The field guide is a quick way to see what will be included in the upcoming release.

WordPress 7.1 will include browser-based media processing. The features supported are pretty extensive. This looks like it will be a nice feature that will have broad appeal.

The free Nexter extension adds SEO Tools to its already impressive set of features. Nexter is the plugin that pairs with the Nexter theme and Nexter Blocks. The developers have been creating an all in one toolkit.

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.

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).

There is now an app for Apple TV and one for Android TV for watching WordPress TV on the big screen. WordPress TV is the collection of talks from WordCamps, as well as other presentations and tutorials. Here is the news on the Apple version. It is also available in the Google Play store for TV sets.

OtterBlocks got a big update. ThemeIsle added AI integration, a new design library, a new Content Slider block, updated the block conditions UI, added Turnstile spam protection to the form, now supports ACF repeater fields, and the latest version of the Block API.

Barn2 is trying an experiment, they set their Document Library Pro plugin on a WP multisite network and are offering the features of the plugin as an embedded solution.

It would be funny, if not sad, but this is the feedback that was given about the site editor way back when it had a “beta” label. In any event, I welcome the progress.