An interesting article that discusses the recent merge into Gutenberg of the ability to create Custom Post Types. The technical details are examined along with the usage data and competitor profile. Among other questions it is asked why Custom Post Types, and not SEO, security, or caching?

Be careful clicking on Google Ads as they are frequently used in malicious campaigns. In this case, it’s ManageWP, but other companies have been targeted. In these types of ads a brand’s reputation can be leveraged.

There are still too many issues, so the decision was made to drop it from this release. The 7.0 release date has not changed.

In an article by Roger Montti he notes that WordPress is losing marketshare and that Astro download numbers are growing rapidly.

Following the user survey, the Generate team said they would give a full response related to support of Full Site Editing. In this article they deliver with a well considered point-by-point discussion of the strengths and weaknesses and FSE and the Generate approach going forward. They decide that FSE does not provide any promised advantages over the GeneratePress / GenerateBlocks combination, but that FSE imposes a number of limitations.

Jamie Marsland reports that a method for creating Custom Post Types was merged into the Gutenberg plugin.

Igor Sunz just released a “learning path” approach for mastering GreenLight blocks. It starts with basic web development and then WordPress resources.

Highlights of Oxygen 6.1 beta include the ability to select multiple elements with Cmd/Ctrl+click or Shift+click. Drag, bulk-edit, copy, delete, or wrap them as a group. Variable font support with a numeric weight input. Conditional Oxygen classes that only apply when their rules match. Updates to Breakdance Elements, along with a number of other features.

For Elementor users – Imran Siddiq shares his thoughts on how to approach the transition from Elementor 3 to atomic elements in version 4.