Here is a great overview of 2025 theme and of a few useful features coming in WordPress 6.7.

This is a cool color palette generator that shows the color shades in an alert box where you can check the color contrast for accessibility.

An overview of a new tool, WPCodeBox IDE. It is currently in beta and only available for WPCodeBox owners. The plugin installs a feature rich file manager and IDE into your site.

The Kadence team held their annual Amplify event yesterday. At the end Ben Ritner shared about a new plugin being developed called Kadence Insights. It is used in the Gutenberg editor for A/B testing. Of course it works with Kadence Blocks but is a separate plugin and works with any blocks. Much of the presentation is how to do an A/B test and a look at the UI. It reminds me of If-So.

The dispute between WP Engine on the one side and Automattic and Matt Mullenweg on the other, is spilling into the mainstream now. The BBC reports on the dispute and how it is bringing uncertainty and risk to WordPress businesses.

Of interest to developers and those working with code, JetBrains has now released 4 of their tools for free (not open source) for non-commercial use. This includes: WebStorm IDE for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript related development. Rider IDE for .NET and game development. Aqua IDE for test automation. RustRover and IDE for Rust developers.

This podcast interview with Miriam Schwab and Oliver Sild might be of interest to developers interested in the free Patchstack managed Vulnerability Disclosure Program. They discuss how the program works and how it is of benefit to theme and plugin developers.

The WordPress theme directory reaches a major milestone with 1,000 block themes. It has been a while coming, but the number of submissions seems to have picked up.

For developers, ACF Free and Pro can now be installed using Composer.