October 2022 WordPress Roundup: Deceptive marketing, superfans, and a history of page builders
In this month’s WordPress roundup we discuss superfans, the history of page builders, and deceptive marketing practices. Buckle up. Let’s ride. WordPress succeeds by embracing the superfans, not dismissing them Rob Howard from MasterWP wrote a nice article comparing some decisions by Automattic to abandoning superfans. He makes a very valid point. The article starts with the drama around removing the chart that showed data about free plugins and their popularity. You may remember that happening in the early part of October. What followed was quite a fallout and Automattic trying to explain the reasoning. Howard believes, unlike many, that