Hi,
Last week saw a slight decrease in the market share of WordPress and this led to a lot of discussions about the future of WordPress as this is the first time in recent years WordPress had negative growth.
Also everything is on course for the WordPress 6.0 release next week. We are so excited!
See you next week.
Bye!
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WordPress Market Share Declining
- WordPress market share down to 42.9%: It was 43% at the beginning of May.
- WordPress’ market share is shrinking: Joost de Valk thinks WordPress is being out-“innovated”. The Full Site Editing project is simply taking far too long. Without a drastic change in this approach WordPress will continue to lose market share for the next few years.
- Marketshare isn’t a metric we should care about or be chasing: Matt Cromwell, co-Founder of GiveWP and WPBizReviews thinks user satisfaction, robustness of the WP ecosystem, seeing more indie-product owners becoming small-to-mid size businesses make WordPress awesome.
- WordPress community attributes declining market share to performance issues, increased complexity, and the lagging Full-Site Editing Project: WPTavern admits that WordPress is no longer considered one of the easiest ways to get a website off the ground.
- WordPress is (slightly) losing market share because: In Johnny Nguyen’s words, “WordPress is (slightly) losing market share because WordPress along with the world it operates in…are both changing”. WordPress feels like a car trying to be both a plane and a bicycle.
- What WordPress has to do with the Discontinued iPod: For WP Review, it’s clearer than ever that Gutenberg is not ready for prime time.
- The state of WordPress market share: Post Status special guests Joost de Valk, Alex Denning, Ben Gabler and Jessica Frick discuss it with host David Bisset
- Does market share matter?: The Post Status team points out that many other CMS platforms are trending down or flattening in growth too. Under these conditions, a tiny 0.4% decline shouldn’t ring any alarm bells.
Other WordPress News
- WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate 2 is out: Please help test and translate it.
- Gutenberg 13.2 is out: It brings a new API to save editor preferences on the server, visual guides for padding and margins, and improvements to the Comment block.
- WordPress 6.0 to ship new block locking feature: The upcoming release includes a new “Lock” setting in the block toolbar’s options dropdown.
- WooCommerce 6.5.1 fix release: Take a backup before you update.
- PageSpeed Insights adds new lighthouse speed metrics: 2 new metrics improve feedback on server-related speed and provides a more comprehensive representation of page performance than previously available.
- Edge browser will improve all web images: Microsoft Bing announced a new AI technology called Turing Image Super-Resolution, which will bring a 4K image experience to websites through Microsoft Edge, automatically enhancing website images.
- Google sued over Android In-App payment monopoly: Online dating app company Match Group filed a lawsuit against Google on May 9, alleging the tech giant has created an illegal monopoly on Android by forcing apps to use its billing system.
- Google Search Console adds translated results search appearance filter: This lets you drill down to how searchers who get translated results interact with your content in Google Search. It has also added translated results search appearance filter.
- Google multisearch to gain near me support: Google multisearch is a new feature to let you search by image and text simultaneously, to support near me types of queries. This will let you find local business in Google Maps and Google Search to see local search results.
- Google reveals new image ranking signal, inclusive schema: Google will use the MST scale in image ranking and wants brands and publishers to start labeling images using inclusive schema.
- Microsoft Bing drops anonymous sitemap submission due to spam issues: You can now only submit sitemaps to Bing using robots.txt or Bing Webmaster Tools.
- LinkedIn updates include improvements to search results: Updates to LinkedIn include improvements to content discovery, captions for real-time events, and the ability to share reviews.
- YouTube Shorts green screen now compatible with all videos: YouTube creators can now remix any video on the platform into a Short through an expansion of the green screen feature.
- Apple officially kills off the iPod: Apple has bid a fond farewell to the last model in its iconic line of iPod music players — ending the music player’s two-decade run.
🚨 Web security & Vulnerabilities
- Millions of attacks target Tatsu Builder plugin: The issue is present in vulnerable versions of both the free and premium Tatsu Builder plugin. Please update to the latest version available, which is 3.3.13.
- Google created ‘Open Source Maintenance Crew’: Google announced the creation of a new “Open Source Maintenance Crew” to focus on bolstering the security of critical open source projects.
- Massive WordPress JavaScript injection campaign redirects to ads: It has impacted hundreds of websites already. Attackers are targeting multiple vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins and themes to compromise the website and inject their malicious scripts.
- Misconfigured ElasticSearch servers exposed 579 GB of users’ website activity: Both ElasticSearch servers didn’t have any encryption or user authentication measures in place meaning anyone could have accessed the data without the need for a password.
- FluBot Android malware targets Finland in new SMS campaigns: Finland’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC-FI) has issued a warning about the FluBot Android malware infections increasing due to a new campaign that relies on SMS and MMS for distribution.
- Microsoft: Sysrv botnet targets Windows, Linux servers with new exploits: Microsoft says the Sysrv botnet is now exploiting vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework and WordPress to ensnare and deploy cryptomining malware. Microsoft is also investigating a known issue causing authentication failures for some Windows services after installing updates released during the May 2022 Patch.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Catch FSE block theme: It is a bold, business-friendly WordPress block theme that comes with a dark and minimal design.
- Campaign Archive Block for Mailchimp plugin: It displays the latest newsletters from your Mailchimp account.
- Ultimate Store Kit – Addons For Elementor plugin: It includes the most commonly used elements that help you to easily manage your website content.
- Simple Post Share Buttons plugin: This simple plugin helps to share a single post to social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
- GDPR Friendly Fonts plugin: It allows the downloading of GDPR-friendly Google fonts of your choice to use on your WordPress website.
- Smartarget Reviews plugin: To show customers reviews on your website and gain new customers’ trust.
- Thrive Automator from Thrive Themes: An API-driven and developer-friendly plugin, designed to connect your WordPress site to your favorite tools. Free too.
- Toggle Admin Toolbar plugin: It adds an option to toggle admin toolbar visibility on the WordPress frontend.
💵 Investments & Acquisitions
- Similarweb acquires SEO & rank tracking company Rank Ranger: The acquisition of Rank Ranger adds search term rank tracking to Similarweb’s keyword analysis capabilities.
- Musk’s Twitter Deal “Temporarily on Hold”: Deal to purchase Twitter paused as Tesla CEO Elon Musk seeks more details on the estimate that just 5% of accounts are spam and fake users.
👥 Community News
- Join the Community Team for a #WPDiversity Writing Sprint: Scheduled from May 23 to 30, the purpose of this upcoming sprint is to create materials that will support WordPress event organizers in creating diverse and inclusive events.
- A farewell from Justin Tadlock: After nearly three years, Justin is leaving WPTavern. He has just one request: be kind to one another.
- Call for early testing from Woo Developer: Please help test custom order table migrations.
- WPSiteSync plugin shuts down: The content syncing plugin has discontinued support for its free, core plugin and commercial extensions. The current iteration of the plugin and all of its commercial extensions will be available for free on GitHub.
- Modern Events Calendar Lite plugin closed: The plugin by WebnusCo with 100,000+ active installations is permanently closed by WordPress in the plugin repository. The free version can be downloaded from their website.
- WordPress Theme Builder from Jamie Marsland: Also check out this video
- Lemon Squeezy is now free: The latest release has an email marketing feature.
- Winners Of WordPress Bug Hunt 2021 announced: Congrats to the winners! The next season of WordPress Bug Hunt will be announced soon.
- Website Ipsum has now dark mode: Check it out.
- What should happen when a WordPress theme or plugin license expires?: Eric Karkovack from Speckyboy advocates the middle ground between software developers and users when it comes to licensing.
- Meet Galito, the #WCEU 2022 Wapuu: Galito’s design is based on the Barcelos Rooster, a popular symbol of Portugal that embodies the Portuguese love of life.
- 3 best YouTube tutorials that teach WordPress development: From MasterWP
- Open Source JobHub for open source jobs: Check out this website exclusively for open source jobs.
- Diversity, equality, and inclusion in a distributed team: From XWP
- Bluehost issues: Bluehost tweeted having connectivity issues with email delivery and website publishing/FTP. Just last week some customers faced difficulty accessing their websites or hosting services.
- How the Welch News uses WordPress to keep local news alive in West Virginia: From WPTavern.
- Escaping Groundhog day: From Bob Rudis about burnout
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- How to fix the “502 Bad Gateway” error in WordPress: From Jetpack
- SQL Injection: A guide for WordPress users: From iThemes
- How to upload and manage PDF files in WordPress: From Barn2Plugins
- WordPress vs GitHub Pages: Which is better for you?: From Elegant Themes
- The ideal WordPress PHP and server requirements: From Kinsta
- PostgreSQL vs MySQL: From Kinsta
- How to move a WordPress website to a new domain: From iThemes
- How to create a scrollable image gallery block for WordPress Gutenberg: From Gutenberg Hub
- How do I change my website to Full Site Editing: From Nelio Software
- How to make a GA4 landing page report: From Search Engine Land
📆 Save The Dates
- Wordsesh on May 16–20: A free virtual conference for WordPress professionals featuring hands-on workshops, incredible sessions, great swag, and an amazing community.
- GitHubConstellation India 2022 on May 17-19: Registration is now open.
- JavaScript Day on May 18: The event is public and free.
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 19: Get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than One Billion people with disabilities/impairments.
- phpday 2022 on May 19-20: phpday is the main conference in Italy that is dedicated solely to PHP and its ecosystem.
- Free Online Workshop on WordPress on May 22: It will be a hands-on workshop along with a dedicated Question & Answer session by Rahul D Sarker.
- The First Post Status Twitter Conference on May 24: The goal for the Post Status Twitter Conference is to have two presentations every hour from 9am – 4pm EST, around WordPress and the web industry.
- 10th Annual WordCamp Europe on 3-4 June 2022 in Porto: Tickets are available now.
- BlackPress meetup event on June 7: Learn to extend your WordPress site capabilities further with Custom Fields and Custom Post types.
- The Page Builder Summit on June 20-24: Join the VIP list to be the first to know when you can get your free ticket.
- WordCamp MontcWordCamp Montclair – June 25, 2022 — Montclair, NJlair 2022 on June 22: Call for speakers is now open.
- WordCamp US 2022 on September 9-11: All three days of programming will be held at Town and Country Resort San Diego.
- WordCamp Nederland 2022 on September 15 & 16: Save the dates.
- Inclusive Design 24 on September 22: Call for speakers is open for the 24-hour long livestream conference.
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