It looks like Elementor is getting on the CSS train for better design consistency. Also mentioned is that CSS Variables and components are on the roadmap.

Wow, congrats to the SureMails team. The plugin was launched on February 4th and already has more than 30,000 active installs.

The US Copyright Office previously ruled that art created using AI were not entitled to copyright. That ruling has been upheld by the US Appeals Court.

Congratulations to Anne-Mieke Bovelett whose project won this year’s hackathon at CloudFest. The winning project is a plugin named Visua11y that automatically converts complex visuals like info-graphics into accessible alternatives.

WordPress 6.8 is currently scheduled for release in about 3 weeks on April 15th. Despite it being a “maintenance” release, there are some nice enhancements. This overview of 6.8 has summaries of the new features.

The Beaver Builder team launched version 2.9. It has a number of features, including the ability to use Beaver Builder modules in the block editor. There is also a new version of Beaver Themer which includes a Loop Module.

Congratulations to the Kadence Blocks team for hitting the 500,000+ milestone.

Here is a preview video of a very cool looking tool coming to WordPress. It is called RightPlace and it is being created by Ryan Lee and team. RightPlace is a new innovative desktop IDE for WordPress.

Meta Box has a new dashboard start page in the WordPress admin. It now has buttons to quickly jump to commonly used features, a help doc search, and tutorials for common functionality.