The Core Framework got a significant update to version 1.4. New features include an on-boarding wizard and new contextual spacing and typography variables.

Ronald Huereca released version 3 of QuotesDLX. The new version includes support for citations and shortcodes. The shortcodes feature makes it possible to include your quote in the classic editor and page builders.

Another Divi 5 progress report. This one talks about the transition from Divi 4 to Divi 5 and speed improvements.

They have been doing a good job communicating. I’m sure that helps to inspire confidence for their users.

Studio, the local development environment from Automattic, is now available for Windows. It uses the Playground technology.

Automattic wins a freedom of speech case in Turkish Constitutional Court. I wasn’t aware that they were very active in response to take-down orders. (lol, the article is by “Clicky Steve”)

Hardcore SEO – There were recently some Google document leaks about its indexing and ranking systems. As some have suspected, Google representatives have mislead the public related to ranking factors. This article takes a pretty deep look into the leaded information and is not for the light of heart. Nevertheless, it is interesting and revealing.

Dynamic Content for Elementor has released version 3.0. The major new feature is support for Dynamic Shortcodes. Users of Dynamic Content for Elementor now get a special Elementor version of Dynamic Shortcodes included free with their license. Dynamic Shortcodes are more powerful and flexible than the previous token system. Details are available here in the release announcement.

WooCommerce 9.0 Beta is scheduled for release tomorrow. This summary article lists the forthcoming changes.

Developers have manually styled the HTML checkbox to make it look like a switch. Now a new attribute for the checkbox is proposed that will render a checkbox as a switch. Interesting, but not ready for prime time.