Adam Lowe has shared his premium course on YouTube for free. It goes in-depth on how to create a classic theme using Pinegrow. It is a great resource on creating a classic theme and on Pinegrow.

A couple of WordPress 6.5 release blockers surfaced, one related to the Font Library and the other related to Synced Pattern Overrides. Here is a discussion of the issues, together with the decisions. The short version is that the Font Library will be included in 6.5 and Synced Pattern Overrides will be pushed to 6.6.

Beyond these two issues, the discussion brings to light future plans for block themes. There are plans for “composability” for block themes. From Wikipedia: “Composability is a system design principle that deals with the inter-relationships of components. A highly composable system provides components that can be selected and assembled in various combinations to satisfy specific user requirements.” The news here is that the plan is to allow block themes to be split into components and allow users to swap components (such as fonts) without changing themes.

Beaver Builder is sharing ideas for future versions, including a loop builder. It is a great team and it is good to see them rolling again.

Here is a Tavern article with a pretty full summary of the outreach meeting about the problems with the Site Editor. Fairly nuanced. The bottom line seems to be that they hope people will come to the meetings and provide feedback and not just post on social media.

In the latest issue of his CSS newsletter Kevin Powell shares his thoughts on Tailwind.

Here is a Beaver Builder tutorial on how to use the new Box Module. The Box Module give the ability to use Flexbox and CSS Grid.

Acquisition – Barn2, developer of a number of WooCommerce plugins, sold of them 7 to Kestrel so that they could focus on the best performing ones.