People often ask about CSS frameworks. In this video Dave Foy gives a short and to the point comparison of ACSS and the Core Framework. He also discusses his favorite 3rd party Bricks template options.

Work is beginning on WordPress 6.6 and there was a “Hallway Hangout” today going over some of the work being done on Gutenberg and the Site Editor.

A security researcher alerted MainWP that some customer account information had been found in a large dump of compromised accounts. The notification says the accounts may be ones where users reused their credentials on multiple sites. MainWP reset all passwords and are requiring two factor authentication going forward. The account information is logging into the MainWP website, not ones related to connected sites.

Studio, the WordPress com’s local development environment, is now available for Mac. The Windows version is still being developed. Note that Studio uses the WordPress Playground technology and not the usual MAMP stack!

Create Block Theme is a useful plugin that lets you save your customizations of a block theme as a child theme or as a new stand-alone block theme. A new version of the plugin was recently released and this article explores the new features.

Bricks 1.9.8 beta has been released. Some of the features of the new version include a CSS Variables Manager, support for dynamic data in the Code Element, the ability to duplicate pages and templates, and the yellow dot notification helper when there is a change has been added to the Style Tab and Breakpoint Settings Indicator.

Here is a nice video by Paul Charlton showing how to create image effects using image masks. The tutorial uses the Bricks Builder, but the concepts apply for any builder.

This is Noel Tock’s presentation at WordCamp Asia. Noel works for Human Made, a top tier agency focusing on enterprise solutions. The first half of the presentation is an eye-opener and must watch if you are interested in WordPress market share.

Many plugins add rows to the WordPress options table that are set to auto-load. On old sites where a lot of plugins have been installed/uninstalled there can be orphaned options set that are still being loaded, even when no longer needed. This plugin, named AAA Options Optimizer, helps to address that issue.