WordPress org adds a memorials page to remember community contributors who’ve died.

For developers: WordPress 6.1 added the “did_filter” function to check if your filter has already been run during the current page load. It is a bit esoteric, but useful if you need it.

Are you a Crocoblock user? They have more than 40 free helper, utility plugins that extend the features of their main plugins. This article contains a link to the download page and a brief discussion of some of them.

BuddyPress to get the ability to restrict access to members only without using any additional plugin. This feature has been requested since forever. It is scheduled to be included in the next release around the end of October.

The WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, and TYPO3 projects have jointly signed a letter to the legislators of the European Union raising concerns with the proposed Cyber Resilience Act. Some terms of the proposed Act are not well defined and some provisions may be too broad in their application, which might impact the contributions to open source software.

Toolset and WPML are changing the currency for new subscriptions from US dollars to Euros. Current subscriptions don’t change. Here is the blog article from the Toolset site.

Remember that Google recently sold their domain business to Squarespace? WordPress com will pay the transfer fee for you and guarantee that prices are the same or lower than what you were paying Google.

You can now send your blog content as a newsletter from your WordPress site using Jetpack subscriptions and the new newsletter feature. It is free, but if you charge your subscribers then you pay a percentage for the service.

This article outlines three things that freelancers need from WordPress. The discussion is well balanced and makes some good points.