Here is a short video from Brian Coords showing how to setup a local WordPress environment on a Mac using (all free) Laravel Herd, DBngin, and WP-Cli.

HeroPress celebrates its 10th anniversary. It is a website that highlights those who have had success through their connection with WordPress.

An article on Automattic’s trademark enforcement plans on TechCrunch.

The Kadence team did a live stream a couple of days ago. They discussed the new Advanced Header / Navigation Blocks and went over some of the features that weren’t demoed in the earlier walk-through. Ben also shared how he saw FSE going forward and he announced several upcoming new features for Kadence. These include options for gradient text, more templates, an Advanced Table block, and a new A/B Testing plugin. Looks like some good stuff coming.

The WordPress team “forked” the free Advanced Custom Fields plugin and renamed it Secure Custom Fields. To continue with Advanced Custom Fields you can download the plugin from the ACF website.

Divi 5 has another update, now with public alpha version 1. It looks like they have been optimizing the builder and working on fixing migration bugs.

This new feature of MySQL version 9 allows database administrators to create their own functions using JavaScript.

Spectra reaches the 1 million active installs milestone! It is the first Gutenberg block collection to do so. Congratulations to the Spectra team and Brainstorm Force.

Advanced Themer 2.9 released. Incredible update with new features for working with CSS, variables, colors, code, AI, as well as new search and add functionality.