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This week in WordPress
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Better than nothing: WordPress claims top spot in W3Techs ranking
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"NEW: Today WordPress claimed top spot in @W3Techs ranking of content management systems, finally moving ahead of 'None'. Or rather, 'None we could identify' - which isn't quite the same," tweets former WordPress VIP Director of Platform Services Simon Dickson. He links to his post, WordPress is now the undisputed leader in content management.
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W3Techs's latest usage statistics of content management systems show WordPress now powers 39.0% of all websites, just 0.2% more than "None." Shopify, in third place, doesn't even come close with 3.1%, followed by Joomla (2.2%) and Drupal (1.5%).
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As Simon suggests, "… perhaps a more interesting number to look towards is 51%, an explicit objective for WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg for many years." Matt mentioned his 51% goal back in 2015 when he announced Automattic had acquired WooCommerce and WordPress had just 23% CMS market share.
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Simon also posits, "50% doesn't seem as far away, or as fanciful as it once did… and perhaps we should be thinking more about its implications."
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"I feel data (in this case, even the massive market share) is nothing without a key to interpret it and a vision to guide it. Thanks Simon for adding context," tweets Yoast's WordPress Core Team Lead Francesca Marano, who's also a WordPress Core Team rep.
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Simon also tweets: "My former colleague @ChrisHardie can open his merch store now." He links to software developer and entrepreneur Chris Hardie's anticipatory tweet from 26 October: "I have my "WordPress is Better Than Nothing" shirts and hats printed and all ready to go."
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WordPress the CMS of choice for election websites
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Interestingly, as PublishPress points out, one of the few sites that didn't use WordPress, President Donald Trump's campaign website, was hacked and defaced. It runs on Expression Engine. Mark Maunder, founder and CEO of Defiant, which does business as Wordfence, has published an analysis of the Trump campaign hacking and the lessons learned.
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WooCommerce users urged to update after vulnerability patched
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According to Sarah, the WooCommerce team discovered the security flaw after several dozen users reported their sites were receiving spam orders, or "failed orders" where the payment details were fake.
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WordPress Diversity Team offering free public speaking workshops
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"Workshops next week! Includes a popularly requested new workshop: 'Story-telling for tech talks'," tweets Diversity Team Speaker Training Lead Jill Binder. "I am so excited about these workshops, and you should be too! Bonus: they are all ✨free✨ to attend 🥳 #WPDiversity," tweets Angela Jin, a community builder for WordPress, sponsored by Automattic.
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Envato hits $1 billion in community earnings after 14 years in business
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Envato has passed $1 billion in community earnings since the company was founded in 2006. Former CEO Collis Ta'eed (now a chairperson) announced the incredible milestone in the Envato Forums this week. He says more than 81,000 creatives from nearly every country and territory in the world have earned money with Envato. "To this day, we're very proud that our community earns more money than our company does," Collis writes.
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Envato is, of course, home to ThemeForest, the largest marketplace for WordPress themes. Many theme developers and businesses operate exclusively using ThemeForest, including ThemeFusion, the company behind the hugely popular Avada theme.
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