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@der_abro @GijoVarghese_ Someone left the bright pastel crayons out in the Automattic offices. It’s hideous.

@GijoVarghese_ The whole backend looks like a cheap Play-Doh application now :/

WordPress 7 definitely looks much more modern now 😄 I'm not a UI expert, but something about the UI still feels a little weird to me. The background colors and contrast of notices, buttons, links, etc. feel a bit off.

@MarcoAlmeidaPT @WooCommerce Yoda: “American date format invented by me it was”…

The year is 2026, and the @WooCommerce Analytics date picker is still designed for users in a single country. github.com/woocommerce/wo…

@TheBlogMetrics @thekevingeary Who’s paying for my time to do that on 110 client sites?

@brendyn_m @thekevingeary You can change the colors.

They managed to make the WP Admin UI worse. We're gonna get GTA6 before WordPress ever looks like a legitimate software product.

@fclaussen @philsola_123 Yes but changing it for every user on 110 sites when you don’t want to install YET ANOTHER PLUGIN is a no go

@philsola_123 I like it so much more. You can change the color scheme under your profile though.

This WordPress dashboard in 7.0 is Jarring & painful to look at😳 That blue is way too bright!

@philsola_123 It burns my eyes. Also the contrast between the background of notifications in lists and the background of the admin is TERRIBLE some as low as 1.02:1

@srikat @TheGurjyot Commentary all over on Facebook and LinkedIn as well. It’s horrible. Gonna have to take ski goggles to the office just to look at the screen

@TheGurjyot Not just us.

The color after the latest WP update is kind of jarring. Is it just a matter of getting used to the change?

@VengeonsP SMART SEO

Je positionne une nouvelle page dans le top 3 Google chaque semaine (20m/jour). Voici comment tu peux faire pareil : La plupart des gens font du SEO complètement à l'envers. Ils écrivent du contenu d'abord. Et espèrent que ça va ranker. Ça ne marche plus en 2026. La meilleure façon de faire du SEO aujourd'hui c'est l'inverse. D'abord : trouve ce qui génère DÉJÀ du trafic dans ta niche. Ensuite : utilise l'IA pour repérer les gaps exacts que tu peux gagner. Entre la GSC et les SERPs des concurrents. Et ça change tout. Parce que le SEO arrête de ressembler à du devinage. Chaque page que tu publies, c'est : "ok, celle là va ranker." Seul souci : La plupart des gens n'arrivent pas à faire ça de manière constante. Voilà ce qui se passe généralement : → Ils écrivent 50 articles de blog sur des sujets qu'ils "pensent" qui vont ranker → Les pages mettent 6 mois à peut être ranker, ou ne rankent jamais → Ils paient des outils SEO qui balancent des audits de 500 pages que personne ne lit → Ils embauchent une agence à 3K€/mois pour des recos génériques → Ils craquent avant de voir le moindre résultat → Résultat : des mois de boulot, 12 clics par mois Ce n'est PAS comme ça que le SEO marche en 2026. Donc au lieu d'embaucher une agence, j'ai construit un système qui combine Claude + GSC + data des concurrents. Maintenant je passe 20 min/jour sur le SEO et je continue à publier des pages qui rankent chaque semaine. La clé : ne bosser que sur les pages avec une vraie intention. → Les mots clés où tu rankes déjà en positions 5 à 15 → Les pages concurrentes qui perdent du trafic → Les requêtes avec des impressions qui montent mais zéro clic → Les sujets que tes acheteurs cherchent déjà → Les pages à une réécriture du top 3 J'ai documenté tout le process : → Comment je trouve des mots clés faciles à prendre en 2 minutes → Comment j'audit les pages concurrentes avec l'IA (et je vole ce qui marche) → Comment je réécris les meta titles qui se font vraiment cliquer → Comment je transforme la data GSC en plan de contenu hebdo → Les prompts exacts que j'utilise pour shipper du SEO vite Ce que c'est : un système qui transforme le SEO en routine quotidienne de 20 minutes. Ce que c'est PAS : un énième audit de 500 pages que tu ne liras jamais. ----- Tu veux le playbook complet ? 1. Follow-moi 2. Commente "SMART SEO" en-dessous 3. Reposte ça pour m'encourager à créer plus de guides gratuits

@RinodeBoer @gridpane 2/2 the other thing I can’t get over is how Statamic sites use 1/3 the ram + CPU for the same content and complexity and is lightening fast. Better media management means they are half the size on disk. We need half the number of VPS resources. Laughing all the way to the bank

@RinodeBoer @gridpane We have sites with large numbers of CPTs and related fields in ACF. Some complicated builds. We host on Gridpane so server/stack not an issue. I didn’t really think that were that bad until I move some of them to Statamic. The performance difference is unbelievable.

The biggest risk for WordPress may not be the platform itself. Maybe its the economics around it. WordPress itself can't really fail because it's open source, and it can adapt to agentic workflows. But if millions of small businesses need to rebuild their sites in the upcoming few years and realize WordPress is overkill for simple static or semi-dynamic websites, a lot of money leaves the ecosystem. Less money means less innovation, because you need money to keep great talent around. And you need enough customers for companies to justify investing serious time and energy into the ecosystem. That might be the bigger threat than any direct feature comparison. Please convince me otherwise.

@MythThrazz @RinodeBoer Agreed, we choose if we build. But increasingly some years down the line they’ll just rebuild themselves without coming to us. Or new enquiries ask us what we use and if it’s WordPress then they move on. WP has a terrible rep in the NZ market these days.

@brendyn_m @RinodeBoer True, if clients choose themselves - but they shouldn’t get the tech choice ;)

@MythThrazz @RinodeBoer 100% agree, we wouldn’t use them. But potential clients don’t see that and choose accordingly

@brendyn_m @RinodeBoer Sure, they may be tempting and easy to get started on, but the problems start when your business outgrows them and you'd like to move out.

@gridpane @RinodeBoer That’s fair. In our agency the number of clients wanting a better outcome than the clunky, hard to use WP admin UI and slow backend speed is exploding. We get weekly questions about what else is out there for them. So we’re switching them with each new rebuild Outcomes > tools

@brendyn_m @RinodeBoer All of those freelancers and "agencies" fall into those same three buckets. The most successful agencies don't concern themselves with the tooling nearly as much as they focus on what the client ultimately desires. Outcomes > tools.

@MythThrazz @RinodeBoer If you like the look of Craft, you should really check out Statamic as well. Flat file or database, fantastic admin and content editing experience.

@brendyn_m @RinodeBoer I stand corrected, I skimmed over your reply and missed Craft there - I have it on my list to check for a while, but didn't have a chance yet.

@MythThrazz @RinodeBoer Have you ever used any of these tools? They far exceed what WP can do with CPT equivalents (collections) and custom fields, better frameworks. Plugins, integrations. Both Craft and Statamic work have the whole laravel ecosystem behind them. They power huge sites.

@brendyn_m @RinodeBoer These could maybe work for people who just need a static site with a contact form. But they don't replace the WordPress complete capabilities and massive extendibility (plugins).

@MythThrazz @RinodeBoer Put your online store owners hat on. Shopify is way way easier and converts better out of the box than woocommerce. Yes it’s another walled garden and yes addons are expensive but you can’t say it’s not extensible, conversion ready “for for purpose”

@brendyn_m @RinodeBoer Give some examples of the tools that can do what WP can and more please?

@Justinnealey @RinodeBoer Business users care about UX though, unless WP fundamentally improves the UI and underlying framework there are better systems out there. Barrier to entry is lowering and in the medium to enterprise business space WP has a bad image

I don’t think this is wrong, but I’d separate “simple sites leaving WordPress” from “WordPress economics collapsing.” A lot of the brochure-site work probably does get eaten by AI + static hosting. If a business just needs 5 pages, a contact form, and occasional copy edits, WordPress may be more platform than they need. But the money in WordPress has never only been basic website builder. It’s also commerce, membership, local services, bookings, learning, publishing, directories, agencies, hosting, SEO, ops, migration, compliance, analytics, etc. The second a site needs business logic, user roles, payments, editorial workflow, plugins, or non-dev ownership, WordPress starts making sense again. I think the risk is more that WordPress loses the low-end default position. That’s real. But the opportunity is becoming the durable backend/runtime for AI-built frontends and apps. AI makes it easier to generate the shiny layer. It doesn’t magically solve auth, content modeling, permissions, ecommerce, revisions, admin workflows, or 10 years of plugin ecosystem surface area. So yeah, some money leaves. But new money can enter if WordPress positions itself less as “the place you build every page by hand” and more as “the business operating layer underneath whatever AI-generated interface you want.”

@MythThrazz @RinodeBoer I think it’s wrong to focus on one competitor killing it. There are a lot of great modern tools that can do everything WP can do and much more. No single one of those tools will be the end of WP, but the market is changing and will split into more segments based on needs

WordPress World is huge. Hundreds of milions of people directly and indirectly involved. It won’t just fall overnight. Even if there was a competition which does everything that WordPress does, but better/faster/cheaper ( as far as I know there is none yet) - it would still need to fight a HUGE intertia of the current system… And the system is strong because there’s a lot of money in it…