Automattic announced a 100 year hosting plan. Today Matt shared that there have been zero sales. Surprised?

Congratulations to the Kadence team. Kadence Blocks just hit 400,000+ active installs!

Elementor is changing their packages and pricing beginning on December 4th. The changes are not just about the number of sites, but also functionality. For example, the lowest tier, the Essential plan, will have not support for custom fields, advanced form features, popups, and so on. There is more information in the plan comparison table in the middle of the article. If you are already on the Essential plan then you won’t lose any features, but you may not get new features that are released for higher plans.

The Core Framework team just released version 1.3 which includes CSS variable and class previews and autocomplete drop downs for Bricks and Oxygen. Here is the full changelog.

Remember ProjectHuddle? It has been rebranded as SureFeedback and the plugin is being updated and expanded. Here is the announcement:

I’m not sure that confetti qualifies as a productivity tool 🙂 but this plugin adds a couple of features to the new command palette such as color code format conversion and the ability to evaluate math expressions. I expect we will soon see a few full-fledged toolboxes for the command palette.

WordFence launches a bug bounty program to reward researchers within the program’s parameters. This competes with Patchstack which already has a program. Unfortunately, the WordFence CEO takes a swipe at Patchstack … I prefer when WordPress companies seek to cooperate.

Automattic had big plans for revitalizing Tumblr, but despite burning through a lot of cash, they haven’t been able to successfully monetize it. From a leaked memo it appears that Automattic is pulling back on resources. Here is the discussion on Mastodon.

WordPress 6.4.1 RC 1 is available and a release is expected later today.