Some results among others: 90% likely to continue building with WordPress. 62% use version control. Elementor, Bricks, Divi, and WPBakery are the most popular page builders.

This is another research article from Katie Keith of Barn2. It shows some interesting things about WooCommerce numbers in relation to WordPress numbers and suggests why Shopify is gaining two sites for every site that self-hosted ecommerce looses.

A Geeky Look at the top 10,000 websites and what they have in the document head. There are some things to fix and some things to add.

Some things that jumped out at me were that a large number of site owners don’t have a response plan and 17% discover a security problem because a notice on a search engine.

This is an interesting post by Matt Cromwell that identifies the main reasons people give a 5 star review or a 1 star review. A useful resource for those with plugins in the directory.

This report looks at ecommerce platform market share and we see an interesting trend. Year on year, Shopify is growing and WooCommerce is declining.

In this article Matt Cromwell pulls together information from plugin shops, annual transparency reports, seller surveys, and other sources to get a finer grained understanding of the plugin market. He looks at the vulnerabilities and where firmer footing might be found.

Bill Erickson ran GPT 5.5 and a number of open source AI models against some WordPress task lists to compare cost and how well they performed. His results pretty much mirrored my experience with Kimi.

This is an analysis of the complete theme directory – all themes from the beginning. Some things we’ve known, for example, that block theme adoption is low, but there are some other insights as well, such as where theme authors are putting their attention now.

There does seem to be the assumption that lots of active installs per theme is the sign of success. However, in a free directory lots of choice also counts.