There is a lot of work and dedication that goes into a WordPress release. This is a nice article that looks at the experiences of three of the 6.3 co-leads.

Recently there have been headlines that malware scanners are worthless. WordFence published an article describing how they see malware scanners as part of a layered approach to security and they also discussed their new command line scanning option.

Typography tips – I’m not sure I agree with all of these, but I saw a few that I will try to keep in mind.

The ActivityPub v1 was released. It provides a link between platforms like Mastodon and your website, allowing people to follow authors, have new posts show in followers feeds, and have comments posted back on your posts.

In a cool partnership, the Greenshift team has an arrangement with Mauro Cassani of ACPT to include a one site license of ACPT in the Greenshift All in One unlimited packages. This is a great idea as people can now try out ACPT and use it with Greenshift.

Congrats to David Babinec and the Motion.page team. Motion.page is a visual UI for adding animations to your pages and it works with page builders. The plugin is now active on more than 15,000 websites and version 2.1 was just released. The new version supports animations based on mouse movement, MotionPath, and it now has a white label feature.

Here is a the recent episode of the Kadence Beat podcast. They talk about what is coming next week in Kadence Blocks, what Ben thinks needs to happen before jumping into FSE, and much more.

Pods 3.0 was just released. The main feature is conditional logic for fields.

The duplication of the WordPress org plugin to the dot com site has generated a lot of debate.