WordPress Drama is here to stay

WordPress will never be again as it was before September 20. In this number: WP Engine injunction, Mirroring the repo, wp-admin UI, 1000 Block Themes, a new form plugin, WordPress people.

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WordPress Core

WordPress 6.7 – RC1

– WordPress 6.7 Release Candidate 1 is now available for testing.

– If you want to dive deeper in the 6.7 release check the 6.7 Source Of Truth by Anne McCarthy developer at Automattic.

– A tutorial by David McCan about how to test the beta version of new WordPress releases with the WordPress Beta Tester plugin.

– November 5 WordPress 6.7 Q&A live stream with Jamie Marsland, Nick Diego and Rich Tabor.

Review Highlight

SureForms Pro

SureForms is a plugin of the “Sure family”, the team that is behind SureCart, SureTriggers but also Astra, Spectra and many other great tools.

I've just made a quick walkthrough of the Pro version of their new form plugin for WordPress. It looks promising and very powerful, definitely a game changer in its field.

Do you like this plugin?

Plugins News

UI is trending, WP Interactions, Restyling, SureForms Pro

– CommandUI plugin promise to make the wp-admin everyday life more intuitive and comfortable with a centralised powerful command bar to perform every action.

– uiXpress plugin transforms in one click the whole wp-admin into a modern and beautiful dashboard. Lifetime deal available for a limited time.

– WP Interactions is a new plugin that “goes beyond animations, offering versatile trigger and action capabilities. Created by the developers of Stackable.

– MetaSlider plugin has a new website built with Kadence see the full stack (links X).

– SureForms team has published their website along with the Pro version of the plugin and an early adopter discount. interested? See my SureForms review.

Themes News

Let's do a Ollie!

Classic themes

– The classic themes field is pretty quiet, no massive updates or huge innovation. The only recent interesting move is Kadence Advanced Headers that tries to fill the gap between classic and FSE themes.

– The main “classic players” in terms of quality and active installs are: Blocksy (200k+), Astra (1M+), Kadence (300k+), Neve (300k+), GeneratePress (600k+), OceanWP (600k+), Sydney (100k+).

FSE themes

– These themes are clearly the future of WordPress, but, the whole site editing experience is still not ready to be compared to the power of classic themes or modern page builders.

– A milestone of 1000 block themes in 1000 days has been reached in the wp.org themes repo.

– Ollie is one of the most interesting FSE themes at the moment. You can check out its free version on wp.org or go and find out more about Ollie Pro, maybe it will be the foundation for one of your next projects!

Builders News

Breakdance add-on, testing Divi 5, Elementor 3.25 today

– Phlox-Elements add-on for Breakdance Builder keeps adding new cool features like the Product Table for WooCommerce, the Event Calendar and the Quiz Creator elements.

– Divi team is calling for testers to stress Divi 5 Alpha version, help finding bugs and shape together the future of Divi.

– Elementor 3.5 Beta: good enhancements coming to the next release of the most used WordPress builder in the world, estimated release date: today October 28. Conditional CSS loading, new native CSS for smooth scrolling, new anchor offset setting, added pagination feature for the new search widget live results. The Grid Container will be now merged with the Flexbox Container and named just “Container”.

Gutenberg spot

– Geomap – Google Map Block is a simple block to add a Google map in Gutenberg without having to deal with API configuration.

– Wes Theron shared a tutorial on WordPress.tv on how to create a portfolio website with a block theme and patterns (using Twenty Twenty-Five upcoming theme).

The Hosting spot

Hostinger and Kinsta

– Hostinger is the hosting service that I use for WP Roads and many other WordPress projects. Kinsta is the one I think of when I have a huge, scalable project in mind.

WordPress People

Cool WP YouTubers

– Myself πŸ™‚ WP Roads YouTube channel where I share latest WordPress news, tutorial and reviews, exploring the WordPress world.

– Check Mark Szymanski YouTube channel and his live sessions if you want to have precious insights on what's trending in WordPress, and much more.

– The WP Minute good news and tutorials all about WordPress.

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Pascal Claro
Pascal Claro

YouTuber & WordPress enthusiast, founder WP Roads. Happy husband and father based in Paris. I love to share news, reviews and interviews all about WordPress.

2 Comments

  1. Hey Pascal,

    Your WPNews here is amazing. So much work you have put into this, and all interesting topics. Between this and your YouTube work, I don’t know how you keep up with it all, but I’m happy that you do. Thank you.

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