Unlimited Elements for Elementor has a great widget creator that allows you to create your own widgets. Now they have added a flexible form builder. It includes conditional logic making it useful for creating online business calculators.

Following up on his article about authentication cookies, Calvin Alkan does a deep dive on WordPress salts. The salts keys are found in the WP Config file and people often wonder what they are and if we need to do something in relation to them. All of that and more in this technical article.

Here is a walk-through of using the new AI features of Kadence Starter Templates. This is live. It looks good.

I came across this post and video from Brian Coords, who is a WordPress core contributor. I thought it was a very balanced and thoughtful response to Kevin Geary’s video where he tried to create a layout using Gutenberg.

As shared here earlier, Thomas J. Raef recently released an analysis of hacked WordPress sites and found a significant number are hacked because session cookies were stolen due to the user’s computer having malware. One outcome from that research is the importance of logging out of sites and not just closing the browser.

In this article Calvin Alkan provides a deep dive into how WordPress sessions work. He found that WP session management provides good protection against Cross-Site Scripting attacks and session Fixation, but does not protect against session hijacking from local devices. Calvin’s suggestion is to decrease the lifetime of WordPress sessions to help prevent session hijacking.

The Elementor team has released a new plugin and service for image optimization.

In this article Elvis Krstulović weighs in on the discussion on user friendly builders, no-code options, and whether these are niche or not niche. He shows that UI controls, such as are used for flexblox layouts, are common across professional design tools.

The beginning of the new year is a time to ponder trends and predict what will happen in the coming year. Here are David McCan’s top 3 predictions for 2024.

When you create a starter site using ZipWP you step through a wizard. They have now added a “Features” step that brings in features from other Brainstorm Force plugins. Sales funnel, donation, automations and integrations, and video players are features currently available.