As the article notes, Wix and Squarespace were always held up as the competition, but the real threat seems to be AI with no CMS used.

Davinder Singh Kainth has released the latest issue of his newsletter. Lots of new releases and info shared.

Joost and Karim are stepping away from the FAIR project following the inability to get hosting companies to contribute to the project.

Bertha.ai was one of the first WordPress AI assistants that was at one point very popular. Now it has exited from the WordPress plugin directory.

Here is a nice interview on the WP Minute with Davinder Singh Kainth where they discusses the WP Awards, sponsorship, and what’s happening in WordPress.

The WordPress Credits program is a project that partners with universities to integrate WordPress into their curriculum by providing resources, training, recognition, and mentorship. As part of the university program students work on real WordPress projects for non-profits. Props to Raitis Sevelis and the WPBakery team who are offering a free lifetime license for WPBakery to program students.

This is a good discussion between Dave Foy and Nathan Wrigley about how Dave has shifted from long video courses to live cohort learning.

Katie Keith did some research to ask about plugins whose sales were in decline or flat. There are some interesting findings such that 80% of plugin sales were the same or lower as last year and different types of plugins are more vulnerable than others.

Cloudflare’s year in review is an interesting browse to see what technologies are being used. It shows WordPress as 47% of sites using a Content Management System.