For Theme Developers – Justin Tadlock has a tutorial on how to add page and template starter patterns to your theme.

There is a proposal to update the guidelines for plugin reviews to allow pro-related reviews, perhaps in some cases.

Patchstack created a page summarizing WordPress vulnerability statistics.

For developers – In this article Tanner Record talks about the benefits of PHP autoloading in WordPress plugins and how to do it.

Great discussion of the new Tailwind integration in Cwicly, ACSS, and the problem with page builders

This video is an overview and walk-through of xCloud, a new control panel for managing virtual private servers (VPS) and WordPress websites. Users interested in advanced WordPress hosting options may find the video useful. There are a few days left on their launch LTD pricing.

Gutenberg 17.6 was recently released.  It includes the ability to filter inner blocks, brings the editing features of the content editor and Site Editor into alignment, and has refactoring for the Fonts Library and Interactivity API.  This version of Gutenberg will be included in WordPress 6.5 due in March. 

Paul Charlton has a good video on WordPress automation.

Crocoblock’s JetForm Builder is a visual form builder for Gutenberg. They just released version 3.3.0, which includes the ability to generate forms with AI, more options for form verification, the option for custom PHP validation rules, and more.