WordPress 7.0 is scheduled for release in a week on May 20th. This is the official “field guide” listing the new features and changes. It is a great summary of what will be included. The ability to create blocks with PHP and the ability to register AI clients via core are two features I’m looking forward to.

The WordPress search solution Relevanssi has been purchased by Comesio Solutions GmbH, a software company based in Vienna, Austria.

Paul Charlton takes a look at the new deploy to static site options available with Builderius Pro.

Bricks 2.3.5 and 2.3.4 were largely bug fixes.

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.