In this article Kim Coleman, one of the founders of Paid Membership Pro, acknowledges the changes taking place in the WordPress ecosystem and embraces focusing on solutions, rather than plugins.

PressConf is the “un-WordCamp” slanted towards business owners. Reading between the lines, it seems that a number of WordPress business are experiencing a downturn. Perhaps this sums it up: “My overall takeaway from the sessions: the people who were most optimistic about the future were the ones who had already started moving toward an AI-first business model, and were pushing beyond WordPress. That’s my personal observation and a pattern I noticed in every conversation I had.”

Matt Mullenweg reflects and is unhappy with how things are being run in the project.

The Admin Bar released the results of their 2026 survey of agency owners and freelancers. There are a number of interesting findings. For example, 58.3% are using page builders, 27.8% are using block collections, and 9.7% are using default Gutenberg FSE.

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.