Matt and Mark grapple with some philosophical questions about what it means to be a WordPress professional.

Meta Box has added the ability to save your field groups in local JSON files. This may have a slight performance boost and makes it easier to version control. You can read about their implementation here.

The media library and settings for image sizes is a WordPress black hole. There is very little guidance on the optimal image sizes and we all have experienced the media library getting out of hand. In this video Imran Siddiq shares a code snippet and technique for cleaning up image sizes. If you want to try it out, definitely take a backup and test it on a staging site first. It is good of Imran to share his work.

Stackable Blocks has added a new global styles feature. It lets you easily set defaults for spacing and borders, color schemes, fonts, and buttons and icons.

People are noticing that AI site crawlers are impacting performance on their sites.

This tutorial for power users and developers shows how to extend core blocks and add customizations for additional attributes or style variations.

Fluent Forms 6 was released last week. The free version includes an AI form builder. I tried this out and found that it was good for creating the fields you asked for, but doesn’t yet handle advanced steps like integrations. Fluent Forms free also now allows you to take 1 time and subscription payments via Stripe. There is a 1.9% fee per transaction on top of Stripe’s fee, which goes away in the pro version. I imagine they added the payment option as it will make it easier for people who want to monetize their FluentCommunity. Conditional Logic Groups is another feature in the free version, so instead of a single field being shown conditionally, you can have a group of fields. The pro version of Fluent Forms now has the option for a Save and Resume button on conversational forms, and Hungarian language support was also added.

One part of the announcement that I haven’t seen mentioned is that Fluent Forms passed third party security review and obtained Plugin Security Certification. I advocate that plugins and themes with more than a million active installs have 3rd party security reviews and it is good to see that Fluent Forms took this step, even before they reached that milestone.

Are you curious about WordPress Multisite? This article provides a nice introduction and suggests some common use cases.

Elementor has rebranded and relaunched an accessibility plugin. There is some community concern that a plugin only option is insufficient.