This tutorial has tips on how to use WP-CLI if you think your site may have been hacked.

Jeffrey Dalrymple has been busy making courses but now he is making videos again. Here is one showing how he creates a starter site that uses Elementor. A starter site is a site template with your plugins and theme installed and configured. You can then clone it for a quick start every time you being a new build.

Sometimes you might want to disable the WooCommerce Checkout and Cart. This was mentioned recently in the group when someone wanted to possibly use Woo just to display a product catalog. Also you might want to disable the cart if you only have one product. Here is a tutorial for those types of use cases.

Here is an interesting tutorial from the Meta Box team that shows how to use Meta Box Views to randomly pick an image to show in a hero section.

For plugin authors – here is an in-depth and practical guide from Matt Cromwell on how to optimize your plugin’s readme file.

ThriveDesk is a custom service solution that provides a unified inbox, chat bot, and knowledge base along with a number of other features. Today you can use it with many different platforms, but because it started with WordPress there are a lot of WordPress integrations. These include WooCommerce, SureCart, Easy Digital Downloads, Freemius, FluentCRM, FunnelKit, SureTriggers, and FlowMattic. ThriveDesk is an alternative to onsite help desk plugins. The LTD pricing is still available.

WordPress 6.5 will include a new hook for registering block variants using PHP. Here is an overview and tutorial from Justin Tadlock.

Here is a process overview article on the Delicious Brains blog about creating custom block using React and using ACF. It does not go into depth but links to resources for various steps.

Cedric, the author of BricksProps, does a deep dive into BEM and how to use it.