Essential Addons For Elementor has just released v6, with over 2 million active installs, making it easily the most popular Elementor addon.

CSS is becoming more like a programming language. A new feature is providing Type Definitions using the @ property. This is explained and demoed in this article by Stephanie Eckles. CanIUse reports a bit above 89% browser support.

Here is a tip from the Delicious Brains team for when you are migrating a site to new hosting. They suggest setting up the old site to forward to the new site when you change the DNS, in case there are some DNS servers that are slow to propagate or people have the old site cached. They provide instructions for Nginx and Apache.

If you are interested in some CSS design effects, Paul Charlton has a short video with some resources showing you how to create Glassmorphism and Gradient Mesh effects.

One of my predictions for 2024 is on track to come true. On January 6th Spectra Blocks had 600k active installs. It just passed 900k, going from 800k in less than 2 months! Congrats to the Spectra team.

Here is a great video tutorial by CliftonWP on now to create a custom WP Admin dashboard using the Kadence Theme and Kadence Blocks. Note that although it uses Kadence, you can use the methods shown with other themes, block collections, or builders.

This is an interesting post that provides insight into being a WordPress core committer. Remember to say thank you 🙂

Divi Dash is a new offering from Elegant Themes that lets you manage all of your WordPress websites in one place. It is useful for tasks such as WordPress updates, user management, client management, and theme and plugin activation and deletion. You can view and manage all your websites in one place and jump into the WordPress dashboard of any site with a single click. Divi Dash works on any WordPress website, whether or not it uses Divi.

Acorn is a project of Roots and provides a framework for integrating Laravel within WordPress.