Question and Answer at WordCamp US with Matt Mullenweg and Josepha Haden Chomphosy. I like how they took the questions online.

The popular CSS-Tricks website appears to have died by acquisition.

In this short video Kevin Powell shows how to use CSS Grid to help with absolute positioning of elements.

Automattic has just introduced a 100 year hosting plan. It is a good gift for a new born or if you want to preserve your online legacy. Pricing is only $38,000.

The results of the 2023 WordPress hosting performance benchmarks are available. The tests are run across 21 hosting providers and several pricing points from less than $25 to more than $500. There was testing for both WordPress and WooCommerce hosting.

Scott Kingsley Clark has restarted the Fields API project with the help of some interested developers. The idea, as I understand it, is rather than have each vendor create their own API for managing custom fields, that there be a core version that vendors could then build off of.

There was some outlining the project during the Contributor Day at WPUS. It is a long road to get something like this added to core.

Jamie Marsland hosted Kevin Geary in a discussion about Gutenberg and Page Builders. It is a wide-ranging and very interesting talk.

Joost de Valk and Marike van de Rakt have joined Post Status as equity partners.

This post on the Make block introduces the Twenty Twenty-Four Theme. Unlike recent themes, it will be more general use and less opinionated. The theme was designed by Beatriz Fialho, who is a designer and an Automattic sponsored member of the Themes Team. There are screenshots and a short video in the post.