Justin Tadlock compiled a useful list of recent features and improvements for developers. In the list I noticed standardized admin notices, improvements for fluid typology, and experimental client-side query loop pagination.

Chrome is going to slowly start blocking 3rd party cookies beginning in the first quarter of 2024. This article does a good job detailing the implications of this, but doesn’t do a very good job discussing Google’s replacement plans.

Things to keep in mind when building a custom plugin – kind of common-sense, but too often overlooked.

This is a nice tutorial that shows how to create Gutenberg block templates using PHP.

Scott Kingsley Clark has restarted the Fields API project with the help of some interested developers. The idea, as I understand it, is rather than have each vendor create their own API for managing custom fields, that there be a core version that vendors could then build off of.

There was some outlining the project during the Contributor Day at WPUS. It is a long road to get something like this added to core.

Project IDX is a new browser-based development environment for building web and multi-platform apps. It utilizes a cloud-based Linux VM, the Visual Studio Code IDE, and Google’s own Cody, an AI coding assistant. There is support for multiple frameworks and languages. There is currently a waitlist.

This is a long awaited update to the WordPress coding standards rule set checker.

I’ve often thought that there would someday be an API we could use to “clean” blocks of custom CSS when we move from one Gutenberg add-on to another, or when core is so good that we don’t need add-ons. This comprehensive look at the HTML API confirms that, but it also gives a view on a tool that developers and power users will be able to use with WordPress in the future.

This article covers several CSS features with a good explanation for each. For example container queries.