There was a retrospective survey of participants in the WordPress 6.5 release. For the first time the anonymous responses of the teams were made public (previously there was a summary). It is very interesting to note the comments about leadership or lack of it. Issues around the Font Library got a number of mentions. Here is the spreadsheet for those who are curious.

This is a pretty interesting comparison of hosting providers. It spans a three year period looking at speed, consistence over time, and cost.

I noticed some changes in the w3techs monthly report related to WordPress. I compared February and April’s reports. Here are some changes:

• WordPress market share increased 1/10th of a percent to 43.3%. This was down or stagnate for a long time, so first recent increase.
• Version 6.x adoption is up almost 2%.
• Elementor’s share of WordPress is up 0.8% since February.
• WooCommerce is up 1/10th of a percent.
• WPBakery is down slightly.
• This month they added Bricks and Breakdance to the tracking.

On Wednesday there was a “Hallway Hangout” to discuss using the Site Editor for client sites. Here is a recap summary and the video recording. From the recap it looks like a number of pain points were identified.

Divi 5 Update: The team focused on speed improvements and Divi 5 uses less memory and is much faster.

Patchstack has released a new report on the state of WordPress security. There is a lot of interest and the report is a bit different that previous ones in that it talks about some of the exploits as examples in different categories.

Here is a Tavern article with a pretty full summary of the outreach meeting about the problems with the Site Editor. Fairly nuanced. The bottom line seems to be that they hope people will come to the meetings and provide feedback and not just post on social media.

Some small plugin businesses share their experience and thoughts on getting started.

Anne McCarthy again – About a week ago she posted an article on her personal blog titled Overlapping Problems, which surfaced a number of rough spots with the content editor and site editor experiences.

Yesterday she hosted a Hallway Hangout which was attended by a broad spectrum of contributors, users, agency owners, etc. One thing that is interesting about this is that the Hallway Hangout functioned in an open-ended fashion to allow people to share their frustrations and suggestions.

The Make post has a summary of topics discussed and the full discussion is available with a YouTube video at the top of the post.