The latest version of the Gutenberg plugin, 16.3, added some features for working with patterns. These won’t be included in the forthcoming 6.3 release of WordPress, but will be in 6.4

Bricks 1.8.4 has been released. One cool new features is the Bricks Elements Conditions API. You can use it to do display condition filtering sever-side so that elements are not included in the frontend output, which is good for membership and other sites where content needs to be restricted.

Justin Tadlock released a new plugin for displaying breadcrumbs. The intent is that the block can be used in the Site Editor when making theme templates. Here is a discussion and walk-through.

Here is the “Field Guide” for WordPress 6.3 that is released with the first release candidate. This is a comprehensive list and there are a number of things that have been shared previously and some others that I haven’t I hadn’t noticed.

Vox Media is moving from their own proprietary publishing platform to WordPress. It is clearly a win for WordPress.

Stackable introduced a new Tabs Block. It is designed to be accessible and responsive. The announcement post shows a lot of usage examples.

Breakdance now offers a single site license and they raised their unlimited site package to $199 a year. Those who already have a subscription won’t be impacted by the price change.

Much of this is technical, but it is good to see attention to optimization being carried out for WordPress core.

Cwicly Spotlight 4 was held today with more walk-throughs and demos of the upcoming components beta release next week. Also mentioned was that now that Cwicly is maturing there will be a price increase in the coming weeks.