Rob Cairns has an interesting discussion with Dennis Dornon, co-founder of MainWP. They talk about how MainWP got started, viability of lifetime licenses, hosting, security, and what’s coming with MainWP.

There is a very ambitious set of goals and projects envisioned for WordPress 6.3, which is scheduled for August 8th, 2023.

Plans include adding a navigation section to the Site Editor, adding a styles section, enhancements to blocks and possibly adding some new blocks, expanding pattern management, UI refinements, and performance gains.

Yikes! – Note that WordPress 6.2.1 removes support for shortcodes in block theme templates. Apparently this was part of one of the security fixes. There are a couple of work-arounds mentioned in the thread.

This video walks through the new changes to the Stackable Inspector UI. They have better organized the controls, added some additional styling options, and tried to streamline the process of using blocks.

The Brizy team has released some tutorials and courses featuring Brizy WP and Brizy Cloud. Topics include things like building a landing page, a resume website, and a full Brizy Cloud tutorial. This is a great idea.

Gutenberg developers are asking for feedback on a proposed “Command Center” feature, which is a popup navigator activated using a keyboard combination. There is a short video in the post.

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.