First and Foremost: Please keep in mind that I (Norbert) am the entire reason this survey exists. I wanted to do it in order to get to know the “real people” in the WordPress Community better (or rather more widely, since I already knew a few — relatively speaking). To make a long story short, everything about this survey is biased and the bias is 100% Norbert.

Perhaps the result that surprised me the most was the fact that the vast majority (over 77%) of attendees asked declared that they have been using WordPress for over five years and the rest were evenly split between less than one year and up to five years using WordPress. I don’t know why, but I guess my gut feeling had been that more “newbies” might be in attendance.

Please note also that most of the attendees I approached (for the purpose of performing the survey) were met in the sponsors / exhibit area, plus a smaller number in the upstairs coffee area.

A second somewhat surprising result was the generally high degree of satisfaction with the “search” capabilities included in WordPress core — and some even seemed to be fully satisfied with the “FrontEnd” search available via the front end of any WordPress blog. Nonetheless, when asked what could be improved, there were ample suggestions, and I think I will devote another blog post towards going over these in more detail.

Overall, attendees seemed happy with the WordPress community. There were several who mentioned problems concerning Gutenberg (mainly that it seemed to be a distraction from more pressing issues). And one response stands out in particular — namely the one given by Frans Pronk, who allowed me to mention him by name: he said that he has noticed that the WordPress community is becoming (too) money-focused. I do admit that I can at least follow this line of thinking as a valid concern.