Brian Gardner recently held a webinar where he showed how to fork the Frost theme to make your own block theme. He now has created a new base theme called Powder, which seems to be a fork of Frost. He intends people to use it as a basis for their own themes. While Powder is free, Brian created a theme called Powder Social which is a premium theme available for $125 lifetime purchase.

The latest release of Elementor 3.14.0 beta adds the ability to create images using AI from within the Elementor editor. This complements the text-based AI feature.

The WP org team has implemented new filters on the plugin and theme searches for “Commercial” and “Community.”

ACPT 1.0.180 adds two important features: full support for Breakdance visual builder and the plugin is now ready to be translated, the first language (Italian) is already available.

Congrats to Maxime Beguin on the success of Advanced Themer for Bricks. While it is not necessary to use any addons to make sites with Bricks, Advanced Themer hit a sweet spot in providing new features and tweaks inside the Bricks builder.

The plugin provides features such as the ability to create and manage CSS variables, a class importer, the ability to enable / disable options for clients, as well as shortcuts and additions to the Bricks editor. There are a number of utilities included, such as the ability to enable a light and dark theme for your site, a color palette generator, and the obligatory AI integration.

Advanced Themer launched in April and just reached version 1.1. While a lot of people have been using it on live sites, it is now officially out of beta.

What’s next for Beaver Builder? The “Box” Module and Global Styles and Colors. Apparently the Box Module is a new type of flexible container. Not sure how I feel about the new module. Maybe it would have been better to just introduce Flexbox. Global styles and colors have been a long standing request and users will be happy when that is implemented.

Matt Mullenweg launched JetPack AI Assistant on Product Hunt. The feature will be $10 a month subscription.

Breakdance 1.3 was recently released. It includes a number of new features such as easy Isotope filtering for the loop element, WooCommerce conditions, WooCommerce custom product loops, enhancements to the Query Builder, accessibility enhancements and more.

Bricks 1.8 was released yesterday with the anticipated mega menu builder. It is a big release with lots of other small additions and fixes.