Here is a mildly interesting analysis of the WordPress plugin directory looking at stats related to reviews, tags, ratings, and status.

Meta Box has a Bricks tutorial on how to show an author bio.

For Elementor users – Amit Keren of Unlimited Elements has released a new Layers Widget that makes it easy to overlap images to create image layouts, without the need to use negative margins or absolute positioning. Here is the announcement post.

For Theme Developers – Justin Tadlock has a tutorial on how to add page and template starter patterns to your theme.

There is a proposal to update the guidelines for plugin reviews to allow pro-related reviews, perhaps in some cases.

Patchstack created a page summarizing WordPress vulnerability statistics.

For developers – In this article Tanner Record talks about the benefits of PHP autoloading in WordPress plugins and how to do it.

Great discussion of the new Tailwind integration in Cwicly, ACSS, and the problem with page builders

This video is an overview and walk-through of xCloud, a new control panel for managing virtual private servers (VPS) and WordPress websites. Users interested in advanced WordPress hosting options may find the video useful. There are a few days left on their launch LTD pricing.