What does Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, and WordPress have in common? These CMS projects joined together to form an alliance to promote the open-web to legislative bodies around the world.

Torque’s Plugin Madness starts in a few weeks and they are now taking nominations. The voting is done through bracket style pairings, so voting isn’t done by category. Here is the link if you want to nominate your favorite plugin.

Toolset released a big update to Access, the plugin for controlling permissions. They also had some minor updates to Blocks and Views. These updates improve performance and provide better comparability with various third party plugins. It is good to see the Toolset team start to update the suite again.

A huge congratulations to the Kadence team. The Kadence Theme topped 300,000 active installs!

Bricks Builder 1.9.6 was released. It includes sort, fact filters, and live search, among other features and fixes. These features a labeled as experimental.

Kadence released version 2.3.0 of Kadence Blocks Pro. It includes and impressive list of improvements for the Advanced Query Loop block.

Beaver Builder just released v2.8. The main new features include: -Support for Flexbox and CSS Grid -Global Colors and Global Elements -A NorthCommerce Module -Popup Maker Integration

Matias Ventura has proposed a directory of stand-alone core blocks supported by the WordPress core team. What do you think?

The Builderius website builder team has decided to break the silence in order to share their first milestone in the UI rewrite. The team is excited and shares some of the thinking behind the forthcoming redesign.