For those interested in Gato GraphGL, Leo Loso has started a YouTube channel with some helper tutorials.

There was a retrospective survey of participants in the WordPress 6.5 release. For the first time the anonymous responses of the teams were made public (previously there was a summary). It is very interesting to note the comments about leadership or lack of it. Issues around the Font Library got a number of mentions. Here is the spreadsheet for those who are curious.

Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, announced at DrupalCon Portland a new initiative called Starshot. It appears to be their response to WordPress and their plan to regain leadership.

The latest version of Pods is a security release. Hotfixes for various Pods versions are available.

Toolset has a maintenance release with PHP and WordPress 6.5 compatibility fixes, as well as some minor enhancements. It looks like it may not be rolling out via automatic updates, so you may need to manually initiate the update from within the admin.

There was recently a WP-CLI Hack Day and DeliciousBrains reports on new features and enhancements for the WordPress command line interface.

Drupal is planning their site builder solution and this discussion talks about their considerations for using Gutenberg. It is interesting to see how they evaluate the user experiences, goals, and where Gutenberg doesn’t fit into that vision … kind of along the lines of critiques of our Site Builder.

Josepha decided to give direction to the WordPress org’s marketing direction. The dot org’s marketing team and slack channel has been suspended and an Automattic team has been tasked to setup a “Media Corps.” The idea is to identify longstanding WordPress news sources and designate them as media partners who receive regular briefings etc. This is to be a one year experiment. The roadmap for the project was published by the new lead for this initiative.

Anne McCarthy posted a round up of what’s being worked on for WordPress 6.6. It is a very large list. Regarding the Block Binding API for custom fields and a UI for editing them, it is not certain yet if that will ship in 6.6.