Justin Tadlock compiled a useful list of recent features and improvements for developers. In the list I noticed standardized admin notices, improvements for fluid typology, and experimental client-side query loop pagination.

A new program, WP Includes, was launched to help to improve the number of women in leadership positions in WordPress companies. The program matches women with mentors to help guide them in their career advancement. If you are interested in being a mentor, a mentee, or a program sponsor then this post in the Tavern has more information and links.

I just watched this short video from Paul Charlton that looks at 4 free plugins. Unbloater looks interesting. I use Jeff Starr’s Prismatic plugin for displaying code snippets.

Here is a podcast interview between Josh Hall and Kevin Geary. Josh is a Divi user and more of a designer. He focuses on business and web design. Kevin is the product founder of Automatic.CSS, a layout and design framework for Oxygen and Bricks. The interview is more of a high level, not technical, discussion.

Matt Mullenweg on the Future of WordPress. His talk at WordCamp US 2023.

Question and Answer at WordCamp US with Matt Mullenweg and Josepha Haden Chomphosy. I like how they took the questions online.

There are signs that there may be an economic downturn due to inflation, the economy in China, and other factors. Jim Galiano is a very pragmatic business consultant and in his newsletter he discusses some of the things you can do in this business climate.

Here is the first in a mini-series from WP Builds on the state of WordPress security. The first interview is with Calvin Alkan. Much of the episode covers ground that we’ve already posted about in the group, but there is some new info.

Community themes is an initiative by the members of the WordPress themes team, and other contributors, to provide high quality themes for free. They have just released their second community theme, Blue Note.