David Vongries, the creator of the Ultimate Dashboard plugin, has released a plugin Swift SMTP. In addition to being able to set outgoing SMTP mail settings, the plugin also allows you to customize the default WordPress emails. This must have been an acquired plugin as it has more thank 10k active installs and a name change.

Joost de Valk suggests that there is good value for WordPress developers to connect with open source start-ups.

Imran Siddiq released a video showing a number of ways to optimize your WordPress page loading times. I know he worked hard on this one and there are a plenty of tips, including code snippets. He optimizes an Elementor site, but includes versions for non-Elementor users.

I’ve found transparency reports to provide interesting insights into a company and into a segment of the WordPress community. Here is a year in review from Katie Keith of Barn2.

For plugin developers, should your plugin redirect to a setup page? Here is a short video discussing plugin on-boarding on activation.

A 2.5 hour interview with Matt Mullenweg by Tim Ferriss. A large number of topics are discussed.

Here is a podcast interview with Calvin Alkan and Remkus de Vries on the current state of WordPress security.

Here is a nice, short, but very useful video from Paul Charlton who shows how to create a nested post loop in Bricks to group posts in a listing by category. The inspiration for the video was from an article by Maxime Beguin on the Bricks Labs website.

Group member Sagar Patel posted on X about the problem getting plugins approved for WordPress org.