Lesley Sim launched a lifetime deal promotion for EventKoi and invited members to share it with their mailing lists, offering a 10% discount and affiliate codes. She also highlighted EventKoi’s features on X.
Topher DeRosia posted a new ocean photo by Nilo Velez on WPPHotos.
Bud Kraus released a podcast episode featuring a candid conversation with Winstina Hughes, the first “cool kid” he met in WordPress.
Amber Hinds published Equalize Digital’s annual accessibility comparison report for page builders, now including forms alongside 19 builders.
Taco Verdonschot introduced Site Spotlight, a new podcast/YouTube series evaluating real websites, and invited community members to submit their sites. Episodes are also available on YouTube.
Topher DeRosia highlighted this week’s HeroPress essay by Moses Cursor Ssebunya, sharing his journey from Kampala, Uganda.
Kim Coleman shared that Paid Memberships Pro runs a similar site critique format called Smash Your Site in bulk livestreams and finds the format effective, linking an example on YouTube.
Seth Goldstein reflected on the public reaction to ChatGPT 5 in his latest Marketing Junto newsletter, noting that he found it more impressive than others did.
Chris Reynolds shared the VoD of his livestream with Ryan McCue discussing the FAIR initiative.
Deborah Butler introduced Toffi, a tool to create platform-ready launch kits from product info, complete with concierge submission services.
Michelle Frechette encouraged members to add themselves or their businesses to the growing WP Wiki project, an open community-driven encyclopedia.
Tim Monner announced that Memberful has partnered with BigScoots to enhance hosting for membership websites.
Troy Chaplin introduced WP Dependency Manager, a new tool to streamline dependency sharing and enforce consistent coding standards across WordPress monorepos, with full documentation available.
Satyam Vishwakarma submitted a new plugin, Contributor Photo Gallery, to the WordPress.org repository, which displays photos contributed by a user ID, and thanked BuntyWP for debugging assistance.
Prashant Baldha shared that he would be speaking at the WordPress Surat Meetup on managed WordPress hosting, thanking sponsors Pressidium and Kinsta.
Ronni K. Gothard Christiansen published Part II of his post on ZK Proofs, describing a privacy-first model for verifying user eligibility (e.g., age, location) without surveillance.
Adam Silver marked a milestone with Episode 600 of the KitchenSinkWP podcast and teased a surprise guest for Monday’s release, prompting congratulations from many in the community including Birgit Pauli-Haack, Jeff Chandler, and Robert Cairns.
Vikas Singhal developed a new tool that generates voiceovers from silent video walkthroughs, solving a major pain point—though he noted some early bugs with voice consistency.
Birgit Pauli-Haack shared Weekend Edition 338 of Gutenberg Times, covering WordCamp US, Gutenberg 21.4, and the upcoming WordPress 6.9 release.
Kevin Batdorf released Fit to Width, a CSS-only block plugin that stretches text to fill the full width of its container.
