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.

The results largely align with the TAB survey: Most are 1 person or small teams, decide on the CMS and hosting for their clients, provide additional services for more revenue and find that updates and performance are the biggest time sync.

This is based on the April 2026 dataset from the HTTP Archive. It is reporting the builder used on the home page. There are plenty of interesting tidbits, such as year-on-year stats.

Ahrefs analyzed site data for sites with llms.txt files and found they are rarely every accessed.

fter a few years with no tests, Kevin Ohashi again held his WP hosting tests. Note that these are a pay to participate, opt-in sets of tests.