The release of WordPress 6.6 is about 3 week away and the release field guide is out. There are a large number of features and changes across a wide range of areas.

Thinking of trying out the Site Editor? Mike Hindle tried an experiment and used the Twenty Twenty-Four theme for a simple business site. He shares the pain points he encountered and how he addressed them.

Elementor has started offering ecommerce hosting plans.

This updates fixes two cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities and a path traversal issue.

This update includes a fair number of security fixes found as the result of an external security audit. Kudos to the ACF team for having an external audit.

WordPress is encouraging us to turn on automatic updates, but that seems a bit risky. In this video I discuss update strategies, look at a new feature coming with WordPress 6.6, and also look at the free Fatal Error Notify plugin for reporting on PHP errors.

Congratulations to the Brainstorm Force and Sure Product teams on the launch of a new plugin, SureForms.

From Kevin Powell’s podcast, his musings on the rate of adoption of different CSS features.

Meta Box is redoing its admin UI using block editor components. The goal is to achieve a more modern and more efficient yet more native look.