This update includes a fair number of security fixes found as the result of an external security audit. Kudos to the ACF team for having an external audit.

WordPress is encouraging us to turn on automatic updates, but that seems a bit risky. In this video I discuss update strategies, look at a new feature coming with WordPress 6.6, and also look at the free Fatal Error Notify plugin for reporting on PHP errors.

Congratulations to the Brainstorm Force and Sure Product teams on the launch of a new plugin, SureForms.

From Kevin Powell’s podcast, his musings on the rate of adoption of different CSS features.

Meta Box is redoing its admin UI using block editor components. The goal is to achieve a more modern and more efficient yet more native look.

A very nice, beginner friendly guide to debugging JavaScript.

The WordPress dot org theme directory was refreshed and is now block based. There is no functionality differences to the previous version, but the post said that new features were coming.

Beta 1 for Oxygen 4.9 is available. It adds a right-click menu for common actions, the Advanced Query now supports multiple properties for the orderby parameter, and it is now possible to add arbitrary, custom query parameters using the Advanced Query option.

Here is a table showing the CSS options per Gutenberg block. If you compare it to the list from 6.1, which is linked in the post, it seems that most blocks got 2-3 additional style options.