Michelle Frechette and Corey Maass are starting up a new directory, an independent product alliance where WordPress product creators can work together to cross-promote each others work and hopefully get attention and sales.

WordPress VIP has launched a free series of courses focusing on Enterprise WordPress. Currently they have courses on security, performance, and architecture and tooling.

For power users – Meta Box provides several ways to create a custom block. This tutorial from the Meta Box team tells how to create and render a custom Gutenberg block using Meta Box Views.

For block developers – Here is a coding tutorial from Misha Rudrastyh showing how to create a block variation to display custom loops.

Paul Charlton jumps ahead to look at the future of the admin dashboard based on current experiments in the Gutenberg plugin. It looks like a good step forward.

The Beaver Builder team announced changes to their packages and pricing. Beginning in September, all of the their packages will include Themer and the Beaver Builder Theme. They are also offering a lower priced single site license and raising the prices of some of the packages.

The SolidWP team has released a free performance plugin called Solid Performance.

Work on the Twenty Twenty-File theme has started. This post shares plans which seem prioritize flexibility. There are examples shown for a blog and for a photo blog.

The html-tag-processor is a core WordPress class used by developers to find and modify attributes in an HTML document. This article discusses its benefits and performance. The article is more of an informational summary than a tutorial.