Community themes is an initiative by the members of the WordPress themes team, and other contributors, to provide high quality themes for free. They have just released their second community theme, Blue Note.

The WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, and TYPO3 projects have jointly signed a letter to the legislators of the European Union raising concerns with the proposed Cyber Resilience Act. Some terms of the proposed Act are not well defined and some provisions may be too broad in their application, which might impact the contributions to open source software.

This article outlines three things that freelancers need from WordPress. The discussion is well balanced and makes some good points.

Here are the results from Jonathan Bossenger’s WordPress developer survey focusing on tools used. It is short, but interesting. I was surprised by the huge number of Mac users.

This article on WordPress code reviews is good if you are working with a team, but also has a lot of good points even if you are working solo.

Here is an interesting infographic with a bunch of WordPress stats.

This article by Thomas Raef chronicles the hacking of WordPress websites and shares some interesting information about the techniques used and the effectiveness of some WordPress security plugins. It is an interesting read.

It is a sad thing when a WordCamp is cancelled as lots of planning and effort were already invested. I hope it goes better next year.

This is an interesting initiative, the idea is a “guild” for WordPress product owners to help with product positioning, pricing, and best practices. The interview provides information about the background and goals of the project.