Here is an advanced Bricks / Bricksforge tutorial from Brendan O’Connell, showing how Bricksforge makes it easy to consume third party APIs.

I imagine we will see a few videos about the new Elementor editor v.4. Here is the first one, from Adam Preiser. It is nice to see Adam making videos again.

I use Polypane to check responsive display of pages, but Responsively is a free alternative that has a lot of good features. Paul Charlton does a nice walk-through demo.

Meta Box has provided a schema for use by AI code assistants that makes it easier for them to create field groups and custom fields for you.

Speculative loading is now enabled in WordPress 6.8 by default, but this may require some tweaks such as using full-page HTML caching to avoid additional server load. Rob Marlbrough shares what it means for SEO and your site performance, and how to set it up on your site easily.

A very good compilation of WP_Query related tips with an eye to performance.

The new AT CSS Framework that is included in Bricks Advanced Themer 3.1 is a “game changer” for me. I’ve used it for a about a week while it was in beta and am very happy with it, and will use it with Bricks going forward. It is a great addition to Maxime Beguin’s outstanding plugin for Bricks. The settings are integrated with Bricks and it is a straightforward framework.

Paul Charlton released a quick look at the new AT framework, which will be useful for people who want to give it a try.

Jeffrey is on fire in this video from last year. I was doing some optimizations and got to fonts. He clearly breaks it all down. Note to use transfonter.org now instead of Font Squirrel.

In this video Matt Medeiros tries out the new WordPress.com AI site builder.