For plugin developers – Ronald Huereca has a straightforward tutorial about namespaces and using them in your plugin.

In this tutorial Jeff Starr tells of two ways lockdown plugin, theme, and core files to prevent changes to them from within the WordPress admin.

Block Theme development – Here is a short tutorial on using the Create Block Theme plugin.

For plugin developers – Plugins hosted on WordPress org have an assets folder for icons, the banner, screenshots, etc. Here is a guide for using the assets folder.

Developer focused – Tom McFarlin has another article related to using anonymous functions in WordPress. He has also created a plugin to get information about registered hooks and callbacks on a site.

People often ask about CSS frameworks. In this video Dave Foy gives a short and to the point comparison of ACSS and the Core Framework. He also discusses his favorite 3rd party Bricks template options.

Work is beginning on WordPress 6.6 and there was a “Hallway Hangout” today going over some of the work being done on Gutenberg and the Site Editor.

A security researcher alerted MainWP that some customer account information had been found in a large dump of compromised accounts. The notification says the accounts may be ones where users reused their credentials on multiple sites. MainWP reset all passwords and are requiring two factor authentication going forward. The account information is logging into the MainWP website, not ones related to connected sites.

Studio, the WordPress com’s local development environment, is now available for Mac. The Windows version is still being developed. Note that Studio uses the WordPress Playground technology and not the usual MAMP stack!