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.

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.

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

The Dynamic WordPress Facebook group recently voted for the most innovative WordPress plugin or theme of 2024. This was an opportunity for group members to share their appreciation and recommendations about stand-out WordPress products. 

There is too much bad stuff going around about WordPress, but more keeps leaking out. Here is a thread on X that shows the data collected by WooCommerce … the extent of which is way over the top

Jono Alderson has tried to map out and answer the question “what is WordPress”.