And the controversy continues! Checkout the new WordPress org login form. I hope you like pineapple on pizza.

This article argues that always available support is essential for hosting companies, especially for agencies. Not all options have support available at all times, especially VPS control panel providers. Note that this article did make me think of AI writers, but it seems the points are good.

Here is a great and easy to follow talk on the European Accessibility Act, the upcoming requirements, and what you can do. Note it is not totally safe for work.

Joost shares what he sees as the drivers of platform adoption and what he would prioritize for the WordPress roadmap. One conclusion of his is that if it wasn’t for Elementor and WooCommerce then WordPress would have been losing market share.

While this article clarifies the differences between Classic, Hybrid, and Block themes, its real value is in the excellent summary of features available for block themes and how to access them.

Oxygen 4.9.1 is mainly a fix release, but it does have a new feature, the ability to copy and paste display conditions between elements.

This tutorial shows how to create your own countdown timer using Meta Box Views and JavaScript.

Automattic announces the acquisition of WPAI. The WPAI team of James LePage, Greg Hunt, and Ovidiu Galatan will be joining Automattic and working on integrating AI into core.

Oooh Boi of Elementor fame made lots of videos showing how to achieve layouts and effects with Elementor. He has released a couple of Bricks videos. Here is one showing how to add some text effects with Bricks. He goes step by step to show how to do it for 3 or 4 items, but the idea is pretty straightforward once you see the process.