Advanced Custom Fields wins the Torque Plugin Madness competition for the third time. Congrats to the ACF team.

The WordPress community in and around London is trying to get their in-person meetup going again. The next event is this coming Thursday April 25th. They are also looking for speakers for future sessions.

Anne McCarthy again – About a week ago she posted an article on her personal blog titled Overlapping Problems, which surfaced a number of rough spots with the content editor and site editor experiences.

Yesterday she hosted a Hallway Hangout which was attended by a broad spectrum of contributors, users, agency owners, etc. One thing that is interesting about this is that the Hallway Hangout functioned in an open-ended fashion to allow people to share their frustrations and suggestions.

The Make post has a summary of topics discussed and the full discussion is available with a YouTube video at the top of the post.

Torque’s Plugin Madness starts in a few weeks and they are now taking nominations. The voting is done through bracket style pairings, so voting isn’t done by category. Here is the link if you want to nominate your favorite plugin.

To celebrate Black Friday / Cyber Monday the IndyStack team is hosting a knowledge event where each day they will have an industry expert present on a topic of interest to the community. The event runs November 20-24.

The online WordPress Accessibility Day conference is coming up on September 27th. This article in the WPTavern has a lot of good information on it and links to register.

Crocoblock is hosting a free Agency AI Summit the 28th – 30th of September. The WPTavern has information about the event and links for signup.

Tom McFarlin on the difference between a foundation and a framework.

This is an interesting transparency type of report detailing Katie Keith’s experience being a sponsor of WordCamp Europe. She is the co-founder of Barn2 Plugins.