This is an interesting interview with Matthias Pfefferle, the creator of the ActivityPub plugin. This plugin helps to integrate a WordPress site with the “Fediverse,” or the decentralized web. There is some discussion about what the Fediverse is and also about what sharing and commenting looks like.

JetEngine 3.5 introduced components and the feature is supported for any builder that JetEngine supports. This article provides a good overview of components and how one might use them. It is not really a tutorial on creating them.

Here is a useful video from Paul Charlton showing how to use ChatGPT or an online code generator to create a custom plugin.

For power users – Meta Box provides several ways to create a custom block. This tutorial from the Meta Box team tells how to create and render a custom Gutenberg block using Meta Box Views.

For block developers – Here is a coding tutorial from Misha Rudrastyh showing how to create a block variation to display custom loops.

The html-tag-processor is a core WordPress class used by developers to find and modify attributes in an HTML document. This article discusses its benefits and performance. The article is more of an informational summary than a tutorial.

The WordPress Playground can now be used offline and as a Progress Web App.

On the developers blog Justin Tadlock shares what’s new for block theme and plugin developers, as well as new additions to the Gutenberg plugin. This is largely information for developers and designers and gives some insight into want’s coming for WordPress 6.7.

This is an interesting post that provides insight into being a WordPress core committer. Remember to say thank you 🙂