For developers, ACF Free and Pro can now be installed using Composer.

Up to now it has been difficult for plugins to register custom block templates. WordPress 6.7 adds a new Template Registration API for plugins.

This is a good article about CSS for block themes. It talks about how using style.css shifts to theme.json and block styles.

There is a major update to the HTML Processor API coming in WordPress 6.7.

This new feature of MySQL version 9 allows database administrators to create their own functions using JavaScript.

Advanced Themer 2.9 released. Incredible update with new features for working with CSS, variables, colors, code, AI, as well as new search and add functionality.

Here is an informative and well presented presentation by Andrey Shevchenko, CTO of Crocoblock, on planning your project data structures. It covers a lot of the areas where people often question when you should use a custom table or meta fields, as well as when you should use taxonomies or meta fields.

Jason Bahl, the author of WPGraphQL joins Automattic where he will be developing WPGraphQL into a canonical plugin.

Kadence has just released its new Kadence Advanced Header and Navigation Blocks. It is part of Kadence Blocks Free. You can use it with any block theme as well as with the Kadence classic theme. This is an awesome solution for block themes.