Congratulations to the top 5 winners of the WP Awards: ACF, WooCommerce, Elementor, WordFence, and The Admin Bar.

Also congratulations to the winners in their categories.

Will 2025 be the year of the page builder? Many things happened in 2024 so that now WordPress is poised for lots of changes. Here are my predictions for the new year along with some reasons why. Note, there is a video version linked at the top of the article.

Jono Alderson has tried to map out and answer the question “what is WordPress”.

A simple and straightforward response to the current situation in the WordPress community.

Joost calls for a change in WordPress leadership and taking back the commons. He is one of the few in the community with the clout to change the current course of the Titanic.

Here is a summary of today’s events and a discussion of what they might mean for the project in 2025. Is a fork, or maybe a community distro, inevitable?

This is an interesting community development. Hopefully it will provide a channel for sponsoring WordPress contributions.

The State of the Word Tokyo – a very professional presentation. Matias Ventura’s portion presenting the progress of Gutenberg is very good. They will be adding mobile responsive capabilities.

The WP Engine tracker says that 24,510 websites left from WP Engine since September 21st. They are now showing where they moved to also.