The number of items in the queue for plugin review is going down as WordPress businesses step-up and sponsor team members.

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.

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

The Elementor team has released a new plugin and service for image optimization.

Imran Siddiq released a video showing a number of ways to optimize your WordPress page loading times. I know he worked hard on this one and there are a plenty of tips, including code snippets. He optimizes an Elementor site, but includes versions for non-Elementor users.

Elementor is changing their packages and pricing beginning on December 4th. The changes are not just about the number of sites, but also functionality. For example, the lowest tier, the Essential plan, will have not support for custom fields, advanced form features, popups, and so on. There is more information in the plan comparison table in the middle of the article. If you are already on the Essential plan then you won’t lose any features, but you may not get new features that are released for higher plans.

This might be of interest to Elementor users: A performance webinar with Google, 10up, and Elementor. I guess when you have Elementor’s market share you can get help from Google.

In this video Paul Charlton asks, which is better when it comes to dynamic content, Elementor or Bricks? Dynamic data is a first class citizen for one of these builders and a neglected afterthought for the other. If you want to see how easy it can be, watch this video.

The latest release of Elementor 3.14.0 beta adds the ability to create images using AI from within the Elementor editor. This complements the text-based AI feature.