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WPCampus Research Projects

The WPCampus organization is dedicated to performing research that benefits our community and publishing our findings.

Active Research Project: The state of WordPress in higher education

Human Made
This research project is in partnership with our friends at Human Made

WPCampus is excited to conduct a large-scale research project on “the state of WordPress in higher education” in partnership with our friends at Human Made.

This project aims to spotlight the challenges, goals, frustrations, hopes, and dreams of people working with WordPress in higher education. We’ll examine organizational considerations, tech stacks, governance, and much more. WPCampus and Human will share all of our findings publicly.

Register your interest in the project

Project timeline

We want you to help shape the research

WPCampus and Human Made want the community to be a big part of this project. We want you to help us define and shape the research themes and questions.

We want this research project to examine the topics and themes that matter most to university web operations. Topics for the research project may include:

  • Priorities and challenges for the year academic ahead
  • How web operations support your digital strategy
  • How decisions made by WordPress core leadership affect your work
  • Resource management
  • The WordPress roadmap
  • Performance, security, and accessibility
  • Themes, plugins, and tools
  • Delivering more with limited resources
  • Career progress

How to contribute and shape the focus of the research

What questions would you ask your peers working on the web in higher education?

There are three key ways to contribute and help shape the focus of the project’s research:

  1. Register your interest in the project
  2. Attend a 60-minute Zoom session on October 8 to discuss the project
  3. Join the the WPCampus #research-state-of-wp Slack channel

How to follow along or participate in the research

If you wish to participate in the research, please register your interest in the project. We will follow up when any research becomes available.

We also encourage you to join the WPCampus #research-state-of-wp Slack channel or subscribe to the WPCampus newsletter.

How to join the WPCampus Slack workspace

The majority of WPCampus conversations and interactions take place in our Slack workspace. Learn more about the WPCampus Slack workspace and join us!

The project’s data privacy policy

WPCampus and Human Made are committed to the integrity and privacy of all data collected for this research project, including participant names and email addresses. All research data intended for the public will be anonymized (unless explicitly permitted). No participant or raw research data will be shared with third parties (unless explicitly permitted by the participant).

Have any questions?

The preferred method is to submit your questions in the WPCampus #research-state-of-wp Slack channel. You can also send a contact message.

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