Congratulations to Jeff Starr on the 20th anniversary of his Perishable Press website.

Oxygen 4.9 was released. It includes a new right click context menu and enhancements to the Advanced Query Builder.

Litespeed Cache is a free caching plugin which works best with a a Litespeed web server, but may work with other web servers also. It has so many options that it can be confusing to setup and configure. I’ve always used WP Johnny’s guide, but I’m not sure how often it is updated. This video is a current walk-through and is easy to follow: https://youtu.be/BxldFybE3yM

Ronald Huereca’s free plugin, WP Plugin Info Card, just got some nice updates. There are now options to show ratings, modify the title, and there is EDD integration, if you are using EDD.

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.