Part of Gutenberg phase 3 is a redesign of the WordPress admin. Contributors are starting to propose designs.

Community themes is an initiative by the members of the WordPress themes team, and other contributors, to provide high quality themes for free. They have just released their second community theme, Blue Note.

Gutenberg 16.4 introduces auto-inserting blocks feature, and other enhancements.

ACF 6.2 has been released. It includes the option pages UI (pro only) and bidirectional relationship features (free and pro).

Jamie Marsland’s SEO course for beginners will be available world-wide. Information and booking option here.

It is currently taking about two months to get a new plugin reviewed. The team is working on ways to speed up the process.

Elegant Themes has finally launched Divi AI. The roadmap features include:

• Code Generation: Even without coding experience, you will be able to generate or modify code wherever Divi supports custom HTML, CSS, or JS.
• Full Layout Generation: What if you could re-generate an entire layout with Divi AI? We plan to make that happen.
• Image Editing: Soon, you’ll be able to edit images with AI directly inside the builder. Modify individual parts of the image, adjust the size, generatively fill empty spaces, and more!

Visual design helpers just landed in the free Greenshift Gutenberg plugin. This includes a New CSS Grid template builder, Row layout builder, Position drag, Resizer, Spacing visual helper, border-radius helper, fast Flexbox helpers, toolbar panels for quick Typography and Background. All of these “builders” work through visual drag and move.

The pro version of the popular Kirki theme framework was recently acquired by Themeum. They have released it now for free.