GoDaddy pledges $520,000 to the WP Community Collective to provide funding within the greater WordPress community.

Here is a WordPress fork from one of the former BuddyPress leads. I wonder if we will start seeing more of these personal forks.

The Dynamic WordPress Facebook group recently voted for the most innovative WordPress plugin or theme of 2024. This was an opportunity for group members to share their appreciation and recommendations about stand-out WordPress products. 

The 200th version of the Gutenberg plugin was released and has updates that will be included in the next version of core in March. There were a number of enhancements including improvements to the Style Book and pattern suggestions. What caught my eye was the ability to include hooks in content, which has been a feature only of PHP based themes up to now.

The Meta Box team has released a new free plugin that makes it easier to use Meta Box features for creating Custom Post Types, custom taxonomies, and custom fields. In this video I show what was involved previously and how it is now more convenient.

Matt has removed Joost and Karim from WordPress org and challenged them to create their own fork.

Meta Box Lite is a new plugin from the Meta Box team that includes the free extensions as well as the Builder extension. Now users have a complete UI in a single plugin for creating Custom Post Types, taxonomies, custom fields, and post relationships.

Automattic is lowering their contributor hours to 45 hours a week, to match those of WPE.

While some companies are moving away from lifetime packages it is interesting to see some adding them. The Droip team announced that they will be adding a lifetime option later this month. I haven’t tried Droip because as far as I know it does support dynamic data.