JetMessenger is a new messaging plugin for WordPress. It provides direct user messaging as well as WooCommerce order and product chat options. Here is a walk-though from the Crocoblock team.

This article on user experience design has a number of actionable principles for designing web pages. Well worth a read.

Mark Crowell has started making some Bricks tutorials. This one is on creating a mobile menu using the Offcanvas element. It is a nice alternative to the native Bricks options.

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.