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.

The Core Framework team just released a new template kit called Blocks. It is a wireframe kit with more than 300 wireframes. CoreBlocks used BEM, pays attention to accessibility, and works with the Core Framework.

A quick tutorial on how to change the style of elements not being hovered.

For new block theme developers – This article is a good resource for new block theme developers. It provides an in depth overview of the parts of the theme.json file and how to use it.