They have done a good job of integrating AI and navigating the contributor hurdles. Starting their own new venture.

In this video Paul Charlton shares the service MakeWP Fast, which provides some resource using stats for plugins and themes in the WordPress directory. It looks like an alternative to WP Hive.

A lot of people liked Bit Form but suggested that the UI needed to be improved. The team just released v3 which focuses on UI and workflow enhancements.

Leonardo Losoviz, the creator of Gato GraphQL introduced translation functions into his plugin and found that the translation feature was very popular. He split this off into a stand-alone plugin Gato AI Translations for Polylang. It is a BYOK plugin and works with both the free and premium versions of Polylang.

In this video Jamie Marsland shows how quickly and easily you can get started with an AI integration with WordPress, no plugin or MCP server needed.

Roger Montti provides a brief overview of the new AI feature areas in WordPress 7.0.

JetMessenger is a new messaging plugin for WordPress. It provides direct user messaging as well as WooCommerce order and product chat options. Here is a walk-though from the Crocoblock team.

This article on user experience design has a number of actionable principles for designing web pages. Well worth a read.

Mark Crowell has started making some Bricks tutorials. This one is on creating a mobile menu using the Offcanvas element. It is a nice alternative to the native Bricks options.