Cloudflare’s year in review is an interesting browse to see what technologies are being used. It shows WordPress as 47% of sites using a Content Management System.

Here is an interesting update on Real-time Collaboration. This feature set is slated for WordPress 7.0 and has been in testing with WordPress VIP customers. For the most part the feedback has been very good.

WordPress 7.0 will require all blocks to be at Version 3 in block.json. This is coming very soon, so Ronald Huereca updated his guide on Version 3, along with a few examples of how to resolve third-party script issues. If you’re a block developer, now is the time to opt in and test your blocks.

Curious what was popular during Black Friday? Here are the top 10 sellers according to a poll in the WPLTDS Facebook group. There was at least one surprise.

This discussion on WP Product Talk is very relevant given the recent push back on the Bricks 2.2 beta. Melissa Love started as an add-on developer for Divi and now develops for the Kadence ecosystem. Zack Katz is the creator of GravityKit, an add-on for Gravity Forms. Katie Keith from Barn2 creates add-ons for WooCommerce. They touch on pretty much all angles related to building on top of another product, well worth a watch.

Oxygen 6 Beta 5 was just released. It includes a number of fixes but also adds new Grid alignment icons, inline editing for Text Link, and CSS variable support for Opacity.

A discussion of common issues and possible hotfixes for WordPress 6.9

Core contributors, Matt, and Mary had a meeting to brainstorm ideas for WordPress 7.0. They are listed in this post. It gives an idea of what ~might~ be in 7.0. I was interested to see that the possibility of creating blocks with PHP is on the radar.

I always liked the idea of Post Formats, but I’ve probably only used them a couple of times. One of the nicest implementations was Justin Tadlock’s Stargazer theme. Over the years the feature hasn’t been highlighted or promoted and with block themes even more so. Now Courtney Robertson released a Post Formats for Block Themes plugin. One enhancement is that the Chat format includes an integrated Chat Log block that nicely displays chat logs. She tells about the plugin in this post. There are links there to the github repo and the WordPress org page.