Videos of the presentations at WordCamp Sydney 2024 have been posted. It looks like the presentations there were more technical than some of the US WordCamps.

Anne McCarthy reports on the status of Gutenberg stage 3 (collaboration) in this post. It sounds like some progress is being made and we may start to see more public previews soon.

Google was found guilty of maintaining an illegal search and text advertising monopoly. Yesterday the US Department of Justice asked the court to require Google to divest of it Chrome browser. This will be decided in April.

Automattic acquires Harper. Harper is a Grammarly competitor with a privacy focus. The creator of Harper will be joining Automattic.

The PeepSo community plugin is the latest to leave the WordPress plugin directory. The reasons given are due to the revelations about WP org ownership and handing of the WP Engine dispute, as well as issues with the management of the plugin directory in general.

Its happening – JetEngine 3.6 beta has a good AI integration giving you a quick start for creating your site structure. Paul Charlton has a quick demo of how it works.

Here is a nice interview with Janessa Tran of the Meta Box team.

WordPress 6.7.1 is scheduled for Thursday. There were some issues. Apparently a big one related to loading translations.

The free Image Optimizer plugin by Elementor just passed 800,000 active installs. Congrats to the Elementor team on reaching this milestone.