Another Divi 5 update from Elegant Themes. Along with the Public Alpha Version 3 release, here’s the good news, “New bug reports have slowed down, and we are fixing new bugs faster than they are being reported, which means the end to this bug bash is in sight.”

Working with Block Themes – This article by Frank Klein considers the advantages to using a child theme vs forking the theme. The best route is a bit different with block themes than classic themes.

For product authors – This is a good discussion about hosting your themes and plugins in the WordPress directory in light of the news about the directory ownership. They discuss pros and cons as well as other options.

Automattic has published a site that tracks customers who left WP Engine and provides a downloadable list of those remaining. This is an escalation of the dispute between Automattic vs WP Engine.

Elegant Themes just released an update on their Divi 5 Alpha. Moving forward, they’re going to provide updates every 2 weeks. They’ve made over 200 fixes including to the migration system.

This video by Paul Charlton shows the advantages of using the Core Framework for Bricks and Gutenberg together.

ACF released the results of their annual survey. There are some interesting results. For example, hybrid theme use has caught up to classic themes and Bricks is the #2 most popular builder among the respondents.

Wow, the Generate team has done it again. The alpha versions of GenerateBlocks free and pro have been released. They were totally rewritten, made ultimately performant in that every thing is rendered before saving so no front-end rendering is needed. Also there is good attention to flexibility. For example, the new Query Loop can loop over ACF repeaters and other data as well as post queries. There is a new dynamic tag system for dynamic data and it is easy to register your own. Read about these changes and watch a video overview on the announcement page.

As part of Gutenberg phase 3 a new inline commenting feature is being released in the Gutenberg plugin version of the block editor.