Matt Mullenweg Addresses Concerns That WordPress is Moving Too Fast

There are at least three major releases of WordPress per year where users can expect new features and major bug fixes about every four months. While this is great for users, some companies, plugin, and theme developers are struggling to keep up. We recently received the following email from a reader concerned with WordPress’ release strategy: As the pace of WordPress releases grows, plugin and theme developers have to constantly update their products. This is leading to a real and growing problem among WordPress site owners and companies like mine that handle website maintenance and updating. This pace is leading to an almost daily need to fix problems, caused by these updates. Plugin updates tend to break things, even though we primarily use professional, paid plugins for the idea of support and generally better quality products. I get that it’s important to patch security issues, but we’re also seeing a lot of new functionality, moving plugins into core, and other changes. These cause theme developers to push out updates with great frequency and they make mistakes. I’m worried that the pace of core updates is driving the larger ecosystem toward failure. Everyone is scrambling to keep #wordpress #smallbusiness #entrepreneur

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