fter a few years with no tests, Kevin Ohashi again held his WP hosting tests. Note that these are a pay to participate, opt-in sets of tests.

React was updated from version 18 to 19 in the Gutenberg plugin as a step in shipping the update with WordPress 7.1. However, issues surfaced due to Gutenberg addons that include their own version.

Joost was releasing a WordPress market share report based on the Chrome User Experience Report data, but discontinued it. The team at GravityKit has picked it up and released an update.

Unblock is a new builder for advanced users that leverages Gutenberg and the Site Editor. This video looks at the features, the pros, and the cons.

The targeted use cases are for contact form and mailing list sign-up. You will be able to use the styling and dynamic data features of GenerateBlocks. This is currently in the 2.6 beta.

This article estimates the average cost for a WooCommerce store. I always imagined that Woo subscriptions were more expensive.

This is a platform neutral list from Joost of 128 standard features that all websites should provide. Some pretty interesting stuff.

When you create an Application Password the app that uses that password gets all of the capabilities of the user, even if that app only needs some limited access. Perhaps the correct approach is to create a user for each Application Password / app combination who only has the capabilities needed, instead of using your own account? That is not something I thought of before, but it makes sense. In any event, this new plugin, Mandate, adds a policy / capabilities layer onto Application Password uses. It also provides expiration dates.

This is a nice demo by Kevin Powell showing a scroll animation effect using CSS.