The new local development environment will be called Studio. You can site up for early access when it becomes available.

WordPress Beginner has now started offering site build services. One thing interesting about this is that they have posted their pricing, which is something many don’t share up front.

The Crocoblock team has been expanding JetFormBuilder from its launch in 2020 into a full forms solution with lots of features and a number of addons. They have an overview article of its development history and discussion of its features.

Elementor introduced a new “Lite” plan that only has Elementor free. It is $36 the first year and then goes to $144 a year. They also raised pricing on the other plans.

WordPress 6.5 added support for AVIF, but it looks like using that image format may not currently be good for SEO.

Beaver Builder is celebrating their 10 year anniversary. This article has some of the backstory of the product. Beaver builder is also running a 20% off sale. Return of the Jedi?

Here are some design tips from the developer blog for creating patterns. The tips seem common-sense, but it is a good overview and checklist.

Pods 3.2 was released last week. New features include support for custom field revisions (when using meta storage) and some integration with the new Block Binding API.

Patchstack is changing their service to focus more on prevention. Beginning May 1st they plan to: 1) Discontinue the Incident Response service. 2) Change the settings controls so they will be read only on the site via the plugin, and you will change them on the central Patchstack dashboard. 3) Discontinue the Site Scanning feature that checks your sites and gave hardening suggestions.