Igor Sunz just released a “learning path” approach for mastering GreenLight blocks. It starts with basic web development and then WordPress resources.

Matt Mullenweg reflects and is unhappy with how things are being run in the project.

Davinder Singh Kainth has released the latest issue of his newsletter. Lots of new releases and info shared.

WordPress 7.0 Beta 5 has a new feature – a new Command Palette shortcut in the Omnibar. Also, as far as I recall, this the the first time the term “Omnibar” has been used.

Lots of AI news. The WordPress team released an update to the AI Experiments plugin, adding built-in image generation and AI-assisted review tools directly inside the block editor and admin interface.

Joost and Karim are stepping away from the FAIR project following the inability to get hosting companies to contribute to the project.

Bertha.ai was one of the first WordPress AI assistants that was at one point very popular. Now it has exited from the WordPress plugin directory.

WP Engine has updated their claims against Matt Mullenweg and Automattic based on documents received during the discovery phase of the trial. In these documents WP Engine found that Matt and Automattic had a list of 10 hosting companies they planned to go after for trademark licensing fees and that Matt tried to make Stripe drop WP Engine as a customer. There is more information in the article by Roger Montti.

This is a very thorough video walk-through of Oxygen 6