A huge congratulations to the Kadence team. The Kadence Theme topped 300,000 active installs!

Here is a cool video from Anne McCarthy showing a new feature for synced patterns coming to WordPress 6.5. It allows you to set on a block by block basis the ability to customize the content of individual instance while keeping the overall layout intact.

The WordPress Foundation released a summary report for 2023. It shows an increase in WordCamps, MeetUps, attendees, speakers, organizers, etc over 2022.

Bricks Builder 1.9.6 was released. It includes sort, fact filters, and live search, among other features and fixes. These features a labeled as experimental.

Kadence released version 2.3.0 of Kadence Blocks Pro. It includes and impressive list of improvements for the Advanced Query Loop block.

Beaver Builder just released v2.8. The main new features include: -Support for Flexbox and CSS Grid -Global Colors and Global Elements -A NorthCommerce Module -Popup Maker Integration

Here is a helpful guide on click / tap target sizes for use when designing interactive elements. It is common-sense, but sometimes overlooked. I like that it mentions specific pixel sizes and has examples of how to make the target larger.

Here is a nice article looking at some custom field plugins. Congrats to Mauro Cassani for the inclusion of ACPT.

Matias Ventura has proposed a directory of stand-alone core blocks supported by the WordPress core team. What do you think?