The companion plugin for the Ollie Theme is now available from the developer’s website. It includes the setup wizard that was removed so it would be accepted into the theme directory.

This is a good developer focused discussion of the differences between using admin/ajax, the WP RestAPI, or a must use plugin.

The new showcase page on WordPress org has been released. It was built using Gutenberg. It is attractive and you can click on any site thumbnail to go a page with more information.

Matt Mullenweg will give the State of the Word address this year from Madrid on December 11.

This looks pretty cool. Kinsta is offering free hosting for up to 100 static sites. It looks like they have put a lot into this initiative. Their article has pretty good getting started information.

Elegant Theme has just launched their Divi Code AI. Very cool stuff for the Divi faithful.

FluentBooking is a new WordPress plugin from the WPManageNinja team. The video provides a walk-through of this scheduling solution that would work well for trainers, coaches, sales, and others who need to offer paid or free sessions.

Jamie Marsland had an interesting conversation with the Human Made team about the TechCrunch $1 million dollar website.

Today Themeum announced their plans to retire several of their products and focus on TutorLMS, Droip, and WP Crowdfunding.