Spectra reaches the 1 million active installs milestone! It is the first Gutenberg block collection to do so. Congratulations to the Spectra team and Brainstorm Force.

Advanced Themer 2.9 released. Incredible update with new features for working with CSS, variables, colors, code, AI, as well as new search and add functionality.

Mary Hubbard is the new Executive Director of the WordPress.org.

Slim SEO is a free lightweight plugin that helps you optimize your site and content for SEO with minimal configuration. The team just released version 4 which allows you to use dynamic tags in your meta titles and descriptions. Here is a video that looks at the features.

Here is an informative and well presented presentation by Andrey Shevchenko, CTO of Crocoblock, on planning your project data structures. It covers a lot of the areas where people often question when you should use a custom table or meta fields, as well as when you should use taxonomies or meta fields.

Jason Bahl, the author of WPGraphQL joins Automattic where he will be developing WPGraphQL into a canonical plugin.

An update is available for a security vulnerability. You need to follow instructions for updating due to the ACF team being unable to update the plugin on WordPress org.

Akshat Choudhary, founder of BlogVault, creates an open source WordPress update mirror called Morpheus.

Sarah Gooding, who was for a long time an author at the WPTavern, shares her take on WordPress and the current conflict with WP Engine.