The recent ACF 6.3 expanded the conditional logic options for showing and hiding fields. Imran Siddiq has a short video that shows the enhancement.

WooCommerce 9.0 Beta is scheduled for release tomorrow. This summary article lists the forthcoming changes.

Breakdance is preparing version 2.0 with a lot of new features. In this video David McCan looks at two that he thinks will be popular: migration mode and the new layout builder. The new migration mode appears to be unique and innovative.

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.