This video from Paul Charlton shows what is possible with a little PHP and a good page builder.

There is a proposal to introduce a status of “maintenance mode” for features in WordPress that are only going to get security, bug and compatibility fixes. A bit controversial are items in the list to consider, TinyMCE, the Customizer, and Shortcodes, among others.

There is a new plugin that might be of interest to developers and power users called WP Debug Toolkit.  It is created by Elias Lista, who is a member of the Soflyy team.  I created a short video walk-through

It looks like it is time to reorder your posts, pages, and Custom Post Types in the admin. Imran Siddiq just released a code snippet that lets you reorder in the admin. If you like the code snippet please give him an thumbs up and comment on the video.

In this video Sabrina Zeldan demos the use of AI as integrated into the browser dev tools.

SQLite is a single file, server-less database, that is very lightweight and portable. It is used in the WordPress Playground to allow users to quickly test core, plugins and themes. The SQLite Database Integration plugin is a project to replicate all of the features of MySQL that WordPress uses. I could see in the future SQLite being used to create and share datasets between websites.

The Ollie team has released a free course on WordPress block development.

In case you missed it, xCloud now has 1 click install for the n8n automation platform. Paul Charlton shows how easy it is to install.

This tutorial looks at possible issues when using post meta queries, along with various options to help performance.