Marko Krstic quietly released a new very light weight file based CMS that supports Markdown. The requirements are minimal – PHP and a web server.

I still see people asking for plugins to add FAQ Schema options so that their content will show up in search. The advice is disconnected from reality. Here is Joost’s analysis and suggestions.

A lot of arguments against Tailwind were about how ugly it is to have HTML littered with classes. Here is a similar take about BEM, along with a workflow argument, from Ovidiu Maghetiu.

WordPress 7.0 is scheduled for release in a week on May 20th. This is the official “field guide” listing the new features and changes. It is a great summary of what will be included. The ability to create blocks with PHP and the ability to register AI clients via core are two features I’m looking forward to.

The WordPress search solution Relevanssi has been purchased by Comesio Solutions GmbH, a software company based in Vienna, Austria.

Paul Charlton takes a look at the new deploy to static site options available with Builderius Pro.

Bricks 2.3.5 and 2.3.4 were largely bug fixes.

An interesting article that discusses the recent merge into Gutenberg of the ability to create Custom Post Types. The technical details are examined along with the usage data and competitor profile. Among other questions it is asked why Custom Post Types, and not SEO, security, or caching?

Be careful clicking on Google Ads as they are frequently used in malicious campaigns. In this case, it’s ManageWP, but other companies have been targeted. In these types of ads a brand’s reputation can be leveraged.