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.

Changes in Timber 2.0 RC. Updates and modernization. Also, you will no longer be able to install it as a plugin but will have to use Composer.

Here is a good video tutorial showing how to use Breakdance to build a landing page that has a number of advanced design features.

Kevin Powell is a great teacher and he is starting to release tutorials for beginners each Tuesday. Here is a beginner tutorial for learning HTML.