Wondering about options for using WordPress as a back-end? Corcel might be an interesting option.

Thinking of trying out the Site Editor? Mike Hindle tried an experiment and used the Twenty Twenty-Four theme for a simple business site. He shares the pain points he encountered and how he addressed them.

A very nice, beginner friendly guide to debugging JavaScript.

WordPress has an API for storing and loading options, the Options API. Some changes to the Options API are coming with WordPress 6.6. One of the settings when creating an option is if the option should be auto loaded with each page. Up until now, the default when an option is created was “yes” to auto load it. However, a large amount of auto-loaded data can hurt page performance. The default is being changed to “null” and a ceiling on the size of auto-loaded options is being introduced. These and other changes are discussed in this article on the make blog.

For Plugin Developers – WordPress 6.6 standardizes the API for extending the Gutenberg editor so that the same API calls work in the content editor and the Site Editor. This should simplify the process of adding Gutenberg support.

This looks very cool. Three plugins which together provide a deep integration with Mastodon for WordPress.

There are some new features coming in PHP 8.4.

The Transients API is used to store information across page loads. Here is a good tutorial on the Transients API and how to use it.

Gravatar has expanded its offering to also include rich profile sharing, along the lines of LinkTree. It also have an API so that the profile info can be integrated into apps and websites.