Shahjahan Jewel shared a personal, product, and company review of 2023 with some hints of some new things coming this year. Congrats to Shahjahan and the WPManageNinja team.

The Core Framework team has just opened their marketing place for UI kits and templates. At launch there are two offerings for Oxygen.

There are a number of new features coming to WordPress this year. This video mentions 10 updates to watch for.

This is a short tutorial on how to setup a GitHub repository.

The Theme Handbook is undergoing a significant overhaul in 2024, with a focus on modern block theme development. The project aims to refresh the handbook content and has made substantial progress, publishing or drafting almost two-thirds of the new material.

I’ve rounded out my understanding of Gutenberg. Figuring out what it is seems to be a popular topic.

Miriam Schwab, who is on the Elementor team, mentioned on Twitter that Elementor has crossed the 15 million active install mark.

Bricks 1.9.5 just dropped. The major feature of this release is a new Global Class Manager. There is also the ability to run a JavaScript function after an interaction has been triggered, along with some accessibility improves and fixes.

It is good to see that the number of contributors and people making their first contribution to core continues to increase year over year. Other interesting stats show the number of contributors by country and contributions by company.