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”.

This report has interesting statistics derived from Cloudflare’s traffic.

The HTTP Archive published a report on the state of accessibility on the web. Twenty content management systems and website platforms were ranked by accessibility based on scores from the Lighthouse Accessibility audit. WordPress is in the list, but not at the top.

This may be of interest to some. Results of the Front End tech survey. TypeScript is well established now. I was surprised at the percentage of MacOS users.