Here is an interesting development, MicroThemer now has deep integration with Gutenberg. Here is a video showing how it works.

Plugin developers – Are you working on the settings page for your plugin, or planning a refresh? Anh Tran took a look at the admin screens of a number of plugins and shared his favorite designs.

Block Theme development – Here is a short tutorial on using the Create Block Theme plugin.

Create Block Theme is a useful plugin that lets you save your customizations of a block theme as a child theme or as a new stand-alone block theme. A new version of the plugin was recently released and this article explores the new features.

Here is a nice video by Paul Charlton showing how to create image effects using image masks. The tutorial uses the Bricks Builder, but the concepts apply for any builder.

A good article about the relationship between users’ mental models and design patterns.

The WordPress org home page was just redesigned. This is a huge improvement. Hat tip to Miriam Schwab who mentioned it on X.

Here are some design tips from the developer blog for creating patterns. The tips seem common-sense, but it is a good overview and checklist.

The Core Framework provides a user interface for creating and managing your CSS framework. The free version of the Core Framework is now available in the WordPress plugin directory. Congrats to the Core Framework team.