And just like that, we’re mid-February already! Is time flying for you faster as well as you age? It’s catching me off guard all the time 😅
It’s been a calm week in the world of WordPress, but we did see WordPress 6.7.2 finally being released, plus two big releases of two very different WordPress tools.
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Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- GenerateBlocks 2.0 is here, and it’s been
entirely refactored and made faster and better on all counts . Huge release, great product, highly recommend you add this to your tool belt.
- Performance matters. Especially in e-commerce, so with that in mind, it’s great to see Woo, dare I say it, finally is putting real effort into making WooCommerce faster. Check
this monster of a GitHub issue to get a feel of what’s coming. It’s a lot.
You can catch a lot of this
- Another big release was announced this week with WPGraphQL v2.0.
It’s a major release , and it has breaking changes, but version 2.0 and onwards paves the way majorly towards better performance, security, and long-term supportability.
- My friends at Human Made are bringing together a whole host of WordPress experts to unpack what the platform’s future holds, and dive into how enterprise brands can unlock the full potential of WordPress . Check
out the full agenda and register now .
- 📺 In a livestream, Amber Hinds from Equalize Digital covered a great accessibility topic: Alt Text. Check out her
Accessibility Remediation: Generating Alt Text with AI video .
- One of my favorite form is Gravity Forms. And one of the things I like about them, besides the actual forms, is that there’s a ton of extra solutions built on top of them. For instance:
Gravity Wiz . And besides building super cool add-ons for Gravity Forms, they also have a most excellent snippets library (including instructional videos).
- WooCommerce’s been adding experimental features behind feature flags. But maybe you’ve been missing those? Well, Woo is
asking for feedback on how they should communicate these with you.
- Ever wanted to mock the Cloudflare Image API locally? Kaspars Dambis shared
a sample WordPress plugin that enables cdn-cgi/image/… routes locally and supports only image resizing.
- A big career change for Brian Coords as
he’s joined WooCommerce as a Developer Advocate . Personally, I couldn’t think of anyone more suited right now. Congrats again, Brian!
- The latest version of “
What’s new in Gutenberg ” was published by Jessica Lyschik. This edition covers Gutenberg 20.1 and 20.2 (basically everything that’s been shipped in 2025). DataViews and color options for headings are two features that stand out.
- Kinsta has added the ability to update themes as well now to their
MyKinsta portal. You can update multiple themes across all of your sites, or select specific sites or themes to update. And I can’t help but wonder how many hosting companies are going to follow suit? How long before this is the norm?
- Here’s an application where AI was bound to go inside the world of WordPress: AI-Powered Patterns for WordPress. Robert DeVore released
a plugin that takes your descriptions and translates them into well-structured block markup that fits seamlessly into your theme.
🚀 Performance & Security
- 📺 Code signing doesn’t solve everything because there are so many places where malicious code can creep into downloadable software.
Source attestation is like a bill of materials with signed receipts . - Generate
a full Core Web Vitals report based on your site’s CrUX history.
💡 Interesting Finds
- Opera introduced the world’s first browser with mindfulness at its core, no subscriptions, no app juggling.
Discover a focused, balanced, and stress-free web, they say. Interesting! - David Gwyer shared his
AI/ML learning resources list so you can level-up your skills as well! - Here’s a fun GitHub project built by Jonathan Bossenger. Easily create
a dashboard for viewing GitHub issues assigned to you across all your repositories. Built with React and powered by GitHub’s GraphQL API.
- Google has said links are less important than they used to be. Ahrefs team analyzed 1M SERPs — their findings indicate that this is true overall, b
ut for some types of queries, links matter more .
🔎 Scanfully Updates
We’ve started building our next big feature that’s revolved entirely around Content Health.
🎁 Bonus
I’m in the middle of moving over all the Within WordPress podcasts over to a separate YouTube account. It would mean the world to me if you could subscribe
As soon as I’m finished with that, I’ll be releasing a whole bunch of recordings I’ve got ready to share with you!
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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