This article from the Meta Box team looks at the pros and cons and also provides some benchmarks to help in deciding when to you one or the other.

Integration of AI into the software development process has been widely embraced, but the proper workflow has been under debate. Now a consensus is emerging that there should be an executable spec, separate from a prompt, markdown doc, or tests. Perhaps even the AI should not have access to the spec.

Courtney Roberts did a presentation on how she is using Claude and Accessibility Checker Pro in the redesign of her website. It is an interesting look / discussion behind the scenes. Also, the notes have some good information on strategies for fixing issues.

The Mosaic Builder has amazing support for both Advanced Custom Fields and Meta Box. In this video I show how Mosaic works with dynamic data. We will display a Custom Post Type and its custom fields created with Meta Box by creating content templates with Mosaic. We’ll see how easy Mosaic makes it. Although Mosaic is easy to use, it is in many ways very advanced. Near the end of the video I share a reveal that is a game changer.

This tutorial shows how to fetch weather data using the Open-Meteo API, create the Custom Post Type and fields, and create the widget display.

The Mosaic Builder is ready for production use, so I’m shifting from general overviews to making tutorials. This tutorial shows how the color variable system works. Also in this one, for those who want to use AI, I created a prompt to generate the specific variables I needed for a Mosaic project I’m working on. Note that the video is linked near the top of the article and the prompt is near the end.

In this quick video David Denedo shows how easy it is to import a web page into your website using Builderius.

We see lots of amazing new projects being shared in our group and being developed by its members. I am often asked to check out a new plugin or product and so I made a checklist of the things I look for. Hopefully it will be useful, especially for new developers getting started.

This nice video by Kevin Powell looks at two newly baseline CSS functions, sibling-count() and sibling-index(). Although it is baseline, still only 83% adoption.