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.

ACF Pro is now available for download from WordPress.org under the name Secure Custom Fields. I take a look at this new addition to the WordPress plugin directory and wonder if this is a fork or a nulled plugin?

Videos of the presentations at WordCamp Sydney 2024 have been posted. It looks like the presentations there were more technical than some of the US WordCamps.

The PeepSo community plugin is the latest to leave the WordPress plugin directory. The reasons given are due to the revelations about WP org ownership and handing of the WP Engine dispute, as well as issues with the management of the plugin directory in general.

Mary Hubbard, the new director of the WordPress project has started in her new position.

WP Engine expanded their claims against Automattic and Matt to include recent activity, like the WP Engine Tracker.