I’ve rounded out my understanding of Gutenberg. Figuring out what it is seems to be a popular topic.

The beginning of the new year is a time to ponder trends and predict what will happen in the coming year. Here are David McCan’s top 3 predictions for 2024.

Group member Sagar Patel posted on X about the problem getting plugins approved for WordPress org.

WordPress has a number of great free plugins in the plugin directory. For the past few years at this time I’ve taken a few minutes to write a review on the plugin page to express my thanks for the plugins I use and rely on. This year I gave a review for Independent Analytics, which I’ve used on a couple of sites.

If you have a few minutes, I’m sure the plugin authors would appreciate a review.

This is a full walk-through tutorial on creating custom blocks using Blockstudio.

On X Matt Mullenweg suggests that non-Gutenberg based site builders will have more user churn and have to raise prices more often. I’m guessing Matt was referring to Elementor’s recent price change in the tweet.

True or false — Gutenberg based site builders will have greater user retention?

This article talks about the new direction for WooCommerce, emphasizing WooExpress as a competitor to Shopify.

This is interesting for front-end developers – the article is about creating web components with vanilla HTML, JS, and CSS. Hat tip to Vitalii Kiiko in the Builderius Facebook group.

A bit of a toot of their own horn, but one has the feeling that the WordPress leadership doesn’t give much credence to the “extender” community. This post from HumanMade outlines some of the ways agencies help the WordPress project.