Marko Krstic quietly released a new very light weight file based CMS that supports Markdown. The requirements are minimal – PHP and a web server.

WordPress 7.0 is scheduled for release in a week on May 20th. This is the official “field guide” listing the new features and changes. It is a great summary of what will be included. The ability to create blocks with PHP and the ability to register AI clients via core are two features I’m looking forward to.

Bricks 2.3.5 and 2.3.4 were largely bug fixes.

There are still too many issues, so the decision was made to drop it from this release. The 7.0 release date has not changed.

Highlights of Oxygen 6.1 beta include the ability to select multiple elements with Cmd/Ctrl+click or Shift+click. Drag, bulk-edit, copy, delete, or wrap them as a group. Variable font support with a numeric weight input. Conditional Oxygen classes that only apply when their rules match. Updates to Breakdance Elements, along with a number of other features.

That is probably a good move. Droip didn’t seem like a good brand name. Interesting because Kirki is the name of a Customizer framework, which Themeum (the maker of Droip) took over.

Menus in the Site Editor have been an ongoing issue. They did adapt a menu builder from the Ollie theme, but it is still clunky. Now the Crocoblock team has released JetMenu v.3 with support for the Site Editor.

They have restarted the beta testing phase to account for the need for hosting providers to test different collaboration options.

Before creating their own ecommerce solution the WP Manage Ninja team used Easy Digital Downloads. They just released a beta plugin for EDD to FluentCart migration.