Here is a very nice video tour by Jamie Marsland of new features coming in WordPress 6.3.

The Kraft Builder is a new modern theme builder that has just come out with a beta. The video provides a quick look at the first version and gives a glimpse of this builder’s potential.

The Core Framework is a new toolkit for creating and customizing your own CSS framework. There is a UI for generating CSS classes and variables and there is a WordPress plugin. At launch the Core Framework has WordPress extensions for Gutenberg, Bricks, and Oxygen. This video is a first look at the features and a quick test using the Gutenberg and Bricks extensions.

The Pattern Manager plugin adds some features and restriction abilities that enhances block pattern management.

Spectra is the Gutenberg addon from the makers of the Astra theme. The pro version is just being released now. The video considers the Spectra Pro ecosystem, does a walk-through of using it in the Full Site Editor, and discusses the strengths, weaknesses, and positioning of Spectra. I hope you find it interesting and useful.

Google is requiring everyone to move to Google Analytics 4 by July 1st, but some people are looking for alternatives instead. Here is a list of 11 free site analytics alternatives.

Jamie Marsland continues his search for the perfect AI writing assistant to use inside of the WordPress post editor. In this video he tries out the new offering from JetPack.

Greenshift and Cwicly are two advanced options for working with Gutenberg and the full site editor. This video has a walk-through, discussion, and comparison of the features of each.

From the I’m sure it is controversial department – Elegant Themes tested a bunch of WordPress hosting providers and the top three fastest were SiteGround, Pressable, and Cloudways. In this post they test these three against each other and SiteGround comes out first. I would have thought that Kinsta or WP Engine would perform better, but it has been a while since I used SiteGround.