Jetbrains conducted a survey of PHP professionals. The results provide an interesting look at tools and trends. It was interesting to see WordPress reported in one of the questions.

This article summarizes all of the Divi 5 periodic changes up to now and looks at the roadmap.

Not a change that is going to happen immediately, but it is interesting to see the direction that Accessibility standards are taking.

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.