For those who haven’t worked with theme templates – Assigning the home and blog pages can be confusing for new users jumping into the Site Editor and block themes, so Jamie Marsland made this explainer video on how to do it.

A discussion for developers. Fabian Kagy of 10up talks with Wes Box and Scott Tolinski on Syntax.fm. Fabian maintains the site gutenberg.10up.com and is mainly focused on JavaScript and Block development. They catch up on WordPress, talk a bit about headless, and talk a lot about blocks. Something of a gear head discussion. I found it interesting to hear the different perspectives on WordPress and Gutenberg.

For the programmers in the group, WordPress 6.2 shipped with a new WP_HTML_Tag_Processor. In this video Aurooba Ahmed and Brian Coords discuss it and do a walk-through to explore its uses.

Recently it was announced that David Vongries was selling the Kirki Customizer Framework. Themeum has stepped up to purchase it. They are the company behind TutorLMS and Qubely.

In this video JP creates a hero section using the Spectra, Stackable, and Greenshift blocks plugins. You get a sense of the differences in user interface and ease of use.

The most popular block themes – This video looks at the differences between classic and block themes, at the top 20 block themes by the number of active installs, and at some of the reasons these themes are the most popular ones.

There is a very bad vulnerability in the free version of Essential Addons for Elementor The plugin is the most popular Elementor addon and has more than 1 million active installs. Versions 5.4.0 to 5.7.1 are vulnerable and users are urged to upgrade to the latest version which has been patched.

The founders of Yoast have invested in WPCS, which is a multitenancy, scalable WordPress as a Service or Software as a Service hosting platform. My understanding of how the service works is that your sites share a WordPress files install but each site has a different database.

WPManageNinja has updated Fluent Forms to be more modern, consistent, and usable. They now have a beta of the the new version, Fluent Forms 5, available for testing. Here is the signup form if you would like to try it out and give them feedback.