Its happening – JetEngine 3.6 beta has a good AI integration giving you a quick start for creating your site structure. Paul Charlton has a quick demo of how it works.

Here is a quick video showing the Advanced Themer Recipes and CSS Superpower features.

A thorough explanation of the WordPress Interactivity API, the reasons behind it, and how to use it.

Toolset released an update for WordPress 6.7 compatibility and with improvements for compatibility with newer PHP versions. They also mentioned they are working on an update to the Maps plugin.

Recordings are now available from WP accessibility day 2024, an online conference held last month. The recordings for all of the presentations are now captioned, transcribed, and include ASL interpretation. Recordings are labeled with a level of accessibility experience. There is a good mix of topics including changes in the legal requirements and a number of tutorials.

This release has a number of nice features. You can now password protect your site or particular pages, Masonry layouts are now available for all layout options, query filters now have support for custom fields, a number of new WooCommerce conditions have been added, and more. Another bit of news is that work is going well on components and they anticipate an early preview being ready before the end of the year.

Working with Block Themes – This article by Frank Klein considers the advantages to using a child theme vs forking the theme. The best route is a bit different with block themes than classic themes.

For product authors – This is a good discussion about hosting your themes and plugins in the WordPress directory in light of the news about the directory ownership. They discuss pros and cons as well as other options.

Wow, the Generate team has done it again. The alpha versions of GenerateBlocks free and pro have been released. They were totally rewritten, made ultimately performant in that every thing is rendered before saving so no front-end rendering is needed. Also there is good attention to flexibility. For example, the new Query Loop can loop over ACF repeaters and other data as well as post queries. There is a new dynamic tag system for dynamic data and it is easy to register your own. Read about these changes and watch a video overview on the announcement page.