Wow! Automattic plans to migrate Tumblr onto WordPress.

Alex Denning from Ellipsis talks about Google’s monopoly and how Google is slowing down the rollout of AI.

JetEngine 3.5 introduced components and the feature is supported for any builder that JetEngine supports. This article provides a good overview of components and how one might use them. It is not really a tutorial on creating them.

ACF 6.3.6 is a security related updated that hardens security for shortcode use.

It has a CVSS Score of 9.9. It seemed that the Wordfence team had a hard time getting a response from On the Go.

Bricks released an update to version 1.10.2 that includes a number of enhancements and fixes. There are some nice quality of life enhancements. For example, the save button state to indicate when a change has been made, element breadcrumbs in the builder, fixes to avoid panel shift when editing.

The Astra theme just got a Style Guide in the Customizer. You build out your Style Guide as you fill in or complete sections in the Customizer. A nice idea.

Here is a useful video from Paul Charlton showing how to use ChatGPT or an online code generator to create a custom plugin.

Congratulations to Jeff Starr on the 20th anniversary of his Perishable Press website.