Here is a summary of today’s events and a discussion of what they might mean for the project in 2025. Is a fork, or maybe a community distro, inevitable?

Obviously the hot topic of the day is Bricks Components. Here is a nice example by Kevin Geary showing an easy use case, buttons, and why components make sense.

Here is a good demo of the new Bricks experimental Components feature by Paul Charlton. The video provides a quick overview of the feature in its current state.

The plugin version of Gutenberg, version 19.9 was released. By looking at the features released in the plugin we can see what will be included in the next WordPress release. Some of the new features include the Style Book is available for classic themes, you can now show the number of records returned when using the Query Loop block, and you can set the home page from within the Site Editor.

This is an interesting community development. Hopefully it will provide a channel for sponsoring WordPress contributions.

Bricks has released 1.12 beta. The long awaited Components feature is available for creating reusable elements, with an experimental status. You can use dynamic data in the Query Loop for include/exclude settings, there is optimized CSS loading, enhancements to the Query Filters, and more.

This report has interesting statistics derived from Cloudflare’s traffic.

The State of the Word Tokyo – a very professional presentation. Matias Ventura’s portion presenting the progress of Gutenberg is very good. They will be adding mobile responsive capabilities.

And the controversy continues! Checkout the new WordPress org login form. I hope you like pineapple on pizza.