Amadeu Arderiu released an open Playground for the Gutenberg AI Agent, allowing users to generate pages with prompts that create content, images, and layouts using Openverse assets.
Casey Burridge explained how to track AI referral traffic in GA4 and visualize it in Looker Studio dashboards.
Bob Dunn shared an article tracing how decentralized social platforms evolved from Identi.ca to Mastodon and another on bootstrapping a WordPress business through customer feedback.
Birgit Pauli-Haack published Gutenberg Times Weekend Edition 343 covering block management, WooCommerce product collections, and template testing, followed by Edition 344 on mega menus in WordPress 6.9 and the transition from Elementor to the Site Editor.
Lesley Sim announced EventKoi Lite, now live on WordPress.org, and invited users to test and review the event plugin.
Ronni K. Gothard Christiansen launched Respect Over Retargeting, a privacy-first initiative promoting verifiable data minimization in plugins.
Seth Goldstein released a new Marketing Junto newsletter discussing how podcasting has become a dominant news source.
Topher DeRosia featured Joni Halabi on Hallway Chats discussing her work translating transcriptions for WP Accessibility Day videos.
Brian Coords shared a podcast episode about WordPress Studio’s improvements for local development.
Julia Golomb promoted E2M’s Agency Sales Accelerator webinar with Jonathan Hinshaw on pricing for profit and leveraging white-label partners.
Troy Chaplin unveiled Wapuu’s Big Adventure, a seven-track AI-generated concept album inspired by WordPress’s mascot.
Chris Reynolds published In Defense of Wapuu, countering a critique that argued Wapuu no longer represents the WordPress community.
Tia Wood announced one remaining sponsor slot for the Foundrstack & theWPGirls newsletter, offering six-month visibility for $450 to support women founders in tech.
Reyes Martínez introduced Update Copilot, a Modular DS feature that analyzes WordPress plugin updates and assigns safety scores based on 15+ risk factors.
David Bisset launched a curated list of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for nonprofits, inviting submissions of year-round discounts to help charitable organizations stretch budgets.
Bet Hannon added suggestions including Google for Nonprofits, Canva, Zoom, HubSpot, and TechSoup, a platform offering negotiated software discounts for charities.
Eric Karkovack wrote a Grumpy Designer column for Speckyboy reflecting on AI’s overconfidence in creative work.
Shahjahan Jewel announced tomorrow’s release of Fluent Cart in a post on X.
