The Meta Box team released a couple of updates that include syncing block JSON to the Meta Box Builder and rendering blocks using Meta Box Views.

In this video Brian Coords show the improvements to the Block Binding API. In the first half of the video he shows how it looks in the editor and in the second half he shows the code needed to implement it.

Amber Hinds tests the accessibility of a number of page builders.

Some stats collected by Joost regarding market share over time.

In case you missed it, Google Analytics version 3 is end of life and beginning July 1st that data will no longer be available. You can download the data before the 1st if you want to keep access to it. Otherwise you should have already migrated the GA for your sites to version 4.

This site is an example of CSS animation. It it uses clip path polygons to create animal shapes. Pretty cool example of what can be done with some of the emerging CSS animation support and things like polygons. Web kit browsers have full support (for polygons), it’s limited in Firefox. There is a how it’s made page that describes the technique.

The Beaver Builder team released a developer update with new features for testing for Beaver Builder 2.9 and Themer 1.5. It is a long and very interesting list, including a Loop Module, Modules as Blocks, and optimizations.

Wondering about options for using WordPress as a back-end? Corcel might be an interesting option.

The Plugin Review team has reset the passwords for plugin authors. It appears some recent plugin vulnerabilities may have been the result of password reuse.