The new showcase page on WordPress org has been released. It was built using Gutenberg. It is attractive and you can click on any site thumbnail to go a page with more information.

When the WordPress Playground, or the ability to run WordPress in the browser, was first announced, people wondered what the use cases might be. Previewing core pull requests is an interesting one.

The WordPress Photo Directory has hit a major milestone. I’d love to have access to it from within the editor.

UPDATE: This has been turned off as some plugins don’t work well with the playgroud.

WordPress org has just launched “Live Preview” which launches the plugin in the browser using WP Playground. For example, here is the ACF page:

WordPress com vs org got a write up in Smashing Magazine. I don’t know about changing the name, but better “co-branding” that clarifies the differences between the platform and the CMS could help.

WordPress.org now supports various options for Two Factor Authentication for account access. This seems long overdue and it is good to see it being implemented.

The duplication of the WordPress org plugin to the dot com site has generated a lot of debate.

Another story from the WordPress org trenches from Mika Epstein.

So it looks like Automattic has duplicated the WordPress org theme and plugin directories as well as the LearnWP resources. It is not clear why they did this, but it will cause more confusion as you now get two versions when searching. Matt Mullenweg was asked about it on X and he said that the dot org version appears first (?). Here is the thread of X discussing this.