Here is a great post from Jeff Starr explaining the difference between plugins, must-use plugins, and drop-in plugins.

A2 Hosting has been acquired by World Host Group.

Brian Coords interviews Gen Herres. They talk about new accessibility regulations, AI, and WordPress development.

Kevin Powell and Bramus show how Multi Page Animated view transitions work.

Davinder Singh Kainth has a good weekly WordPress newsletter. The latest issue is out if you are interested.

Checking a website’s accessibility is import for usability and conversions. If people can’t read or use the site, they go elsewhere. In this training Gen Herres does a super fast audit and a quick audit and then compares those to a detailed page audit.

Many of these are tests that people can run with a small amount of training and find out much more information than automated tests provide.

Beaver Builder calls them “modules,” Elementor calls them “widgets,” Bricks calls them “elements,” and Gutenberg calls them “blocks.” It can be confusing. In this article Kevin Geary suggests standardizing names.

Bricks 1.12 has been released. It includes components (as an experimental feature), enhancements to the Query Loop feature, enhancements to the global class manager, enhancements to the query filters feature, and other changes and fixes.

Divi 5, Alpha 7 was just released. They addressed 38 bug fixes and are working on 4 main features: Customizable Breakpoints, Option Group Presets, Divi AI Integration and WooCommerce modules. They are also working on a new grid system based on Flexbox and editable header and footer areas in the builder.