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.

The Beaver Builder team launched version 2.9. It has a number of features, including the ability to use Beaver Builder modules in the block editor. There is also a new version of Beaver Themer which includes a Loop Module.

Oddly, here is an in-depth comparison of Elementor and Divi … written by the Oxygen team and published on the Oxygen blog.

Iain Poulson wrote an article on automated testing for WordPress developers. I’ve used Selenium in the past and we would run test suites before releases as a sanity check.

Jamie Marsland doing headless WordPress? I wouldn’t have predicted this. It looks like a good use of AI.