This tutorial shows how to use core Gutenberg blocks to add some advanced design and styling effects. It would be especially useful for people who are not using a third party block collection, but would still like to enhance the content’s visual appeal.

If you want to make an SVG logo, this is a good beginner video from Kay of the Brainstorm Force team. It shows how to create a logo using free Canva and free Affinity Studio. The only thing I would change in the video is at the end when you you export for WordPress I would export as an SVG since WebP doesn’t scale.

The Ollie Theme, it seems one of the the only block themes innovating, has added a class manager inside the editor.

Divi has released a new feature for Divi 5, Divi Canvases. Canvases are good for creating popups, off-canvases panels, and mega menus.

A discussion of the State of the Word event, AI in WordPress and Elementor, and the future directions of Elementor.

If you have been following the development of EtchWP then this end of your roundup will be of interest. There is a review of recent developments, a demo of the new contextually aware CSS actions panel, and discussion of the roadmap. The stream begins with props to the team, and a discussion of the old ways. The roundup begins around the 21-22 minute point and continues until about the 2 hour mark. After that there are some demos.

Interested in a deep dive into WordPress security? Group member Tai Hoang has created a WordPress Security Handbook that he would like to share. He has packed in a lot of information.

Ovidiu Maghetiu, the creator of WP Code Box, has been working on a new project, PhantomWP. It is an editor and site building framework for creating headless WordPress sites using Astro. It has a lot of features built in, including Git deployment. Here is a video overview.

Breakdance 2.6 was released. New features and enhancements include button presets with version history, performance improvements, some integrations with other plugins, and more.