Bricks was released a little over a year ago and has generated a lot of attention and excitement. My assessment is that Bricks is coming into its own. It has grabbed mind-share and now market share. Here is my thinking: Initially Bricks got a lot of interest because it was full featured at launch and…
I submitted a feature request for a popular theme and in the discussion with the developer he told me that the majority of purchasers of themes and plugins are individual site owners or people building a site for their company, not professional site builders. The majority of purchasers of themes and plugins are individual site…
I saw a comment where someone said that Gutenberg doesn’t yet have all of the widgets and features that Elementor has. They were going to wait to switch to Gutenberg until those were available. That got me thinking. The most efficient page will just be plain text and after that a page built using semantic…
When one year comes to a close and another one starts two things typically happen. First there are the retrospectives that summarize and diagnose what happened in the previous year. Second there are the predictions that forecast the trends and events to watch for in the upcoming year. This post is of the second type,…
We now have available a new resource to help us track the market share of popular page builders. W3Techs, a popular site that tracks web technology usage, now tracks subcategories for WordPress, giving us some insight into popular plugin usage. This post takes a look at the page builders they are reporting on to see…
Updated 9/8/2022 I subscribe to a number of newsletters, listen to podcasts, follow news sites, watch YouTube videos and participate in Facebook groups. There are a large number of these WordPress resources and communities available online. Each of them provides valuable ways to keep up with what is happening with WordPress, share knowledge and help…
Background The Astra theme is well respected and has more than a million active installs. The team is very talented and contributes to the WordPress project. On Friday August 7th the Astra theme was suspended from the WordPress theme directory for 5 weeks. A review found affiliate IDs were added to up-sale links. These were…
I am writing this post on the history and current state of WordPress themes. Since I’ve been using WordPress there has been a big shift in themes and I think another one is underway. I’m looking at WordPress themes because today, as much as every before, it is important to pick a good theme. In…