It is currently taking about two months to get a new plugin reviewed. The team is working on ways to speed up the process.

Elegant Themes has finally launched Divi AI. The roadmap features include:

• Code Generation: Even without coding experience, you will be able to generate or modify code wherever Divi supports custom HTML, CSS, or JS.
• Full Layout Generation: What if you could re-generate an entire layout with Divi AI? We plan to make that happen.
• Image Editing: Soon, you’ll be able to edit images with AI directly inside the builder. Modify individual parts of the image, adjust the size, generatively fill empty spaces, and more!

Visual design helpers just landed in the free Greenshift Gutenberg plugin. This includes a New CSS Grid template builder, Row layout builder, Position drag, Resizer, Spacing visual helper, border-radius helper, fast Flexbox helpers, toolbar panels for quick Typography and Background. All of these “builders” work through visual drag and move.

In the security reference department – this article lists a large number of common vulnerability types and explains what they are and how they work.

For developers: this is an in-depth overview about WordPress nonces and a tutorial on how to use them.

The pro version of the popular Kirki theme framework was recently acquired by Themeum. They have released it now for free.

Here is a comparison from the JetPack team of 7 options for a local development environment. It is not a bad overview, but I was surprised that Local from WP Engine was not included.

There were a number of WordPress performance enhancements in 6.3, which is due to be released tomorrow. This article reviews the enhancements and the changes related to them.

Bricks 1.8.5 was released. It includes new elements for reading progress bar, reading time, table of contents, image mask, and options for different images per breakpoint, along with other updates and fixes.