There is a new font manager coming in WordPress 6.5. In this video I look at how it works and its limitations.

Dave Foy gives a nice walk-through of a new Bricks addon called GutenBricks. It allows you to turn Bricks templates into Gutenberg blocks. GutenBricks is still in its early stages, but very cool.

Though it is still experimental, Bricks made a lot of users happy by releasing new search and front-end filters. In this video Paul Charlton provides a quick overview of the new features so you can get an idea of what’s available, how they work, and what’s missing.

JetEngine allows you to create totally custom queries which is very powerful, but is an advanced feature. Here is a tutorial on using the JetEngine SQL Query Builder from Elena Ivanova of the Crocoblock team.

Here is a cool video from Anne McCarthy showing a new feature for synced patterns coming to WordPress 6.5. It allows you to set on a block by block basis the ability to customize the content of individual instance while keeping the overall layout intact.

Here is a helpful guide on click / tap target sizes for use when designing interactive elements. It is common-sense, but sometimes overlooked. I like that it mentions specific pixel sizes and has examples of how to make the target larger.

This video recreates the layout of the NASA website home page. The video shows the kind of things you can do now with core Gutenberg.

Meta Box has a Bricks tutorial on how to show an author bio.

For Theme Developers – Justin Tadlock has a tutorial on how to add page and template starter patterns to your theme.