The WordPress core team announced plans for another major release in 2025. Version 6.9 was originally scheduled for next year but Matt has called for another release in 2025. It is uncertain what will be included, perhaps some projects and improvements that have already been underway? Matt mentioned in an interview that he would like to have the Admin redesign shipped this year.

Supply chain attack found in Gravity Forms. Here are the details as they are unfolding.

Jeffrey Dalrymple takes a look at the current state of Elementor’s new v.4 editor. Where are they nailing it and where is it drifting?

A German court ruled that Meta tracking pixels on third party sites violates the GDPR.

This video from Paul Charlton shows what is possible with a little PHP and a good page builder.

WordPress 6.8.2 RC 1 is available for testing. It includes 20 fixes for core and 15 for Gutenberg.

It looks like WordFence is following in Patchstack’s footsteps and is now offering a Vulnerability Management service for plugin and theme developers.

New product owners and developers wonder why their products fail to gain traction while Elementor’s numbers continue to rapidly climb. There was a time when you could launch a good product and it would sell itself by word of mouth, but the WordPress ecosystem is so large and fractured now that just sharing on Facebook and X aren’t enough. The truth is that it takes a lot of continuous marketing to break through, and that effort has to be sustained. Part of Elementor’s success was that it went outside of the Facebook bubble and marketed to designers in design publications and other places they lived. It looks like the Droip team is following that playbook. Droip has a good (sponsored) write-up in Smashing Magazine that plays to a designer audience.

Bricks has a built in option to share your own templates across sites. In this video Paul Charlton shows how easy it is to set this up and control access.