Riad Benguella shares some best practices and things to avoid when developing for Gutenberg. Overall it seems like a rear-guard fight to keep things lean.

A prototype was released showing how to create Custom Post Types and custom fields using the block editor and then display them using the Site Editor. While the project is still new, it demonstrates the thinking and possible direction for Gutenberg. Very cool. In this video we take a look at how this is currently working. It may be some time before this makes it into a WordPress core release, if it every does.

One of the goals of the third phase of Gutenberg is editor collaboration. Automattic has sponsored Kevin Jahns, who has worked to add collaboration to other tools, to work on adding collaborative editing to Gutenberg. He developed a framework for building collaborative apps called Yjs.

For power users and developers – Nick Diego shows how to create a “clickable card” by creating a Gutenberg block extension to enable a linked Group block.

WordPress 6.7 is scheduled for November 12th. This post on the Make blog pulls together the list of features and enhancements currently targeted for 6.7.

The website WPHelpers by Aurooba Ahmed is an interesting resource for exploring core blocks and their properties.

For block developers – Here is a coding tutorial from Misha Rudrastyh showing how to create a block variation to display custom loops.

Here is a tip for how to change default settings for the Image Block.

WordPress 6.6 is set to be released. In this video Adam Preiser looks at the new features and then shares his take on why a lot of the new features will not be used. This is sure to be controversial in some circles, but Adam joins the “lets get real” chorus.