Videos of the presentations at WordCamp Sydney 2024 have been posted. It looks like the presentations there were more technical than some of the US WordCamps.

Its happening – JetEngine 3.6 beta has a good AI integration giving you a quick start for creating your site structure. Paul Charlton has a quick demo of how it works.

Here is an in depth guide to upgrading your PHP version.

A short from Kevin Powell on an easy way to improve your forms.

Block Theme Development – Here is a good article by Bud Kraus on working with theme.json. It covers the order of the cascade, definition of elements, and includes a reference section.

Here is a quick video showing the Advanced Themer Recipes and CSS Superpower features.

The Meta Box team created a free plugin called Admin Taxonomy Filter that lets you filter posts and Custom Post Types in the admin by taxonomy. It is useful it you have a lot of content. They created a walk-through tutorial on how to use it.

Recordings are now available from WP accessibility day 2024, an online conference held last month. The recordings for all of the presentations are now captioned, transcribed, and include ASL interpretation. Recordings are labeled with a level of accessibility experience. There is a good mix of topics including changes in the legal requirements and a number of tutorials.

Working with Block Themes – This article by Frank Klein considers the advantages to using a child theme vs forking the theme. The best route is a bit different with block themes than classic themes.