The WordPress Playground has been gaining traction and its use is expanding. I learned that you can create “blueprints” so that when a Playground instance is launched you can load demo data, plugins, and themes. Here is a central page about blueprints. It has links to a guide for creating your own blueprint as well as to a gallery of blueprints that have already been submitted.

Joost on the fear marketing of WordPress security.

Today the LifterLMS team announced a new page builder called Aircraft. Digging into the announcement I see that Aircraft is actually a set of attractive Gutenberg patterns designed for LMS sites. This is a clever idea and I imagine we will see more companies offering pattern packs.

Good news, WS Form has added support for ACPT Custom Post Types and custom fields. You can now use the two together. Here is the announcement, which includes a link to a YouTube video on how to make a WS Form with ACPT and a coupon code for a 20% discount on WS Form.

Here is a developer resource – A searchable directory of WordPress filter and action hooks created by Tiffany Brown.

For those interested in Gato GraphGL, Leo Loso has started a YouTube channel with some helper tutorials.

Anne-Mieke Bovelett writes about why she moved from Elementor to using the Full Site Editor. One reason was because it was easier to make sites built with the Site Editor accessible.

This is a rather in depth article talking about using HTMX with WordPress. It has some good background and suggests reasons why HTMX might be a good fit for WordPress, as well as providing a simple example use.

In this article in Smashing Magazine, Temani Afif shows how to use CSS clip-path and math functions to create various CSS shapes.