WordPress VIP has launched a free series of courses focusing on Enterprise WordPress. Currently they have courses on security, performance, and architecture and tooling.

The Beaver Builder team announced changes to their packages and pricing. Beginning in September, all of the their packages will include Themer and the Beaver Builder Theme. They are also offering a lower priced single site license and raising the prices of some of the packages.

The SolidWP team has released a free performance plugin called Solid Performance.

Work on the Twenty Twenty-File theme has started. This post shares plans which seem prioritize flexibility. There are examples shown for a blog and for a photo blog.

On the developers blog Justin Tadlock shares what’s new for block theme and plugin developers, as well as new additions to the Gutenberg plugin. This is largely information for developers and designers and gives some insight into want’s coming for WordPress 6.7.

The pro version of the popular PostX Gutenberg blocks collection has added support for ACF, Meta Box and Pods custom fields.

Essential Addons For Elementor has just released v6, with over 2 million active installs, making it easily the most popular Elementor addon.

One of my predictions for 2024 is on track to come true. On January 6th Spectra Blocks had 600k active installs. It just passed 900k, going from 800k in less than 2 months! Congrats to the Spectra team.

Divi Dash is a new offering from Elegant Themes that lets you manage all of your WordPress websites in one place. It is useful for tasks such as WordPress updates, user management, client management, and theme and plugin activation and deletion. You can view and manage all your websites in one place and jump into the WordPress dashboard of any site with a single click. Divi Dash works on any WordPress website, whether or not it uses Divi.