The author, Jono Alderson, talks about platforms trying to quickly pull in customers, but customers will eventually find these platforms limiting. Of course I can see the flexibility of WordPress, but I don’t agree with the author that all of the messiness of WordPress is a feature.

The Divi 5 development and release cycle can be confusing. For example, what is a usable “public alpha”? It is explained in this blog post.

This is a nice video about working with synced patterns. It shows you how you can now add override limits to patterns for headings, paragraphs, images, and buttons, which helps to “client proof” designs.

In this video Sabrina Zeldan demos the use of AI as integrated into the browser dev tools.

Wow, the stats are pretty scary. Authority content marketing is on the ropes.

Divi has just released its new color management system using HSL. It looks pretty slick.

If you are still running sites with WordPress 4.1 through 4.6 then take note that security back-ports will no longer be available. Usage of these versions is very low.

This was a bit scary. When we think of marketing informed by big data we think of the message and offer, but what if you used all of those data points to also determine the layout, colors, typography and images used? Science fiction or the future of web design?

Its happening! Here is the first official Etch training video. The video has a tour and explanation of the user interface features. Etch is looking good. Congrats to the team for the fast progress.