WordPress 6.9 will include the Abilities API that looks to be a big feature for developers. This article by Roger Montti does a good job of explaining what it is and its advantages. It is worth a read even if you aren’t a developer as I imagine it will be widely implemented.

There is a change coming in 6.9 and continuing in 7.0 which is going to impact block developers and people using older blocks that haven’t been updated. The Post Editor is going to be moved to fully be in an iframe. This will mean that block.json v.3 will be needed.

For theme developers – People who create bespoke themes for clients will be interested in the release of version 3.1 of WP Rig. The core developer, Rob Ruiz, has updated and modernized Rig over the past few years. WP Rig now supports creating classic, universal, and block-based themes.

If you have a newish plugin in the WordPress plugin directory then you might find this article useful. It explains the search and ranking formula to help your plugin get discovered.

This is a pretty in depth overview of what happens when a page is loaded. It is a good resource for developers.

Matt Cromwell has a lot of experience developing and supporting WordPress products. Here are some suggestions for looking at user feedback and for designing to enhance the user experience.

There is a new plugin that might be of interest to developers and power users called WP Debug Toolkit.  It is created by Elias Lista, who is a member of the Soflyy team.  I created a short video walk-through

The Ollie team has released a free course on WordPress block development.

For WordPress developers – This article provides an introduction to the Interactivity API which became available with WordPress 6.5. The Interactivity API allows you to update parts of your page without a page reload or creating the page in React or VueJS.