For block developers and block theme developers – This post outlines the first steps in emulating the idea of WordPress hooks that is available in Classic themes. The features described will be available in WordPress 6.4.

This interview with Matthias Pfefferle helps to explain the fediverse and the ActivityPub plugin which provide more decentralized sharing and communication. There is an audio recording and a text transcript.

This tutorial has some good tips on query optimization and some data related things to consider when planning your project.

Here is an interview of Matt Mullenweg with people from Nasdaq during the Silicon Slopes Summit. There is no revelation or new. information, but fans might enjoy it.

The WordPress Photo Directory has hit a major milestone. I’d love to have access to it from within the editor.

WordPress 6.3.2 is a security and maintenance release and is rolling out now.

Here is some performance news on the upcoming Twenty Twenty-Four core theme. Whether it is good news or not depends on how you look at it.

Bricks 1.9.2 beta is now available. There are updates to the Form elements with the ability to save submissions into the database, hcaptcha and turnstile integrations, and more. More form related enhancements are planned for the future. Also added is the option to set custom authentication pages for login, registration, lost and password reset.

The Plus Addons for Elementor passes 100,000 active installs. Congratulations to Sagar Patel, Aditya Sharma, and the Posimyth team.