The Weekly Briefing (Apr 25th)

As we jump into the week, here's what you should know.

The past couple of days have been great in terms of notable updates to several WordPress plugins.

1. Fluent Forms 4.3.5 introduces a quiz builder along side native integration with the Oxygen Builder. Previously, for Oxygen Integration, we needed to use OxyExtras.
2. Block Slider looks like a great, well featured slider plugin for the Gutenberg builder. You can also use it with any page builder as it outputs shortcodes for each slider you've generated.
3. Beaver Builder 2.6 (currently in developer preview) brings WordPress reusable blocks to Beaver layouts, several new settings, copy/paste improvements, and a lot more.
4. JetEngine by Crocoblock is now directly integrated with Bricks Builder.
5. The official WordPress Performance Lab plugin is out of beta.

6. WordCamp US, scheduled for September 9-11 in San Diego, is trialing a new program that would connect speakers from underrepresented groups with companies that agree to sponsor their travel and lodging.

7. DuckDuckGo and the Brave browser announced they will be bypassing Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in favor of serving publishers’ content on the original URL.
8. WordPress 6.0 beta 2 is ready for testing. With it comes accessibility improvements and many other changes.

Some Worthy Reads:

• https://poststatus.com/post-status-excerpt-no-54-what-wordpress-can-learn-from-joomla/
• https://wptavern.com/failure-and-learning-my-experience-building-4-block-plugins-in-a-week