WordPress 6.6 is set to be released. In this video Adam Preiser looks at the new features and then shares his take on why a lot of the new features will not be used. This is sure to be controversial in some circles, but Adam joins the “lets get real” chorus.

Mark Westguard was recently on the Do the Woo show and he shared some good points that plugin developers launching a product will find useful.

Hardcore SEO – There were recently some Google document leaks about its indexing and ranking systems. As some have suspected, Google representatives have mislead the public related to ranking factors. This article takes a pretty deep look into the leaded information and is not for the light of heart. Nevertheless, it is interesting and revealing.

Today is the WordPress 21st birthday. Matt shares some general opinions about things that helped WordPress to be successful in the early days that we should hang onto today.

The Greyd WP theme was added to the WP theme directory. Funny, sad, or clever, the theme patterns that are included in the theme all advertise Greyd. The list of patterns are at the bottom of the listing.

Joost on the fear marketing of WordPress security.

Anne-Mieke Bovelett writes about why she moved from Elementor to using the Full Site Editor. One reason was because it was easier to make sites built with the Site Editor accessible.

Kevin Powell noticed a couple of big sites are already using CSS layers. He muses on this and when you pull the trigger on a new CSS feature — how much support is enough? (note this is audio only as it is from his podcast).

Here is an excellent and very insightful analysis of the WordPress market and where WordPress currently stands. If you are interested in the future of WordPress then you’ll want to take a look at this article.