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.

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.