A thorough explanation of the WordPress Interactivity API, the reasons behind it, and how to use it.

For product authors – This is a good discussion about hosting your themes and plugins in the WordPress directory in light of the news about the directory ownership. They discuss pros and cons as well as other options.

An overview of a new tool, WPCodeBox IDE. It is currently in beta and only available for WPCodeBox owners. The plugin installs a feature rich file manager and IDE into your site.

Up to now it has been difficult for plugins to register custom block templates. WordPress 6.7 adds a new Template Registration API for plugins.

This is a good article about CSS for block themes. It talks about how using style.css shifts to theme.json and block styles.

This article by Jeremy Holcombe provides a very thorough look at using the theme.json file for creating your own block theme and for customizing blocks. It is a good resource for power users and theme authors.

The plugin review team has released a plugin that runs a number of checks on plugins to help identify the types of issues found during the plugin review process. This helps plugin authors find and fix issues prior to submitting them for review.

A topic from the past for plugin developers – Many plugins leave their database entries behind when they are deleted from the website. WordPress has an uninstall hook and will run an uninstall.php if it exists. These provide a cleanup option.

For plugin developers – the Gutenberg plugin has introduced the ability to register block templates using API calls which makes it easier to include templates in plugins. This feature is scheduled for inclusion in WordPress 6.7.