WordPress 7.0, set for release April 9th, is introducing block API version 3 which loads the editor in an iframe. This may cause issues with blocks that use the older API and haven’t been updated. In this article you can learn what the Meta Box team has done to be ready.

I’m happy to see them being proactive. I wonder if we will see issues with many third party block collections with the 7.0 release?

How to use WordPress hooks is an important topic to master. This video does a nice job explaining it.

Chris Good share his experience moving from Etch to a vibe coded version of his personal website using Next.js, Sanity, and Vercel. He is very open about the pros and cons and that the dangers and benefits aren’t what we usually think.

If you are curious about PHP-based blocks coming to WordPress 7.0 then you will find this video by Brian Coords of interest. He does a nice walk-through showing a couple of simple blocks he created.

We often use ACF to create Custom Post Types and custom fields, but then need a way to display them on the frontend. In this tutorial, I explore how Novamira, Claude Code, and ACF Blocks can work together so an AI agent can generate working ACF blocks that can be used in the Full Site Editor to create single and archive templates.

In this tutorial the ACF team tells how to manually setup ACF so that you are using custom tables instead of post_meta for storing field values. According to the article using custom tables is 100% safe and is supported by the standard ACF functions. I expect to see the team add this as an option for the Pro plugin in the future.

If you want to integrate AI directly into WordPress and don’t want to wait until April for 7.0, then it is possible to add Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or OpenAI now using official WP plugins. This article provides an overview of the available features and links to get started.

This article is a thorough overview of the forthcoming PHP block features that are being added in WordPress 7.0. If you are interested in this feature then this is a must read as it includes a full discussion of features, use cases, limitations, and examples.

In case you missed the announcement, beginning with version 7 BlockStudio is free. BlockStudio allows you to create blocks using PHP, Twig, Blade, and JSON.