Tag: WordPress

Calling on all People on Streets around the World (Crowdsourcing a Better Survey for more Reliable + Valid Results)

I have decided it would be better to do another (a “new + improved”) survey than to try to glean useful information from just a few scattered results.

The survey I created last year covered many topics, and so search — while important (IMHO) — didn’t really produce enough data points for any meaningful information or conclusions (etc.).

Source: Hot Space – Wikipedia

So I propose the following general topic: “How can the WordPress community improve search — either for WordPress users and/or also for all Internet users?” I am thinking that there are probably innumerable variations on this general theme.

Please: feel free to propose any / all ideas that are even just somewhat relevant!

Thanks! (and hopefully: See you in Krakow! 😀 )

Featured image source: “Some Reflections on the Evolution in Propaganda & Indigena” [ https://indigenous.news.blog/2023/09/17/some-reflections-on-the-evolution-in-propaganda-indigena ]

Photo to Follow @ WCEU (WordCamp Europe in Basel) !!

Hello (again) World! 😀

A recent “web search” result for “WCEU” [source: https://v.daum.net/v/20250607100506873 ]

I’m at WordCamp Europe (WCEU) 2025 in Basel (Switzerland) … and I am doing a survey!

It’s very short (sort of “quick and dirty”), but I’ve noticed one question I have is particularly difficult to answer (perhaps because of my choice of wording) — so I will try to slightly adapt it, and also add the option to simply pass the question (basically a “Next, please” response) and this should significantly reduce the time and effort for my already brief questionnaire to under 1 minute … and I just now (on the fly) decided to add a CHANCE to WIN A PRIZE! 😀

Here are the deets: If you take a picture of me (either today during the conference or tonight during the afterparty) and comment below (with anything like “Hello WordCamp” or maybe just even “WIN”), then I will send (try to send) you an email so you can simply reply with your photo enclosed and thereby you will definitely win recognition … and perhaps even a prize!

First responders probably have the greatest chance of winning, so it pays to be quick on the draw (or snap or whatever)…

Good luck and hope to see ya later in Basel (or also in a while wherever we may be then).

Do you have any suggestions for ways people can promote the WordPress User/Developer Survey?

We’ve always promoted the survey through a banner on WordPress.org, plus an article on WordPress News and through word of mouth. This has been successful in the past, but less so in recent years. In 2015*, 45,997 people filled out the survey, but in 2016 and 2017, less than 10,000 responses came in. We won’t have time to add a notice to everyone’s dashboard (even if everyone agreed that would be wise), so this year I’d like to ask everyone to help promote the survey through as many channels as they have available to them.

https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2019/08/13/wordpress-user-developer-survey-clarifying-goals/