This report looks at ecommerce platform market share and we see an interesting trend. Year on year, Shopify is growing and WooCommerce is declining.

The new beta has a lot of new features, enhancements, and quality of life improvements. Some highlights are AI in the builder, a unified manager for templates and components, export and import of the full design system, customize and save builder layouts, better WooCommerce support and version 2 elements, custom CSS and style controls sync, palate colors synced to Gutenberg, and much more. Check in the change log to find videos for some of these features (like AI).

There is now an app for Apple TV and one for Android TV for watching WordPress TV on the big screen. WordPress TV is the collection of talks from WordCamps, as well as other presentations and tutorials. Here is the news on the Apple version. It is also available in the Google Play store for TV sets.

OtterBlocks got a big update. ThemeIsle added AI integration, a new design library, a new Content Slider block, updated the block conditions UI, added Turnstile spam protection to the form, now supports ACF repeater fields, and the latest version of the Block API.

Barn2 is trying an experiment, they set their Document Library Pro plugin on a WP multisite network and are offering the features of the plugin as an embedded solution.

It would be funny, if not sad, but this is the feedback that was given about the site editor way back when it had a “beta” label. In any event, I welcome the progress.

In this article Matt Cromwell pulls together information from plugin shops, annual transparency reports, seller surveys, and other sources to get a finer grained understanding of the plugin market. He looks at the vulnerabilities and where firmer footing might be found.

And another one for your watch list – Automattic releases Code for the People. This is a video about open source and WordPress.

Nothing good on Netflix? Webflow sponsored a Landing Page Challenge. Three teams compete to create the best landing page using GSAP. The link to watch the video is in the small white “WATCH” button on the left.