Automattic acquires the universal messaging app Texts.

The Field Guide for WordPress 6.4 is now available. We’ve covered most of the features and changes that are coming, but here is a good summary if you haven’t been following it.

The LiteSpeed Cache plugin had a security issue that has been patched. Update if you haven’t already.

Anne McCarthy has been gathering feedback related to phase 3 of Gutenberg, working collaboratively. There is some good feedback here and perhaps a sense of what might come in phase 3.

Who knew that you can compile WordPress core to run on .NET Core? Apparently you can even use Elementor and other plugins, though they have to be compiled. It is performant and more secure, but I can’t imagine anyone using this.

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.