The Toolset team has released an update to their plugins adding support for the upcoming release of WordPress 6.3. It is nice to see that they also added support for PHP versions 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 along with a number of other fixes.

This is a mid-year report from the WordFence team about security threats they have tracked so far. The article is kind of interesting also because they used AI prompts against their own vulnerability database to help generate the answers.

Congratulations to the Kadence team on the release of Kadence Blocks 3.1 and the updates to Kadence Blocks Pro. The biggest feature is the build out of the Kadence Form block, but there are also lots of smaller enhancements and generally making the UI more consistent and easier to use.

Here is an interesting interview with Louis, the creator of the Breakdance Builder.

In the creative CSS, but I’m not sure how useful department, here is an article showing how to create an array of colors using only modern CSS. I suspect you’d want to combine this with some JavaScript to be able to pick colors, or allow the user to pick colors, which seems to limit its usefulness on its own.

Brian Gardner’s premium Frost theme didn’t work out and he sold it to WP Engine. Now he is trying again with Powder Studio, another block theme. This one looks more well rounded.

WordPress org adds a memorials page to remember community contributors who’ve died.

For developers: WordPress 6.1 added the “did_filter” function to check if your filter has already been run during the current page load. It is a bit esoteric, but useful if you need it.

Are you a Crocoblock user? They have more than 40 free helper, utility plugins that extend the features of their main plugins. This article contains a link to the download page and a brief discussion of some of them.