This article by Jeremy Holcombe provides a very thorough look at using the theme.json file for creating your own block theme and for customizing blocks. It is a good resource for power users and theme authors.

The 22nd issue of the WP Perspectives Newsletter has been published.

Here is a great post from Joost that provides some insight into the current conflict with WP Engine.

The public alpha of Divi 5 has been released. It is not yet feature complete and has not been bug checked, but it is the first opportunity to give Divi 5 a spin on a testing site.

The Elementor team is continuing to expand their offerings. They are now offering services for things like site migration, setting up lead magnets, or malware cleanup.

SolidWP has acquired the WP-SMTP plugin. The plugin has 80,000+ active installs. They have rebranded it as Solid Mail.

For power users – Here is an overview and guide for using WP-CLI, the WordPress command line interface. There are a good number of commands built in and a number of plugins add their own WP-CLI commands also.

This is a free course on how to builder a WooCommerce store website using the free Kadence theme.

The plugin review team has released a plugin that runs a number of checks on plugins to help identify the types of issues found during the plugin review process. This helps plugin authors find and fix issues prior to submitting them for review.