Congratulations to the WPDeveloper team on Essential Addons for Elementor reaching 2 million+ active installs. There have been some security issues and advertising in the admin, but the WPDeveloper team obviously knows how to find the balance between ease of use, features, and price to please users and grow the product.

With events like Cwicly stopping new development, there is a tendency to not trust smaller development teams or the creative single developer. Paul Charlton discusses this in a short video.

Bricks 1.9.7 was just released. This release focuses on security enhancements. There is a minor security fix, but mostly it focuses on hardening. The announcement gives a full rundown on the changes and how to upgrade, as extra steps may be necessary.

Here is an interview with Josepha Haden Chomphosy about her role as the Executive Directory of the WordPress Foundation. It is not ground breaking and it doesn’t provide any details the future, but it is interesting in that it provides some insight to how she sees the project.

Here is a process overview article on the Delicious Brains blog about creating custom block using React and using ACF. It does not go into depth but links to resources for various steps.

Cedric, the author of BricksProps, does a deep dive into BEM and how to use it.

Rich Tabor shares some thoughts on the “composability” of block themes.

Adam Lowe has shared his premium course on YouTube for free. It goes in-depth on how to create a classic theme using Pinegrow. It is a great resource on creating a classic theme and on Pinegrow.