This article provides an overview of all of the new features coming to WordPress 7.0 in a couple of weeks. It is a pretty impressive list. Looking at the article’s table of contents is a good way to get a quick overview.

For the hard-core gear heads, you can search WordPress plugins, themes, and core source code with the Veloria search engine.

If you want to integrate AI directly into WordPress and don’t want to wait until April for 7.0, then it is possible to add Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or OpenAI now using official WP plugins. This article provides an overview of the available features and links to get started.

The Divi team seems to be responding to user feedback that there is a learning curve to setting up Divi 5 by offering a free “Design System”. The download includes CSS variables, presets, section and page layouts, templates, and Customizer settings.

The Crocoblock team created a code snippets library. It already has a number of entries for use with their plugins.

The Dynamic.ooo team has released a free plugin for Elementor that helps with debugging by letting you see the element hierarchy, do performance profiling, and examine visibility conditions.

Ploogins? A plugin functionality search engine. Paul Charlton shares the skinny.

Plugin Info Card is a nice plugin from Ronald Huereca. You can use it to show stats about plugins in the WordPress directory. Just added is the ability to also show info about custom third party plugins.

I’ve noticed a growing trend away from Facebook groups and towards online communities, whether hosted on Circle or now increasingly on WordPress. I take a look at this trend in the latest issue of the WP Perspectives newsletter.