This is an often requested tutorial – how to setup Bricks with the Core Framework and Advanced Themer. Another great video from Paul Charlton.

Chrome v.131 includes some big updates to dev tools, including Gemini integration and more performance checks.

There is too much bad stuff going around about WordPress, but more keeps leaking out. Here is a thread on X that shows the data collected by WooCommerce … the extent of which is way over the top

Gen Herres shares some tips for quickly getting an idea of a sites accessibility.

Joost got more feedback on his blog than expected and ran into a problem with caching. This led him down a rabbit hole to understand how the WordPress comment system works and how he could make it work with his site caching.

Will 2025 be the year of the page builder? Many things happened in 2024 so that now WordPress is poised for lots of changes. Here are my predictions for the new year along with some reasons why. Note, there is a video version linked at the top of the article.

Marko Krstic has released a free plugin on the WordPress plugin directory. It helps you find where blocks are used and also helps you find where synced patterns have been used. This is useful if you are changing out block collections, among other uses.

Developer Robert DeVore, who has a number of free plugins in the WordPress plugin directory, has written code to block plugin use on WordPress dot com. He did this to protest Matt Mullenweg’s heavy handed blocking of WP Engine plugins.

SQLite is used in WordPress for the Playground feature. There have been requests for it to be an alternative to MySQL / MariaDB. It seems to me that it might be an option in the future for faux static sites. Here are some interesting facts about SQLite.