The Ollie Theme, it seems one of the the only block themes innovating, has added a class manager inside the editor.

Divi has released a new feature for Divi 5, Divi Canvases. Canvases are good for creating popups, off-canvases panels, and mega menus.

Ovidiu Maghetiu, the creator of WP Code Box, has been working on a new project, PhantomWP. It is an editor and site building framework for creating headless WordPress sites using Astro. It has a lot of features built in, including Git deployment. Here is a video overview.

Breakdance 2.6 was released. New features and enhancements include button presets with version history, performance improvements, some integrations with other plugins, and more.

Here is an interesting update on Real-time Collaboration. This feature set is slated for WordPress 7.0 and has been in testing with WordPress VIP customers. For the most part the feedback has been very good.

Oxygen 6 Beta 5 was just released. It includes a number of fixes but also adds new Grid alignment icons, inline editing for Text Link, and CSS variable support for Opacity.

I always liked the idea of Post Formats, but I’ve probably only used them a couple of times. One of the nicest implementations was Justin Tadlock’s Stargazer theme. Over the years the feature hasn’t been highlighted or promoted and with block themes even more so. Now Courtney Robertson released a Post Formats for Block Themes plugin. One enhancement is that the Chat format includes an integrated Chat Log block that nicely displays chat logs. She tells about the plugin in this post. There are links there to the github repo and the WordPress org page.

Elementor Editor v3.34 Beta has launched with some new features and improvements including: Nested Tabs built entirely with Atomic Elements, Entrance Interactions with Fade, Slide, and Scale, Atomic Flexbox wrapper for Atomic Elements, Display Conditions (Pro) added to Atomic Elements, Media queries now supported in desktop Custom CSS (Pro), Atomic Paragraph can now be switched to <span>, Multiple UI/UX improvements, other tweaks, consistency fixes, and more. This is another step forward to Editor v4’s launch, which is currently in Alpha.

The WP Awards 2025 winners have been announced. Congratulations to all of the winners. There were some that I would expect and there were some surprises. Advanced Themer was voted best Bricks Addon. The WPManage Ninja team came in first for the forms, membership, and marketing automation categories.