I was looking at Jerry Gamblin’s compiled stats about vulnerability reporting in 2023 across all software (the report is not WP specific). It was interesting to note that PatchStack was the top reporting agency. Congrats to Oliver Sild and his team.

Adam Lowe has started a video series about building block themes. The first video has a nice walk-through of the Site Editor and overview of block themes. This series looks to be a great resource for people interested in the Site Editor and block themes. Highly recommended.

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.

David Vongries, the creator of the Ultimate Dashboard plugin, has released a plugin Swift SMTP. In addition to being able to set outgoing SMTP mail settings, the plugin also allows you to customize the default WordPress emails. This must have been an acquired plugin as it has more thank 10k active installs and a name change.

Joost de Valk suggests that there is good value for WordPress developers to connect with open source start-ups.

Imran Siddiq released a video showing a number of ways to optimize your WordPress page loading times. I know he worked hard on this one and there are a plenty of tips, including code snippets. He optimizes an Elementor site, but includes versions for non-Elementor users.

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.

For plugin developers, should your plugin redirect to a setup page? Here is a short video discussing plugin on-boarding on activation.

A 2.5 hour interview with Matt Mullenweg by Tim Ferriss. A large number of topics are discussed.