An interview with Rob Ruiz, who is the WP Rig developer. WP Rig is a flexible starter framework for WordPress theme development.

In case you missed the announcement, beginning with version 7 BlockStudio is free. BlockStudio allows you to create blocks using PHP, Twig, Blade, and JSON.

WordPress 7.0 will include the ability to create PHP-only blocks. It looks very straightforward and will empower PHP developers.

Bricks 2.2 added tools for creating and managing a CSS framework. In this video Paul Charlton shows how to create your own CSS framework in Bricks. If you are interested in using these new features then you can catch in the video how to do it.

It looks like it has been two and a half years since the last release, but that it was working well all that time. The beta includes a number of small enhancements as well as updates to the Gutenberg blocks to be ready for WordPress 7.0.

The Divi team seems to be responding to user feedback that there is a learning curve to setting up Divi 5 by offering a free “Design System”. The download includes CSS variables, presets, section and page layouts, templates, and Customizer settings.

I have avoided adding a dark mode but after reading this think maybe I should consider it. I didn’t realize the possible extent of the difference, though it depends on the user’s display.

The Patchstack team has collected and analyzed all the 2025 data about the security of the WordPress ecosystem. Their our annual report shows that attackers are getting more sophisticated, it is getting harder to clean sites, and mention is made of the fact that security procedures may need to change given the rise of AI custom code.

Joost and Karim are stepping away from the FAIR project following the inability to get hosting companies to contribute to the project.