Here is another tutorial from the Builderius team. It shows how the component system is flexible and easy to use, with examples of different ways to create component variants.

It might be a good idea to test that email sending from your sites is still working as expected.

A challenge for developers is how to market and sell their plugins. In this interview Nathan Wrigley speaks with Dave Grey, the author of Nag Me Not. In the podcast they talk about a sponsorship model, which might be a good option for certain types of plugins. If you don’t want to listen, there is a nice summary on the page.

The State of the Word 2025 recording is now available. It seems that WordPress is doing well.

The WordPress AI team is going to release an AI Experiments plugin to expose some new AI features being added as well as to enable several experiments: the generation of excerpts, images, and image alt text.

Some people use toolbox plugins, some use custom plugins or code snippets, some use small single purpose plugins, and some people don’t care … but here is Terence Eden’s list of things that he disables in WordPress, along with the code.

Ronald Huereca wrote a developer-oriented guide for the updated Command Palette coming in WordPress 6.9. The guide might be of interest to developers as he provides code samples for adding your own commands.

A reminder that the files in the uploads folder are publicly accessible if you know the URL … which may have been how the UK budget leaked early.

Here is the WordPress 6.9 field guide – round-up of developer features.