Divi 5 is really starting to get interesting with the announcement of Design Variables. These include all fonts, colors, numbers, images, links, and text. For example, a company’s name, logo and phone number can be variables and all be changed across the entire site from one spot: the Variable Manager.

Kevin Geary demos the EtchWP UI while working with components.

This reduction comes after two rounds of employee buyouts late last year.

Stellar, the parent company of Kadence, Solid Security, Solid Backups, and other tools, is launching Stellar Sites. Stellar Sites hosting will include access to Kadence as well as the plugins under the Stellar brand. Early access will open later this month.

Mohi Uddin Ahmed created a video showing how to import data from a Google Sheet to a post using Greenshift.

Toolset adds Open Street Map support and better support for newer versions of PHP.

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.