CU*Answers Web Services builds all of our client websites using WordPress. We have invested and built our infrastructure to support, manage, and secure WordPress. We firmly believe that WordPress is a great choice for credit union websites due to its flexibility and ease of use. But did you know many other people feel that way too?
From this article at WPZoom, here are some usage statistics about WordPress:
- WordPress powers 43.5% of all websites as their CMS.
- Around 513.58 million websites are built on WordPress.
- WordPress dominates the CMS market with a 61.7% share.
Read the full article over at WPZoom.com.
If you have questions about how CU*Answers Web Services can make the WordPress Content Management System work for your credit union or business, let us know!
Last week, WordPress.org released their WordPress in 2025 report highlighting trends in the Content Management System (CMS) space and how WordPress continues to compete. WordPress is an open-source platform, meaning the source code is available for everyone to review, download and use, and also to contribute to its development. This report contrasts the benefits of open-source with some of the closed-source/proprietary platforms. Once of the biggest benefits CU*Answers Web Services sees with using WordPress is you own your data and this fits right into our cooperative mindset.
In addition, this WordPress report also highlights the Block Editor (Gutenberg) and Full Site Editing (FSE) capabilities of WordPress. CU*Answers Web Services has adopted FSE into most new site builds. Artificial Intelligence (language model specifically) and headless CMS are also mentioned in the report. Check out the full report for more information.
The CU*Answers Web Services team has been busy the last few weeks with some behind the scenes updates for our hosting infrastructure and your websites.
Over the holidays, we implemented several performance boosting enhancements to both the web and database servers. While these enhancements sped up the delivery of websites to visitors they also include some aggressive caching. Therefore, if you are noticing that your recent updates are not publishing on your website, please do a force reload on your browser. This is usually done by holding down the shift key on your keyboard while clicking the reload button in your browser.
This year (2025) is also the last year of support for PHP 8.1. CU*Answers Web Services has updated our development environments to support our testing and moving sites on PHP 8.1 to PHP 8.3 In fact, we’ve already moved a couple of sites to the new version with complete success. This should be an invisible behind the scenes update for most clients. PHP 8.2 is still supported through 2026, but we will move some of these sites also.
CU*Answers Web Services is continually looking to improve our products and services, as well as, constantly vigilant to keep our all our sites secured.
On Tuesday, January 21st, from Midnight – 8:00 AM ET, CU*Answers Network Services will be performing internal network maintenance. During this time, there may be brief network interruptions to our website and email hosting.
Thank you everyone for a great 2024! We at CU*Answers Web Services appreciate you using us for your website services.
The team at Automattic has planned the 2025 releases of WordPress. As reported at WPTavern, we are anticipating the next release of WordPress (version 6.8) on April 15, 2025. They are currently planning which features, updates, and bugfixes will be included this release. We’ll know more as we get closer.
Additional releases planned for the year include WordPress 6.9 enters beta testing in June with an anticipated release next August. And WordPress 7.0 is expected a year from now. Of course, there will be maintenance releases between all these major milestone releases.
CU*Answers Web Services carefully tracks WordPress releases and adjust our development environment as needed to anticipate any issues we might encounter. Our specialized hosting infrastructure is also designed to keep your WordPress bases websites secure and updated with the most recent releases. We incorporate the built-in rolling releases as well as regular scheduled updates for WordPress core and plugins every Sunday night.
