If you are interested in using AI with your WordPress coding, Nick Diego shows how to get setup with Cursor AI. This is the first of a how-to series.

Beginning with WordPress 6.3 the constant WP_DEVELOPMENT_MODE was introduced to by-pass the caching of the theme.json file, which is useful for development purposes. This article outlines the uses and parameters.

The 200th version of the Gutenberg plugin was released and has updates that will be included in the next version of core in March. There were a number of enhancements including improvements to the Style Book and pattern suggestions. What caught my eye was the ability to include hooks in content, which has been a feature only of PHP based themes up to now.

The Meta Box team has released a new free plugin that makes it easier to use Meta Box features for creating Custom Post Types, custom taxonomies, and custom fields. In this video I show what was involved previously and how it is now more convenient.

Meta Box Lite is a new plugin from the Meta Box team that includes the free extensions as well as the Builder extension. Now users have a complete UI in a single plugin for creating Custom Post Types, taxonomies, custom fields, and post relationships.

Tobi Salami explores the difference between Bricks components and components made with JetEngine. It is not as easy to edit JetEngine components on the fly, but once you have your component created they are more flexible.

JetEngine has a number of advanced features. Mark Crowell put together a good video showing how to use the JetEngine Dynamic Repeater with Elementor Pro.

There was a discussion and test of the sync protocol for collaborative editing, indicating progress on concurrent multi-user editing. The discussion notes indicate some of the possible issues.

Here are some suggestions for WordPress plugin and theme developers following on the WPE / Matt Mullenweg conflict.