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.

Rocket.net is a relatively new hosting company that is about 3 1/2 years old. Already they are hitting some impressive milestones and have built a great reputation. Here is their 2023 year in review post.

Shahjahan Jewel shared a personal, product, and company review of 2023 with some hints of some new things coming this year. Congrats to Shahjahan and the WPManageNinja team.

It is good to see that the number of contributors and people making their first contribution to core continues to increase year over year. Other interesting stats show the number of contributors by country and contributions by company.

This report about Gutenberg phase 3 collaboration and enterprise outreach is pretty interesting. It suggests that as far enterprise goes, the Google Docs type of multi-author editing was off target.

This is an interesting 2023 retrospective by Thomas J. Raef looking at hacks by vector. One of the take-aways is to get in the habit of logging out of your sites and not just closing the browser window.

I’ve found transparency reports to provide interesting insights into a company and into a segment of the WordPress community. Here is a year in review from Katie Keith of Barn2.