WordPress org will be moving to Matrix for chat and group discussions. The move has started now with single sign on using your WP org login and a Slack / Matrix bridge so that you can login on either side. There are several Matrix clients, so there will be some choice. This is discussed in this post on the Make blog.

NASA has used WordPress for its blogs. Now they are moving their main site to WordPress. Here is the beta version.

The Classic Press team is considering options for updating and maintaining compatibility with WooCommerce. It doesn’t sound like a happy situation.

The latest version of the Gutenberg plugin, 16.3, added some features for working with patterns. These won’t be included in the forthcoming 6.3 release of WordPress, but will be in 6.4

In this video Paul C considers several solutions for custom fields that are ACF alternatives.

This is a good overview and tutorial for using the functions.php file.

In this chat summary of the core performance team they discuss the impact of loading translations. I had no idea of the performance impact, but it makes sense

I wonder that their possible solutions have no mention on the future Guteberg stage, though maybe that is too far in the future for consideration?

Bricks 1.8.4 has been released. One cool new features is the Bricks Elements Conditions API. You can use it to do display condition filtering sever-side so that elements are not included in the frontend output, which is good for membership and other sites where content needs to be restricted.

Information about the WordPress playground, with tips and links to resources on how to use it.