The dispute between WP Engine on the one side and Automattic and Matt Mullenweg on the other, is spilling into the mainstream now. The BBC reports on the dispute and how it is bringing uncertainty and risk to WordPress businesses.

WooCommerce 9.4 adds Brands functionality into WooCommerce. This new feature provides free access to brand management, product assignment, and customization.

The new Brands feature will allow you to create and manage brands for stores and assign them to products. It works similar to how categories work and will be released end of this month.

Rae Morey reports that Matt Mullenweg has revised up his demands of WP Engine.

The well respected WordPress security company, Patchstack, received $5M in funding from Emilia Capital. Also, Joost de Valk, co-founder of Yoast will be joining their board.

The WordPress Five for the Future website has been redone using Gutenberg. It looks pretty sharp. I imagine it was done with core blocks and extra CSS.

Paul Charlton jumps ahead to look at the future of the admin dashboard based on current experiments in the Gutenberg plugin. It looks like a good step forward.

Lemon Squeezy is known as an easy to use platform for independent developers for selling their digital products. The platform has been acquired by Stripe.

I’ll admit that the title of this article pulled me in. It makes a good point, though is a bit long winded.

Automattic wins a freedom of speech case in Turkish Constitutional Court. I wasn’t aware that they were very active in response to take-down orders. (lol, the article is by “Clicky Steve”)