Steve Jones

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@rossmorsali @thsottiaux Yeah, I'm sitting on 4 resets too.

This is what happens when you remove 5 hour limits... But please, keep them removed, and buy more servers instead @thsottiaux, thanks!

@paol_taj @Dan0sz I’d avoid editorializing in the rankings themselves. The moment you start excluding plugins based on how they acquired installs, you’re no longer reporting the ecosystem, you’re curating it. That opens the door to endless debates about where the line is.

Serious question. If a plugin inflates its active installs by bundling itself into another plugin's onboarding, should WP-Rankings flag it and pull it from the rankings? Or do we just report the numbers and let people draw their own conclusions?

@jeffr0 @wpmodder @heyamberhinds We’ve been working towards this since 2023. It got put on the back burner a couple times. Third times a charm.

@stevejonesdev @wpmodder @heyamberhinds Everyone's gonna SaSS it up in the future.

Hi @heyamberhinds @stevejonesdev - I'm working on a non-WP site. Do you have opinions on the most appropriate online accessibility checker I should use as a first pass?

@wpmodder @heyamberhinds Absolutely would love that when we get to that stage.

@stevejonesdev @heyamberhinds Thanks for the guidance @stevejonesdev , I don't trust anyone other than EqualizeDigital to set me on the right path with that question. ;) And GREAT to hear about the non-WP option coming. Count me in for alpha/beta if I can be of help!

@rossmorsali @SearchAndFilter The 1m was our custom table. But the post meta table is usually what causes problems because it’s extremely bloated on some sites and we have little control there. We’ve talked about making our own meta table with some type of elastic search.

@stevejonesdev @SearchAndFilter Yeah its fun pushing the boundaries and learning more in the process. 1m records - was that the posts table?!

We managed to increase speed and performance of @SearchAndFilter by at least 2x, and easily more for sites with lots of posts or products. The indexing system we rebuilt and released in January uses some techniques I've not found anywhere else in WordPress.

@stepherriffic I kind of use both the same. Switching back and forth when I run out of tokens. Claude is much better for code, Codex is better for visual tasks. Like design, UI/UX, and interacting with webpages.

@stevejonesdev Do you use each for different tasks / projects, or are they interchangeable?

Who's using Codex instead of Claude? 🙋‍♀️

@KatieKeithBarn2 But @KatieKeithBarn2, your actual factual numbers don't align with others' sensational opinions that WordPress is in critical decline. 😜 I might run a similar analysis on Accessibility Checker.

I analyzed 2,294 websites that bought our Document Library Pro plugin but didn't renew, and this is where they are now: - Still on WordPress: ~1,200 (52%) - Site no longer exists: ~900 (39%) - Left WordPress for another platform: 194 (8%) I think this is a good sign for WordPress as a platform. Does it fit with your own analysis of churned customers?

@thekevingeary Sure, it could be part of it. I didn’t say the attendance decline was exclusively because of time and location. It’s likely for a number of reasons.

@stevejonesdev So all the people telling me that they aren’t going to Wordcamp because they’ve completely abandoned WordPress don’t explain the decline of numbers at all?

WordCamp US 2023 - 2149 Tickets Sold WordCamp US 2024 - 1928 Tickets Sold WordCamp US 2025 - 1200 Tickets Sold WordCamp US 2026 (1mo away) - 280 Tickets Sold Please don't tell me WordPress is doing just fine. It's not. We need to be flexible and adaptive. None of us should be putting all our eggs in that basket.

@briancoords The safest process I've found for this is migrating it manually.

Traditional WordPress is "code flows up, content flows down". I'd never push a local site's database up to prod. Curious how devs are handling this still. If you're building a new landing page locally- how do you handle pushing it to production?

@thekevingeary No, all it admits is that timing and location aren't ideal. Those other things are not my words or experience.

You'll see an uptick by choosing a better location, but all this comment admits is that people aren't excited about WordPress enough to be a little hot an slightly inconvenienced. A better location would yield better results, but there are far more indicators that WordPress is in a critical decline.

@MarcoAlmeidaPT Oh, sorry, thought you were.

@stevejonesdev I think the plugin author needs to do that. Not me.

Advanced Shipment Tracking for WooCommerce <= 4.0 has a SQL injection vulnerability, but because of the 24-hour "safeguard" on .org, the automatic update will only be available tomorrow. Download and update manually, now.

@theo Quite a bit. I’ve seen things, I have trust issues.

How much better do the models have to get before you'll stop reading the code?

@DerekAshauer I can clearly see it, but this is why color contrast is so important.

20 years of designing websites and learning I have some levels of color blindness. You’re really telling me there is a number in this image? My kids are having a field day with this one.

@GergelyOrosz There is a joke here you’ve missed. 😂

Such an odd marketing campaign. The fine print: they will burn a total of 1,000 CDs with any public repo you choose and you get it a few weeks later I don’t see the point unless there’s a joke I didn’t get

@stepherriffic Currently, AI can't just build any tool we can dream up. It still takes an incredible amount of engineering and time to make something stable and secure. In many cases, it's just cheaper to buy the solution.

If we can build any tool we dream up, when is it worth it to buy something turnkey vs investing the time (and tokens) to build it ourselves? 🤔