The Meta Box Builder included in the Meta Box All in One extension has been updated and modernized. It now offers better performance and more flexibility.

Bricks 2.0.2 dropped. This is mainly a bug fix release.

ACF Pro 6.5.0 was released yesterday. The main focus of the update involved a number of enhancements made to the Flexible Content layouts feature to make it easier and more flexible to use. Another nice quality of life enhancement was that you can set a Date or Date Time picker to default to the current date. That is a real time saver.

WordPress 6.8.2 included an update to the root security certificate bundle. This has now been backported to branches 4.7 to 6.7 and the updates to those versions are available now.

There are three new modules for Divi 5: a Group Carousel module which allows you to create any type of carousel or slider using Divi 5’s new loop builder, a Lottie module for easy JSON-based animations, and an Icon List module for easy list creation.

The latest update on Divi 5 shares that they are now in bug fix mode preparing for the first beta in about a month. They hope to launch before the end of the year. The fix list is very long, so they are busy.

WordPress users on dot com now have enhanced code editors available for post, site, and the additional CSS input boxes. It is not certain if these features will be added to the dot org version of WordPress, though usually they are.

The WooCommerce team has been working this year on a block-based theme as a successor to Storefront. It was apparently called “Purple.” It was about ready for release when the Woo team pulled it. They decided instead of include the patterns, templates and style variations in the WooCommerce plugin.

Meta Box has added the ability to reorder posts, pages, and Custom Post Type articles without the need for an additional plugin. This feature is available in their Custom Post Type extension.