The online WordPress Accessibility Day conference is coming up on September 27th. This article in the WPTavern has a lot of good information on it and links to register.

The Kadence team has launched a marketplace for templates, child themes, and design libraries, as well as an experts directory.

Breakdance 1.6 beta is available. There are a number of enhancements, for example, the ability to duplicate and toggle on/off templates as well as new features for the search element to limit search to Custom Post Types or WooCommerce products. Provisional support for PHP 8.2 and a number of other fixes and small enhancements are also included.

Bricks 1.9.1 was released. New features include compatibility with WPML and the ability to write your own WordPress query arguments using PHP. You can also now use hook locations to place Sections, there is support for ACF nested groups, and the “root” placeholder keyword when adding CSS has been replaced with “%root%”.

In the unexpected department, the WP Tavern is adding forums. They will be using bbPress and have topics to continue discussions started in article comments.

The Openverse project won an award recognizing it as an open education resource.

The ActivityPub v1 was released. It provides a link between platforms like Mastodon and your website, allowing people to follow authors, have new posts show in followers feeds, and have comments posted back on your posts.

In a cool partnership, the Greenshift team has an arrangement with Mauro Cassani of ACPT to include a one site license of ACPT in the Greenshift All in One unlimited packages. This is a great idea as people can now try out ACPT and use it with Greenshift.

Congrats to David Babinec and the Motion.page team. Motion.page is a visual UI for adding animations to your pages and it works with page builders. The plugin is now active on more than 15,000 websites and version 2.1 was just released. The new version supports animations based on mouse movement, MotionPath, and it now has a white label feature.