A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
Take the 2025 WordPress Hosting Survey
Web hosting plays a critical role in how people experience WordPress. Everything from performance and stability to security and upgrades is shaped by a site’s host. Many hosts also customize the WordPress experience with their own onboarding, features, and default settings. As the web evolves, hosting continues to shape the way people use WordPress. The 2025 Hosting Survey is an opportunity for providers to share their WordPress setup and practices in a collaborative and transparent way.
WordPress Multisite vs Single Site – Which Fits Your Needs?
Out of WordPress.org’s 59,000 plugins, very few advertise multisite support, and that silence explains the forum horror stories about white screens after a simple update. Let’s say you push a routine update on a Friday afternoon. No red flags in staging. But once it hits production, 30 sites go dark. Not a code issue – just one overlooked dependency that wasn’t network-activated. It’s the kind of thing Multisite makes easier to mishandle, and harder to recover from without the right setup and governance.
WordPress Release Cycle Continues Without Documentation Leads: Contributors Voice Concerns Over Documentation’s Role and Value
The WordPress 6.9 release cycle is underway, but it follows the same path as the WordPress 6.8 release, moving forward without any documentation team leads. As the release team experiments with a smaller team to reduce coordination overhead, the decision not to include documentation leads in the release cycle is raising concerns in the community.
