Sarah Gooding is leaving the WP Tavern after 10 years. There is no news on who will replace her.

Benjamin Intal of Stackable Blocks is creating a new plugin called WPInteractions. It allows you to create linked animations with multiple elements. This page gives some information and a signup form for testing the beta, if you are interested.

WooCommerce 8.3 now sets blocks as the default for cart, checkout, and order confirmation pages on new installs. They warn that plugins that extend the checkout process should ensure that they will work correctly with the new defaults.

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: