Patchstack reports on a WordPress security cleanup last month of plugins in the directory with vulnerabilities.

If a site has a plugin installed that was closed in the WP plugin directory there is no notice in the site admin, which could be a security issue. The WordPress org Experiments plugin adds the notice in the admin that users would see if they were on the dot org site.

Mary Hubbard is the new Executive Director of the WordPress.org.

Here is a great post from Joost that provides some insight into the current conflict with WP Engine.

The html-tag-processor is a core WordPress class used by developers to find and modify attributes in an HTML document. This article discusses its benefits and performance. The article is more of an informational summary than a tutorial.

The Plugin Review team has reset the passwords for plugin authors. It appears some recent plugin vulnerabilities may have been the result of password reuse.

The release of WordPress 6.6 is about 3 week away and the release field guide is out. There are a large number of features and changes across a wide range of areas.

The WordPress dot org theme directory was refreshed and is now block based. There is no functionality differences to the previous version, but the post said that new features were coming.

Matt Mullenweg’s keynote presentation from WordCamp Europe has been released. It has some interesting topics. The WordPress Playground got a number of mentions. Overall, one of the main take-aways is that he wants to open WordPress for more innovation and creativity.