The Mosaic Builder has amazing support for both Advanced Custom Fields and Meta Box. In this video I show how Mosaic works with dynamic data. We will display a Custom Post Type and its custom fields created with Meta Box by creating content templates with Mosaic. We’ll see how easy Mosaic makes it. Although Mosaic is easy to use, it is in many ways very advanced. Near the end of the video I share a reveal that is a game changer.

Congratulations to Alex de Borba and team on the release of version 1 of the Aegis Block theme. Aegis has been in development for several years and is an advanced block theme that helps to realize the potential of block themes and the Site Editor. Here is an overview article and the code is on Github.

The Crocoblock team has released JetEngine 3.9. It introduces nested repeaters (repeater in repeater), repeater dynamic tags to make working with repeater fields easier, a new listing format, the ability to use file input as a query type, and admin pages.

WP_KSES() Sanitizes HTML. It was developed over time and is something of a “coral reef” build up of checks, but it was developed before HTML 5. Now it is being rewritten to simplify and modernize it.

Apparently Automattic, who is a domain name registrar and operates the .blog TLD, is now applying for 16 more. I wonder how .WordPress will work given the trademark issues?

This is a behind the scenes outline of the process of a WordPress security release by a member of the security team, John Blackbourn. He suggests that the process is robust and transparent enough that we can manage the releases with confidence.

Novamira HQ is a new desktop app from the Novamira team. With it you can use AI to automate standard management tasks.

WordPress Paid Out More Than $90,000 in bug bounties in the last 90 days. I could be naive, but my hope is that these security fixes will tamper off over time as the code base is hardened.

The WordPress hosting control panel FlyWP now includes a publish to static site option. You can publish to Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare Pages, S3-compatible storage, or FlyWP HTML Sites.