A tutorial from the Meta Box team on how to show upcoming events using Meta Box and Bricks. There is a video version near the top of the article.

Here is a nice design tutorial from Jeffrey Dalrymple. He shows how to create a subtle skeuomorphic (realistic 3d) effect that can be applied to buttons, cards, or other block elements. Elementor is used in the video, but the principles can be used with any builder.

Adam Preiser shares a preview of some quality of life enhancements coming in the free Spectra blocks collection. Some of these enhancements seem to have been inspired by Cwicly. It would be nice if all of them were included in core Gutenberg.

It seems they’ve changed with every WordPress release. This article gives a high-level overview of the history and evolution block patterns.

The WordPress Playground has been gaining traction and its use is expanding. I learned that you can create “blueprints” so that when a Playground instance is launched you can load demo data, plugins, and themes. Here is a central page about blueprints. It has links to a guide for creating your own blueprint as well as to a gallery of blueprints that have already been submitted.

This is a rather in depth article talking about using HTMX with WordPress. It has some good background and suggests reasons why HTMX might be a good fit for WordPress, as well as providing a simple example use.

In this article in Smashing Magazine, Temani Afif shows how to use CSS clip-path and math functions to create various CSS shapes.

A minimalist plaintext WordPress theme. This one looks like a Classic theme. I imagine you can do something similar with block themes.

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.