I enjoy reading these Year in Review articles. This one from Katie Keith at Barn2 is very interesting. While overall performance was very good, there was a 17.8% drop in new sales. She reports that other WordPress plugin shops saw something similar and she talks about possible causes. The roundup is an interesting look into what it takes to lead a WordPress plugin company.

Cloudflare’s year in review is an interesting browse to see what technologies are being used. It shows WordPress as 47% of sites using a Content Management System.

Katie Keith runs Barn2, a plugin shop that sells a number of Woo extensions. She did a survey asking people why they choose WooCommerce. It is interesting to see, or be reminded, that WooCommerce is very flexible. Today with SureCart and FluentCart that flexibility and range of extensions is one of Woo’s advantages, if you need it.

Katie Keith answers the question if lifetime licenses really cost more to support by digging into real data from Barn2’s sales and support history.

The ACF Annual Survey for 2025 was released. I didn’t see much that surprised me except for the number of people building blocks with ACF.

A selling point of many hosting providers is that they provide security for WordPress sites. Some hosting providers even suggest that WordPress security plugins are not needed if you are using their hosting. Well, Patchstack tested this out and the results weren’t good. Don’t get rid of your security plugins yet.

Equalize Digital published their WordPress Page Builder Accessibility Comparison 2025 report where they tested the out of the box accessibility of page builders. Gen Herres predicted that Elementor would come out as #1, but it was #4.

Roger Montti pulls some highlights from Cloudflare’s report on DDoS attacks.

This survey finds that companies that switch away from WordPress are happy with the change.