WordPress 6.7.1 is scheduled for Thursday. There were some issues. Apparently a big one related to loading translations.

The free Image Optimizer plugin by Elementor just passed 800,000 active installs. Congrats to the Elementor team on reaching this milestone.

Mary Hubbard, the new director of the WordPress project has started in her new position.

WP Engine expanded their claims against Automattic and Matt to include recent activity, like the WP Engine Tracker.

If you are using Figma you may find this useful – a new WordPress component library from the WordPress Design Team.

Toolset released an update for WordPress 6.7 compatibility and with improvements for compatibility with newer PHP versions. They also mentioned they are working on an update to the Maps plugin.

WordPress 6.7 has been released. I’ve updated 2 sites. It seemed slow and I got an error on one site about a bad gateway, but then retried and it succeeded.

This release has a number of nice features. You can now password protect your site or particular pages, Masonry layouts are now available for all layout options, query filters now have support for custom fields, a number of new WooCommerce conditions have been added, and more. Another bit of news is that work is going well on components and they anticipate an early preview being ready before the end of the year.

Another Divi 5 update from Elegant Themes. Along with the Public Alpha Version 3 release, here’s the good news, “New bug reports have slowed down, and we are fixing new bugs faster than they are being reported, which means the end to this bug bash is in sight.”