Today the LifterLMS team announced a new page builder called Aircraft. Digging into the announcement I see that Aircraft is actually a set of attractive Gutenberg patterns designed for LMS sites. This is a clever idea and I imagine we will see more companies offering pattern packs.

Good news, WS Form has added support for ACPT Custom Post Types and custom fields. You can now use the two together. Here is the announcement, which includes a link to a YouTube video on how to make a WS Form with ACPT and a coupon code for a 20% discount on WS Form.

For those interested in Gato GraphGL, Leo Loso has started a YouTube channel with some helper tutorials.

There was a retrospective survey of participants in the WordPress 6.5 release. For the first time the anonymous responses of the teams were made public (previously there was a summary). It is very interesting to note the comments about leadership or lack of it. Issues around the Font Library got a number of mentions. Here is the spreadsheet for those who are curious.

Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, announced at DrupalCon Portland a new initiative called Starshot. It appears to be their response to WordPress and their plan to regain leadership.

The latest version of Pods is a security release. Hotfixes for various Pods versions are available.

Toolset has a maintenance release with PHP and WordPress 6.5 compatibility fixes, as well as some minor enhancements. It looks like it may not be rolling out via automatic updates, so you may need to manually initiate the update from within the admin.

There was recently a WP-CLI Hack Day and DeliciousBrains reports on new features and enhancements for the WordPress command line interface.

Drupal is planning their site builder solution and this discussion talks about their considerations for using Gutenberg. It is interesting to see how they evaluate the user experiences, goals, and where Gutenberg doesn’t fit into that vision … kind of along the lines of critiques of our Site Builder.