The Dynamic WordPress Facebook group recently voted for the most innovative WordPress plugin or theme of 2024. This was an opportunity for group members to share their appreciation and recommendations about stand-out WordPress products. 

Kevin Powell, a CSS expert and effective teacher, has released a free course on HTML and CSS. These are two of the fundamental languages behind all websites, not to mention all page builders and Gutenberg.

The owners of WP Rocket and RankMath just acquired GTmetrix.

Dan Maby, founder of the Big Orange Heart and a London meetup organizer, recently participated in a Gutenberg Speed Build Challenge. In this post he reflects on the experience and how it changed his view of Gutenberg / WordPress.

Beginning with WordPress 6.3 the constant WP_DEVELOPMENT_MODE was introduced to by-pass the caching of the theme.json file, which is useful for development purposes. This article outlines the uses and parameters.

You may have heard someone say, “there is a plugin for that!” There are many WordPress plugins, if only we knew about them and which ones to use. In this video I look at one to copy posts and pages from site to site, one to allow for a draft post to be previewed by someone you select, and one to totally customize the WordPress admin.

Adam Lowe intelligently discusses alternatives to WordPress and shares a spreadsheet with this notes on them.

The 200th version of the Gutenberg plugin was released and has updates that will be included in the next version of core in March. There were a number of enhancements including improvements to the Style Book and pattern suggestions. What caught my eye was the ability to include hooks in content, which has been a feature only of PHP based themes up to now.

The Meta Box team has released a new free plugin that makes it easier to use Meta Box features for creating Custom Post Types, custom taxonomies, and custom fields. In this video I show what was involved previously and how it is now more convenient.