The Elementor team talks about upcoming features across their product line. I liked the focus on wire frames and the Editor v.4 preview.

Bricks 2.0 Alpha has been released for testing. Instructions for how to download it are at the top of the changelog. There are a good number of new features and updates available. Some of the new features include Nested Components, Builder Capabilities manager, Element Manager, In-Builder Font Manager, In-Builder Icon Manager, Bulk-Edit elements, Visual CSS Grid Builder, Revamped Pseudo Class UI, and Selector Detector, among others.

Joost writes about their SEO journey, what they got right and unintended consequences of trying to make SEO easier.

GatoGraphQL now supports all ACF field types.

A lot goes into a WordPress release. Md Shahjahan shared a retrospective analysis of the WordPress 6.8 release showing contributor stats. It is an interesting look at what it takes and the fact that it is a world-wide effort involving many people and companies.

This is an interesting idea. The FlowMattic team added an email designer and the ability to send emails to their automation tool.

I spent some time looking at the data from the 2024 Survey of WordPress Professionals, focusing on “one person agencies” in the United States. There were some unexpected findings from which I drew a few conclusions. I hope you find it interesting and thought provoking.

News, but not big news. The Astra theme has added a dark mode color switcher so that you can automatically provide a dark mode option.

The latest issue of the WP Perspectives Newsletter is out. Pronounced obsolete and dead, WordPress page builders are experiencing a resurgence. In this issue I discuss the perfect storm that has lead to their ascendancy.