Joost de Valk and Marike van de Rakt have joined Post Status as equity partners.

This post on the Make block introduces the Twenty Twenty-Four Theme. Unlike recent themes, it will be more general use and less opinionated. The theme was designed by Beatriz Fialho, who is a designer and an Automattic sponsored member of the Themes Team. There are screenshots and a short video in the post.

A bug fix release for 6.3 is being prepared. 6.3.1 RC1 is available for testing.

The Roadmap to 6.4 has been published and man is it full of features. There are plans for core font library functionality, new blocks, image lightbox, building out theme.json for spacing presets, a box shadow component, a new Twenty Twenty four theme, enhancements to the Query Loop Block, the Footnote Block, rollback option for theme and plugin automatic updates, foundational work on Phase 3, and more.

Stackable has just released a new Timeline Block. It completes the roadmap they have been following.

What’s next? They are asking users what they would like to see added for the next phase of development. I’ve suggested they create their own theme and have deeper integration in the Site Editor. What’s on your wish list?

The latest update on the Divi rewrite. It looks like the developer API has been completed and they are working towards a public alpha release.

Beaver Builder 2.8 beta includes some long requested features, including Flexbox, CSS Grid, and Global Styles. Here is a first look at the new layout options.

This is another cool use of the WordPress playground and provides a quick way to test themes and plugins. They intend to extend it with with further options.

The Oxygen Builder 4.8 beta is available. The main feature is a new navigator for quickly switching between templates, pages, and posts. Being able to switch from within the editor greatly cuts down on the time. The other feature is an improvement to break point unit inheritance for better consistency.