor stats. It is an interesting look at what it takes and the fact that it is a world-wide effort involving many people and companies.

I spent some time looking at the data from the 2024 Survey of WordPress Professionals, focusing on “one person agencies” in the United States. There were some unexpected findings from which I drew a few conclusions. I hope you find it interesting and thought provoking.

Kyle of the Admin Bar conducts an annual survey of WordPress professionals. The 2025 results are in and there are some interesting results. I was surprised at the income and salary figures. He shares his take in a video linked near the bottom.

Advanced Access Monitor is a security focused plugin that has a pretty robust free version. The free version has an audit feature that checks a number of areas to see that they are locked down and in line with best practices. This article outlines the audit feature.

This graph showing code commits to Gutenberg is pretty telling. From 455 commits during the week of December 8th to only 88 commits the week of March 30th. The decline is largely due to Automattic sponsorship being discontinued.

Core committers met a week ago to discuss the upcoming release schedule in light of there being fewer sponsored resources available. We now have a summary of that meeting. One of the outcomes is that WordPress 6.8 will be last major release for this year.

It seems like the number of unpatched vulnerabilities is increasing. If that is correct it is not a good trend.

Patchstack has released their annual State of WordPress security report.

Secure Custom Fields is a fork of ACF Pro. It provides all of the features of ACF Pro for free and the number of active installs is rapidly growing. In this video I look at the pros and cons of SCF for users and also consider the issue from the point of view of developers who might be asked to support it.