Apparently the request to trademark “Hosted WordPress” and “Managed WordPress” was rejected.

Here is a thoughtful video from Jonathan Jerrigan responding to Jamie Marsland’s video about whether WordPress needs a rethink in 2025. His conclusion is that the marketing message and target audience are not clear enough.

Davinder Singh Kainth has a good weekly WordPress newsletter. The latest issue is out if you are interested.

Beaver Builder calls them “modules,” Elementor calls them “widgets,” Bricks calls them “elements,” and Gutenberg calls them “blocks.” It can be confusing. In this article Kevin Geary suggests standardizing names.

GoDaddy pledges $520,000 to the WP Community Collective to provide funding within the greater WordPress community.

Here is a WordPress fork from one of the former BuddyPress leads. I wonder if we will start seeing more of these personal forks.

The Dynamic WordPress Facebook group recently voted for the most innovative WordPress plugin or theme of 2024. This was an opportunity for group members to share their appreciation and recommendations about stand-out WordPress products. 

Matt has removed Joost and Karim from WordPress org and challenged them to create their own fork.

Automattic is lowering their contributor hours to 45 hours a week, to match those of WPE.