Automattic announced a 100 year hosting plan. Today Matt shared that there have been zero sales. Surprised?

On X Matt Mullenweg suggests that non-Gutenberg based site builders will have more user churn and have to raise prices more often. I’m guessing Matt was referring to Elementor’s recent price change in the tweet.

True or false — Gutenberg based site builders will have greater user retention?

Congratulations to the Kadence team. Kadence Blocks just hit 400,000+ active installs!

Elementor is changing their packages and pricing beginning on December 4th. The changes are not just about the number of sites, but also functionality. For example, the lowest tier, the Essential plan, will have not support for custom fields, advanced form features, popups, and so on. There is more information in the plan comparison table in the middle of the article. If you are already on the Essential plan then you won’t lose any features, but you may not get new features that are released for higher plans.

Here is a good discussion between Dave Foy and Josh Hall. Talking about page builders and Bricks.

The Core Framework team just released version 1.3 which includes CSS variable and class previews and autocomplete drop downs for Bricks and Oxygen. Here is the full changelog.

To celebrate Black Friday / Cyber Monday the IndyStack team is hosting a knowledge event where each day they will have an industry expert present on a topic of interest to the community. The event runs November 20-24.

A change was made in WordPress 6.4 to how the main loop is handled in block themes. This might impact blocks that use the query loop.

LatePoint is a full featured booking plugin for WordPress. It was previously sold only on CodeCanyon but now the makers of the Astra theme, Brainstorm Force, have invested in it and are integrating it into their lineup. This video is a quick look at LatePoint so you can see the types of features it offers.