There is now another ecommerce option for hosting a store with WordPress. This is a free plugin in the WP plugin directory which is pretty full featured for its first version. It includes migration functionality from Woo.

This article from the Repository reports of the change in pricing and bundles that will impact LearnDash, Give, The Events Calendar, and Kadence customers. With the exception of Kadence, these plugins will only be sold in bundles and existing customer subscriptions will be moved to bundle subscriptions on the next renewal. Kadence will still be sold separately and existing customers are not being moved into bundles. The article has the details.

Lots of features and new pricing tiers.

This article from the Meta Box team looks at the pros and cons and also provides some benchmarks to help in deciding when to you one or the other.

Some results among others: 90% likely to continue building with WordPress. 62% use version control. Elementor, Bricks, Divi, and WPBakery are the most popular page builders.

This is another research article from Katie Keith of Barn2. It shows some interesting things about WooCommerce numbers in relation to WordPress numbers and suggests why Shopify is gaining two sites for every site that self-hosted ecommerce looses.

The GeneratePress team has released their AI integration. GeneratePress AI is built on the WordPress MCP adapter and the Abilities API, the open standards WordPress is adopting for AI.

Phox Elements now includes support for Elementor. It include 150+ premium elements for Elementor, such as charts, hotspots, tables, calculators, filters, and more. This also includes support for the other addons, such as Phox Studio, Framework, Form Guard, Vault, Product Addons, and Wireframes. As such, you might want to grab the bundle.

A security release of WordPress core with a number of fixes.