Congrats to the Atarim team!  Atarim is a platform for agencies and freelancers for streamlining the client feedback process and for project management.  They have a new website that is very attractive.  It looks like the site was made with the Hello theme and Elementor. 

Development for WordPress 6.3 includes a reorganization and expansion of the Site Editor’s navigation. For example, a Design page might provide a menu for accessing Page, Styles, Navigation, Templates, and Library. The Library interface might include a menu for managing theme parts that you have created, such as headers, footers, post meta, the Site Logo, and a Font Library.

Just as Matt gives a keynote at WordCamp US, so too Drupal founder Dries Buytaert presented the State of the Drupal Project at DrupalCon North America 2023. Drupal was focusing on the importance of innovation and had a contest where project proposals were shared and voted. One of the top projects involves working on Gutenberg for Drupal. In a surprise move, Matt Mullenweg donated funds and personal to help.

We had a long wait for the big Bricks 1.8 release, but now 1.8.1 has come rather quickly. It includes the auto-regeneration of CSS files after updates, Bricks integration with WP-CLI, a new Breadcrumbs element, and for developers, documentation and an example for adding your own dynamic data tags.

Version 16.0 of Gutenberg, plugin version, was released with the ability to manage pages in the Site Editor, the new command center with an open API, and other enhancements. This version of Gutenberg will be included in the upcoming 6.3 release of WordPress.

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.