This blog post from Tammie Lister reflects on her sponsorship to work on default themes. It gives a bit of insight into working in a sponsored position. It also is partly letting people know she is available to be sponsored.

Watermarks for AI generated content. A California law will require watermarks in the metadata for AI content, as well as clear disclosure on large social media platforms.

WordPress 6.7 is scheduled for November 12th. This post on the Make blog pulls together the list of features and enhancements currently targeted for 6.7.

The website WPHelpers by Aurooba Ahmed is an interesting resource for exploring core blocks and their properties.

WordPress has added the DataViews react component to core. It is currently being used in the Site Editor area for displaying Pages, Templates, and Patterns. In this developer blog article JuanMa Garrido shows how to use DataViews in your own projects.

In this video I look at WP Cron and the free WP Crontrol plugin. Many users don’t even know that WordPress has an event scheduler, how it works, or its limitations. However, this is good information to have, if only for troubleshooting and site maintenance purposes. The WP Crontrol plugin provides a nice interface for managing WP Cron.

Joshua Gugun Siagian created an implementation of Tailwind CSS 4 for WordPress called WindPress (previously called Yabe Siul). WindPress is lightweight, fast, and compiles in the browser, so no calls to an external server are needed. The developer has just released a free version on the WordPress plugin directory for Gutenberg, Greenshift, Kadence, and Timber. Builders such as Bricks, Breakdance, Oxygen and others require the pro version.

For plugin developers – the Gutenberg plugin has introduced the ability to register block templates using API calls which makes it easier to include templates in plugins. This feature is scheduled for inclusion in WordPress 6.7.

Frank Klein shares seven websites built using block themes. It is interesting to see the variety of designs, like the OptinMonster site