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Wordfence firewall and malware scanner products are in use on more than 2 million WordPress sites and the company estimates that 6.7% of all attacks on these sites are coming from hacked home routers.</p>\n<p>&#8220;In the past month alone we have seen over 57,000 unique home routers being used to attack WordPress sites,&#8221; Wordfence CEO Mark Maunder said. &#8220;Those home networks are now being explored by hackers who have full access to them via the hacked home router. They can access workstations, mobile devices, wifi cameras, wifi climate control and any other devices that use the home WiFi network.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Maunder said his team has mostly seen brute force attacks targeting both wp-login.php (the traditional login endpoint for WordPress) and also XMLRPC login. They have also seen a small percentage of complex attacks. Wordfence has detected a total of 67 million individual attacks from the routers the company identified in March.</p>\n<p>While Wordfence researchers were creating their <a href=\"https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/march-2017-wordpress-attack-report/\" target=\"_blank\">monthly attack report</a>, they noticed that Algeria had jumped in rankings from position 60 to 24 in thier “Top Attacking Countries” list. Their review of attack data in Algeria revealed a &#8216;long tail&#8217; of more than 10,000 attacking IPs originating from an Algerian state owned ISP.</p>\n<p>A vulnerability known as &#8220;<a href=\"http://mis.fortunecook.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">misfortune cookie</a>&#8221; is being used in these attacks. It hijacks a service that ISP&#8217;s use to remotely manage home routers by listening on port number 7547. ISP&#8217;s should close general internet access to this port, but many have not.</p>\n<p>&#8220;It appears that attackers have exploited home routers on Algeria’s state owned telecommunications network and are using the exploited routers to attack WordPress websites globally,&#8221; Maunder said.</p>\n<p>Wordfence researchers scanned the devices to find out what services they are running and found that they are Zyxel routers usually used in a home internet setting. They found that many of them have a severe and well-known vulnerability in RomPager, the embedded web server from AllegroSoft.</p>\n<p>&#8220;We then dug deeper and discovered that many ISPs around the world have this same issue and those routers are attacking WordPress sites via brute force attacks,&#8221; Maunder said.</p>\n<p>I spoke with Tony Perez, CEO of <a href=\"https://sucuri.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Sucuri</a> to see if his team has detected anything similar. Sucuri also tracks <a href=\"https://sucuri.net/security-reports/brute-force/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress brute force attempts</a>, but Perez said current numbers are not remarkable when compared historically to mid-2016.</p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the reason Sucuri and other companies are not seeing this is because it is a weak ranking signal for malicious behavior,&#8221; Maunder said. &#8220;As we point out in the <a href=\"https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/home-routers-attacking-wordpress/\" target=\"_blank\">report</a>, each of these IPs is only doing between 50 and 1000 attacks per month on sites. They also only attack for a few hours each. These combined are a very weak ranking signal for malicious behavior. That low frequency also makes the attacks more effective because they are less likely to be blocked.&#8221;</p>\n<p>This particular security issue is unusual in that the vulnerability is with the routers, not with WordPress itself. 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There are also many popular plugins, such as <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/\" target=\"_blank\">Shield Security</a>, the <a href=\"https://jetpack.com/support/security-features/\" target=\"_blank\">Jetpack Protect module</a>, <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/\" target=\"_blank\">iThemes Security</a>, and <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/\" target=\"_blank\">Wordfence</a>, which offer protection from brute force attacks.</p>\n<p>If you want to make sure your router is not vulnerable to being recruited for these attacks, Wordfence has created a <a href=\"https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/check-your-router/\" target=\"_blank\">tool</a> that makes it easy to check. It detects whether your home router has port 7547 open or if it’s running a vulnerable version of RomPager. 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I was in secondary school and Internet was relatively new to Somalia. It arrived in 1998-99 but only very few people had internet in their homes. Luckily there were internet cafes and I was introduced to this guy who owned an internet cafe. He had a large collection of Somali music and wanted to upload to somewhere so he could share with other people. I put together a GeoCities website using Microsoft FrontPage.</p>\n<p>The site I built was literally a blank canvas with marquee at the top and links to the mp3 files.</p>\n<blockquote><p>The rest of the page was filled with animated gifs of waving flag, rotating globe and glittering stars.</p></blockquote>\n<p>I kept fiddling with FrontPage’s WYSIWYG tab. Every time I add new element to the visual tab I would immediately switch to the HTML tab and see how the generated code would look like. I have managed to teach myself some HTML this way, but I was still very uncomfortable with coding.</p>\n<h3>Buckling Down</h3>\n<p>After a while, I moved to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and suddenly I had plenty of time so I decided to buy a web design book. It was basically an HTML tutorial and it helped me code table-based layouts without using a visual builder. This led me to discover CSS, PHP and, among other things, WordPress.</p>\n<blockquote><p>I would install and test almost every PHP-based CMS out there: Mambo, Joomla, Drupal and few others but I settled with WordPress.</p></blockquote>\n<p>WordPress was always user friendly and anyone with half-decent knowledge in HTML and CSS could open Kubrick (default theme until 2010) files in text editor and whip out something unique.</p>\n<h3>Leveling Up</h3>\n<p>It was around this time that I started to take freelance projects. My first WordPress project helped me buy a decent laptop, and suddenly other projects started to come. Most of my clients were people in Europe and United States.</p>\n<p>Getting paid was initially difficult. Most of international payment systems didn’t work in Somalia until very recently.</p>\n<blockquote><p>PayPal’s strict policy meant payment was one-way street: you can make payments but can’t receive or withdraw anything.</p></blockquote>\n<p>I managed to team up with someone in another country and we opened a shared account where we could receive the payments. My business partner would then transfer my slice to my local bank account. Things changed recently and although PayPal is still not an option, freelancers can get paid via international bank transfer or Payoneer.</p>\n<p>My experience with open source in general and WordPress in particular had positive impact in my life. I am quite lucky to wake up every morning and work, all on my own, in a country where <a href=\"http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/hdr/Somalia-human-development-report-2012.html\">54% of the population are unemployed and over 70% are youth</a>. This has prompted me to seek ways help other people to get into open source, creating hobbies and jobs for many young people who have a lot of time in their hands to learn, contribute and work with open source software.</p>\n<h3>Branching Out</h3>\n<p>Although the Internet keeps crushing physical borders and bureaucracy policies it doesn’t mean opportunities will magically come knocking on people’s doors. However, the advantage of investing in skills that allow the individual to go remote and tap a global market of design, development, copywriting or blogging, is that the individual is not dependent on the demand of the local market. Another advantage is that it helps the person connect to thousands of like-minded people from worldwide, whom you learn from and contribute to. It’s a bottomless world of possibilities.</p>\n<p>I have recently talked to few WordPress developers from different parts of Somalia and we were trying to figure out how we can organize a WordPress related event, preferably WordCamp Somalia. We didn’t set out time yet but it’s in our plans. 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Over the past few months, industry leaders have been raving about the book, so I decided to take an evening to find out what all the fuss is about. Keith has been blogging for more than 15 years at <a href=\"http://adactio.com\" target=\"_blank\">adactio.com</a>. He is an active contributor to the web standards movement, a popular conference speaker, and the author of <em>DOM Scripting</em>, <em>Bulletproof Ajax</em>, and <em>HTML5 For Web Designers</em>.</p>\n<p>After just a few pages in, I could see why so many have read Resilient Web Design all in one go. It lives up to all the excellent reviews. The book is divided into seven chapters and can be read in a couple hours. It is not a book on best practices, as one might expect, but rather a historical perspective on web standards and the evolution of responsive design. 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The previous CLI didn&#8217;t fully support the same functionality and was powered by its own separate code. The new CLI forks <a href=\"https://github.com/wp-cli/restful\" target=\"_blank\">Restful</a> to make REST API endpoints available as WP-CLI commands. It reduces the amount of code that WooCommerce has to maintain and ensures that the commands are always current as the project&#8217;s REST API is updated in the future.</p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce/\" target=\"_blank\">WooCommerce support forums on WordPress.org</a> have been lighting up with requests after 3.0 was released. One particular issue pinned to the top of the forums is <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/support/topic/3-0-error-option-ajax-is-not-allowed-for-select2/\" target=\"_blank\">an incompatibility with Select2 v3</a>. 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Three hundred and two (302) respondents from 61 countries completed the survey and provided valuable and interesting feedback. Many thanks!</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<h2>Survey Design/Method</h2>\n<p>The survey contained 36 questions geared towards <a href=\"https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/priorities-for-the-next-12-months/\">Site Builders and WordPress Developers</a>. Adjusting to this more focused target audience compared to previous years&#8217;, I selected some questions from our BuddyPress <a href=\"https://buddypress.org/2013/09/2013-buddypress-codex-survey-results/\">2013</a>, <a href=\"https://buddypress.org/2014/03/2014-buddypress-survey-results/\">2014</a> and <a href=\"https://buddypress.org/2015/05/2015-buddypress-survey-results/\">2015</a> Surveys, combined/split/modified some of the questions, and added 15 new questions. The survey was designed to maximize responses and get snapshots of:<br />\n&#8211; basic demographic information<br />\n&#8211; versions of WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress, and PHP used<br />\n&#8211; the types, languages, number of members in BP sites<br />\n&#8211; comfort levels with BuddyPress, BP theme compatibility, and BP Hooks<br />\n&#8211; development practices and tools<br />\n&#8211; respondents willing to share their BP use cases<br />\n&#8211; BuddyPress participation and contributions<br />\n&#8211; comments about BuddyPress, BP theme/plugin development, and the survey.</p>\n<p>The questionnaire was finalized after incorporating the feedback on the draft from the BP Lead/Core Developers last year. The survey was then promoted via Twitter, BP support forums, bpdevel.wordpress.com, and survey banners added by <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/johnjamesjacoby/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@johnjamesjacoby</a> at https://buddypress.org and https://codex.buddypress.org which helped a lot.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<h2>Key Findings</h2>\n<p>This section shows some of the highlights from the survey with short comments about each. All supporting graphs, tables, and user comments from this survey are available in the accessible and mobile-friendly webpage.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h3>A. What&#8217;s New</h3>\n<h4>1. PHP Versions Used</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265119\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/php-version.png\" alt=\"99% using PHP 5.3+\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\n<a href=\"https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/buddypress-2-8-will-require-php-5-3/\">BuddyPress 2.8 requires at least PHP 5.3</a>. It&#8217;s encouraging to learn that 99% of respondents&#8217; sites are on PHP version 5.3.x or better. Kudos to the 88% of respondents who are already using PHP 5.6.x or better for their sites.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>2. Years Using BuddyPress</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/using-buddypress.png\" alt=\"45% have using BuddyPress for a year or less\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265122\" /><br />\nProviding additional context for the results of this survey, a whopping 45% of respondents have been using BuddyPress for a year or less. Welcome!<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>3. Testing BuddyPress</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265120\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/test-stable.png\" alt=\"58% test BudddyPress at Stable Release\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nThe majority of builders/developers (58%) prefer to test their sites, themes, and plugins against BuddyPress stable releases while 27% do so a month after Stable release and 13% test sites at RC 1. Eleven percent (11%) do not test BuddyPress.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>4. Keep Updated with BuddyPress Development</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265121\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/keep-updated.png\" alt=\"66% read changelogs to keep updated\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nFollowing the top-ranked preference of reading changelogs to keep updated with BuddyPress development, users ranked these preferences almost evenly: follow BP Twitter account/s (32%), subscribe to <a href=\"https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/\">bpdevel.wordpress.com</a> (32%), and checking <a href=\"https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org\">buddypress.trac.wordpress.org </a> regularly (29%).<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>5. BuddyPress Knowledge</h4>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\">Knowledge</th>\n<th scope=\"col\">BuddyPress</th>\n<th scope=\"col\">BP Themes</th>\n<th scope=\"col\">BP Hooks</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Beginner</th>\n<td>31%</td>\n<td>34%</td>\n<td>39%</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Intermediate</th>\n<td>42%</td>\n<td>32%</td>\n<td>26%</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Advanced</th>\n<td>19%</td>\n<td>13%</td>\n<td>11%</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Expert</th>\n<td>8%</td>\n<td>7%</td>\n<td>8%</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">What _*_?</th>\n<td>n/a</td>\n<td>14%</td>\n<td>16%</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The table above is a compilation of the answers to three questions which sought to gauge the users&#8217; confidence or comfort levels with BuddyPress in general, BP Theme Compatibility, and BP Plugin development.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>6. BuddyPress Theme Dev</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/customize-theme-1.png\" alt=\"51% customize BP style sheets every time\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265196\" /><br />\nOn the other side of the equation: 27% sometimes customize style sheets while the remaining 22% never customize BP style sheets.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>7. BuddyPress Plugin Dev</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/customize-plugin-1.png\" alt=\"46% extend profile component sometimes\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265200\" /><br />\nAround a third of BP users extend the following components every time: Members, Extended Profiles, User Groups, and Activity.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>8. Number of Members</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265125\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/member-number.png\" alt=\"58% of sites have up to 500 members\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nMost of the respondents who had up to 500 members are those using BP for 2 years or less, have BP installed in WP domain root, have sites on Shared hosting plans, on PHP 5.6 or better, test against BP Stable release, and on the latest versions of WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>9. Local Development</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265126\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/local-dev.png\" alt=\"23% use LAMP for local development\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nOut of the 70% who develop locally, the preferred local development environments after LAMP are: XAMPP (19%), MAMP (18%), WAMP (13%), and VVV (13%), among others.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>10. Sharing BuddyPress Use Cases</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bp-share-use-cases.png\" alt=\"63 participants signed up to share their BP use cases\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265208\" /><br />\nExpect posts about how site builders or developers are using BuddyPress. Thank you to everyone who signed up!<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h3>B. Trends</h3>\n<h4>1. Using BuddyPress</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265127\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/use-buddypress.png\" alt=\"62% use BuddyPress for own sites\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nFor the fourth year in a row, &#8220;I use BuddyPress in My Own Site&#8221; ranks number one (62% in this survey), followed by &#8220;I build BuddyPress sites for others&#8221; at 37%. One participant commented &#8220;Also have a family BuddyPress site on a raspberry pi (in dev).&#8221;<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>2. Languages of BuddyPress Sites</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265128\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bp-lang-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Languages used in BuddyPress sites\" width=\"2444\" height=\"1543\" /><br />\nFor the third year (2013, 2015, 2016), the English language is used in most of the sites (69%). This is followed by Spanish (11%), German (10%), and French (9%), among many others.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>3. Types of BuddyPress Sites</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265129\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bp-types-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Types of BuddyPress sites built\" width=\"2431\" height=\"1547\" /><br />\nFor the third year (2013, 2015, 2016), Generic (33%), Academic (29%), Sports (16%), Artistic (15%), and Gaming (12%) are the most common types of BuddyPress sites built. Generic and Academic types are consistently in the top two spots.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>4. BuddyPress Versions Used</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265130\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/buddypress-version.png\" alt=\"86% use BuddyPress 2.7 during survey\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nEighty six percent (86%) are on BuddyPress 2.7+, followed by BP 2.6+ (23%), BP 2.5+ (6%), BP 2.4+ (4%), and BP 2.3+ (4%). Note: BP 2.7.x was the current release version during the survey period.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>5. WordPress Versions Used</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265131\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/wordpress-version.png\" alt=\"92% use WordPress 4.6+ during survey\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nNinety two percent (92%) have WordPress 4.6+ installed, followed by WP 4.5+ (13%), WP 4.4+ (5%), WP 4.3+ (3%), and WP 4.2+ (3%). Note: WordPress 4.6 was the current major release version when the survey was launched.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>6. BuddyPress Setups</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265132\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bp-install-in-wp.png\" alt=\"72% installed at WP domain root\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nBuddyPress activated in a single WordPress installation continues to be popular with 72% of the respondents in 2016 as it was in the 2013 survey with 75%.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>7. BuddyPress Hosting</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/hosting-bp.png\" alt=\"48% use shared hosting for BP sites\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265134\" /><br />\nFor sites hosted on Shared Hosting plans: half have 500 members or less, 40% of the sites are on single WP in domain root, 47% on PHP 5.6 or better, almost half of the respondents have been using BuddyPress for a year or less, and a little more than a third use BuddyPress for their own sites.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>8. Other Software Evaluated</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/evaluated-none.png\" alt=\"54% chose BuddyPress without further ado\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265135\" /><br />\nFor the third year in a row, most of the users (54% for 2016) shared that they did not evaluate any other networking/membership plugin/software before selecting BuddyPress.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>9. Contributions to BuddyPress development</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/contribute-bp-dev.png\" alt=\"58% have not contributed to BP development\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265136\" /><br />\nNote: 26% of the 58% who indicated that they have not participated nor contributed to BuddyPress development have also checked that they: helped out in the BP forums,  reported bugs at BP Trac, submitted patches at BP Trac, among others.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>10. bbPress Versions Used</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bbpress-version.png\" alt=\"89% use bbPress 2.5+\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265137\" /><br />\nConsistent with the vast majority using the latest versions of WordPress and BuddyPress at the time of this survey, 89% of respondents are using the latest version of bbPress which provides a <a href=\"https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/extend/buddypress\">tight integration with BuddyPress</a>.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>11. bbPress Setups in BuddyPress</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bbpress-setup.png\" alt=\"66% use sitewide and group forums\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265138\" /><br />\nFor the third year in a row, the Sitewide and Group Forums setup is the most popular bbPress configuration at 60%, a big bump from its 49% first place ranking in 2015.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h3>C. Shifts</h3>\n<h4>1. Female Participation in Survey</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/female-gender-1.png\" alt=\"13% female developers and site builders\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265191\" /><br />\nThe number of female respondents increased from 8% (17) in 2015 to 13% (37) in this survey. Levels of BuddyPress knowledge range from Beginner through Expert.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>2. BuddyPress Sites Per Respondent</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bp-sites-built.png\" alt=\"36% built 2 to 5 BuddyPress sites\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265142\" /><br />\nIn 2015, 41% of respondents (87) built or were responsible for one site followed by 38% (80) with 2 to 5 sites. For 2016, there were more developers who built or were responsible for 2 to 5 sites (99) than for only one site (95).<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>3. Number of Survey Participants</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/302-participants-1.png\" alt=\"302 Participants for BuddyPress 2016 Survey\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265204\" /></p>\n<p>The number of respondents increased from 211 from 42 countries in the 2015 survey up to 302 respondents from 61 countries for the 2016 survey. We are grateful to everyone who took the time to take the survey.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h2>Acknowledgements</h2>\n<p><strong>Survey Participants</strong>: Net total of 302 who completed the survey<br />\n<strong>Online Survey Solution</strong>: <a href=\"https://polldaddy.com\">Polldaddy.com</a> and <a href=\"https://automattic.com/\">Automattic.com</a> for the corporate account<br />\n<strong>Survey Preparation</strong>: <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/mercime/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@mercime</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/johnjamesjacoby/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@johnjamesjacoby</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/boonebgorges/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@boonebgorges</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/djpaul/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@djpaul</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/r-a-y/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@r-a-y</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/imath/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@imath</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/dcavins/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@dcavins</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/hnla/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@hnla</a>, and <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/tw2113/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@tw2113</a><br />\n<strong>Survey Report</strong>: <a href=\"https://github.com/\">Github.com</a> (gh-pages), <a href=\"https://products.office.com/en-us/excel\">Microsoft Excel</a>, <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive\">Google Documents &amp; Spreadsheets</a>, and <a href=\"http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html\">tagxedo.com</a>.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h2>Moving Forward</h2>\n<p>BuddyPress will be celebrating the <a href=\"https://buddypress.org/2009/04/buddypress-10-has-arrived/\">8th anniversary of the first stable release</a> on April 30, 2017. Thanks to @apeatling and the many contributors who brought that milestone to fruition. Looking at all the <a href=\"https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/\">major and minor releases</a> through the years led by <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/johnjamesjacoby/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@johnjamesjacoby</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/boonebgorges/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@boonebgorges</a>, and <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/djpaul/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@djpaul</a>, it&#8217;s amazing how much has been accomplished by the all-volunteer lead/core developers and contributors.</p>\n<p>The lead developers have set the <a href=\"https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/priorities-for-the-next-12-months/\">priorities for this year</a> and we look forward to the bp-nouveau template pack and the BP REST API, among many other new features based on some of your comments/requests from this survey.</p>\n<p>All are welcome to <a href=\"https://codex.buddypress.org/participate-and-contribute/\">participate and contribute</a> to the development of BuddyPress. Keep abreast of the latest BuddyPress news at <a href=\"https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/\">bpdevel.wordpress.com/</a>, <a href=\"https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org\">buddypress.trac.wordpress.org</a>, Twitter @buddypress @buddypressdev @bptrac, and/or weekly BuddyPress Dev Chats at the <a href=\"http://BuddyPress Dev Chats at #buddypress channe\">#buddypress channel</a> (<a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/chat/\">WP Slack account required</a>).</p>\n<p>Finally, all supporting graphs, tables, and comments from this survey are available on the accessible and mobile-friendly <a href=\"http://mercime.github.io/BuddyPress-2016-survey-results/\">BuddyPress 2016 Survey Results webpage</a>. Where possible, data from the <a href=\"https://buddypress.org/2013/09/2013-buddypress-codex-survey-results/\">2013</a>, <a href=\"https://buddypress.org/2014/03/2014-buddypress-survey-results/\">2014</a> and <a href=\"https://buddypress.org/2015/05/2015-buddypress-survey-results/\">2015</a> surveys have been added to the charts for comparison. 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The camp, which held its sixth edition in Utrecht last year with more than 425 attendees, was one of the most well-established WordPress events in Europe. Yesterday lead organizer Marcel Bootsman published a <a href=\"https://nl.wordpress.org/team/2017/03/30/het-einde-van-wordcamp-the-netherlands/\" target=\"_blank\">post</a> on the Dutch WordPress community site to explain why the camp has been cancelled.</p>\n<p>Bootsman&#8217;s post is written in Dutch but includes correspondence in English between the WCNL team and WordPress Community Support (WCS), formerly WordCamp Central. WCS is now pushing for all WordCamps to be city-based with the exception of regional camps, such as WordCamp US and WordCamp Europe, where the cities already have their own camps and do not prevent or detract from local communities launching their own camps.</p>\n<p>&#8220;WordCamp Netherlands has been held 6 times to date and&#8230;It has not inspired any local WordCamps (in fact, I think it’s probably fair to say that local camps have not been happening because people don’t see a need for them with the country-wide camp happening each year) and, with the exception of Nijmegen, which is still in the pre-planning phase, no cities in the Netherlands have their own WordCamps,&#8221; a WCS representative said. &#8220;With that in mind, we feel that the time has come for your community to move from the country-wide camp to running local camps. This has started happening with Nijmegen already and can easily start happening more with WordCamps in Utrecht, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and other cities.&#8221;</p>\n<p>The Netherlands is <a href=\"http://mapfight.appspot.com/nl-vs-us.md/netherlands-maryland-us-size-comparison\" target=\"_blank\">roughly the size of Maryland</a>, or twice the size of New Jersey, in terms of land space. One can drive across the country in two hours or less. The WCNL team contends that a country-wide WordCamp makes sense for geographical reasons and because of the locations of the organizers. The country already has an active meetup culture with 13 different meetups hosting an average of 100 attendees per event. Organizers do not see the need to have multiple smaller WordCamps fill the role that the local meetups are already doing.</p>\n<p>In response to the reasons WCNL organizers&#8217; outlined for not shutting down their event, the WCS representative replied, &#8220;I don’t think there’s really any benefit to responding to all of your points in the last email individually.&#8221; WCS reiterated its decision regarding the camp:</p>\n<blockquote><p>We will not be approving WordCamp The Netherlands 2017. We would like to see city-based WordCamps happening around the Netherlands – Nijmegen being a great start to that process.</p>\n<p>We’re confident that with the space that WCNL filled being vacated, we will see some of the meetup organizers around the country stepping up to fill that space for their local communities. The local city camps may be smaller, but in many ways that can be a much better than a single large camp.</p>\n<p>As I said before, we would be happy to look at doing WCNL again in a couple of years time once there are a few city-based camps around the country happening regularly. In that case, however, WCNL would be there to complement, and not replace, the city-based camps.</p></blockquote>\n<p>WordCamp Netherlands was the last remaining exception to this new rule that drops country-wide WordCamps in favor of city-based camps. The Dutch community and many of its supporters are <a href=\"https://twitter.com/roytanck/status/847365810506969089\" target=\"_blank\">now</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jrf_nl/status/847470162496241664\" target=\"_blank\">in</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/nielsvr/status/847384382541148161\" target=\"_blank\">an</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mchaste/status/847374014414704645\" target=\"_blank\">uproar</a> over the decision and organizers are at a crossroads. They can choose to rebrand the event as WordCamp Utrecht, with significant drawbacks, or move forward with an independent country-wide event without the use of WordCamp tools, branding and trademarks, or funding from the Global Community Sponsorship Program.</p>\n<h3>WordCamp Netherlands Conflict Highlights Cultural Differences Between the U.S. and Europe</h3>\n<p>Marcel Bootsman, who heads up the 13-person WordCamp Netherlands organization team, said they have been working since late December 2016 on the upcoming event. The team had added eight new members after the event grew 68% from 2015 to 2016.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody was thrilled to start, and the news that we could not continue hit us hard,&#8221; Bootsman said. &#8220;We have officially stopped and I have thanked everyone for their enthusiasm and support, which was difficult because I wanted to let these people feel what it is to organize an event and see happy faces all over the place.&#8221;</p>\n<p>WordPress developer and Dutch community member Juliette Reinders Folmer said she doesn&#8217;t believe that more than one or perhaps two city-based WordCamps will get started in the Netherlands. Organizing a WordCamp is not an easy endeavor with a small pool of local organizers and volunteers. Folmer notes that since the WordPress Foundation doesn&#8217;t allow for compensating speakers for their out-of-pocket costs, the speaker pool is further limited.</p>\n<p>&#8220;A trend I&#8217;ve spotted over the last few years is that &#8216;local&#8217; WCs will have a mix of local, national and international speakers,&#8221; Folmer said. &#8220;While national speakers might still be prepared to go out of pocket, the only international speakers who can afford to do this are the ones who are sponsored by big companies which pay their travel and time to speak at those WCs.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of creating a larger speaker group with new and interesting voices, we&#8217;re ending up with a corporate uniform message where the more innovative and sometimes dissident voices are few and far between. By forcing WCNL to break up into smaller more local groups, this trend will become even more persistent and insidious as the demands on the limited group of national speakers will increase unless they have corporate sponsoring. Even they will not able to afford the time and costs to attend and speak at the various local WCs.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Remkus de Vries, WordCamp Netherlands lead-organizer from 2009 to 2015, said the team has worked for years to see the local communities come together, and have seen people get involved with translations, forum moderation, and local meetups after attending the WordCamps.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Our idea from the get go for WordCamp Netherlands was to be as inclusive as possible, to unite the scattered Dutch WordPress community,&#8221; de Vries said. &#8220;The Dutch community consisted of little islands that didn&#8217;t really connect at all. 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We&#8217;re too practical sometimes, and in this situation, it will not help the community.&#8221;</p>\n<h3>WordCamp Netherlands Organizers are Considering Hosting an Independent Event</h3>\n<p>Both de Vries and Bootsman are said they do not believe rules that make sense for the U.S. should be applied universally. They would prefer them to be guidelines that communities can follow or depart from if they express their preference for a country-wide WordCamp. WordPress communities in other countries like Denmark, Croatia, and Switzerland have expressed similar frustrations with the U.S.-centric rules.</p>\n<p>&#8220;WordCamp Netherlands was what started the local WordPress meetups and ended up being the glue between the WordPress Meetups,&#8221; de Vries said. &#8220;Forcing us to stop using WordCamp Netherlands is going to impact that as you could see by the outpouring of reactions yesterday on Twitter and Facebook. 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Feedback has been rolling in <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wordpress-relaunches-plugin-directory-with-new-design-and-improved-search-algorithm#comments\">from Tavern readers</a> and members of the <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/advancedwp/permalink/1446257985436411/?match=cGx1Z2luKyBkaXJlY3RvcnkscGx1Z2luIGRpcmVjdG9yeSxwbHVnaW5z\">Advanced WordPress Facebook group</a>.</p>\n<p>The improvements to search has received a number of positive comments in addition to people requesting the ability <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wordpress-relaunches-plugin-directory-with-new-design-and-improved-search-algorithm#comment-216693\">to sort results</a>. The responsive design and aesthetics of the page have also received praise.</p>\n<p>There are a number of items that plugin developers and users have reported as downsides to the new design. 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When my fourth baby arrived, I gave up a travel-heavy university job and took a “mommy job” as a bookstore manager. I chose books, held teacher workshops, and read stories to children for 15 years. As the internet became important, we put up a website and I became the manager of that site. 18 months later, the bookstore’s owners went bankrupt and closed the store.</p>\n<p>My initial reaction was, “They can’t do that – we’re #2 on Google!” We’d also gone from zero ecommerce sales to $5,000 a month. We had visitors to our blog from 192 different countries. Online, we were a success. But it was 2008, and lots of small businesses were going under. Lots of people were unemployed. I was unemployed for the first time in my life.</p>\n<p>Being #2 or even #1 on Google had a different meaning in those days, before customized search results. For me, it meant that I had become skilled with SEO and content marketing, but I figured I’d have to return to the classroom when my job ended.</p>\n<blockquote><p>“We couldn’t have done this without you,” the owner of the bookstore said. “There are other businesses that would benefit from your skills. Why don’t you go into business helping them?”</p></blockquote>\n<p>I scoffed bitterly. I had kids in college and two more getting ready to finish high school. I clearly needed a higher level of security than self-employment could offer.</p>\n<p>What’s more, I had already discovered that people who found out what I did with computers invariably looked at me oddly and said, “You don’t look like a computer guy.” They were right, although we now have a much more open minded idea of what computer guys can look like. Back then, though, I looked like someone’s mom. I was someone’s mom. This caused a high level of cognitive dissonance for some people, I knew.</p>\n<p>But I was bold enough to do a little bit of helping other businesses while I looked for work. I wrote an essay at the site that was then SEOMoz and got a job offer in the comments. I picked up a couple of local clients, and then through an online marketplace found some international clients. I went to job interviews, of course, and was offered jobs managing various things. But nothing I was offered was as fun as the work I was doing online. I turned down all the offers I received.</p>\n<h3>The Web People</h3>\n<p>I clearly remember my last job interview. It was Halloween 2008. I was talking with the vice chancellor at a medical school about his online needs. This was my first IRL tech job interview and the vice chancellor had told me I was his favorite candidate. The secretary came to the door and said, “We need to take Rebecca down to the basement to meet the Web People.”</p>\n<p>She was dressed as a witch. The hallways were full of cotton spider webs and spooky decorations. She was taking me down to the basement to meet the Web People. I was the only one who laughed.</p>\n<p>You see the humor, right? They did not. I realized that I didn’t really want to go back to academia, I didn’t want to manage things, and I didn’t want to sit in a cubicle proofreading. I wanted to have fun with websites.</p>\n<p>I talked with my family about the possibility of going into business for myself, and the possibility that I could fail and limit their college choices. My youngest son said, “You’ve always done what’s best for us. You should do what’s best for you.”<br />\nI have great kids.</p>\n<blockquote><p>At that point, I reviewed my income figures, saw that I was earning twice as much as I had earned as a bookstore manager, and decided that I would carry on as an independent Web Person.</p></blockquote>\n<p>As a freelance web writer and SEO, I never met a CMS I couldn’t make friends with. If there wasn’t a CMS at a website, I used Dreamweaver. Drupal, Joomla, Mango, sticks and clay tablets, I didn’t care. I used WordPress along with all the other options my clients wanted. In 2009, after being featured in the Wall Street Journal, my freelance business boomed. I teamed up with designers and built websites in addition to writing for web designers and agencies and businesses on four continents.</p>\n<p>My eldest daughter, Rosie, saw that I needed some help and came to work with me. “Saw that I needed some help” may be too kind a way to put it. I have some useful skills, but my main goal for my business was not to starve in the gutter and my main goal for accounting was to keep out of jail. We met with the local Small Business Association rep a couple of months after Rosie joined me and he said to me, kindly but firmly, “You’d be in trouble without her.”</p>\n<p>But with Rosie as my partner, I was able to build a thriving business. In 2010 we built a WordPress site for K-12 teachers just in time for our first WordCamp. We needed a lab site, and I had just finished writing a bunch of lesson plans with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In the course of that project I had discovered how limited online STEM (science, tech, engineering, and math) options for K-12 teachers were. We built a website called FreshPlans to help fill that need and had a functioning WordPress site for WordCamp.</p>\n<h3>0 to 8,000 in six months</h3>\n<p>Six months later, Rosie and I were looking at the stats for FreshPlans – 8,000 visits a month – and she said, “Why aren’t we doing this for our own website? Why aren’t we doing this for all our clients?”</p>\n<p>I didn’t have a good answer for why we weren’t doing it, but we went ahead and switched our business site to WordPress. We convinced our designer to give WordPress a chance and built WordPress websites for clients who needed new sites. We saw how much more sense the websites made to our clients. We saw how much more quickly we could build the sites and how much more value we could provide for our clients without the cost of bringing in a developer. We found that we were able to streamline our process for the clients whose blogging and social media we look after. We saw impressive results for our clients, too; not every website can go from 0 to 8,000 visits in six months, but we definitely see better results with WordPress than without it.</p>\n<p>Within a year, we went from platform agnostic to a dedicated WordPress shop. It worked better for us. It worked better for the people whose sites we built and managed. We were also beginning to see the value of open source and to appreciate the WordPress community.</p>\n<p>After that first WordCamp, I spoke at a couple of camps every year and our company sponsors and helps organize a couple of WordCamps nearly every year. Last year I spoke at three and I hope to continue expanding that service. WordPress has been good to us and we want to give back to the awesome WordPress community.</p>\n<h3>WordPress Success</h3>\n<p>Our business has grown. My eldest son graduated from college and joined the family business. My second daughter left us to work for Automattic. We’ve had some rough times, as every business does, but we can be proud of the work we do.</p>\n<p>We have the privilege of working with awesome clients, both locally and around the world. They can share their brands and their bigger messages in ways that would have been difficult and costly just a decade ago. We’re able to get great results for them – with hard work and WordPress.</p>\n<blockquote><p>WordPress is not a magic pixie dust you can sprinkle on your website for instant success.</p></blockquote>\n<p>But there are some things about WordPress that set you up for success:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>It may not be true (okay, it isn’t true) that you can master WordPress with no tech skills, training, or effort. But you don’t have to be a programmer to get the results you want and need in WordPress. If you have something to say, you can get it published more easily in WordPress than with other platforms.</li>\n<li>There’s no quality tradeoff. We usually build custom websites with talented and trained designers, but I’ve built dozens myself with pre-made themes and my own HTML and CSS skills (and great photos – the secret weapon for non-artists who want to create beautiful WordPress websites). Either way, you’re not limited by WordPress as you are by drag-and-drop sitebuilding tools.</li>\n<li>Because updating and adding content is so easy with WordPress, you can accomplish the essentials of content marketing more easily. You can focus on your message with less worry about the medium. You and your Web People can shape the web experience you want for your visitors efficiently.</li>\n<li>WordPress has the most supportive community you can find. We’re friends with local companies that we could also call competitors, because we spend time together in Meetups and WordCamp organizing meetings. We also have a large network of WordPress folks we respect and admire. It’s great to see them in person at WordCamps, but we also have the opportunity to get to know them better virtually. We help them and they help us.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I can say from experience that WordPress has made a big difference in my life. I’m still a mom – in fact, I’m now a grandmother. But I’m also the owner of a successful web firm and a successful educational website. I write for and care for a number of websites I can be proud of.</p>\n<p>Last year at WordCamp Kansas City a man came up to show me his new website. I had spoken the year before about how to get started with a WordPress website, and he had been able to build a site for his fantasy hockey league. He was excited to show it to me, and I was excited to see it. That capacity to help other people achieve their goals with WordPress means a lot to me.</p>\n<p>If you’re just starting with WordPress, let my story encourage you. 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Gorges</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/bor0\">Boro Sitnikovski</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/bradt\">Brad Touesnard</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/bradyvercher\">Brady Vercher</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/kraftbj\">Brandon Kraft</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/drrobotnik\">Brandon Lavigne</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/bridgetwillard\">Bridget Willard</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/bhargavbhandari90\">Bunty</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/camikaos\">Cami Kaos</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/carl-alberto\">Carl Alberto</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/caseypatrickdriscoll\">Casey Driscoll</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/cazm\">cazm</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ccprog\">ccprog</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/chandrapatel\">Chandra Patel</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/chesio\">chesio</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ketuchetan\">chetansatasiya</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/chiragpatel\">Chirag Patel</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/chouby\">Chouby</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/cklosows\">Chris Klosowski</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/chris_dev\">Chris Mok</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/chriseverson\">chriseverson</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/christian1012\">Christian Chung</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/coreymckrill\">Corey McKrill</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/courtneypk\">Courtney P.K.</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/cristianozanca\">Cristiano Zanca</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/csloisel\">csloisel</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/curdin\">Curdin Krummenacher</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/clarinetlord\">Cyrus Collier</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielbachhuber\">Daniel Bachhuber</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/diddledan\">Daniel Llewellyn</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/mte90\">Daniele Scasciafratte</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/nerrad\">Darren Ethier (nerrad)</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/darshan02\">Darshan_dj</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/darthaud\">darthaud</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dllh\">Daryl L. L. Houston (dllh)</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidakennedy\">David A. Kennedy</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidanderson\">David Anderson</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbinda\">David Binovec</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dlh\">David Herrera</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dshanske\">David Shanske</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbenton\">davidbenton</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/designsimply\">designsimply</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhanendran\">Dhanendran</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dharm1025\">Dharmesh Patel</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhaval-parekh\">Dhaval Parekh</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dingo_bastard\">dingo-d</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dd32\">Dion Hulse</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ocean90\">Dominik Schilling</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dotancohen\">Dotan Cohen</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/doublehhh\">DoubleH</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dreamon11\">DreamOn11</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/drewapicture\">Drew Jaynes</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/drivingralle\">Drivingralle</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dspilka\">dspilka</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/chopinbach\">Edwin Cromley</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ejner69\">Ejner Galaz</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/iseulde\">Ella Iseulde Van Dorpe</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/emirpprime\">emirpprime</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ericlewis\">Eric Andrew Lewis</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ethitter\">Erick Hitter</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/endif-media\">Ethan Allen</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/fab1en\">Fabien Quatravaux</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/flixos90\">Felix Arntz</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/fibonaccina\">fibonaccina</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/mista-flo\">Florian TIAR</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/francina\">Francesca Marano</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/fstaude\">Frank Neumann-Staude</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/f-j-kaiser\">Franz Josef Kaiser</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/gma992\">Gabriel Maldonado</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/voldemortensen\">Garth Mortensen</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/garyc40\">Gary Cao</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/pento\">Gary Pendergast</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/soulseekah\">Gennady Kovshenin</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/georgestephanis\">George Stephanis</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ghosttoast\">Gustave F. Gerhardt</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/hedgefield\">hedgefield</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/helen\">Helen Hou-Sandí</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/helgatheviking\">helgatheviking</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/hristo-sg\">Hristo Pandjarov</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn\">Ian Dunn</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ig_communitysites\">ig_communitysites</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/zinigor\">Igor Zinovyev</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/imath\">imath</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ipstenu\">Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ireneyoast\">ireneyoast</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/iv3rson76\">Ivan Stefanov</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ivantedja\">ivantedja</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jdgrimes\">J.D. Grimes</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jackreichert\">Jack Reichert</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/whyisjake\">Jake Spurlock</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jnylen0\">James Nylen</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jaydeep-rami\">Jaydeep Rami</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jazbek\">jazbek</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jblz\">Jeff Bowen</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jfarthing84\">Jeff Farthing</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jbpaul17\">Jeff Paul</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/cheffheid\">Jeffrey de Wit</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenblogs4u\">Jen Miller</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeremyfelt\">Jeremy Felt</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jpry\">Jeremy Pry</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jesseenterprises\">jesseenterprises</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jigneshnakrani\">Jignesh 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I believe we are feeling the effects of<strong> </strong><b>market maturity</b>.</p>\n<p>Are downmarket “one stop shop” alternatives and in house teams the best solution for the future of WordPress? No, because hosting providers, developers, and agencies who specialize in this space are where the concentrated real quality resides, and people are always willing to pay for quality. Ultimately WordPress has staying power because of its ecosystem, so let’s take stock of that.</p>\n<h2>The current state of the WordPress economy</h2>\n<p>In 2017 WordPress is used by major publishers, enterprise, <a href=\"https://pagely.com/solutions/universities/\">universities</a> and even custom SaaS applications. In fact the world’s leaders in business and marketing trends use WordPress (and aren’t necessarily leveraging in house teams to do so). To name a few:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/\">Facebook Newsroom</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.gv.com/\">Google Ventures</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/\">Mercedes Benz</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/\">TechCrunch</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/\">Bloomberg Professional</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p>WordPress powers an estimated <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/about/features/\">28% of all websites</a> which run the gamut of single contributor blogs and simple websites to applications and complex portals. That’s nearly 75 million websites built by anyone from a very beginner to an extremely advanced level of technical skill. It’s both easy to use and graceful in its complex abilities to do just about anything you would need a website to do.</p>\n<p>There’s also the community behind WordPress, an ecosystem in and of itself of people around the world with this one thing in common. As an <a href=\"https://pagely.com/blog/2017/05/citizen-guide-open-source-community/\">open source community</a>, our entire industry is plugged into every update. We can contribute to testing or code. We have all the power to make sure the WordPress economy stays strong and continues to grow.</p>\n<p>New businesses are constantly being formed around plugins, themes and services built specifically for WordPress, with no signs of stopping. In fact, we’ll continue to find more and more creators of WordPress specific companies, with full time jobs elsewhere, using this as an opportunity to contribute to the community.</p>\n<p class=\"lead txt-danger\">However, the near constant flow of new entries into an already saturated market is outstripping demand. The WordPress pie overall is still growing but not quick enough to absorb the new sellers entering into the lower third of the market. The new players are typically unable to challenge the dominant players for a significant market share, and the demands and needs of the customers are also moving up the value chain. Yes, some newcomers do disrupt the established WP players, but it is happening with less frequency and the barrier is ever higher.</p>\n<h2>Economies ebb &amp; flow: Apple and Airbnb (and WordPress)</h2>\n<p>The companies and brands that have changed the way people live experience low points. Just like the ones we’ve feared will appear in our own industry. But you know these companies well and they, and their economies, have persevered.</p>\n<p>Take the classic example, one of the greatest comeback stories of all time: Apple. Apple defied all odds and went from near bankruptcy to the powerhouse hardware leader it is today with over a billion iPhones currently in use. They lost Steve Jobs and many feared they would lose their focus and tumble downward. Instead they’re the <a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/10/05/five-years-after-steve-jobs-an-apple-with-the-courage-to-say-no\">largest and most profitable</a> they’ve ever been. Walk down the streets of New York City or San Francisco and you’ll see brick and mortar shops dedicated to alt-genius-bar services and shattered screen replacement. The Apple economy is strong.</p>\n<p>Just like Apple, Airbnb almost flopped, but came out on top. It has an ecosystem of its own with tons of offshoot companies that support various aspects of the community, just like WordPress. After near failure Airbnb now supports a community of over 100 million and is valued at over $30 billion. They also face <a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-11/airbnb-faces-growing-pains-as-it-passes-100-million-users\">growing pains</a> and &#8212; at times &#8212; volatility, but companies like this that fundamentally change the way the world works aren’t going anywhere.</p>\n<p>WordPress itself isn’t in danger of a near flop, but these are valuable examples of economies that fared far worse, and still made it through.</p>\n<h2>The core strengths of WordPress</h2>\n<p>WordPress possesses fundamental characteristics that so many of today’s great leaders encompass. All leaders like this are built to support a growing economy for a long time to come.</p>\n<h3>Brand</h3>\n<p>In Pagely&#8217;s own recent user survey, the most important factors for choosing a service were <strong>reliability </strong>and <strong>security</strong>. These are cornerstones of the WordPress brand <em>(haters gonna hate – but core has been really solid for many years in both respects)</em> and reasons why such a large percentage of the internet continues to choose it to power their websites. As a brand, WordPress is synonymous with being one of the most reliable and secure CMS options available. Quality service providers that support WordPress, like Pagely, also often encompass these brand characteristics. We often hear of these same characteristics as pain points from customers trying to work in-house or with downmarket alternatives.</p>\n<h3>Ubiquity</h3>\n<p>WordPress users span nearly every industry in the world. Publishers, Fortune 500 Companies, Music, Fashion, Tech, Politics, you name it. Like I mentioned above, ~75 million websites exist with WordPress and they are published in dozens of languages/locales. WordPress is literally a web that has woven itself through the digital and physical world.</p>\n<h3>Community</h3>\n<p>The WordPress community is made up of contributors, coders, engineers, designers, marketing professionals, and every other title necessary to run a business. The community reaches so far that it touches every corner of today’s tech workforce. Not only is the community large, but it cares. We care. The number of blogs and forums dedicated to helping people understand WordPress are impossible to count. Events like WordCamp, LoopConf, Publish, and PressNomics occur all year long and prominent core contributors participate. Don’t hate me for loosely quoting Lincoln. 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Eastern</p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: </strong><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wordpress-weekly/id694849738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to subscribe</a></p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via RSS: </strong><a href=\"https://wptavern.com/feed/podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to subscribe</a></p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Stitcher Radio: </strong><a href=\"http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wordpress-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to subscribe</a></p>\n<p><strong>Listen To Episode #277:</strong><br />\n</p>\n<div id=\"epoch-width-sniffer\"></div>\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:7:\"pubDate\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:22:39 +0000\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"Jeff Chandler\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:19;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"child\";a:2:{s:0:\"\";a:5:{s:5:\"title\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:25:\"HeroPress: Trust Yourself\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"guid\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:56:\"https://heropress.com/?post_type=heropress-essays&p=1915\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"link\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:102:\"https://heropress.com/essays/trust-yourself/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trust-yourself\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:8453:\"<img width=\"960\" height=\"480\" src=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/061417-1024x512.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pull Quote: Be open minded, trust yourself, and talk about what matters to you.\" /><p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:</strong> Birgit has been a friend of HeroPress since it&#8217;s very beginning. Through the oddities of life she was never able to do an essay. Recently she told me she would have one soon. This is not that essay. Our contributor this week needed some extra time and Birgit said she had something she wanted to write about, so here it is. Many thanks Birgit.</em></p>\n<p>Something is in the air. Do you feel the WordPress vibrations? It&#8217;s shortly before the fifth WordCamp Europe which will be held in Paris this year. The social channels like Twitter &amp; Co. are flooded with pre-event messages. You can feel the emotions of excitement and sadness in the timeline nearby. People share their excitement about their upcoming attendance and others who can&#8217;t make it. I am a person who belongs to both groups.</p>\n<p>But let me begin some months ago to tell you how this came to be. After WordCamp Europe in Vienna last summer I purchased my ticket for WCEU 2017 in Paris directly after the ticket sale was opened. There was no doubt at all I would participate.</p>\n<blockquote><p>How life&#8217;s play changes, it worked out differently than planned.</p></blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve struggled with some health issues over several years. Mostly caused by stress during and after the divorce, as well as some deaths in the vicinity. Nothing really serious, but not ignorable. I thought&#8230; But at the end of the summer last year I got seriously ill. Not the right place for details here, but I had to quit my day job in a small agency because the fixed-term employment contract ended at the same time. Also, I had to reduce any contributions to the WordPress project. I had to reduce my freelancing contracts, too.</p>\n<p>I ran from one medical specialist to the other to find the cause of my illness. I was so frustrated not to be able to work like I&#8217;ve done before and so upset about the brain-fog and the fatigue. It was so depressing. As a mom of five children, it is not funny to be ill. The three youngest kids are living at home with me and my new partner. My oldest daughter bought her own house. But I couldn&#8217;t help her while moving. Can you imagine, how frustrating this could be?</p>\n<p>But hey &#8211; I am a fighter like a lioness. I put everything on the plate, invested my small savings into healing treatments and so on.</p>\n<blockquote><p>To make a long story short, I am getting healthier every day.</p></blockquote>\n<p>We found the cause and the healing treatments are helping like expected. Two operations went well. It is a process, but it&#8217;s going forward.</p>\n<p>Sitting at home without a job is not my thing, so I searched for a new day job. I found a part-time employment in my hometown as a head of a tutoring institute. It is ok, but nothing WordPress related. It secures my existence. But my saving balance allowed no budget for WordCamp travels. I gave up thoughts of attending WordCamp Europe in Paris this year.</p>\n<p>So I decided to offer my ticket.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I’v to sell my <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/wceu?src=hash\">#wceu</a> ticket I bought last year. Unless it happens a miracle and there is a sponsor for stay &amp; travel <a href=\"https://twitter.com/WCEurope\">@WCEurope</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/PFWBTtSmlq\">pic.twitter.com/PFWBTtSmlq</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Coach Birgit Olzem (@CoachBirgit) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/CoachBirgit/status/867323301399588864\">May 24, 2017</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>The unexpected miracle happened. I found sponsors for travel &amp; stay without active seeking. My generous sponsors rewarded my past contributions to WordPress and Community over several years with this openhearted support. I am so grateful for this.</p>\n<p>Since 2012 I have been an active member of the WordPress Community. First as the main responsible person for the translations of WordPress into German, then as a part of the international Polyglots team. I am also editor and release manager for local German site and I am a member of some other contribution teams in the WordPress ecosystem. I spent a lot of spare time and money on contributions and WordCamp travels.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps you can imagine how frustrating it was, that I couldn&#8217;t afford to travel to WordCamp Europe.</p></blockquote>\n<p>An event where I can meet a lot of friends I made over the last years. Even more, I was happy to get the generous sponsoring. I am so grateful!</p>\n<p>In the last two years I had to reduce my contribution time and disappeared from the scene, but I followed the changes and enhancements within the community in the background. 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Only speaking people can be helped.</p>\n<p>Apropos speaking people can get helped:</p>\n<p>I have a dream over some years to contribute to WordPress in full-time as a WordPress Community Manager. There are so many things I can do even if I am not a full-stack developer. Perhaps this miracle happens, too. But at this moment I am sitting on my suitcases to write about the generosity in the WordPress Community. This essay wasn&#8217;t planned, but it happened to have been written.</p>\n<p>I am so grateful for my heroes who made it happen, that I can go to the WordCamp Europe this year.</p>\n<p>There are so many unseen heroes outside who need to be seen.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Be open minded, trust yourself and talk about what matters to you.</p></blockquote>\n<p>There is a light at the end of the tunnel. 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creating beautiful new themes and continually enhancing the existing themes,&#8221; Danzer said.</p>\n<p>Imagely has been busy this year launching a <a href=\"https://www.imagely.com/websites/\">managed WordPress hosting service</a> for photographers, releasing <a href=\"https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-photography-themes/\">new photography themes</a>, and an <a href=\"https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-lightroom-plugin/\">Adobe Lightroom plugin</a> that allows users to manage NextGEN galleries from within Lightroom.</p>\n<p>Later this year, Imagely plans to release a new version of NextGEN gallery with a redesigned backend interface. The company is also working on a way to add automated print fulfillment to WordPress.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Automated print fulfillment allows photographers to sell prints from their websites, and have those prints automatically delivered via the print lab without any intervention on their part,&#8221; Danzer said.</p>\n<p>&#8220;This functionality drives many large companies in the photo industry &#8211; SmugMug, ShootProof, Pixieset, Zenfolio, Photoshelter, and others. But it&#8217;s not possible yet on WordPress.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Bringing a full print solution to WordPress has the potential to revolutionize the photo industry and make WordPress the default web solution for photographers that it should be.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Marcel Sobieski, co-founder of TeslaThemes, <a href=\"http://teslathemes.com/blog/acquisition/\">thanked customers</a> for their support and confirmed that they exited the company on June 9th.</p>\n<p>&#8220;We built a solid, trusted and valuable business, that is needed on the market and is appreciated both by industry colleagues and clients,&#8221; Sobieski said.</p>\n<p>This is the second exit in the last six months for Sobieski and his team. 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The city was one of three selected to be part of the <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wordcamp-incubator-program-to-launch-in-indonesia-zimbabwe-and-columbia\" target=\"_blank\">WordCamp Incubator Program</a> in 2016. Harare&#8217;s first WordCamp was successful in connecting the local WordPress community and inspiring local leaders to carry on with organizing future events.</p>\n<p>Last year the <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/Harare-WordPress-Meetup/\" target=\"_blank\">Harare WordPress Meetup</a> had 82 members and the group has nearly doubled in size with 142 members today.  Members meet every month and communicate outside of meetings via an active WhatsApp group. The current venue they use was donated by <a href=\"http://motorepublik.co/\" target=\"_blank\">Moto Republik</a>, thanks to one of the members Munya Bloggo, who works there.</p>\n<p>&#8220;It was always the goal of the WordCamp Incubator program to organize an easily-reproducible event that we could organize independently in the years to come,&#8221; 2017 lead organizer <a href=\"https://franksweb.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Thabo Tswana</a> said. &#8220;We expected it of ourselves. Some attendees and organizers actually approached me about the next WordCamp during WordCamp Harare 2016.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Tswana said the turnout at last year&#8217;s event was larger than he expected, because very few attendees booked tickets online. 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