The public alpha of Divi 5 has been released. It is not yet feature complete and has not been bug checked, but it is the first opportunity to give Divi 5 a spin on a testing site.

The Elementor team is continuing to expand their offerings. They are now offering services for things like site migration, setting up lead magnets, or malware cleanup.

SolidWP has acquired the WP-SMTP plugin. The plugin has 80,000+ active installs. They have rebranded it as Solid Mail.

For power users – Here is an overview and guide for using WP-CLI, the WordPress command line interface. There are a good number of commands built in and a number of plugins add their own WP-CLI commands also.

This is a free course on how to builder a WooCommerce store website using the free Kadence theme.

The plugin review team has released a plugin that runs a number of checks on plugins to help identify the types of issues found during the plugin review process. This helps plugin authors find and fix issues prior to submitting them for review.

The Query Loop block is one of the most powerful core blocks. I like how they released support for Post lists with a flexible loop block instead of a more monolithic block with just a few set layouts. WordPress 6.7 is due out in November and will include a number of refinements and improvements to the Query Loop block to make it easier and more intuitive.

Kevin Geary suggests that WordPress should have a funding model and vision rather than rely on the principle of a commons supported solely though donations.

A topic from the past for plugin developers – Many plugins leave their database entries behind when they are deleted from the website. WordPress has an uninstall hook and will run an uninstall.php if it exists. These provide a cleanup option.