Gutenberg block developers say “static block” or “dynamic block.” This short article in the developer handbook explains the difference.

This report about Gutenberg phase 3 collaboration and enterprise outreach is pretty interesting. It suggests that as far enterprise goes, the Google Docs type of multi-author editing was off target.

Advanced topic about blocks – Ronald Huereca has created a tutorial on inner blocks which will be of interest to those creating blocks.

WordPress com is Automattic’s hosting platform and if you have a paid Creator plan or above then you can install WP plugins. This is a list of the most installed free plugins on dot com in 2023.

Here is a video from a Pinegrow user showing how to create the ACSS/Frames “Section Victor” layout as blocks using Prinegrow.

For developers and power users – this article by Tom McFarlin discusses how anonymous functions work in WordPress.

Related to large WooCommerce Stores – This article talks about the benefits and potential gotcha of using custom tables for Woo orders, now called High Performance Order Storage. A big gotcha is to ensure that all of your plugins are compatible with the use of the new custom table option.

Gutenberg 17.4 has been released. There are not as many new features or big features as in the past, but there seems to be attention being put on data views and style revisions. This version of Gutenberg is set to be included in core 6.5 in the March release.

I was looking at Jerry Gamblin’s compiled stats about vulnerability reporting in 2023 across all software (the report is not WP specific). It was interesting to note that PatchStack was the top reporting agency. Congrats to Oliver Sild and his team.