Here is a summary of new features that will be included in PHP 8.6. I’m not sure of the use for Partial Functions. Defaults for read-only properties, clamp, a polling API and stream error handling seem like solid features.

For all of the issues, etc, they are doing something right. Every time I see a big site using WP, they are also using Yoast.

Core is moving away from naming themes by year. This one is supposed to be a minimalistic blog theme that is easily customizable.

What Jordy Meow has been doing with AI is way cool. His AI Engine plugin is very advanced. I’ve been trying the AI chat plugins that developers put on their sites for support. His, Nyao, is very thorough and gave me information way beyond what’s in the docs. Now he has added free Android and iOS apps to use the AI features from your phone.

This is a good step for Divi. Nick does an intro to the features in this video.

This article is a good summary of what we know so far.

An update on automatic security reviews for plugins on the WP plugin directory.

The Generate team has released a big jump forward by adding support for creating and managing CSS variables, selectors and classes, a style book and more.

And yet another WPManageNinja update. This one is for the FluentCRM plugin. It provides round-trip support for WhatsAp SMS messaging.