WordPress 6.7 has been released. I’ve updated 2 sites. It seemed slow and I got an error on one site about a bad gateway, but then retried and it succeeded.

This release has a number of nice features. You can now password protect your site or particular pages, Masonry layouts are now available for all layout options, query filters now have support for custom fields, a number of new WooCommerce conditions have been added, and more. Another bit of news is that work is going well on components and they anticipate an early preview being ready before the end of the year.

Another Divi 5 update from Elegant Themes. Along with the Public Alpha Version 3 release, here’s the good news, “New bug reports have slowed down, and we are fixing new bugs faster than they are being reported, which means the end to this bug bash is in sight.”

Working with Block Themes – This article by Frank Klein considers the advantages to using a child theme vs forking the theme. The best route is a bit different with block themes than classic themes.

For product authors – This is a good discussion about hosting your themes and plugins in the WordPress directory in light of the news about the directory ownership. They discuss pros and cons as well as other options.

Automattic has published a site that tracks customers who left WP Engine and provides a downloadable list of those remaining. This is an escalation of the dispute between Automattic vs WP Engine.

Elegant Themes just released an update on their Divi 5 Alpha. Moving forward, they’re going to provide updates every 2 weeks. They’ve made over 200 fixes including to the migration system.

This video by Paul Charlton shows the advantages of using the Core Framework for Bricks and Gutenberg together.

ACF released the results of their annual survey. There are some interesting results. For example, hybrid theme use has caught up to classic themes and Bricks is the #2 most popular builder among the respondents.