Here is a proposal to retire older default core WordPress themes. Note that even retired core themes would still receive security updates.

Here is a full walk-through by Imran Siddiq creating a website using Bricks, GridbuilderWP, and RankMath. It is a 3 hours and 21 minutes video with nothing left out. If you want to get your feet wet with Bricks then this would be a good place to start.

Another casualty of AI code generation, Stack Overflow reports a loss in traffic.

Of interest for those who believe less is more – In this short video Kevin Powell shows how little CSS you actually need to get a responsive and decent looking webpage.

For those who haven’t worked with theme templates – Assigning the home and blog pages can be confusing for new users jumping into the Site Editor and block themes, so Jamie Marsland made this explainer video on how to do it.

A discussion for developers. Fabian Kagy of 10up talks with Wes Box and Scott Tolinski on Syntax.fm. Fabian maintains the site gutenberg.10up.com and is mainly focused on JavaScript and Block development. They catch up on WordPress, talk a bit about headless, and talk a lot about blocks. Something of a gear head discussion. I found it interesting to hear the different perspectives on WordPress and Gutenberg.

For the programmers in the group, WordPress 6.2 shipped with a new WP_HTML_Tag_Processor. In this video Aurooba Ahmed and Brian Coords discuss it and do a walk-through to explore its uses.

Recently it was announced that David Vongries was selling the Kirki Customizer Framework. Themeum has stepped up to purchase it. They are the company behind TutorLMS and Qubely.

In this video JP creates a hero section using the Spectra, Stackable, and Greenshift blocks plugins. You get a sense of the differences in user interface and ease of use.