Bricks 1.8 was released yesterday with the anticipated mega menu builder. It is a big release with lots of other small additions and fixes.

The Dynamic.000 team has been working on a new product that has a lot of promise. It is a magic tag type of syntax for accessing dynamic data and the idea is that we can use it in Gutenberg and page builders. Paul Charlton just made a short video about it.

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.

Are you using Figma to create your WordPress designs? Here is an open source set of wireframes for creating your WordPress designs in Figma.

Jamie Marsland has published an interesting video interview with Matt Mullenweg on the topic of AI.

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.

There have been a number of plugins that have repeated had security issues, even among the bigger players. In this editorial I suggest that it is time for the big players to start having their plugins audited for security. When we evaluate plugins we check for a money back guarantee, that they tell about themselves on the website, that they have positive reviews, are actively providing support, and so on. Lets start politely asking about independent security audits.