Are you consciously chosing a minimalist design, or just shooting for performance gains? This short article provides an overview of the pros and cons of minimalist design.

This post rambles a bit, but the author looks at the two ways of using WordPress, classic vs blocks, which seem to be becoming more pronounced and separate.

Block themes lack responsive controls by device size in the Site Editor. In this article Mike McAlister, the developer of the new Ollie block theme, discusses the current intrinsic design / fluid scaling approach and suggests a way that responsive overrides might be implemented.

Robby McCullough of the Beaver Builder team published on their blog a post about why limited site licenses don’t make sense for GPL products. (note that he republished this article from 5 years ago as it is still relevant).

From the WebTNG newsletter comes an in-depth editorial looking at block themes and discussing reactions to Gutenberg and the Site Editor. The author suggests that viewing Gutenberg as a “dumpster fire” is a fallacy.