I think this was pulled from a previous release but maybe back on again for 7.1. The details here for block developers.

WordPress 7.0.2 is starting to roll out. The on-site information says it is a security release, but the release notes and option to manually download are not available yet.

This is a nice interview with Nathan Wrigley where Amber shares the story of Equalize Digital and the Accessibility Checker plugin. Marketing outside of the WordPress space, building a team with diverse skills, showing up and working hard. Lots of interesting insights about marketing and decision making.

Meta Box has added a “has one relationship” option to MB Relationships that enforces your relationship rules.

The latest release of FluentCart adds native Brick’s Elements for building your store with Bricks.

A few weeks ago a proposal was floated to merge into core a new Knowledge post type which would primarily be a feature for AI use. Community sentiment was not to bloat core with the feature. It seems Matt agreed and it won’t be included in 7.1. Here is The Repository’s reporting with the details.

Reddit’s deal with Google means that Reddit threads show up often in search results. This follows various pushes by Reddit for advertising on the platform. This post gives an overview of Reddit Ads for WooCommerce.

This report looks at ecommerce platform market share and we see an interesting trend. Year on year, Shopify is growing and WooCommerce is declining.

The new beta has a lot of new features, enhancements, and quality of life improvements. Some highlights are AI in the builder, a unified manager for templates and components, export and import of the full design system, customize and save builder layouts, better WooCommerce support and version 2 elements, custom CSS and style controls sync, palate colors synced to Gutenberg, and much more. Check in the change log to find videos for some of these features (like AI).