An article from Joost looking at innovation in WordPress, and specifically at plugins. Some interesting findings, suggesting I think that innovation is declining (?). The article doesn’t mention premium plugins as a locus for innovation.

Another very exciting new product from the Fluent Family. FluentCart will be a self-hosted alternative to WooCommerce or SureCart.

As someone who used to make code custom websites, this article does not seem to be informed by experience. For a start, it seems to assume that a custom website doesn’t require ongoing regular maintenance. A “template website” is equated with WordPress, which is mentioned over and over.

Here is an interview with James LePage about the new AI team and their plans.

FrankenPHP is a new high performance PHP server. Is it a big deal? Should we be expecting hosting providers to support it?

This survey finds that companies that switch away from WordPress are happy with the change.

This tutorial looks at possible issues when using post meta queries, along with various options to help performance.

This tutorial shows how to add folders to your media library using code snippets instead of a plugin.

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 15), the team from Equalize Digital ran a contribution challenge. Lots of people contributed in all sorts of different ways. Here’s the recap.