Wow, congrats to the SureMails team. The plugin was launched on February 4th and already has more than 30,000 active installs.

I’ve been using All in One WP Migration for backing up and migrating sites during testing and development, but recently took a closer look at WPVivid and noticed a number of advantages, even in its free version. In this video I show some of the advantages of using WPVivid over using the All in One WP Migration plugin.

The US Copyright Office previously ruled that art created using AI were not entitled to copyright. That ruling has been upheld by the US Appeals Court.

This is a fantastic discussion of interest to developers working with WordPress and the block editor. Ian Svoboda of the Generate team talks with Remkus de Vries about the approach, challenges, and decisions in creating GenerateBlocks 2.0.

Creating or customizing block themes – this mini-tutorial shows how to enqueue custom styles for individual core blocks. The styles are only loaded when the block is used. The method is straightforward.

Congratulations to Anne-Mieke Bovelett whose project won this year’s hackathon at CloudFest. The winning project is a plugin named Visua11y that automatically converts complex visuals like info-graphics into accessible alternatives.

WordPress 6.8 is currently scheduled for release in about 3 weeks on April 15th. Despite it being a “maintenance” release, there are some nice enhancements. This overview of 6.8 has summaries of the new features.

Here is a good tutorial from Kathy Zant on using global styles with GeneratePress and GenerateBlocks 2.0.

Nick Diego and Ryan Welcher walk though creating a Gutenberg block using Cursor AI.