This reduction comes after two rounds of employee buyouts late last year.

Matt and Mark grapple with some philosophical questions about what it means to be a WordPress professional.

Patchstack has released their annual State of WordPress security report.

This is a nice interview with Katie Keith. She started out making websites, grew into an agency, then started developing and selling plugins. Now her company is moving into Shopify also. It is an interesting journey and she shares her insights.

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.