Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, announced at DrupalCon Portland a new initiative called Starshot. It appears to be their response to WordPress and their plan to regain leadership.

This is a nice interview between Davinder Singh Kainth and Michelle Frechette. Davinder shares his WordPress story, talks about his community involvement, and projects.

The latest version of Pods is a security release. Hotfixes for various Pods versions are available.

Toolset has a maintenance release with PHP and WordPress 6.5 compatibility fixes, as well as some minor enhancements. It looks like it may not be rolling out via automatic updates, so you may need to manually initiate the update from within the admin.

A minimalist plaintext WordPress theme. This one looks like a Classic theme. I imagine you can do something similar with block themes.

ActivePieces is getting some attention in the WordPress community. It is an open source Zapier-like app for building automation flows. In this video Brendan O’Connell demos using the REST API with ActivePieces to grab some posts from one site and publish them on another. He has another video on the topic that follows this first one.

A WordPress e-Commerce store without using WooCommerce? Paul Charlton shows how to do it using Fluent Forms Pro.

In the “it’s not even the weekend” category, I just played DOOM via the WordPress Playground.

For those who prefer code – Here is a tutorial on how to use Meta Box Views to create a reading progress bar. There is a video version near the top of the written version.