It is good to see that attention is being paid to improve performance. The tests were of even very basic installs / configurations. I’m guessing this means that 6.3 will come with another performance boost.

Jamie Marsland poses the question, has the plugin version of Gutenberg served its purpose and is it time now to close it out and move on?

Many of us are using MariaDB and a new health check plugin was created at CloudFest Germany. This plugin displays information about the health of your database and optimizations you can run.

This is a tutorial for developers on adding patterns for the Query Loop block.

This is an excellent and thorough overview of Accessibility and WordPress by Cory Miller. It is the best single article on the subject that I’ve seen. A good discussion of what to consider and what decisions need to be made.

Automattic has released a local development environment that runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows. It is called “wp-now” and it can launch a new development site in seconds. It uses NodeJS, WebAssembly, and SQLite to run WordPress in the browser.

Are you consciously chosing a minimalist design, or just shooting for performance gains? This short article provides an overview of the pros and cons of minimalist design.

Interested in block development – this tutorial shows how to create a dynamic block using the RestAPI and the useEntityRecords to get a listof pages. It is a complete tutorial and you should be able to create a working block by following it.

The Meta Box team has released a new feature. Sometimes you are in a chicken / egg situation where say, for example, you have 2 related post types “book author” and “book.” If you are adding a new book and the author doesn’t exist then you can’t add the relation until you create a record in both Custom Post Types. This new feature allows you to add a new record in a popup to lessen workflow interruption.