There is a push in the upcoming WordPress 6.6 release to make Gutenberg styles easier to override, even reducing the specificity down to zero. If I’m reading this correctly, it appears there may be some backwards compatibility issues.

Developers have manually styled the HTML checkbox to make it look like a switch. Now a new attribute for the checkbox is proposed that will render a checkbox as a switch. Interesting, but not ready for prime time.

The Greyd WP theme was added to the WP theme directory. Funny, sad, or clever, the theme patterns that are included in the theme all advertise Greyd. The list of patterns are at the bottom of the listing.

A small maintenance release, 6.5.4, is planned for June 5th. It is to help address the issue on plugin activation that was introduced in 6.5 where nothing happens after clicking “activate” (except the button goes gray). It will provide a redirect hook.

The WordPress plugin directory raised the ceiling that shows the number of active installs from 5+ million to 10+ million. Elementor, Contract Form 7, Yoast SEO, and the Classic Editor are now in the 10+ million club.

Here is a comprehensive tutorial on creating a block from scratch. It’s fairly advanced and touches a lot of areas. The tutorial is from Ron Huereca and he chose a Gravatar block as an example to demonstrate REST calls and saving attributes.

ACF 6.3 Pro was released. It adds data validation for block fields and the ability to store block data in post meta. They are also bumped up the minimum PHP version to 7.4 and WordPress version to 6.0.

Despite the marketing hype that Google wants to help you find information on the net, Roger Montti reports that the direction is to fill the first screen of search with AI Overviews and ads. It looks like Google is intending to use our Search Engine Optimized content in its AI search summary to offer more value to advertisers.

A tutorial from the Meta Box team on how to show upcoming events using Meta Box and Bricks. There is a video version near the top of the article.