This video by Paul Charlton shows the advantages of using the Core Framework for Bricks and Gutenberg together.

ACF released the results of their annual survey. There are some interesting results. For example, hybrid theme use has caught up to classic themes and Bricks is the #2 most popular builder among the respondents.

Wow, the Generate team has done it again. The alpha versions of GenerateBlocks free and pro have been released. They were totally rewritten, made ultimately performant in that every thing is rendered before saving so no front-end rendering is needed. Also there is good attention to flexibility. For example, the new Query Loop can loop over ACF repeaters and other data as well as post queries. There is a new dynamic tag system for dynamic data and it is easy to register your own. Read about these changes and watch a video overview on the announcement page.

As part of Gutenberg phase 3 a new inline commenting feature is being released in the Gutenberg plugin version of the block editor.

If a site has a plugin installed that was closed in the WP plugin directory there is no notice in the site admin, which could be a security issue. The WordPress org Experiments plugin adds the notice in the admin that users would see if they were on the dot org site.

This is a fantastic post by Marieke van de Rakt and Joost about how the community drives the success of WordPress.

People looking for headless options or WordPress options are checking out WebStudio. Here is a good video by Brendan O’Connell.

This may be of interest to some. Results of the Front End tech survey. TypeScript is well established now. I was surprised at the percentage of MacOS users.

Paul Charlton takes a first look at WebStudio. This is an option that caught the attention of a lot of us. It has support for GraphQL and RestAPI and decent support for several back-end options for headless. This video is just a quick overview.