Many hosting platforms use Imunify360 AV. There is a critical vulnerability.

Etch has come a long way in just a little over a year. It is a code friendly builder that combines a visual building experience with code editors. The team is now moving from development builds working towards a version 1.

A big feature of Etch is the ability to have what you create in Etch be automatically converted to blocks in the Gutenberg editor. In the alpha builds these blocks were core blocks. People who create Gutenberg blocks are aware that core Gutenberg is finicky and the news about moving the Gutenberg editor to load in an iframe is an example of how it is still a moving target. I’ve seen a number of developers give up working in the Gutenberg space until is stabilizes … and many of them are still waiting. So, the Etch team decided that it would be safer, and long term it would be more flexible and reliable, to render what you create in Etch as custom blocks (rather than as core blocks).

I am glad to see that the team has affirmed a future commitment so that Etch blocks won’t require Etch to be installed. This opens some very interesting possibilities for developers and site builders.

There is a change coming in 6.9 and continuing in 7.0 which is going to impact block developers and people using older blocks that haven’t been updated. The Post Editor is going to be moved to fully be in an iframe. This will mean that block.json v.3 will be needed.

This is a round-up post of the changes related to the Fields API and DataViews that are coming in WordPress 6.9. It looks like the Fields API is maturing. The Fields API may become significant in the future for those interested in dynamic data.

Katie Keith runs Barn2, a plugin shop that sells a number of Woo extensions. She did a survey asking people why they choose WooCommerce. It is interesting to see, or be reminded, that WooCommerce is very flexible. Today with SureCart and FluentCart that flexibility and range of extensions is one of Woo’s advantages, if you need it.

Dries, the Drupal founder, invested in ActivePieces and in this post talks about what comes after automation.

404 Media summarizes the trademark issue between Matt Mullenweg / Automattic and Kevin Geary / Automatic.CSS. Automattic has asked that the Automatic.CSS product name be changed.

For plugin developers, should you use the REST API or admin-ajax? This article says its time to switch to the REST API.

Here is an update on the current status and a high level roadmap for phase 3 of Gutenberg. It looks like block notes will be included in the upcoming 6.9. There is also some progress on data views and data forms.