The AI team has introduced a tool to evaluate how well an AI understands WordPress. It is in its early stages, so it is not super complete, but can be useful in the future for gauging AI models for use.

Divi 5 now has an official release date of February 26. They are recommending Divi 5 for new sites and for Divi 4 users to try out Divi 5 now. There will be a six month period from February 26th when Divi 4 will still get updates, but after that Divi 4 sites will start getting the Divi 5 update notice.

Kevin Geary has launched a remake of his Page Builder 101 series, this time using Etch and ACSS. Note that he is providing a development copy of Etch and ACSS so that everyone can follow along. The first few episodes have dropped.

The free FluentSMTP plugin tops 500,000 active installs. Congrats to the WPManageNinja team.

The Ollie Theme, it seems one of the the only block themes innovating, has added a class manager inside the editor.

Divi has released a new feature for Divi 5, Divi Canvases. Canvases are good for creating popups, off-canvases panels, and mega menus.

Ovidiu Maghetiu, the creator of WP Code Box, has been working on a new project, PhantomWP. It is an editor and site building framework for creating headless WordPress sites using Astro. It has a lot of features built in, including Git deployment. Here is a video overview.

Breakdance 2.6 was released. New features and enhancements include button presets with version history, performance improvements, some integrations with other plugins, and more.

Here is an interesting update on Real-time Collaboration. This feature set is slated for WordPress 7.0 and has been in testing with WordPress VIP customers. For the most part the feedback has been very good.