WordPress just turned 23 and Matt Mullenweg posted on the WordPress org website a post about how WP Engine is ruining his life.

A lot of arguments against Tailwind were about how ugly it is to have HTML littered with classes. Here is a similar take about BEM, along with a workflow argument, from Ovidiu Maghetiu.

An interesting article that discusses the recent merge into Gutenberg of the ability to create Custom Post Types. The technical details are examined along with the usage data and competitor profile. Among other questions it is asked why Custom Post Types, and not SEO, security, or caching?

Following the user survey, the Generate team said they would give a full response related to support of Full Site Editing. In this article they deliver with a well considered point-by-point discussion of the strengths and weaknesses and FSE and the Generate approach going forward. They decide that FSE does not provide any promised advantages over the GeneratePress / GenerateBlocks combination, but that FSE imposes a number of limitations.

For Elementor users – Imran Siddiq shares his thoughts on how to approach the transition from Elementor 3 to atomic elements in version 4.

Here is an interesting take on the impact of AI for agencies and freelancers. Jake Goldman is the founder of 10up and a partner at Fueled. He argues that today we can do more faster with AI and our pricing will need to reflect that. Over time competition will force prices down or deliverables up.

In this article Kim Coleman, one of the founders of Paid Membership Pro, acknowledges the changes taking place in the WordPress ecosystem and embraces focusing on solutions, rather than plugins.

Joost makes the points that leadership is jumping around following trends while letting the technical debt pile up. WordPress doesn’t have an architect. EmDash isn’t the be all, end all, or the next thing, but that it is a signal.

In this article Roger Montti shares his assessment of the new CMS from Cloudflare.