In this short video Kevin Powell shows how to use CSS Grid to help with absolute positioning of elements.

Automattic has just introduced a 100 year hosting plan. It is a good gift for a new born or if you want to preserve your online legacy. Pricing is only $38,000.

The results of the 2023 WordPress hosting performance benchmarks are available. The tests are run across 21 hosting providers and several pricing points from less than $25 to more than $500. There was testing for both WordPress and WooCommerce hosting.

Scott Kingsley Clark has restarted the Fields API project with the help of some interested developers. The idea, as I understand it, is rather than have each vendor create their own API for managing custom fields, that there be a core version that vendors could then build off of.

There was some outlining the project during the Contributor Day at WPUS. It is a long road to get something like this added to core.

Jamie Marsland hosted Kevin Geary in a discussion about Gutenberg and Page Builders. It is a wide-ranging and very interesting talk.

Joost de Valk and Marike van de Rakt have joined Post Status as equity partners.

This post on the Make block introduces the Twenty Twenty-Four Theme. Unlike recent themes, it will be more general use and less opinionated. The theme was designed by Beatriz Fialho, who is a designer and an Automattic sponsored member of the Themes Team. There are screenshots and a short video in the post.

There was a change with WordPress 6.3 and the core Post Content block now only shows in the Site Editor when you are using a block-based theme. What happens then for users of the Kadence Theme Builder when we use the Hooked Element feature to create a Single Post or a Single Custom Post Type template? This short video shows how to add the post content.

Here is a walk-through of the new Ollie Block theme setup wizard. Jamie Marsland says it simplifies the setup and makes it easier to understand. Do you agree?