Adam Lowe continues his series on Astro. In this video he looks at when it makes sense to use it. The art of the non-sales pitch.

The Dynamic.ooo team has released a free plugin for Elementor that helps with debugging by letting you see the element hierarchy, do performance profiling, and examine visibility conditions.

The release of Oxygen 6.0 is just around the corner. I made a video for new Oxygen users that gives a tour of the settings and editor interface. There is a video version linked near the top. At the end of the article I share some thoughts on the new Oxygen as well as some pros and cons.

The WordPress template hierarchy graphic shows how each template is chosen. In this video Marko Krstic turns that around and looks at it in terms of how content is sorted and displayed. It is a good video for new users who want to understand theme architecture.

Here is a video from Paul Charlton on when you use a taxonomy vs relationship.

The Builderius team just released their developer update which includes major enhancements to Collections (Loops). Any HTML tag is supported, they removed the output of JSON on the front-end, there is a visual conditions builder that works inside loops, a new sub-collection element, and a recursive template element. There is a new free version and the pro update is available for download from you account page. The linked article has the details, along with a walk-through video.

Over on the Make blog the first AI guidelines for WordPress have been published. The idea is to set expectations on the use of AI in contributing.

Here is a nice interview on the WP Minute with Davinder Singh Kainth where they discusses the WP Awards, sponsorship, and what’s happening in WordPress.

Winden brings Tailwind 4 utility classes to the block editor.