Rob Ruiz and Ryan Welcher take a look at the WP Rig starter theme for WordPress.

This is a nice overview of the theme.json file, though it doesn’t go into depth.

Here is a nice interview with Rob Ruiz. Rob took over the maintenance and development of the WP Rig theme. In the interview he talks about his background, how he came to be in charge of the WP Rig project, and how it has evolved.

WordPress 7.0 will require all blocks to be at Version 3 in block.json. This is coming very soon, so Ronald Huereca updated his guide on Version 3, along with a few examples of how to resolve third-party script issues. If you’re a block developer, now is the time to opt in and test your blocks.

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.