Related to large WooCommerce Stores – This article talks about the benefits and potential gotcha of using custom tables for Woo orders, now called High Performance Order Storage. A big gotcha is to ensure that all of your plugins are compatible with the use of the new custom table option.

Adam Lowe has started a video series about building block themes. The first video has a nice walk-through of the Site Editor and overview of block themes. This series looks to be a great resource for people interested in the Site Editor and block themes. Highly recommended.

Imran Siddiq released a video showing a number of ways to optimize your WordPress page loading times. I know he worked hard on this one and there are a plenty of tips, including code snippets. He optimizes an Elementor site, but includes versions for non-Elementor users.

Here is a nice, short, but very useful video from Paul Charlton who shows how to create a nested post loop in Bricks to group posts in a listing by category. The inspiration for the video was from an article by Maxime Beguin on the Bricks Labs website.

Paul Charlton recently made a video showing how to use the Core Framework with Bricks. He has released a follow up companion video showing some more steps you can take to get the most of using the two together, such as adding custom classes and variables in the Core Framework UI instead of in the Bricks settings. The advantage of doing this is that you create your own set of styles that you can easily reuse on other sites rather than manually adding the settings to Bricks each time.

Here is a tutorial from the Meta Box team showing how to setup a bi-directional relationship between two Custom Post Types and display them in Breakdance.

Admin and Site Enhancements is a toolkit plugin with lots of features. In this video I use it to customize the WordPress admin as you might for course students.

Here is a nice demo from Paul Charlton using the Core Framework with Bricks. It is a good overview of what is involved in setting it up and the benefits of using a framework.

Kevin Powell gets a little feisty talking about fonts and even WordPress gets some love. What do you think, use the system font stack for the win, or is the designer in you cringing?