Note that this report is based on search volume, which is much different than usage. It says that demand for WordPress is up 11.3%, but for WooCommerce only 1%. It also says that there are a million searches a month for plugins and that expensive and fast hosting remains one of the most valuable parts of the WordPress economy.

For Developers: This is a very cool video by Brian Coord showing how to add custom settings to an already existing block. The example shown walks-through adding some responsive block settings to do different visibility options at different sizes.

Matt Mullenweg launched JetPack AI Assistant on Product Hunt. The feature will be $10 a month subscription.

Breakdance 1.3 was recently released. It includes a number of new features such as easy Isotope filtering for the loop element, WooCommerce conditions, WooCommerce custom product loops, enhancements to the Query Builder, accessibility enhancements and more.

Bricks 1.8 was released yesterday with the anticipated mega menu builder. It is a big release with lots of other small additions and fixes.

The Dynamic.000 team has been working on a new product that has a lot of promise. It is a magic tag type of syntax for accessing dynamic data and the idea is that we can use it in Gutenberg and page builders. Paul Charlton just made a short video about it.

What a difference a couple of years makes. Today Flexbox layout controls are widely available and they were added to a recent version of Stackable Blocks.

Are you using Figma to create your WordPress designs? Here is an open source set of wireframes for creating your WordPress designs in Figma.

Jamie Marsland has published an interesting video interview with Matt Mullenweg on the topic of AI.