A lot of people liked Bit Form but suggested that the UI needed to be improved. The team just released v3 which focuses on UI and workflow enhancements.

Leonardo Losoviz, the creator of Gato GraphQL introduced translation functions into his plugin and found that the translation feature was very popular. He split this off into a stand-alone plugin Gato AI Translations for Polylang. It is a BYOK plugin and works with both the free and premium versions of Polylang.

JetMessenger is a new messaging plugin for WordPress. It provides direct user messaging as well as WooCommerce order and product chat options. Here is a walk-though from the Crocoblock team.

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.