Matt Mullenweg’s Q&A at WordCamp US is available. He called out WP Engine for not contributing back to the project.

The WordPress Five for the Future website has been redone using Gutenberg. It looks pretty sharp. I imagine it was done with core blocks and extra CSS.

This blog post from Tammie Lister reflects on her sponsorship to work on default themes. It gives a bit of insight into working in a sponsored position. It also is partly letting people know she is available to be sponsored.

Barbara and Mark Crowell are a husband and wife team who have been in the web design business for a number of years. In this live stream they talk about their journey and changes in the industry. Their discussion of the current state of the market and how they are adapting is pretty interesting. Leads from search have largely dried up and they are doing more white label work.

WordPress market share seems to be on the decline. Miriam Schwab of the Elementor team has suggested that large WordPress companies join together to form a consortium to help market WordPress.

Nominations are open for the WP Awards 2024. The WP Awards allows people to vote for the best WordPress products and services in a number of categories. In order to be included for voting the product or service must be nominated.

Congrats to Jeffrey Dalrymple whose YouTube channel just hit 25k subscribers.

WordPress org has a “Learn” courses area that has a large number of learning tracks. This is a good resource to bookmark or remember for when people ask for good courses.

Stellar Spark is going on now. You don’t need to register. Here is the schedule page and there are links in it to the two streams, so you can drop in on the current presentations.