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.

The State of Enterprise WordPress 2023 Report has been released. It provides insight into why WordPress was chosen, cost, team, traffic, etc.

Here is an interesting study comparing the usability of single page, multi-page, and conversational forms. The study was done in a health care context, which may not apply everywhere.

GTMetrix is doing away with its guest mode and changing its plans.

Here are some highlights from the State of the Woo 2023 keynote. Interesting that 33% of the top 1 million online store are powered by WooCommerce.