A huge congratulations to the Kadence team. The Kadence Theme topped 300,000 active installs!

Bricks Builder 1.9.6 was released. It includes sort, fact filters, and live search, among other features and fixes. These features a labeled as experimental.

Kadence released version 2.3.0 of Kadence Blocks Pro. It includes and impressive list of improvements for the Advanced Query Loop block.

Beaver Builder just released v2.8. The main new features include: -Support for Flexbox and CSS Grid -Global Colors and Global Elements -A NorthCommerce Module -Popup Maker Integration

Matias Ventura has proposed a directory of stand-alone core blocks supported by the WordPress core team. What do you think?

The Builderius website builder team has decided to break the silence in order to share their first milestone in the UI rewrite. The team is excited and shares some of the thinking behind the forthcoming redesign.

For Elementor users – Amit Keren of Unlimited Elements has released a new Layers Widget that makes it easy to overlap images to create image layouts, without the need to use negative margins or absolute positioning. Here is the announcement post.

Gutenberg 17.6 was recently released.  It includes the ability to filter inner blocks, brings the editing features of the content editor and Site Editor into alignment, and has refactoring for the Fonts Library and Interactivity API.  This version of Gutenberg will be included in WordPress 6.5 due in March. 

Crocoblock’s JetForm Builder is a visual form builder for Gutenberg. They just released version 3.3.0, which includes the ability to generate forms with AI, more options for form verification, the option for custom PHP validation rules, and more.