Utility toolkit plugins have become popular. The lack of important features in core and the extensibility of WordPress means we often need to add plugins or code and these toolkits have a lot of features. In this video Paul Charlton compares three popular toolkit plugins.

In this video we take a deep dive into the current state of WordPress block themes. We look at the most popular ones, we look under the hood to understand block themes, and we look at the current stats. I have a better understanding of block themes after going through this process.

Dennis Yo recently released SleekPixel. It is a plugin that provides an image editor within the admin for automatically creating Featured Images and Open Graph images. This video provides a walk-through and look at the features. I’m impressed with it.

Paul Charlton jumps ahead to look at the future of the admin dashboard based on current experiments in the Gutenberg plugin. It looks like a good step forward.

The second part of Dave Foy’s look at Bricks addons is out. If you are wondering about the top Bricks addons then this video gives you an overview of the top features of each.

In a new development, Patchstack is now providing general reviews of plugins. Here is their listicle comparing WordPress form plugins. Two of the categories are interesting in that they aren’t always included in comparison reviews: code quality and security. However, it is not clear to me if the criteria were evenly applied across plugins?

People often ask about CSS frameworks. In this video Dave Foy gives a short and to the point comparison of ACSS and the Core Framework. He also discusses his favorite 3rd party Bricks template options.

The Crocoblock team has been expanding JetFormBuilder from its launch in 2020 into a full forms solution with lots of features and a number of addons. They have an overview article of its development history and discussion of its features.

Cwicly has been out for more than two years, but I find that I am still in evaluation mode. My sense is that I’m not the only one. Cwicly has so many great features, so why aren’t more people using it? I take a look at one set of possible reasons in this article.