Pavel Ciorici

@marckohlbrugge Shall I do it for my recipe analyzer? recipecard.io/recipe-nutriti…

kill your free plan

@TheKafleG @courtneyr_dev Hey @TheKafleG, I'm curious if you have any updates about this? Do you at least see anything suspicious about the way those themes jump up and down at the top when they have no real users and are only used by some fake AI websites?

@courtneyr_dev @ciorici Thank you for tagging me. I will discuss this with the team.

I cannot prove manipulation, but after tracking WordPress.org theme rankings for a long time, some movements are statistically hard to justify. Several themes on the first 3 pages of the Popular Themes list repeatedly gain or lose 6 to 16 positions while showing the same characteristics: - no updates for 1 to 2 years - almost no reviews or a few bad ones - no support topics Examples: wordpress.org/themes/envo-ro… wordpress.org/themes/envo-on… wordpress.org/themes/futurio… wordpress.org/themes/popular… wordpress.org/themes/spacr/ When you compare these side by side with neighboring themes in the rankings, the difference is obvious. Those other themes typically have frequent updates, dozens or hundreds of reviews, and active support forums. Anyone who has built and maintained a WordPress theme knows how hard it actually is to climb this list. It takes years of consistent updates, ongoing support work, good reviews, and steady adoption. Adding third-party usage data makes this even harder to explain. Inspiro (my theme) has ~70k active installs on wp.org and is detected on ~10,000 real websites according to themesinfo.com. Envo Royal has ~30k installs, yet is detected on only ~370 real websites ⚠️. An enormous gap like this suggests that “active installs” do not reliably correlate with real-world usage. At this point, a review of how these themes' jumps occur would help clarify whether the Popular list reflects real adoption, especially when compared to themes with active users and ongoing maintenance.

@ahmtaic Claude Code :)

@ciorici What did you use for the header (mega menu) you’re using on WPZOOM, Pavel? It looks very clean and well-optimized.

We reduced clutter in the WP admin by consolidating notices from different WPZOOM products into a single rotating area.

I missed the moment when our Inspiro theme passed $1M in total sales, and now it's already at $1.3M 😳

New profile pic, who dis? The old one was around 8 years old

Quick analysis of 50 pages of new plugins on WordPress.org (1000 new plugins): 96% are stuck at fewer than 10 active installs. Only 2 broke 1,000+: one is by Softaculous (likely pre-installed by the hosting provider), and the other one (indexmenow), I'm not sure how they did. There's no discovery layer. No trending tab. No way to get noticed unless you already have an audience. Featuring 8 plugins at once for 2 weeks is a nice initiative, but how about the rest of the 952 plugins?

This is a really nice initiative, but I think it would be much fairer to rotate more than 8 plugins at once. Why not rotate them from a list of 50-100 new plugins? The review process for new plugins is already pretty strict, so only quality ones get approved. Why not let the community see a broader selection and let them pick the best ones based on their installation rate? Currently, there is absolutely no discoverability for newly approved plugins, and this can be easily seen by plugins added in the last few weeks and still stuck below 10 active installs. Isn't this an indicator that something is not very encouraging enough for developers to submit new plugins? If you check 50 pages with new plugins (20 per page), 96% out of them have fewer than 10 installs, which means that no one sees them anywhere. As a curious fact, I recently also submitted a new plugin on wporg as it gained some attention here on X (100 likes, 47 bookmarks - enough to validate the idea), but it is still stuck below 10 active installs, which is crazy, given how many people found that plugin on X useful: x.com/ciorici/status…

The first Featured Plugins cohort on WordPress.org just racked up 26,000+ new installs in two weeks — a 622% lift. Ollie Menu Designer tripled its biggest download day ever. The demand was always there. The visibility wasn't: regionallyfamous.com/the-featured-t…

A few more posts like these, and I will finally reach 3000 followers.

What do you even know about parasites

@belzpoems @johnrudolphdrex That's too much :) just for the hosting?

@ciorici @johnrudolphdrex $425 a month

“Hey Claude, here’s the link to a Squarespace site I currently pay $324/yr + transaction fees for. Build a better version.” Tough times for our friends at Squarespace.

@belzpoems @johnrudolphdrex How much is too much, if I may ask?

@johnrudolphdrex Would Claude do this for my Wordpress? For which i pay too much?

@chribjel *Nlkita

@ciorici Nikita delete this please

by owning Iondon.com i have figured it out Thanks for the support

@qarayahya @wpzoom 🙌

#Career update: I’m now working as a WordPress Developer at @wpzoom. Looking forward to building great things! 💻

@RafalTomal Can you elaborate, please? Designers' CMS = bad?

Other designers telling me I should move to Framer because “that’s where all the best designers are now” is exactly why I’m staying with WordPress.

Time for a "block" update for the Foodica PRO theme! Coming soon: new block-based demo!

200 commits later super-proud of the new improvements we made to our recipe plugin big fan of this new recipe card style -> demo.recipecard.io/2022/02/13/cre…

@RafalTomal "make it look as much as possible that it was vibe-coded" 🥴

This is why other platforms make fun of WordPress...

Current state of software development.