Tips this week include:

• The 2 new social media places to follow Heartwood Art Creations

• Where I’ll be blogging about turning a hobby site into a business

• A status update on the WP 5 / Gutenberg Workshops

• Whether it’s okay or not to remove the Easy Updates Manager plugin or not

• My impressions of Gutenberg after playing with it for a few days

• Genesis updates 6 top themes for native Gutenberg compliance with fresh Gute themes on the way

• News about the PHP updates we have to do before year’s end

• What’s in the new speed benchmarks for PHP 7.3

• Matt’s State of the Word address is now on WP TV

• What’s in the upcoming release of WP 5.0.2 later this week

• What versions will auto update and the difference in minor vs major releases

• A new all in one analytics plugin from Google that I’m beta testing