Here is another good developer feature coming to WordPress 6.5, it is the merge of the Plugin Dependencies project. This provides a standard method for plugins to declare plugin prerequisites and is useful on plugin activation and deactivation.

A new Elementor beta 3.20 has been released and Paul Charlton takes a look at the features. The main one is more visibility conditions.

Themify has updated its Builder and addons to allow nesting, flexbox, and more features, making the platform more flexible.

jQuery is getting a big update, as beta 4.0 is now in beta. This Tavern article is pretty far ranging and considers a lot of angles, and the point is … what? That WordPress doesn’t need it anymore but it will be included for legacy purposes?

WordPress 6.5 will include a new Interactivity API for developers. This merge announcement on the Make blog outlines the goals and provides some good background about how it is implemented. It looks like a solid addition that people will be able to build on.

The Crocoblock team shares the list of the best WordPress communites to join to stay up to date and follow new trends.

What does Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, and WordPress have in common? These CMS projects joined together to form an alliance to promote the open-web to legislative bodies around the world.

Torque’s Plugin Madness starts in a few weeks and they are now taking nominations. The voting is done through bracket style pairings, so voting isn’t done by category. Here is the link if you want to nominate your favorite plugin.

Toolset released a big update to Access, the plugin for controlling permissions. They also had some minor updates to Blocks and Views. These updates improve performance and provide better comparability with various third party plugins. It is good to see the Toolset team start to update the suite again.