There are a few improvements to Gutenberg that will be included in WordPess 6.8 in April.

Apparently the request to trademark “Hosted WordPress” and “Managed WordPress” was rejected.

Greenshift has been working on a modern version of their blocks called Greenlight that is lightweight and provides an advanced workflow. In this video I do a walk-through showing how to use the Greenlight blocks and I look at the new features and workflow.

It looks like the ElegantThemes team is working on adding new features into Divi 5 after all. They’re going to introducing them as “Sneak Peaks.” Today they announced the Option Group Presets, which is essentially class based preset designs.

Here is a tutorial for power users and developers on using WP_Query. WP_Query is a core WordPress helper class for interacting with the database.

GenerateBlocks 2.0.0 was released today with a number of notable dynamic features. These include Dynamic Tags that allow you to dynamically display site content anywhere inside an block HTML, the Query block in GenerateBlocks 2.0 Pro can now query and loop anything, and there is improved support for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Do you want to stop AI bots from scraping your site content? Jeff Starr has compiled a list of AI bots, currently 104. In the article he talks about ways to implement blocking them.

The WordPress 6.7.2 maintenance release is rolling out with 35 bug fixes. I’ve updated a dozen sites without issue.

The Elementor team has created a new product which is a marketing solution for WooCommerce called Send for email and SMS. It will be available for early adopter testing. It enables contact management, designing emails, and creating email campaigns. It integrates with WooCommerce and Elementor.