Astra Starter Templates used to support Elementor, Beaver Builder, Brizy, and Gutenberg. They are moving now to just support Elementor and Spectra.

Brian Gardner has launched a new premium theme named Open Letter. It is a minimalist block theme.

Every year WPFusion does a retrospective on the business for the year. There are a lot of insights shared in the report about running a business, sales, and the WordPress ecosystem.

If you are going to be at WordCamp Asia, Patchstack is running a “Capture the Flag” hacker challenge. They already have over 100 people signed up.

A discussion of changing business practices and what is on the roadmap for the next quarter, including Kadence Blocks 4.0, global styles, Full Site Editing, and Shop Kit updates.

The Bricks team just announced that they are introducing an Experts Directory. To be listed you must own the Bricks agency or lifetime license and submit at least three sites. Applications are manually reviewed. Details and how to apply are available on the website.

For premium users of Meta Box, the All in One plugin now also includes the core framework plugin. Previously you would need to install the core plugin from WordPress.org.

Coming in WordPress 6.8 – The algorithm used for passwords is changing from phppass portable hashing to bcrypt.

Greenshift 10.8 features an API Connector that connects the Repeater builder with APIs, Interactions, Dynamic calls, Dynamic Placeholders, and Dynamic Fields.