Kraft Builder has another update. This one includes improvements to queries and the query builder, along with editor enhancements.

Today’s WordPress 6.4.3 update contained security patches for two minor issues in core.

The Beaver Builder team has been working on a new version 2.8 that is slated for release soon. It will include Flexbox and CSS Grid support, some global styles, and other features. They also released a Beaver wireframe kit via their Assistant Pro marketplace. It is good to see them starting to modernize the builder, though they still have a ways to go to catch up.

Matt Mullenweg shares about a new “game” at Automattic and mentions a shift in focus for WordPress com and Woo Express. It is kind of cryptic, but suggests they are adopting to the ecosystem.

The Updraft team has made another purchase, acquiring the WPGetAPI plugin, which allows you to connect to any REST API, format and display the returned data on your WordPress website.

This is the second article by Tom McFarlin about anonymous functions in WordPress. This one focuses on how to identify / find them.

A few days ago there was a web server performance comparison. Some mentioned issues with LiteSpeed and cache issues, so this article on Ars Technica caught my attention.

Five for the Future is a WordPress project program that encourages companies and individuals to contribute 5% of their resources or time to WordPress. While the program is very successful in that a number of organizations sponsor employee involvement, the program hasn’t gotten a lot of organizational attention in the past.

At a recent Community Summit a team met to review the program and identified some suggestions to help make the program more impactful. These are summarized in this make blog article.

ZipWP is adding convenience features for quick testing similar to InstaWP. In this short video we look at two ways to quickly spin up a development site for free using ZipWP.