This release improves AI abilities and allows for importing remote components via the Components Manager and when they are a template dependency. Media management is improved and there is a new File element for sharing files for download. Custom CSS in the class manager, conditional form actions, WooCommerce improvements and more fixes and features are making 2.4 look more like a 3.0.

The free, open source, version of Core Framework is available on GitHub in in the WordPress plugin directory. Bricks, Oxygen, and Figma addons are included in it.

Another batch of improvements and fixes.

There are several code snippet management plugins available. FluentSnippets, developed by Md Shahjahan, is the best free one and does a number of things better than premium offerings. It passed the 50K install milestone, and it is not surprising to me that people trust it. This article provides some history about the plugin, the philosophy behind it, and information about the recent update.

From the release notes: “An authenticated Author+ remote code execution issue via malicious file upload on sites that use Imagick and Ghostscript reported by the team at pwn.ai”

The FluentCart support for Divi 5 includes 18 Divi modules for creating custom store, cart, checkout, and customer dashboard pages.

Automattic is a platinum sponsor of the PHP Foundation and Anne McCarthy has joined the foundation’s board. Supporting other open source projects is something that Automattic does right, and it benefits us all.

PHP is the underlying language used with WordPress and using it is part of the project’s success. PHP-based hosting is easy to setup and relatively inexpensive.

A new Divi 5 update includes two new modules: Post Filter and Tooltip with 4 more on the way. You can now build custom fields that let users search, filter, and reorder loops on the front end.

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