Coming in a month, WordPress 6.6 introduces overrides in synced patterns. This brings a components-like feature to the block editor and is a very useful enhancement. In this article on the developer blog, Nick Diego gives a full walk-through of synced pattern overrides and how to use them.

For Plugin Developers – WordPress 6.6 standardizes the API for extending the Gutenberg editor so that the same API calls work in the content editor and the Site Editor. This should simplify the process of adding Gutenberg support.

During Matt Mullenweg’s Summer Update at WordCamp EU he listed eleven principles for guiding the future of WordPress. In this article James Giroux reviews the list and provides his take on them.

Matt Mullenweg’s keynote presentation from WordCamp Europe has been released. It has some interesting topics. The WordPress Playground got a number of mentions. Overall, one of the main take-aways is that he wants to open WordPress for more innovation and creativity.

An interesting question and answer session with WordCamp EU attendees. An interesting reveal in the Q&A is that there are some attempts to manipulate the statistics at the top, for the most popular plugins.

This is a very nice and easy to follow tutorial by Paul Charlton showing how to create a Bento grid layout in Bricks (and he also uses Advanced Themer).

This looks very cool. Three plugins which together provide a deep integration with Mastodon for WordPress.

Bricks 1 .9.9 was released. Some of the features include: syncing changes to global classes between editor windows (experimental), removed the experimental tag from the query sort and filter feature, speed improvements to remove lag, and an access control fix for the Contributor role.

There are some new features coming in PHP 8.4.