It has not been uncommon for a theme or plugin to stagnate after it is purchased by a hosting company. One exception is ACF. The ACF team has been doing an excellent job moving the plugin forward and also has communicated well with its user base. If you are interested in what the team has accomplished, here is the ACF 2023 year in review.

Rocket.net is a relatively new hosting company that is about 3 1/2 years old. Already they are hitting some impressive milestones and have built a great reputation. Here is their 2023 year in review post.

Paul Charlton challenges the often repeated notion that you have to be a developer to use Bricks. In this video he highlights similarities between Elementor and Bricks to show that basic concepts are the same while also showing that some of the differences in how they are implemented in Bricks provides flexible and powerful options.

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.