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The year 2017 is drawing to a close, and this year WordPress saw 11 public releases, and 11 beta or release candidate versions. Those of us close to the WordPress community may be noticing that the world of WordPress seems bigger and wider, in a way. What happened to WordPress in 2017? Many tiny changes built large milestones in the thought leadership behind WordPress. Read on to learn how WordPress silently transformed in 2017. Supporting innovation for the developer This year WordPress forged two distinct paths of improvements: those for the WordPress developer, and those for the editor. For the […]

Google participated at WordCamp US 2017 with a booth centered around performance. One side of the booth showed a data-driven glimpse into the state of the WordPress ecosystem in terms of key performance metrics and coding best practices, as well as the use of tooling (e.g. WebPageTest/Lighthouse) for assessing the performance characteristics of specific WordPress sites. The other side was shared with the excellent XWP engineering team, where they showcased a new auditing tool we’ve been collaborating with them called Tide, which enables quality assessment of plugins and themes. Our goal was to engage with the WordPress community and start […]