Divi 5 Update: The team focused on speed improvements and Divi 5 uses less memory and is much faster.

Patchstack has released a new report on the state of WordPress security. There is a lot of interest and the report is a bit different that previous ones in that it talks about some of the exploits as examples in different categories.

The Core Framework provides a user interface for creating and managing your CSS framework. The free version of the Core Framework is now available in the WordPress plugin directory. Congrats to the Core Framework team.

Many of the features of SASS have been incorporated into vanilla CSS. Though browser support is not universal enough, CSS is actively evolving. BTW, this topic came up on Kevin Geary’s WDD live yesterday and he mentioned that using variables in media queries is a features that SASS provides that modern CSS is still lacking.

If you don’t mind a little code, Meta Box Views is a secret power tool. In this video the Meta Box team shows how to create an author box that you can display on your content pages.

This is a tutorial on how to create an admin settings page using React components.

Brian Coords is kind of thinking out loud in this post where he plans his next project which will use a block theme and the Site Editor.

Woo will use the new block theme Pattern Assembler UI to provide customization options during onboarding.

A Block API was introduced in WordPres 6.4 and is being expanded in 6.5. It adds features similar to some of the hooks available for Classic themes. In this post Nick Diego gives a brief overview and provides a number of examples showing how to use it.