This Week in WordPress #164

“A lively debate”

This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 17th May 2021

With Nathan Wrigley, Birgit Pauli-Haack (@bph) and Spencer Forman.

You can find the Newsletter here which has all the links mentioned in this episode:
https://news.wpbuilds.com/issues/164/

We focus on the following stories:

Social Image Generator is a WordPress plugin

Stellar WP launches – the brand to that enompasses all the liquidweb and iThemes product offerings

ProfilePress Rebrands and Repurposes WP User Avatar, Now a Membership Plugin, Users Revolt via the WordPress Review System

Benjamin Intal on Why He’s Betting His Business on Blocks

Changelog #44 – Gutenberg 10.6 Release, Features Coming to WordPress 5.8, and Theme Settings in Theme.json

Automattic – tonnes of jobs

WordSesh & WP Engine Summit

Advertisers flee to Android as majority of iOS users opt out of ad tracking