Here is a nice video from Jeffrey Dalrymple. He shows when it comes to user experience, little things can make a big difference. Here he has a suggestion for the Elementor team. I agree with him that we are lucky to have good tools and our tool-set is going to improve even more this year.

Here are some suggestions for WordPress plugin and theme developers following on the WPE / Matt Mullenweg conflict.

Congratulations to the top 5 winners of the WP Awards: ACF, WooCommerce, Elementor, WordFence, and The Admin Bar.

Also congratulations to the winners in their categories.

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.