In this article in Smashing Magazine, Temani Afif shows how to use CSS clip-path and math functions to create various CSS shapes.

There was a retrospective survey of participants in the WordPress 6.5 release. For the first time the anonymous responses of the teams were made public (previously there was a summary). It is very interesting to note the comments about leadership or lack of it. Issues around the Font Library got a number of mentions. Here is the spreadsheet for those who are curious.

Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, announced at DrupalCon Portland a new initiative called Starshot. It appears to be their response to WordPress and their plan to regain leadership.

This is a nice interview between Davinder Singh Kainth and Michelle Frechette. Davinder shares his WordPress story, talks about his community involvement, and projects.

The latest version of Pods is a security release. Hotfixes for various Pods versions are available.

Toolset has a maintenance release with PHP and WordPress 6.5 compatibility fixes, as well as some minor enhancements. It looks like it may not be rolling out via automatic updates, so you may need to manually initiate the update from within the admin.

A minimalist plaintext WordPress theme. This one looks like a Classic theme. I imagine you can do something similar with block themes.

ActivePieces is getting some attention in the WordPress community. It is an open source Zapier-like app for building automation flows. In this video Brendan O’Connell demos using the REST API with ActivePieces to grab some posts from one site and publish them on another. He has another video on the topic that follows this first one.

A WordPress e-Commerce store without using WooCommerce? Paul Charlton shows how to do it using Fluent Forms Pro.