Month: May 2026

Contact Form 7 Freezes New Features – What WordPress Users Should Do Next

Since the early days of WordPress, Contact Form 7 has been helping website owners add simple forms to their sites. If you’ve trusted it on your own site, then you made a perfectly reasonable choice that millions of other site…

Patience is a Virtue

by Justin Bell A few months ago, I joined two friends for a play of The Gallerist, one of my favorite titles from designer Vital Lacerda. (Also, Vital: thanks for the intel on hot spots in Lisbon. The pastéis de…

Adaptation Diary: Making Witchcraft! Digital

by Mantita Games We’d been kicking around the idea of a digital card game for a while, and when we landed on Witchcraft! it all clicked. It’s a fantastic game, with a really powerful card mechanic, and on top of…

Gutenberg Times: Block Format Bridge: A Practical Solution for AI-Generated Content in WordPress

Chris Huber, developer at Automattic, released Block Format Bridge, an open-source plugin that addresses one of the more persistent friction points in AI-assisted WordPress workflows: getting AI-generated content into the block editor reliably. The plugin takes a pragmatic approach. Block…

Race for the Galaxy: Xeno Counterstrike Designer Preview

by Tom Lehmann Race for the Galaxy: Xeno CounterstrikeRio Grande GamesDesigner Preview by Tom Lehmann Xeno Counterstrke is the second and final expansion in Race for the Galaxy‘s Xeno arc. Introduced in the Xeno Invasion expansion, the Xenos are a…

Gutenberg Times: Studio Code, Hosting call for testing, Design with AI, and more — Weekend Edition 365

Hi there, May is an action-packed month for the WordPress community, packed with tons of local WordCamps and Campus Connect events. After so long without seeing each other, it’s awesome to get together in person — sharing ideas, storytelling, and…