Yesterday I shared the WordPress write up of the 2023 Annual Survey. In this article Roger Montti does a more careful analysis noting some troubling trends.

The results of the 2023 Annual Survey have been released.

Torque’s Plugin Madness starts in a few weeks and they are now taking nominations. The voting is done through bracket style pairings, so voting isn’t done by category. Here is the link if you want to nominate your favorite plugin.

Here is a nice podcast interview with Matt Mullenweg and Michelle Frechette. It is pretty relaxed as Matt is on sabbatical and in a reflective mood. There is a text transcript for those who prefer.

Joost de Valk suggests that there is good value for WordPress developers to connect with open source start-ups.

WPFounders compiled a bit of advice each from 100 WordPress related founders.

On the follow up question and answer page Matt Mullenweg answered the question about the WordPress user experience being split between page builder users and Gutenberg users. Here is his answer.

Here is the 2023 State of the Word. Some interesting topics. It was helpful seeing the plan for the custom field implementation. I hadn’t been clear on that. It was also nice to see the performance improvements. It seemed like a lot of things were touched on briefly but not too much covered in depth.

This is a great discussion between Jonathan Jernigan and Jamie Marsland. Topics include the Site Editor, block themes and classic themes, page builders, planning for the future, and more.