On X Matt Mullenweg suggests that non-Gutenberg based site builders will have more user churn and have to raise prices more often. I’m guessing Matt was referring to Elementor’s recent price change in the tweet.

True or false — Gutenberg based site builders will have greater user retention?

Brian Gardner, who is a well known theme creator, has gone all in on block themes. In this video he shows how to create a home page using Gutenberg and the Site Editor. The video might be of interest to people who are not familiar with creating layouts with these tools.

Here is a plugin from Automattic’s VIP hosting for controlling what blocks and styling are available for clients.

WordPress is adding a Form Block! It is showing up first in Gutenberg 16.9.

This short video from Jamie Marsland shows the new features coming to the Gutenberg editor in 6.4. It would be easy to overlook some of these, so worth the look.

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.

Jamie Marsland had an interesting conversation with the Human Made team about the TechCrunch $1 million dollar website.

For block developers and block theme developers – This post outlines the first steps in emulating the idea of WordPress hooks that is available in Classic themes. The features described will be available in WordPress 6.4.

Confused about the difference between Reusable Blocks, Block Patterns, and Synced Patterns? This article in Smashing Magazine walks through the name and functionality changes.