Here is an update on Divi 5 progress. The video discusses the move away from shortcodes and the migration process. I see in the change log on the website that they have ported over a large number of Divi modules this past month, so progress seems to be good.

The WordPress 2023 Annual Survey is now available for providing feedback and gathering data about the project.

WordPress.org now supports various options for Two Factor Authentication for account access. This seems long overdue and it is good to see it being implemented.

The Block Visibility plugin is fantastic for conditional display options in Gutenberg. Highly recommended.

Congratulations to the WPManageNinja team on the 2nd anniversary of their WP Social Ninja plugin. The plugin helps you manage your reviews, feeds, and chat and bring them into your site.

The online WordPress Accessibility Day conference is coming up on September 27th. This article in the WPTavern has a lot of good information on it and links to register.

The Kadence team has launched a marketplace for templates, child themes, and design libraries, as well as an experts directory.

Breakdance 1.6 beta is available. There are a number of enhancements, for example, the ability to duplicate and toggle on/off templates as well as new features for the search element to limit search to Custom Post Types or WooCommerce products. Provisional support for PHP 8.2 and a number of other fixes and small enhancements are also included.

Bricks 1.9.1 was released. New features include compatibility with WPML and the ability to write your own WordPress query arguments using PHP. You can also now use hook locations to place Sections, there is support for ACF nested groups, and the “root” placeholder keyword when adding CSS has been replaced with “%root%”.