It looks like we are getting closer to the release of Bricks 2.4. The release candidate was just released. It has a number of fixes and refinements.

Equalize Digital has a new, free plugin, for displaying board meeting agendas and minutes. If you have managed a non-profit or local government site you know that sharing this information is required, but not always easy to do. BoardScribe is available in the plugin directory.

This article from The Repository provides information about the new Accessibility Lab plugin, which will be a testing ground for accessibility changes before they are added to core.

It asks US policy makers not to put restrictions on open weight AI models.

That was fast. It has been less than 5 months since it was announced and Em-Dash is already nearing the

This release improves AI abilities and allows for importing remote components via the Components Manager and when they are a template dependency. Media management is improved and there is a new File element for sharing files for download. Custom CSS in the class manager, conditional form actions, WooCommerce improvements and more fixes and features are making 2.4 look more like a 3.0.

The free, open source, version of Core Framework is available on GitHub in in the WordPress plugin directory. Bricks, Oxygen, and Figma addons are included in it.

Another batch of improvements and fixes.

There are several code snippet management plugins available. FluentSnippets, developed by Md Shahjahan, is the best free one and does a number of things better than premium offerings. It passed the 50K install milestone, and it is not surprising to me that people trust it. This article provides some history about the plugin, the philosophy behind it, and information about the recent update.