I recently switched from using Vivaldi to using Brave as my primary desktop browser. Brave seems faster than Vivaldi and Chrome. Here is a comparison from Mozilla.

Here is the first in a mini-series from WP Builds on the state of WordPress security. The first interview is with Calvin Alkan. Much of the episode covers ground that we’ve already posted about in the group, but there is some new info.

Here is an interesting list of websites built using WordPress from the government, business, entertainment, and celebrity categories.

Acquisition news: Cloud hosting company group.one, who owns WP Rocket and Rank Math SEO, acquired the BackWPUp, Adminimize, and Search and Replace plugins.

MainWP 4.5 was released with a number of enhancements. There is now a three level navigation system, more flexible widgets, the ability to find sites with missing plugins and themes, better permissions, etc. This 4 minute video gives an overview.

Power user tutorial – Meta Box Views is a powerful code based solution for creating templates to display dynamic data. Post relationships are an advanced feature that allows you to connect post types to show related information. This detailed tutorial combines these two features and shows how to use Meta Box Views to display fields from post types connected with a post relationship.

Crocoblock is hosting a free Agency AI Summit the 28th – 30th of September. The WPTavern has information about the event and links for signup.

Automattic made it to number 68 in the Cloud 100 with a valuation of $7.5 billion. The Cloud 100 is a list of the best private cloud computing companies. It is interesting to see the valuations of some familiar names.

We often hear about how many millions of WordPress posts are written using Gutenberg and I was curious about which block collections people are using the most. In this video I look at the top 20 most popular Gutenberg block collections by the number of active installs. I show all 20, and there is a table of contents in the video comments. There are some interesting trends found overall that are discussed in the conclusions section at the end.