Yesterday I shared the WordPress write up of the 2023 Annual Survey. In this article Roger Montti does a more careful analysis noting some troubling trends.

The results of the 2023 Annual Survey have been released.

The WordPress Foundation released a summary report for 2023. It shows an increase in WordCamps, MeetUps, attendees, speakers, organizers, etc over 2022.

The Builderius website builder team has decided to break the silence in order to share their first milestone in the UI rewrite. The team is excited and shares some of the thinking behind the forthcoming redesign.

Here is a mildly interesting analysis of the WordPress plugin directory looking at stats related to reviews, tags, ratings, and status.

Patchstack created a page summarizing WordPress vulnerability statistics.

Five for the Future is a WordPress project program that encourages companies and individuals to contribute 5% of their resources or time to WordPress. While the program is very successful in that a number of organizations sponsor employee involvement, the program hasn’t gotten a lot of organizational attention in the past.

At a recent Community Summit a team met to review the program and identified some suggestions to help make the program more impactful. These are summarized in this make blog article.

Testing LiteSpeed, Apache, and NGINX. LiteSpeed seemed superior.

It has not been uncommon for a theme or plugin to stagnate after it is purchased by a hosting company. One exception is ACF. The ACF team has been doing an excellent job moving the plugin forward and also has communicated well with its user base. If you are interested in what the team has accomplished, here is the ACF 2023 year in review.