This article from the Meta Box team looks at the pros and cons and also provides some benchmarks to help in deciding when to you one or the other.

Some results among others: 90% likely to continue building with WordPress. 62% use version control. Elementor, Bricks, Divi, and WPBakery are the most popular page builders.

Integration of AI into the software development process has been widely embraced, but the proper workflow has been under debate. Now a consensus is emerging that there should be an executable spec, separate from a prompt, markdown doc, or tests. Perhaps even the AI should not have access to the spec.

A Geeky Look at the top 10,000 websites and what they have in the document head. There are some things to fix and some things to add.

The Mosaic Builder has amazing support for both Advanced Custom Fields and Meta Box. In this video I show how Mosaic works with dynamic data. We will display a Custom Post Type and its custom fields created with Meta Box by creating content templates with Mosaic. We’ll see how easy Mosaic makes it. Although Mosaic is easy to use, it is in many ways very advanced. Near the end of the video I share a reveal that is a game changer.

The Crocoblock team has released JetEngine 3.9. It introduces nested repeaters (repeater in repeater), repeater dynamic tags to make working with repeater fields easier, a new listing format, the ability to use file input as a query type, and admin pages.

WP_KSES() Sanitizes HTML. It was developed over time and is something of a “coral reef” build up of checks, but it was developed before HTML 5. Now it is being rewritten to simplify and modernize it.

This tutorial shows how to fetch weather data using the Open-Meteo API, create the Custom Post Type and fields, and create the widget display.

Here is a summary of new features that will be included in PHP 8.6. I’m not sure of the use for Partial Functions. Defaults for read-only properties, clamp, a polling API and stream error handling seem like solid features.