Meta Box Lite is a new plugin from the Meta Box team that includes the free extensions as well as the Builder extension. Now users have a complete UI in a single plugin for creating Custom Post Types, taxonomies, custom fields, and post relationships.

Automattic is lowering their contributor hours to 45 hours a week, to match those of WPE.

While some companies are moving away from lifetime packages it is interesting to see some adding them. The Droip team announced that they will be adding a lifetime option later this month. I haven’t tried Droip because as far as I know it does support dynamic data.

Congratulations to the top 5 winners of the WP Awards: ACF, WooCommerce, Elementor, WordFence, and The Admin Bar.

Also congratulations to the winners in their categories.

Marko Krstic has released a free plugin on the WordPress plugin directory. It helps you find where blocks are used and also helps you find where synced patterns have been used. This is useful if you are changing out block collections, among other uses.

The entire Patchstack app is now available as an API for free for people on their Developer plan. This allows for the integration of Patchstack with your own workflow and automations.

Here is a summary of today’s events and a discussion of what they might mean for the project in 2025. Is a fork, or maybe a community distro, inevitable?

The plugin version of Gutenberg, version 19.9 was released. By looking at the features released in the plugin we can see what will be included in the next WordPress release. Some of the new features include the Style Book is available for classic themes, you can now show the number of records returned when using the Query Loop block, and you can set the home page from within the Site Editor.

This is an interesting community development. Hopefully it will provide a channel for sponsoring WordPress contributions.