PressConf is the “un-WordCamp” slanted towards business owners. Reading between the lines, it seems that a number of WordPress business are experiencing a downturn. Perhaps this sums it up: “My overall takeaway from the sessions: the people who were most optimistic about the future were the ones who had already started moving toward an AI-first business model, and were pushing beyond WordPress. That’s my personal observation and a pattern I noticed in every conversation I had.”

Are you interested in block themes? Then you might be interested in this discussion where Nathan Wrigley and Brian Gardner talk about block themes and AI.

WordPress now has a core dev environment toolkit. It is a desktop app available on Mac, Windows, or Linux and comes with everything needed to work on core. Details and some video demos on the make blog.

Themify has added CSS variables support for their builder and to the Customizer to allow for global style options.

Matt Mullenweg reflects and is unhappy with how things are being run in the project.

Bad actors purchased popular plugins hosted on WordPress.org and added malware that was downloaded to users sites.

Here is a look at the design system aspects of the Mosaic builder.

The 4.1.0 version is available to lifetime license holders and includes all of the features except for the remote scan option. I’m happy to see the team support lifetime license holders. You can download it from your account dashboard.

This version also adds the ability to clean post types, as well as several new database insight and optimization options.

The latest version of Bricks was released. It includes bug fixes and minor improvements.