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Five takes on helpful plugin stats and insights
Dan Knauss
In the renamed Trac ticket Mark Zahra opened for the WordPress.org Active Install Growth charts ("#6511: Provide helpful plugin stats and insights"), the helpful comments offering actionable suggestions comprise about 5% of the total. At least that makes it easyā¦
WordPress Biz Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Dan Knauss
WordPress Business News and Insights 2022 Web Almanac CMS Report According to the CMS chapter of the just-released 2022 Web Almanac from the HTTP Archive, sites using a CMS ā and WordPress ā are still steadily increasing globally, and 34%ā¦
Breaking into WordPress and Post Status Book Nook Picks
Cory Miller
The Best Place to Break into WordPress Talisha Lewallen from WP Connects asks, āWhat is the best way to start and stay involved in the WordPress community?ā WordCamps and Meetups were mentioned a lot. But my favorite came from Benā¦
Market Size and Market Shares: Thinking Bigger About the WordPress Economy
Dan Knauss
By Dan Knauss, Nev Harris, and Jonathan Wold šļø July 15, 2022 š Updated July 16, 2022 Estimated reading time: 12 minutes The value of the WordPress ecosystem at the end of 2021 was estimated by an independent team ofā¦
An Operating System for the Web
Dan Knauss
Speaking at Pressnomics in 2015, Matt Mullenweg claimed that without Jetpack, WordPress' market share would be in decline. Why? Because "naked" WordPress wasn't competitive with SaaS site builders like Wix and Squarespace. On Twitter last month, Jeff Chandler reminded theā¦
9 Things I Learned from WordCamp Europe 2022
David Bisset
Some WCEU Highlights I watched WCEU remotely by live stream, so these reflections have nothing to do with the in-person experience. I'm sure there is much to share about the social opportunities, the parties, and the safety protocols that couldn'tā¦
Meanwhile, over in Post Status Slack,…
Dan Knauss
Meanwhile, over in Post Status Slack, Steve Burge pointed out that for PublishPressās YouTube channel he āfound and interviewed several WordPress people [who] are really focused on environmental issues: Tim Frick, Tom Greenwood, Hannah Smith, Phil Sturgeon, Yanir Seroussi, andā¦
“It turns out that collaborative editing…
Dan Knauss
"It turns out that collaborative editing for platforms like WordPress is a very cool feature but an incredibly difficult technical challenge." Steve Burge over at the PublishPress blog has a detailed take on the future of Google Docs style editingā¦
