Here is a nice list of WordPress plugins from Jeff Starr that are useful when developing or debugging. I’m happy to see BugFu at the top of the list as I’ve found it easy and useful.

The WordPress Playground is a relatively new way of running WordPress, i.e. running WordPress in your browser, using SQLite, etc. The idea has caught on and the WordPress Playground has been used at WordCamp contributor days. Now there is an iOS note taking app built on WordPress.

I’d love to see an official slimmed down version of WordPress for projects like this with the parts that need to be deprecated removed.

For Block Theme Developers – Block themes come with two template part areas: header and footer. This tutorial by Justin Tadlock tells how to create additional template part areas for your theme, like a sidebar.

Pressable hosting has partnered with MainWP to create an extension that lets you create and manage Pressable websites from your MainWP dashboard.

This would be a boon for users of both Pressable and MainWP. However, I expect there may not be that many currently using both. What this does, is gives Pressable a quick dashboard so their users can manage multiple sites. For other hosting companies it may suggest an option worth pursuing.

Jamie Marsland continues his search for the perfect AI writing assistant to use inside of the WordPress post editor. In this video he tries out the new offering from JetPack.

Kevin Geary is extending the Automatic CSS workflow to include Figma. The ACSS design tokens and Frames that people are used to working with in builders such as Bricks will be available in Figma providing an end-to-end solution. This video provides a sneak peak for those who are interested. There is a wait-list signup for a July launch with teased special offered.

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.

Congrats to the Atarim team!  Atarim is a platform for agencies and freelancers for streamlining the client feedback process and for project management.  They have a new website that is very attractive.  It looks like the site was made with the Hello theme and Elementor. 

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.