The WP Engine tracker says that 24,510 websites left from WP Engine since September 21st. They are now showing where they moved to also.

Penpot, the popular alternative to Figma, released a plugins API. This will make it possible for third parties to extend the platform and provide integrations.

ACF Pro is now available for download from WordPress.org under the name Secure Custom Fields. I take a look at this new addition to the WordPress plugin directory and wonder if this is a fork or a nulled plugin?

Anne McCarthy reports on the status of Gutenberg stage 3 (collaboration) in this post. It sounds like some progress is being made and we may start to see more public previews soon.

Google was found guilty of maintaining an illegal search and text advertising monopoly. Yesterday the US Department of Justice asked the court to require Google to divest of it Chrome browser. This will be decided in April.

The PeepSo community plugin is the latest to leave the WordPress plugin directory. The reasons given are due to the revelations about WP org ownership and handing of the WP Engine dispute, as well as issues with the management of the plugin directory in general.

WordPress 6.7.1 is scheduled for Thursday. There were some issues. Apparently a big one related to loading translations.

The free Image Optimizer plugin by Elementor just passed 800,000 active installs. Congrats to the Elementor team on reaching this milestone.

Mary Hubbard, the new director of the WordPress project has started in her new position.