If you are curious about PHP-based blocks coming to WordPress 7.0 then you will find this video by Brian Coords of interest. He does a nice walk-through showing a couple of simple blocks he created.

We often use ACF to create Custom Post Types and custom fields, but then need a way to display them on the frontend. In this tutorial, I explore how Novamira, Claude Code, and ACF Blocks can work together so an AI agent can generate working ACF blocks that can be used in the Full Site Editor to create single and archive templates.

In this tutorial the ACF team tells how to manually setup ACF so that you are using custom tables instead of post_meta for storing field values. According to the article using custom tables is 100% safe and is supported by the standard ACF functions. I expect to see the team add this as an option for the Pro plugin in the future.

This article is a thorough overview of the forthcoming PHP block features that are being added in WordPress 7.0. If you are interested in this feature then this is a must read as it includes a full discussion of features, use cases, limitations, and examples.

Bricks 2.2 added tools for creating and managing a CSS framework. In this video Paul Charlton shows how to create your own CSS framework in Bricks. If you are interested in using these new features then you can catch in the video how to do it.

I have avoided adding a dark mode but after reading this think maybe I should consider it. I didn’t realize the possible extent of the difference, though it depends on the user’s display.

This is interesting, Elementor has a good video on what Semantic HTML is and its advantages for accessibility. A manifesto against “div soup.” If you don’t know what Semantic HTML is then this is a quick intro.

Here is a short discussion of the WordPress Heartbeat API. Many people adjust the frequency.

Here is an interesting discussion about how URLs and permalinks work in WordPress.