Is a WordPress Fork or a Community Distribution Model Coming in 2025?

ByDavid McCan December 21, 2024April 12, 2026

Events today led to a call for the end of the current WordPress leadership situation. In this video I review the events of today and what it might mean for the future of the project.

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Matt Pauses some functionality on WordPress.org
Yoast submits a bug as disabling new WordPress org accounts means people cannot sign up for WordCamps
Yoast calls for a change from the current project leadership structure
AspirePress starts collecting names of people interested in contributing to a community driven governance model

Editorial
My Top WP Toolset Suggestions
ByDavid McCan August 5, 2017April 13, 2026
Last updated August 26, 2017 I recently discovered the WP Builds podcasts. Nathan Wrigley and David Waumsley, the hosts, have interviewed some great guests with a focus on topics relevant to site builders and WordPress professionals. The discussions are informal, entertaining, and you get a good feel for the people and an inside view of their world…
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Editorial
What Is Happening With Kadence?
ByDavid McCan August 22, 2023April 12, 2026
Issues Kadence users are restless. Over the course of the past several weeks I’ve seen a number of Kadence users expressing unhappiness: What Has Changed Since I Started Using Kadence Here is my take on these points. Note that this is just my opinion and I recognized that everyone’s situation is a bit different. Three…
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Editorial Review
Decisive Victory in the Page Builder War
ByDavid McCan April 5, 2018April 13, 2026
Last updated 1/1/2020 (pricing updated) A year and a half ago, when Pippin Williams wrote the authoritative review of WordPress page builders, there were several strong contenders. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll have seen that the field quickly narrowed to two: Beaver Builder and Elementor. These two giants in the page builder arena have…
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Editorial General
Seven WordPress Predictions for 2023
ByDavid McCan January 2, 2023April 12, 2026
WordPress and its ecosystem have been picking up steam and growing at a rapid rate. I expect to see a lot of exciting new developments and projects this year. Here are seven of my predictions. The WordPress Site Editor Comes Out of Beta WordPress 5.9 was released about a year ago and included a block…
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Editorial Security
WordPress Security Process Broken? Soflyy Pushes Back Against Vulnerability Reports
ByDavid McCan April 5, 2024April 12, 2026
Back in early February the security researcher Calvin Alkan asked which page builders allow one to write PHP/JS/HTML from inside the editor. At that time I commented to several friends that I expected to see some security alerts. Vulnerability reports and fixes for Bricks and Cwicly came right away. Today reports for vulnerabilities in Oxygen…
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Editorial Security
Should Plugin Security Audits Be An Expected Best Practice?
ByDavid McCan June 3, 2023April 12, 2026
In this editorial I’m suggesting that an independent plugin security audit should be considered a best practice for large plugins that have a premium version. Code Review vs Independent Audit It is already considered a best practice in organizations and projects to conduct code reviews prior to merging code into the main version that will…
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