Congrats to the Atarim team!  Atarim is a platform for agencies and freelancers for streamlining the client feedback process and for project management.  They have a new website that is very attractive.  It looks like the site was made with the Hello theme and Elementor. 

Open Graph is a standard set of tags that are added to the head section of an web page. It provides meta information, such as author, title, image, and so on. It is mainly used by the social sites Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. When someone shares a link the social site gets information to show from the Open Graph data. It is considered a best practice to include Open Graph data, and most SEO plugins will add this to your pages for you automatically.

Open Graph is explained in more detail in this post from the Slim SEO team.

Development for WordPress 6.3 includes a reorganization and expansion of the Site Editor’s navigation. For example, a Design page might provide a menu for accessing Page, Styles, Navigation, Templates, and Library. The Library interface might include a menu for managing theme parts that you have created, such as headers, footers, post meta, the Site Logo, and a Font Library.

This is an interesting transparency type of report detailing Katie Keith’s experience being a sponsor of WordCamp Europe. She is the co-founder of Barn2 Plugins.

In this in-depth expert-level tutorial Stephanie Eckles provides an overview of modern CSS features and considerations for their use. In the tutorial she shows how the new features of CSS might be used to create a modern brand theme.

Google is getting out of the domain name business and will transfer approximately 10 million domains to Squarespace for management. This is a big boon for Squarespace.

Just as Matt gives a keynote at WordCamp US, so too Drupal founder Dries Buytaert presented the State of the Drupal Project at DrupalCon North America 2023. Drupal was focusing on the importance of innovation and had a contest where project proposals were shared and voted. One of the top projects involves working on Gutenberg for Drupal. In a surprise move, Matt Mullenweg donated funds and personal to help.

We had a long wait for the big Bricks 1.8 release, but now 1.8.1 has come rather quickly. It includes the auto-regeneration of CSS files after updates, Bricks integration with WP-CLI, a new Breadcrumbs element, and for developers, documentation and an example for adding your own dynamic data tags.

Joost de Valk looks at how the top 10 CMS options are doing. He found that WordPress is at 43.2% market share, which is .2% more than 11 months ago. There are some comments about how the others are doing also.