WordPress 6.5 added support for AVIF, but it looks like using that image format may not currently be good for SEO.

Beaver Builder is celebrating their 10 year anniversary. This article has some of the backstory of the product. Beaver builder is also running a 20% off sale. Return of the Jedi?

Pods 3.2 was released last week. New features include support for custom field revisions (when using meta storage) and some integration with the new Block Binding API.

Patchstack is changing their service to focus more on prevention. Beginning May 1st they plan to: 1) Discontinue the Incident Response service. 2) Change the settings controls so they will be read only on the site via the plugin, and you will change them on the central Patchstack dashboard. 3) Discontinue the Site Scanning feature that checks your sites and gave hardening suggestions.

Divi 5 Update: The team focused on speed improvements and Divi 5 uses less memory and is much faster.

The Core Framework provides a user interface for creating and managing your CSS framework. The free version of the Core Framework is now available in the WordPress plugin directory. Congrats to the Core Framework team.

Woo will use the new block theme Pattern Assembler UI to provide customization options during onboarding.

WordPress 6.5 has been delayed a week until April 2nd to allow for a change and more testing of the Font Library location.

Congratulations to Mauro Cassani, the developer of ACPT, who has been working for the past several months on a large update of the plugin to version 2.0, which was just released.

ACPT (Advanced Custom Post Types) is a plugin that provides a complete solution for creating Custom Post Types, custom taxonomies, and custom fields. It is a relatively new solution, but has integrations with Bricks, Oxygen Breakdance, Zion Builder, Divi, Elementor, and more.