Acquisition – Barn2, developer of a number of WooCommerce plugins, sold of them 7 to Kestrel so that they could focus on the best performing ones.

The other shoe just dropped – Automattic has been selling user data for years from .com and also from .org sites that use JetPack.

Yesterday Crocoblock released JetEngine v3.4.0. The release includes a number of additions that enhance existing features as well as some fixes. There were a few Bricks specific items.

Following on the announcement that Automattic is in negotiations to sell user content from Tumblr and WordPress com, Morten Rand-Hendriksen asks 10 pointed questions about data ownership.

For Developers – This article was published for Laravel, but the need to secure your Webhooks and the method to do so also applies to WordPress.

A course on the UX of search by Vitaly Friedman. Recommended.

The latest update post about Divi 5 discusses how the bugs in Divi 4 won’t be fixed as it is a new codebase.

An alpha version of GenerateBlocks brings global styles completely redone, allowing advanced selectors, multiple classes per element, huge collection of wireframes in the local patterns library. CSS grid added, custom breakpoints, and more.

Some small plugin businesses share their experience and thoughts on getting started.