This post rambles a bit, but the author looks at the two ways of using WordPress, classic vs blocks, which seem to be becoming more pronounced and separate.

There is not a lot of guidance on picking the best hosting, so this video by Remkus de Vries stands out for its commonsense and practical advice.

The Toolset documentation and content team has asked for feedback about Toolset and how people are building sites. So far, it seems like the majority of respondents prefer legacy Views.

From the I’m sure it is controversial department – Elegant Themes tested a bunch of WordPress hosting providers and the top three fastest were SiteGround, Pressable, and Cloudways. In this post they test these three against each other and SiteGround comes out first. I would have thought that Kinsta or WP Engine would perform better, but it has been a while since I used SiteGround.

Gutenberg 15.8 (the plugin version) has some new features. They added the pages menu to the site editor, the revisions UI to the global styles interface, and Theme Previews for block themes. These features will be included in WordPress 6.3 in August.

The 6.2.2 minor release addresses 1 bug and 1 security issue related to Block themes parsing shortcodes in user-generated data. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 5.9 have also been updated.

This is a good tutorial on how to use relationships between Custom Post Types when using Crocoblock’s JetEngine.

Marcus Kober has written this in depth guide for developers on how to add hooks to your PHP code.

This is an interesting presentation given by Miriam Schwab at YoastCon about the Challenges and Opportunities for WordPress.