The MRW Simplified Editor plugin is the solution for people who want to control what Gutenberg blocks and options are available. The plugin is free in the WP plugin directory. Here are details about it and how it works.

For plugin developers – Here is a tutorial on how to add your plugin to the Site Health report.

CSS Tips: Text and link underline options are easier than you might think. I needed to do this today and saw Kevin Powell just posted a video on it. My good fortune.

Paul Charlton challenges the often repeated notion that you have to be a developer to use Bricks. In this video he highlights similarities between Elementor and Bricks to show that basic concepts are the same while also showing that some of the differences in how they are implemented in Bricks provides flexible and powerful options.

This is a short tutorial on how to setup a GitHub repository.

Following up on his article about authentication cookies, Calvin Alkan does a deep dive on WordPress salts. The salts keys are found in the WP Config file and people often wonder what they are and if we need to do something in relation to them. All of that and more in this technical article.

I came across this post and video from Brian Coords, who is a WordPress core contributor. I thought it was a very balanced and thoughtful response to Kevin Geary’s video where he tried to create a layout using Gutenberg.

In this article Elvis Krstulović weighs in on the discussion on user friendly builders, no-code options, and whether these are niche or not niche. He shows that UI controls, such as are used for flexblox layouts, are common across professional design tools.

Gutenberg block developers say “static block” or “dynamic block.” This short article in the developer handbook explains the difference.