Introducing Accurate WordPress Market Share % + 3 Performance-Improving Learnings

I’ve been nose down this past week on the next phase of what lies ahead for Within WordPress and Scanfully. And, oh my, do I have some cool stuff to share soon! More on that later!

We’re up to 6.6 RC2 now, this week. It’s been a bit of a quiet week, but as always, there are some gems for you to read and learn about.

Let’s dive in, shall we?

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🗞️ Within WordPress News

Here’s what I saw happening this past week:

• To me, the most interesting newsworthy thing shared was by Joost de Valk. Joost published an automatically updating solution that displays far more accurate CMS Market Share reports. It’s pretty neat.

Joost also goes into detail in a separate blog post as to how he came to the measurements he did.

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• Joe Hoyle, CTO at Human Made, published a super neat WordPress performance related video last week. I listed it in my Performance section below, but I feel like more people should’ve seen it. Luckily for us, Joe released two more videos. So there’s three now:
  • Profiling WordPress: Flamegraphs with X-Ray
  • Profiling WordPress: Flamegraphs with WP CLI and Cron events
  • WP Query Optimization and Gotchas

These videos deserve waaay more views that what they currently got!

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• WordPress VIP introduced CivicPress: an advanced WordPress theme optimized for government projects.

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• “To win over young people while maintaining our first principles and core mission, WordPress needs to be the easiest, fastest, cheapest and most responsible way for them to circumvent their corporate overlords and get actual work done.”

That’s a quote from James Giroux‘s wonderful article titled “WordPress Has a Rookie Problem“.

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• The past month has been one of the busiest for the Gutenberg Project. Make WordPress Core has a cool overview of all the things that have been added/changed to Gutenberg recently.

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• Anton Plauche published a cool and deep dive tutorial on how to build Custom Post Types with Structured Meta Fields in WordPress – Without 3rd Party Plugins like ACF.

Related: on the WordPress Developer blog an article about Editing custom fields from connected blocks with the new Block Bindings API was published as well.

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• Speaking of ACF, well, kinda, their 2024 ACF Annual Survey is now open! It’s your best way to let ACF how you build WordPress sites and what needs to be improved or added to make ACF even better.

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• Our Future of Team third podcast is out now. James and Dee talk about “The Art of Remote Leadership“. If you’re into growing as a leader, this is your podcast.

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🚀 Performance & Security

• There becomes a point when style recalculations caused by DOM depth negatively affect performance. So how deep is your DOM?
• A performance case study of using the web from Antarctica
• Here’s 6 Accessible Website Examples to Inspire Your Design

My favorite performance optimizing tools in WordPress:

• NitroPack: Cloud based performance optimizations
• Perfmatters: Clean up Scripts in WordPress
• WP Rocket: The best Front-end optimization plugin

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🔆 Within WordPress Highlight

Customizing the WordPress Editor can greatly enhance the user experience by tailoring the interface to meet specific needs. By curating the editing environment, you can streamline content creation, reduce clutter, enforce consistency, and ensure that the tools available are relevant. Here are 15 ways to curate the WordPress editing experience.

Some of my favorite WordPress tools:

• Gravity Forms: versatile and accessible form solution for WordPress
• Code Profiler for WordPress

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💡 Interesting Finds

• Dave Foy shared shots.so with us on X. It’s a super neat tool to create super cool mockups from screenshots. Like turn any screenshot into one of those browser based screenshots, if you know what I mean. Anyway, go check it out.

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That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!