Dennis Yo recently released SleekPixel. It is a plugin that provides an image editor within the admin for automatically creating Featured Images and Open Graph images. This video provides a walk-through and look at the features. I’m impressed with it.

WooCommerce 9.4 adds Brands functionality into WooCommerce. This new feature provides free access to brand management, product assignment, and customization.

The new Brands feature will allow you to create and manage brands for stores and assign them to products. It works similar to how categories work and will be released end of this month.

Here is a short video from Brian Coords showing how to setup a local WordPress environment on a Mac using (all free) Laravel Herd, DBngin, and WP-Cli.

HeroPress celebrates its 10th anniversary. It is a website that highlights those who have had success through their connection with WordPress.

An article on Automattic’s trademark enforcement plans on TechCrunch.

The Kadence team did a live stream a couple of days ago. They discussed the new Advanced Header / Navigation Blocks and went over some of the features that weren’t demoed in the earlier walk-through. Ben also shared how he saw FSE going forward and he announced several upcoming new features for Kadence. These include options for gradient text, more templates, an Advanced Table block, and a new A/B Testing plugin. Looks like some good stuff coming.

The WordPress team “forked” the free Advanced Custom Fields plugin and renamed it Secure Custom Fields. To continue with Advanced Custom Fields you can download the plugin from the ACF website.

Divi 5 has another update, now with public alpha version 1. It looks like they have been optimizing the builder and working on fixing migration bugs.

This new feature of MySQL version 9 allows database administrators to create their own functions using JavaScript.