This post on the Make blog summarizes user feedback and experience from Full Site Editor testing. The majority of the usability feedback and bug reports focused on the Navigation block and confusion about the separation of template creations and content creation.

A discussion for developers. Fabian Kagy of 10up talks with Wes Box and Scott Tolinski on Syntax.fm. Fabian maintains the site gutenberg.10up.com and is mainly focused on JavaScript and Block development. They catch up on WordPress, talk a bit about headless, and talk a lot about blocks. Something of a gear head discussion. I found it interesting to hear the different perspectives on WordPress and Gutenberg.

WordPress Wins Big – The prestigious Webby Awards are awarded annually in recognition of excellence in web design and development. This year a number of the winning sites were built with WordPress.

The WPTavern reports on the discussion about AI and core WordPress. There is a feeling that WordPress doesn’t want to miss the boat and be less competitive if it ignores AI and should at least make sure there are no blockers to adding AI innovation. Some participants noted that projects like the upcoming phase 3 of Gutenberg will help WordPress to be competitive and that the use of AI is still new and evolving.

The WordPress marketing team has organized a campaign called from Blogs to Blocks to celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of WordPress. It will run from today until May 27th. They will provide prompts each day and invite people in the community to participate. Information is here if you want to join in.

From WordPress.org, the results of the 2022 Annual WordPress Survey are in. Interesting information about the WordPress community.

This is a pretty cool interactive graphic about top WordPress plugins. The WPTavern article tells about it and there is a link to go to the graphic near the top.