{"id":65085,"date":"2026-08-21T08:56:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=65085"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:03:13","slug":"state-community-2026-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/en\/state-community-2026-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the [WordPress] Community 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results are out from the independent survey on the WordPress community, conducted by the WP Open Community collective.<\/p>\n<p>It represents a scathing critique of WordPress&#8217;s direction and, especially, of Matt Mullenweg&#8217;s leadership. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/thewpocc.org\/state-of-the-community\/#finding-01\">73.8% said they feel more negative about the project<\/a> than 24 months ago. When asked about open source software in general, the negative outlook dropped to 23.9%. The biggest source of problems, with 73.3% saying they had experienced or witnessed incidents, <a href=\"https:\/\/thewpocc.org\/state-of-the-community\/#finding-04\">relates to governance and leadership<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewpocc.org\/state-of-the-community\/#finding-08\">The use of generative AI in WordPress displeases most respondents<\/a>, even among those who use AI at work.<\/p>\n<p>In his closing remarks at WordCamp US on Wednesday (19<sup>th<\/sup>), Mullenweg brought up this survey finding and suggested that \u201cWe might just need to rebrand some of what we\u2019re doing [with AI]\u201d such as \u201cautomation,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therepository.email\/wordcamp-us-2026-wraps-in-phoenix-with-a-hackathon-wordpress-7-1-and-matt-mullenwegs-push-for-simplicity\">the account from the blog <cite>The Repository<\/cite><\/a>. It strikes me that this reaction adds to the evidence of a leadership that doesn&#8217;t listen to the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are out from the independent survey on the WordPress community, conducted by the WP Open Community collective. Many criticisms of Matt Mullenweg&#8217;s leadership and his efforts to stick AI into WordPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=65080"},"categories":[1575],"tags":[1391,1370,593,1367],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65086,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65085\/revisions\/65086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}