Like a flooding river

6.7 Source Of Truth, AnyoneCanWP, WP Drama news, Future of wp-admin

– Anne McCarthy, developer at Automattic, chose to publish the new WordPress 6.7 Source of Truth on Gutenberg Times blog.

– You can submit your project to AnyoneCanWP until October 25, explore the topics that are allowed and participate to win cash prizes up to 3.000$, plus a big networking occasion to meet WordPress agencies, product owners and media houses from all over the world.

– Many developers are removing their plugins from WordPress.org after the takeover of ACF operated by Matt Mullenweg last week.

– Also WP Fusion Lite plugin has been removed from WordPress.com after the owner of the plugin sent a Cease and Desist letter to Automattic.

– WordPress Drama continues: WordPress.org promotes hostings alternatives to WP Engine to attract their clients.

– WordPress.org expands the Code of Conduct to protect private conversations.

– Former WordPress designer Saxon Fletcher shared a project he was working on to explore how WordPress admin could evolve in the future.

Cool stuff

– WP Glossary is a nice project from Anders Norén sharing a glossary with definitions and explanations for all the main WordPress words. You can even suggest a word or give some feedback if you want to contribute.

WordPress 6.7 – Beta 3 & quick bits

– WordPress 6.7 Beta 3 is now available for testing, you can see it in action on this playground instance.

– Plugins can now register custom templates in the Site Editor thanks to the new Plugin Template Registration API in WordPress 6.7.

– WordPress Playground becomes more powerful allowing you to test plugins and themes directly in your browser with new settings to control your installation and manage multiple instances. There is also a growing library of interesting playground blueprints.

– Check the new 6.7 Source Of Truth to keep up to date with all the news coming to this release.

Twenty Twenty-Five Theme

The new FSE theme coming with WordPress 6.7 on November 12 is going to be full of powerful features! In this live build we see how to create a basic website and a blog using just Twenty Twenty-Five.

WP Engine free plugins, WPSummarize, SureTriggers new integrations

– WPSummarize is a new plugin built to automatically create a short summary of your blog posts, developed by Julian Yanover and now available on WordPress.org.

– WP Engine free plugins and themes are now available to install and update outside WordPress.org.

– SureTriggers automation plugin now supports new powerful integrations like Canva and ZenDesk and has a new integration with Support Portal For SureCart a plugin that allows to manage all support requests linked to SureCart orders. Also a new Instagram integration is now available.

Waiting for Black Friday, and for the FSE Storm

I have the sensation that it is a calm moment for both FSE and Classic theme developers.

We are at a point where we know that Classic themes, no matter how powerful they can be, they will ultimately be forced to disappear in the next 2 to 5 years. At the same time, FSE developers had not a solid foundation to rely upon at the current status of the Site Editor.

I believe that after WordPress 6.7 and with the releases of 2025 we will start seeing more and more developers (and users!) focusing on FSE. It's going to be a long process, but the direction is pretty clear in my opinion.

Oh, and of course there is a pretty calm moment now, before the Black Friday storm!

Classic themes

– If you're looking for a solid solution Blocksy PRO is still my favourite classic theme and I think it will be among the most powerful ones together with Astra and Kadence.

FSE themes

– Twenty Twenty-Five will be huge. Watch my live build. And don't miss the official presentation on Zoom, October 26 with Nick Diego and other contributors.

Bricks 1.11

– Bricks 1.11 is now available for download. New settings and improvements to the new “Query filters” building block. New “back to top” and “rating” elements.

New WordPress AI builder in Hostinger, and Black Friday deal already on!

– Hostinger now offers a new AI plugin to create a fresh WordPress website with content based on a prompt.

– Black Friday deal is already active at Hostinger with up to 79% off discounts.

Nick Diego, Jamie Marsland, online events you don't want to miss!

– An online Zoom event organised by Nick Diego to explore Twenty Twenty-Five theme coming to WordPress 6.7. Free access on October 29.

– The new Head of WordPress YouTube, Jamie Marsland, will speak at the annual Kadence Amplify event, October 25. You can register for free to his talk “How I grew My YouTube Channel to 100,000 Subscribers” and you can expect also some insights on what is coming to wordpress.org YouTube channel.