Along with their pitch to agencies, WP com has added a multi-site dashboard. In addition to being able to manage multiple sites, you can also see and manage your DNS records.

There was an enterprise showcase of 9 organizations that introduced WordPress along with a discussion of what / how WordPress was used.

Dave Martin is a product designer for Automattic. He created a free course on getting design feedback which includes a number of techniques and processes for feedback from different groups of people.

Ronald Huereca has a free addon that adds features to GenerateBlocks.

The Transients API is used to store information across page loads. Here is a good tutorial on the Transients API and how to use it.

Alex Denning of Ellipsis, an SEO strategy firm, shared their analysis of the Google document leak. They fed sections of the documentation to GPT-4o to get its summary and analysis. Some of the things I got from reading the article are:

• The leaked docs closely align with information that came out in the court case.
• Google assumes anything put into writing will get out.
• Google answered questions about ranking that were technically truthful, but were misleading.
• That content is very important, but that “Click is King.”

WooCommerce XSS vulnerability notice. It has been patched, so there is an update available.

Gravatar has expanded its offering to also include rich profile sharing, along the lines of LinkTree. It also have an API so that the profile info can be integrated into apps and websites.

Joost just released a new plugin, Progress Planner. Its purpose is to help website owners keep track of site-based work and to encourage it through gamification. There is a free version on WordPress org and a pro version is planned.