WooCommerce 9.7 released with a number of performance improvements and other enhancements.

The WordPress developers blog has a very good how-to article on customizing embeds.

Elvis Krstulović was interviewed by Roger Montti about Builderius, which is now in its beta for v.1 of the free version.

This tutorial on creating a plugin with Cursor goes into a little more depth than some of the others I’ve seen.

Bricks 1.12.2 was released with some enhancements and fixes. There is a new query results summary element and results per page filter action, honeypot spam protection for forms, and component fixes, among the list. It was mentioned that early testing versions of Bricks 2.0 will start to be available next month.

The Oxygen team released a full rewrite of the popular Oxygen page builder. Is shares a lot of code with Breakdance but has a UI for web professionals interested in a class first workflow. The upgrade is not backwards compatible with previous versions, though the “classic” version will continue to be supported. It is free for current Oxygen license holds as well as for Breakdance users with an active license.

WindPress 3.0 has been released. It simplifies Tailwind integration for WordPress. There is a free version that works with Gutenberg, Kadence, and Greenshift and a pro version that has integrations with a number of page builders.

Speaking of Beaver Builder, they just launched Beaver Builder Services where they now offer web design and web development services.

Astra Starter Templates used to support Elementor, Beaver Builder, Brizy, and Gutenberg. They are moving now to just support Elementor and Spectra.