Munir Kamal runs the Gutenberg Hub shop where they sell block plugins. In this video David McCan takes a look at the Better YouTube Embed plugin, which offers an easy performance boost.

This is a good discussion with Mark Westguard about starting and running the WS Form plugin business. It provides an interesting take on launching a product, how he approaches marketing, pricing, and challenges.

This post on the Make blog summarizes user feedback and experience from Full Site Editor testing. The majority of the usability feedback and bug reports focused on the Navigation block and confusion about the separation of template creations and content creation.

Here is a proposal to retire older default core WordPress themes. Note that even retired core themes would still receive security updates.

Here is a full walk-through by Imran Siddiq creating a website using Bricks, GridbuilderWP, and RankMath. It is a 3 hours and 21 minutes video with nothing left out. If you want to get your feet wet with Bricks then this would be a good place to start.

Another casualty of AI code generation, Stack Overflow reports a loss in traffic.

Of interest for those who believe less is more – In this short video Kevin Powell shows how little CSS you actually need to get a responsive and decent looking webpage.

For those who haven’t worked with theme templates – Assigning the home and blog pages can be confusing for new users jumping into the Site Editor and block themes, so Jamie Marsland made this explainer video on how to do it.

A discussion for developers. Fabian Kagy of 10up talks with Wes Box and Scott Tolinski on Syntax.fm. Fabian maintains the site gutenberg.10up.com and is mainly focused on JavaScript and Block development. They catch up on WordPress, talk a bit about headless, and talk a lot about blocks. Something of a gear head discussion. I found it interesting to hear the different perspectives on WordPress and Gutenberg.