In this engaging video Kathy Zant and Thomas Raef have a discussion about the theft of session cookies, which is becoming more prevalent, and what you can do about it.

This is an interesting video from Jamie Marsland. He recreates the look of 10 websites using the block editor. The video is kind of long, but there are chapters in the description. Note that he is recreating “the look” and not the website functionality.

The fact that Taylor Swift’s website is using WordPress means that the CMS wars are over 🙂 The fact that it is poorly done technically means that everyone who is honing their site building skills can, on some level, do a better job than the celebrity agency that made her site.

Cwicly has added a new system from creating and managing your color palettes.

A bit of a toot of their own horn, but one has the feeling that the WordPress leadership doesn’t give much credence to the “extender” community. This post from HumanMade outlines some of the ways agencies help the WordPress project.

This might be of interest to Elementor users: A performance webinar with Google, 10up, and Elementor. I guess when you have Elementor’s market share you can get help from Google.

Automattic acquires the universal messaging app Texts.

The Field Guide for WordPress 6.4 is now available. We’ve covered most of the features and changes that are coming, but here is a good summary if you haven’t been following it.

The LiteSpeed Cache plugin had a security issue that has been patched. Update if you haven’t already.

Anne McCarthy has been gathering feedback related to phase 3 of Gutenberg, working collaboratively. There is some good feedback here and perhaps a sense of what might come in phase 3.