ActivePieces is getting some attention in the WordPress community. It is an open source Zapier-like app for building automation flows. In this video Brendan O’Connell demos using the REST API with ActivePieces to grab some posts from one site and publish them on another. He has another video on the topic that follows this first one.

A WordPress e-Commerce store without using WooCommerce? Paul Charlton shows how to do it using Fluent Forms Pro.

For those who prefer code – Here is a tutorial on how to use Meta Box Views to create a reading progress bar. There is a video version near the top of the written version.

Justin Tadlock is very excited about the Block Bindings API, even in its current state. He released a detailed tutorial on how to use it to create a Book Review site. When I looked over the tutorial it seems painful. Perhaps his approach would make sense for someone creating an enterprise or high priced build for a client. However, from an end-user’s point of view, this looks like a non-starter. Am I wrong? Of course, it is published on the developer blog.

Here is a tutorial from the Meta Box team on how to add custom fields to WooCommerce products and show them on the front-end using Bricks. There is a video version near the top of the article.

Congratulations to Johnathan Jernigan who is now officially making videos for the GenerateBlocks team. Here is one on using the awesome new Global Styles features.

Here is an interesting development, MicroThemer now has deep integration with Gutenberg. Here is a video showing how it works.

Reusable and overrideable patterns are currently available in the Gutenberg plugin and scheduled for WordPress 6.6 in July. Here is a demo of this feature.

With the help of breakdance XSS any user can trick the admin user to execute PHP code without them knowing it. The code is written by the Editor (or any other user role) and later executed unknowingly by the administrator.