The Beaver Builder team has been working on a new version 2.8 that is slated for release soon. It will include Flexbox and CSS Grid support, some global styles, and other features. They also released a Beaver wireframe kit via their Assistant Pro marketplace. It is good to see them starting to modernize the builder, though they still have a ways to go to catch up.

Matt Mullenweg shares about a new “game” at Automattic and mentions a shift in focus for WordPress com and Woo Express. It is kind of cryptic, but suggests they are adopting to the ecosystem.

Five for the Future is a WordPress project program that encourages companies and individuals to contribute 5% of their resources or time to WordPress. While the program is very successful in that a number of organizations sponsor employee involvement, the program hasn’t gotten a lot of organizational attention in the past.

At a recent Community Summit a team met to review the program and identified some suggestions to help make the program more impactful. These are summarized in this make blog article.

ZipWP is adding convenience features for quick testing similar to InstaWP. In this short video we look at two ways to quickly spin up a development site for free using ZipWP.

The replay for the Cwicly live stream with Louis-Alexander Désiré is available. It is a preview of what is coming in Cwicly 1.4, next Monday. This includes deep Tailwind integration, improvements to the Components feature, and an SVG block.

Here is a case study about the Rolling Stone magazine moving to WordPress. One thing I noted is that a big piece of the migration is leveraging enterprise level processes. Interesting that there was no mention of Gutenberg.

Cloudways Has a New Offering – a new managed WordPress hosting option called “Autonomous.” Some of the features include autoscaling based on traffic demands, Cloudflare Enterprise, backups, and unlimited PHP workers. It appears that you are paying for visits and bandwidth. Here is the product page:

Updates to the revisions system coming in 6.5. It looks like this will include the Style Book and Templates.

Spectra Blocks has added a configurable Quick Action Bar that sits on the left side of the Gutenberg editor. It reminds me of the Cwicly Quick Inserter.