Ovidiu Maghetiu created a cool “Astro Playground” where you can try Astro live. It is a good way to see how it works.

This issue of Davinder Singh Kainth’s WP Weekly Newsletter is jam packed with news. If you aren’t a subscriber you are missing out.

This is a platform neutral list from Joost of 128 standard features that all websites should provide. Some pretty interesting stuff.

In this video Paul Charlton shares the service MakeWP Fast, which provides some resource using stats for plugins and themes in the WordPress directory. It looks like an alternative to WP Hive.

This article provides an overview of all of the new features coming to WordPress 7.0 in a couple of weeks. It is a pretty impressive list. Looking at the article’s table of contents is a good way to get a quick overview.

For the hard-core gear heads, you can search WordPress plugins, themes, and core source code with the Veloria search engine.

If you want to integrate AI directly into WordPress and don’t want to wait until April for 7.0, then it is possible to add Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or OpenAI now using official WP plugins. This article provides an overview of the available features and links to get started.

The Divi team seems to be responding to user feedback that there is a learning curve to setting up Divi 5 by offering a free “Design System”. The download includes CSS variables, presets, section and page layouts, templates, and Customizer settings.

The Crocoblock team created a code snippets library. It already has a number of entries for use with their plugins.