There is now an app for Apple TV and one for Android TV for watching WordPress TV on the big screen. WordPress TV is the collection of talks from WordCamps, as well as other presentations and tutorials. Here is the news on the Apple version. It is also available in the Google Play store for TV sets.

This is an analysis of the complete theme directory – all themes from the beginning. Some things we’ve known, for example, that block theme adoption is low, but there are some other insights as well, such as where theme authors are putting their attention now.

There does seem to be the assumption that lots of active installs per theme is the sign of success. However, in a free directory lots of choice also counts.

Bad actors purchased popular plugins hosted on WordPress.org and added malware that was downloaded to users sites.

You may have noticed the Ollie Menu Designer and other newer plugins showing up first when you go to install a plugin. This is new and part of a move to help “hidden gems” get discovered.

This is a presentation given at Drupal Con about the WordPress conflict. There are a lot of comparisons between the projects that people might find interesting.

And the controversy continues! Checkout the new WordPress org login form. I hope you like pineapple on pizza.

Patchstack reports on a WordPress security cleanup last month of plugins in the directory with vulnerabilities.

If a site has a plugin installed that was closed in the WP plugin directory there is no notice in the site admin, which could be a security issue. The WordPress org Experiments plugin adds the notice in the admin that users would see if they were on the dot org site.

Mary Hubbard is the new Executive Director of the WordPress.org.