Kyle of the Admin Bar conducts an annual survey of WordPress professionals. The 2025 results are in and there are some interesting results. I was surprised at the income and salary figures. He shares his take in a video linked near the bottom.

Jeffrey is on fire in this video from last year. I was doing some optimizations and got to fonts. He clearly breaks it all down. Note to use transfonter.org now instead of Font Squirrel.

AnalyticsWP is a self-hosted analytics plugin that is more accurate than Google Analytics and is very easy to use. In this video I do a walk-through showing the features and then discuss its pros and cons.

The Newsletter Glue plugin has been sold to Paywall Project. As its name implies, it is a plugin that provides a paywall monetization for WordPress. A newsletter feature will provide synergy.

Elegant Themes has just released details on their new Flexbox Layouts and Controls. They are sprinting forward quickly.

In this video Matt Medeiros tries out the new WordPress.com AI site builder.

A couple of weeks ago I shared a video from Jamie Marsland where he created a front-end for his website using Loveable.dev. In this video he goes into more depth with a tutorial with more details on how to do this yourself.

Advanced Access Monitor is a security focused plugin that has a pretty robust free version. The free version has an audit feature that checks a number of areas to see that they are locked down and in line with best practices. This article outlines the audit feature.

Firefox adds a sidebar with vertical tabs for bookmarks, history, and synced tabs. These are features introduced by ARC, Zen, and other modern browsers. Sidebar tabs are now the new normal.