There is not a lot of guidance on picking the best hosting, so this video by Remkus de Vries stands out for its commonsense and practical advice.

The Toolset documentation and content team has asked for feedback about Toolset and how people are building sites. So far, it seems like the majority of respondents prefer legacy Views.

This is an interesting presentation given by Miriam Schwab at YoastCon about the Challenges and Opportunities for WordPress.

This post on the Make blog summarizes user feedback and experience from Full Site Editor testing. The majority of the usability feedback and bug reports focused on the Navigation block and confusion about the separation of template creations and content creation.

Another casualty of AI code generation, Stack Overflow reports a loss in traffic.

The WPTavern reports on the discussion about AI and core WordPress. There is a feeling that WordPress doesn’t want to miss the boat and be less competitive if it ignores AI and should at least make sure there are no blockers to adding AI innovation. Some participants noted that projects like the upcoming phase 3 of Gutenberg will help WordPress to be competitive and that the use of AI is still new and evolving.

A proposal on the Make blog to modernize WordCamps. Some ideas include trying out new formats, topics, and focusing events for a subset of the community, such as for designers or contributors. People are invited to share their feedback and ideas.

This is a pretty cool interactive graphic about top WordPress plugins. The WPTavern article tells about it and there is a link to go to the graphic near the top.

This article by Roger Montti at the Search Engine Journal talks about how behind the scenes WordPress has been working to make sure that new releases avoid “performance regressions.” It is good to see attention to performance being made a part of the process.