Remember ProjectHuddle? It has been rebranded as SureFeedback and the plugin is being updated and expanded. Here is the announcement:

WooCommerce team is going all in on the “blockification” of WooCommerce. To help in communicating these changes they have started to share monthly updates, or “extensibility snaps.” I noticed from the comments in the October update that it appears that 3rd party developers may need to re-integrate their plugins to work with the new blocks.

I’m not sure that confetti qualifies as a productivity tool 🙂 but this plugin adds a couple of features to the new command palette such as color code format conversion and the ability to evaluate math expressions. I expect we will soon see a few full-fledged toolboxes for the command palette.

Here is a tutorial from the Meta Box team showing how to create reusable banners using Bricks and Meta Box.

Brian Gardner, who is a well known theme creator, has gone all in on block themes. In this video he shows how to create a home page using Gutenberg and the Site Editor. The video might be of interest to people who are not familiar with creating layouts with these tools.

This is a rather long article detailing one team’s look at animations and accessibility. I thought it was interesting how they classified animations and approached the different groups.

WordFence launches a bug bounty program to reward researchers within the program’s parameters. This competes with Patchstack which already has a program. Unfortunately, the WordFence CEO takes a swipe at Patchstack … I prefer when WordPress companies seek to cooperate.

Automattic had big plans for revitalizing Tumblr, but despite burning through a lot of cash, they haven’t been able to successfully monetize it. From a leaked memo it appears that Automattic is pulling back on resources. Here is the discussion on Mastodon.

Here is an interesting study comparing the usability of single page, multi-page, and conversational forms. The study was done in a health care context, which may not apply everywhere.