Meta Box recently introduced a new way to make blocks so that we can now use Meta Box blocks in the Site Editor and in theme templates. In this video I discuss this option and walk-through creating a simple block and using it in the Site Editor. Thanks to Scott Brim for his assistance.

Open Graph is a standard set of tags that are added to the head section of an web page. It provides meta information, such as author, title, image, and so on. It is mainly used by the social sites Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. When someone shares a link the social site gets information to show from the Open Graph data. It is considered a best practice to include Open Graph data, and most SEO plugins will add this to your pages for you automatically.

Open Graph is explained in more detail in this post from the Slim SEO team.

In this in-depth expert-level tutorial Stephanie Eckles provides an overview of modern CSS features and considerations for their use. In the tutorial she shows how the new features of CSS might be used to create a modern brand theme.

For Developers: This is a very cool video by Brian Coord showing how to add custom settings to an already existing block. The example shown walks-through adding some responsive block settings to do different visibility options at different sizes.

What a difference a couple of years makes. Today Flexbox layout controls are widely available and they were added to a recent version of Stackable Blocks.

This tutorial shows how to use Meta Box Views to show specific posts. In the tutorial it is to show only the products that are on sale.

MidJourney is a popular tool among artists and designers for using AI to generate images. However, there are a number of steps to get started. This tutorial walks though the process for setting up MidJourney and has tips for using it to get the kind of images you want to produce.

This is a good article by Brian Gardner on how Intrinsic Design is being implemented in Gutenberg via theme.json. The article discusses Intrinsic Design, fluid typography, and fluid spacing and includes examples from the Frost theme.

Most block themes don’t include a sidebar. Not everyone has gotten used to the skinny content only area without sidebars. This tutorial show you several ways to include a sidebar.