This is an interesting transparency type of report detailing Katie Keith’s experience being a sponsor of WordCamp Europe. She is the co-founder of Barn2 Plugins.

Joost de Valk looks at how the top 10 CMS options are doing. He found that WordPress is at 43.2% market share, which is .2% more than 11 months ago. There are some comments about how the others are doing also.

Matt Mullenweg, Gutenberg Architect, Matías Venture, and Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy reflect on WordPress in 2023 and aspirations for the coming year.

Note that this report is based on search volume, which is much different than usage. It says that demand for WordPress is up 11.3%, but for WooCommerce only 1%. It also says that there are a million searches a month for plugins and that expensive and fast hosting remains one of the most valuable parts of the WordPress economy.

A personal reflection by Matt Mullenweg. This is what its really about.

A lot happening for the 20th Anniversary of the first release of WordPress. Happy Birthday WordPress! Sarah Gooding has a nice review of the history and milestones of the project.

Automattic has released a local development environment that runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows. It is called “wp-now” and it can launch a new development site in seconds. It uses NodeJS, WebAssembly, and SQLite to run WordPress in the browser.

This post rambles a bit, but the author looks at the two ways of using WordPress, classic vs blocks, which seem to be becoming more pronounced and separate.

This is an interesting presentation given by Miriam Schwab at YoastCon about the Challenges and Opportunities for WordPress.